CHECKOFF • Brazil—Construction is being completed on a $300 million fertilizer complex by Petrobras Fertilizantes (Petrofertil) at Araucaria in Parana state, about 200 miles southwest of Sao Paulo; plant will produce daily 1500 metric tons of ammonia; 1200 metric tons of urea, and 58 metric tons of sulfur; construction firm is Setal Instalacoes Industrials (SETAL), Brazilian affiliate of C-E Lummus. • Canada—Swift Canadian Co., part of Eschem, is building new adhesives plant in Moncton, N.B., to produce aqueous adhesives; 8000 sq-ft facility is scheduled to open in fourth-quarter and will replace existing Swift plant at Halifax, N.S. Canadian Industries Ltd. is building 1128 metric ton-per-day ammonia plant in Courtright, Ont.; engineering for plant, slated for completion in 1985, is by Uhde of West Germany, engineering arm of Hoechst. Esso Chemical Canada's two polymer projects in Sarnia, Ont.—a stand-alone polyethylene plant with an annual capacity of almost 300 million lb of linear low-density polyethylene using Union Carbide's Unipol process, and a polyvinyl chloride expansion—will be built by Lummus Canada'at total installed cost of $200 million. PVC expansion will raise Esso Canada's total Sarnia PVC capacity to about 220 million lb per year. • Egypt—Egyptian General Petroleum Corp. will build 80,000 metric ton-per-year PVC plant at Ameriya, near Alexandria; unit will use B.F. Goodrich technology for PVC suspension resin and is scheduled for completion in 1984. • Hungary—Japanese group will build 40,000 metric ton-peryear polypropylene plant for Hungarian Trading Co. of Machines & Equipment for Chemical Industry (CHEMOKOMPLEX); group is made up of Sumitomo Chemical, Sumitomo Engineering, and Sumitomo Corp. Plant will be built at Leninvaros and is scheduled for completion in 1983; facility will
use Sumitomo Chemical's newly developed process for bulk polymerization of polypropylene. • New Zealand—Petralgas Chemicals will build $135 million methanol plant near New Plymouth on west coast of North Island; plant will have capacity of 1200 metric tons per day with startup scheduled for mid-1983. Petralgas is joint venture of Alberta Gas Chemicals of Edmonton, Alta., and Petrocorp, New Zealand crown corporation. Engineering and procurement services will be by Fluor Corp.
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• Norway—Norsk Hydro will build 450 metric ton-per-day nitric acid plant at Rjukan in southern part of country; engineering, procurement, and staff training will be provided by Davy McKee; plant will use Davy McKee's Monomedium pressure process with startup planned for early 1983. • Romania—Centrala de Fibre Sintetice, government agency, has brought on stream 7280 metric ton-per-year preoriented polyester fabric yarn plant at Vaslui, about 250 miles northeast of Bucharest. Engineering, procurement, and construction supervision were provided by Chemtex of New York City. • South Korea—Eli Lilly and Oriental Chemical Industries have entered joint venture to build and operate production facility at Inchon for Lilly's rice fungicide product Beam. • U.K.—Rohm & Haas will build $18 million plant for Kathon biocide with capacity of 7 million lb per year at Jarrow complex; construction to begin in early 1982 with completion planned for 1983. • West Germany—Mallinckrodt has completed multimillion-dollar expansion and modification of its iothalamic acid plant at Dieburg; iothalamic acid is used in manufacture of x-ray contrast film. Rheinische Olefinwerke of Wesseling will refit its ethylene plant for processing 1.1 billion lb per year of waxy distillate instead of naphtha; engineering, procurement, and construction supervision will be by Linde.
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