Lanxess gives EPC contract to Foster Wheeler

ERJ staff report (DS)

Zug, Switzerland - Lanxess AG has awarded the engineering, procurement and construction management contract for its Nd-BR plant in Singapore to Foster Wheeler subsidiary. This award follows Foster Wheeler's successful completion of the front-end engineering design for this project earlier this year. Foster Wheeler's scope of work is expected to be completed in 2014.

The Foster Wheeler contract value for this project was not disclosed and will be included in the company's third-quarter 2012 bookings.

The new facility, which facility Lanxess states is expected to be the largest of its kind in the world, will be designed to produce 140,000 tonnes per annum of Nd-PBR and will include process and finishing buildings, a central control room, a substation and a tank farm. It will be built alongside Lanxess' 100,000 tonnes-per-year synthetic butyl rubber plant, the largest facility of its type in Asia, due to start up in 2013, and for which Foster Wheeler is also the EPCm contractor.

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