Technip wins Canada sodium chlorate equipment contract

24 November 2000 10:57  [Source: ICIS news]

LONDON (CNI)--French engineering contractor Technip said Friday that its affiliate Krebs-Speichem has won a contract from Canada's Albchem Industries to supply equipment for a new Can$40m ($26m/Euro30m) sodium chlorate production plant near Virden, Manitoba.

The plant, which is scheduled for completion in January 2002, will use Krebs electrolysers. The value of the contract was not disclosed.

Technip said the plant will boost Albchem's sodium chlorate production capacity by 40 000 tonne/year. It will augment output from the company's 80 000 tonne/year Bruderheim, Alberta plant, which is already using Krebs equipment.

Albchem's major market for sodium chlorate, an intermediate chemical used to produce chlorine dioxide for bleaching, is the pulp and paper industry.

Technip has also won a front-end engineering design contract from Qatar General Petroleum Corporation (QGPC) to upgrade the control systems of two natural gas liquids (NGL) trains at Mesaieed, near Doha.

The NGL units are major process fractionation facilities designed to produce propane, butane and gasoline.

By: Neil Sinclair
+44 20 8652 3214

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