Chemical process plant contractors

05 January 1992 00:00 [Source: ICB]

Abay Engineering
Address: rue de Genève 4, bte 24 B-1140 Brussels Belgium Tel: 32 2 729 6500 Fax: 32 2 729 6510 Tlx: 20167 abeng b	Activities: Turnover: $20m No. of employees: 35 Capacity: 75 000 manhours. Contracts from $5-25m Management and general contracting for industrial and chemical plants.
ABB Lummus Crest Inc
Address: 1515 Broad Street Bloomfield NJ 07003 US Tel: 1 201893 1515 Fax: 1 201 893 2000 Tlx: 138198 lummus co	Activities: No. of employees: >4000 Capacity: Founded in 1907, Lummus Crest project experience spans more than 8 decades. Over 6500 major projects in 65 countries have been completed. A network of engineering & project execution centres, staffed with experienced professionals, provides the latest in advanced process technologies, project management, engineering & construction related services. Process technologies include 'SRT' ethylene pyrolysis, used in more than 45% of the world's ethylene plants. Lummus Crest now has the worldwide rights to market & license Houdry's technologies, including the 'Catofin' dehydrogenation process. Services include preliminary estimates & schedules; project financing; site surveys; environmental permitting; project management & controls; estimating & scheduling; process design; detailed engineering; procurement; construction; commissioning & start-up; technical services; operator training; marketing support. Industrial sectors covered by Lummus Crest are petrochemicals & chemicals, where projects for complete chains of chemical process, eg from ethylene down through the entire line of styrenics, can be undertaken; petroleum refining, where Lummus Crest is a leading supplier of vacuum residual upgrading technologies; oil &gas; power; and modular gas-oil separation plants.
AMEC Design & Management Ltd
Address: Frobisher House Nelson Gate Commercial Road Southampton SO1 OGX UK Tel: 44 703 634400 Fax: 44 703 636116 Tlx: 477305 g	Activities: Turnover: £68m No. of employees: >1000 Capacity: Total capacity 12m manhours, contract values to £200m AMEC Design & Management Limited is part of the Amec Group of companies and is one of the leading design, engineering and construction operations serving the UK and Europe. The company offers design, procurement, construction and project management services to the chemical process industries with contract values to £200m. In addition, significant emphasis is placed on the environmental and safety issues affecting the production facility. The company undertakes conceptual studies (including design and development activities), and traditional front end studies through to start-up of the installation. Projects range from small upgrades to full turnkey construction contracts undertaken on guaranteed maximum price contract philosophies.
Applied Engineering Co.
Address: 1525 Charleston Highway PO Box 1327 Orangeburg SC 29116-1327 US Tel: 1 803 534 2424 Fax: 1 803 534 2457 Tlx: 573492	Activities: Turnover: $30m No. of employees: 300 Capacity: Engineering/direct labour costs up to $15m. TIC projects up to $50m Applied Engineering designs and constructs process facilities utilising modular techniques. Serving the chemical, petrochemical, refining, food processing, biotechnology and pharmaceutical industries, Applied conceives, engineers, and constructs process facilities in transportable module sections. With an integrated design and assembly, Applied specialises in medium to large process projects implemented via 5 to 50 major process modules. Using an alternative engineering/construction approach called Advanced Construction Technology (ACT), Applied delivers process facilities with the advantages of off-site construction but without the compromises required by traditional 'skidding' techniques.

APV Baker Ltd
Address: Automation Process Division PO Box 4 Gatwick Road Crawley West Sussex RH10 2QB UK Tel: 44 293 527777 Fax: 44 293 552640 Tlx: 87237 g	Activities: No. of employees: 180 Capacity: Up to £4m process plant automation Process plant and automation engineering.
The Austin Company
Address: 3650 Mayfield Road Cleveland Ohio 44121 US Tel: 1 216 382 6600 Fax: 1 216 2916684	Activities: Turnover: $2.2bn No. of employees: 2500 Capacity: Projects range from $1m to $500m, and from 1000m² to 100 000m² The Austin Company is an international organisation of consultants, designers, engineers and constructors. Austin's business focuses on complex industrial, commercial and governmental facilities requiring specialised expertise. Austin is recognised as an international leader in the creation of advanced facilities including: computer-integrated manufacturing plants, R&D centres, automated distribution centres, data processing centres, processing plants and intelligent office buildings. Major industries served are: aviation/aerospace, newspaper publishing, broadcasting, pharmaceutical manufacturing, food processing, and government. In addition to operations in North America, Austin operate in Europe, Australia.
Babcock Contractors Ltd
Address: 11 The Boulevard Crawley Sussex, RH10 1UX UK Tel: 44 293 528755 Fax: 44 293 584994 Tlx: 87317 g	Activities: Turnover: £750m (Babcock International Group) No. of employees: 1523 Capacity: Projects handled have typically a capital value in the range of £250 000 to £500m Babcock Contractors Group (BCG) is a major British engineering and construction organisation, undertaking on a worldwide basis, the provision of services to the process industries. The origins of BCG are in the former Woodall-Duckham Company (now Babcock Contractors Ltd) and the more recently acquired King-Wilkinson and former Foster Wheeler operations in Johannesburg. The combined organisation offers a range of experience and technology. Work undertaken includes project management (as Managing Contractor or Main Contractor), consultancy, preliminary studies, conceptual engineering, detailed design, procurement, construction, commissioning, operations, maintenance, training and the turnkey supply of complete installations. BCG is a division of Babcock International Group PLC (the renamed Babcock & Wilcox Ltd). The Babcock International Group now includes a wide range of interests, and can, where appropriate, provide additional financial and technical resources to BCG.
Badger Catalytic Ltd
Address: Cl Tower St George's Square High Street New Malden Surrey KT3 4HH UK Tel: 44 81949 0055 Fax: 44 81942 9224 Tlx: 23200 badcat g	Activities: Turnover: £17m No. of employees: 340 (UK) Capacity: Current engineering capacity: 550 000 manhours/year Badger Catalytic is a UK based engineering contractor providing technology and a full design, procurement and construction service to the process industry. Activities encompass the entire engineering requirements of the industry and range from assistance in process development, technical & economic evaluation and feasibility studies, through project management, process engineering & design, detailed engineering, project controls, and procurement, to construction management and plant commissioning. All branches of the process industry are covered, the company having especial expertise and experience in: fine chemicals, pharmaceuticals and biotechnology; hydrocarbon processing; electrochemicals; environmental services.
The Badger Company Inc
Address: One Broadway Cambridge MA 02142 US Tel: 1 617 494 7312 Fax: 1 617 494 7258/7064	Activities: Turnover: $1.5bn No. of employees: 3500 Capacity: Projects range from small studies to grass-roots petrochemical complexes Badger is an international engineering and construction firm with 40 years of experience in designing and building plants for: petroleum & gas processing, petrochemical, chemical, environmental & water treatment, polymer, fertiliser, food and consumer products. Badger provides a complete range of services: studies, commercialisation of new technology, process design, project management, engineering, detailed design, procurement, construction, plant start-up.

Bechtel Ltd
Address: PO Box 739 245 Hammersmith Road London, W6 8DP UK Tel: 44 81846 5111 Fax: 44 81846 6940 Tlx: 934151 wateka g	Activities: Turnover: >$5bn No. of employees: 20 000+ Capacity: Bechtel undertakes projects of all sizes, from small studies to large-scale projects Bechtel provides premier technical and management services to develop, manage, engineer, build and operate installations and performs other related services to improve the standard of living and quality of life worldwide. The scope of Bechtel's services includes technical and economic feasibility studies, detailed engineering and design, procurement, construction and construction management, project management, start-up and commissioning, and operation and maintenance. Bechtel's activities in the petroleum and chemical businesses include onshore and offshore oil and gas processing facilities; offshore production platforms; LNG/LPG production, processing storage and shipping facilities; refineries; alternative fuels; petrochemicals; chemicals; and effluent treatment facilities.
Biwater Process Plant Ltd
Address: 52 Alderley Road Wilmslow Cheshire SK9 1NY UK Tel: 44 625 532711 Fax: 44 625 527497 Tlx: 669007 g	Activities: No. of employees: 100 Capacity: Front-end studies & small projects ranging from £5000. Turnkey projects up to £30m Biwater Process Plant Limited is a process engineering contractor with special expertise in thefields of petrochemicals, pharmaceuticals, synthetic resins and coal tar. The company is staffed by a highly skilled team of multi-disciplined chartered engineers & designers with a proven capability for handling a range of projects from initial consultancy through to final construction. The company has in-house computer design - 'TFS', 'Sim Sci', 'Design 2000'. As a member of the Biwater Group of companies, Biwater Process Plant has the significant financial backing required to undertake large projects internationally whilst maintaining its willingness to work on smaller projects in the UK.
BOC Cryoplants
Address: 30 Priestley Road Guildford Surrey, GU2 5YH UK Tel: 44 483 300900 Fax: 44 483 302009 Tlx: 859003 cplgfd g	Activities: No. of employees: 700 BOC Cryoplants, a member of The BOC Group of companies, is an international contractor specialising in the design and supply of cryogenic plant & distribution equipment. The company's process expertise covers a range of low temperature plant & equipment, but particular emphasis is given to oxygen plants, nitrogen liquefiers, gas purification units, natural gas liquefiers, and vacuum insulated storage vessels. The services offered by the company include low temperature process design & engineering design, procurement of materials & machinery, fabrication, contract management, supervision of field construction, plant commissioning, and training of operators in plant control. Specialists based at Guildford in the UK and Murray Hill in the US are responsible for the full range of engineering activities, and the company also operates a well equipped manufacturing centre at Edmonton in the UK.
Brown & Root Braun Inc
Address: 4100 Clinton Drive PO Box 3 Houston TX 77001 USA Tel: 1 713 676 3632 Fax: 1 713 676 3769 Tlx: 166399 brown ut	Activities: No. of employees: 22 000 Brown & Root Braun is the Petroleum and Chemicals Division of engineering and construction giant Brown & Root Inc. headquartered in Houston, Texas. Brown & Root Braun provides single source responsibility and a comprehensive package of design, engineering, construction, project management and maintenance services to petroleum and petrochemical clients worldwide - contracted for separately or on a fully integrated, turnkey basis. In the past 80 years, the company has been involved in projects ranging from a few thousand dollars to more than $2bn. They include the massive KNPC Mina Abdulla refined in Kuwait - one of the few grass roots refineries built in the last four decades and the most modern complex of its kind anywhere - as well as the world's largest single train ammonia plant in The Netherlands. Brown & Root Braun expertise spans the globe with 12 000 professional & technical staff together with 11 000 craft employees strategically located in major resource centres and at numerous project sites on every continent.
Caloric Gesellschaft für Apparatebau mbH
Address: Lohenstrasse 12 8032 Gräfelfing bei München Germany Tel: 49 89 854 20 05 Fax: 49 89 854 54 23	Activities: No. of employees: 50 Caloric is one of the leading companies in Europe specialising in the design, engineering and manufacture of gas generating plants (for hydrogen, carbon monoxide, carbon dioxide and inert gases) as well as incineration plants for the thermal disposal of gaseous and/or liquid wastes of the chemical and pharmaceutical industries. In these fields, Caloric owns a range of processes and standardised plants and can offer engineering and licensing.

Chemap AG
Address: Hölzliwisenstrasse 5 CH-8604 Volketswil Switzerland Tel: 41 1 947 22 22 Fax: 41 1 945 3930	Activities: Established in 1942, Chemap has been designing fermentation systems for a spectrum of applications. Chemap can offer fermenters ranging from 2 litre to 500m³ capacity, and has an impressive track record of over 3000 installations. Applications include bacterial, mammalian, plant, insect, yeast and fungal cells. Specialist products also include the 'Vibromixer', 'Fundalux' turbidity monitor, 'Fundafom' foam separator, 'Sterimedia' continuous media sterilisation plants, and 'BioData Manager' software packages for data handling and management. Chemap also has extensive experience in scale-up and providing complete solutions for the customer.
Chematur AB
Address: Box 430 S-691 27 Karlskoga Sweden Tel: 46 586 86500 Fax: 46 586 594 50 Tlx: 73567 chem s	Activities: Turnover: $80m No. of employees: 150 Capacity: Contracts up to $40m Chematur and Weatherly are both chemical engineering companies, and have provided design, procurement and construction services for more than 300 process plants worldwide.
Chemetics International Company Ltd
Address: 1818 Cornwall Avenue Vancouver British Columbia Canada V6J 1C7 Tel: 1 604 734 1200 Fax: 1 604 734 0340 Tlx: 04 507612	Activities: Turnover: Can$90m No. of employees: 500 Chemetics International is a technology and design company with offices in Canada, the US, Sweden, Brazil and SE Asia. The technology is offered to customers in the form of engineered systems, proprietary and non-proprietary equipment and turnkey plants. The customers served by Chemetics are in the pulp & paper, chemical, fertiliser, and base metal smelting industries worldwide. The parent company of Chemetics is John Brown PLC, the Engineering Division of Trafalgar House. As a member of this worldwide organisation, Chemetics is in a very strong position to respond to the complex requirements of industry and in particular, the increasing demands for adequate environmental protection. Chemetics has built its business by anticipating the needs of its customers and by providing innovative technical solutions to improve the capability, reliability, efficiency and environmental acceptance of their operations at a cost competitive price.
Chemoprojekt
Address: Stepanska 15 11 85 Prague 2 Czechoslovakia Tel: 42 2 296871 Fax: 42 2 299286/299173 Tlx: 121114 chpc	Activities: Turnover: Koruna 237m No. of employees: 1480 Capacity: 1.9m manhours in about 15 professions for process, technology and construction Chemoprojekt is a Czechoslovak design, engineering and consulting corporation, designing complete chemical, crude oil and petrochemical plants, and individual units in refineries, pulp & paper production, nuclear chemistry & physics, pharmaceuticals, offsites, etc, in Czechoslovakia and other countries. New design work is undertaken, as well as revamps of existing units. All work is carried out on the basis of own know-how, or know-how from other Czech or foreign companies. Chemoprojekt Civil Engineering prepares architectural studies and building designs for various civil works. Chemoprojekt has a long experience in the design of long distance pipelines and anticorrosion protection.
Chengdu Chemical Engineering Corporation of China
Address: 99 South Gulou Street Chengdu Sichuan China Tel: 86 28 24111 Fax: 86 28 583386 Tlx: 60121 ccecl cn	Activities: Turnover: Renmimbi Yuan 20m No. of employees: 1500 CCECC's scope of major business is technical consultation, technology transfer, technology development, feasibility studies, overall design and planning, basic design, detailed engineering, equipment & material procurement and construction & contracting activities, etc. Engineering projects are undertaken in the following areas: petrochemicals, basic inorganics, natural gas-based chemicals, salt-based chemicals, coal-based chemicals, textiles & man-made fibres, fine chemicals, agrochemicals, pharmaceuticals, basic organic chemicals, electric power, civil architecture.

Chepos, Engineering & Sales Organization, Brno
Address: Sumavská 35 658 56 Brno Czechoslovakia Tel: 42 5 7113 Fax: 42 5 749314 Tlx: 62357/62430	Activities: Turnover: Koruna 2.13bn No. of employees: 760 Capacity: Annual engineering capacity: 500 000 manhours Chepos is the main Czechoslovak engineering and trade company active in design, procurement and construction services for oil & gas processing, chemical and petrochemical production, biotechnology and pharmaceutical production, cryogenics, rubber, plastics and industrial fibre processing, environmental protection, foodstuff processing.
Chisso Engineering Co Ltd
Address: Uchisaiwai-cho Daibiru Building 3-3 Uchisaiwai-cho 1-chome Chiyoda-ku Tokyo 100 Japan Tel: 813 3501 7011/15 Fax: 81 3 3501 5609 Tlx: 2225530 engchi j	Activities: Turnover: $150m No. of employees: 250 Capacity: 1m manhours General consultation for the planning of chemical plants. Supply of know-how. Supply of process design and detailed design. Procurement of machinery and equipment. Supply of technical assistance for erection, start-up and operation of plants. Construction work. Supply of Sect (Skin electric current tracing) system.
Clugston Construction
Address: St Vincent House Normanby Road Scunthorpe South Humberside, DN15 8QT UK Tel: 44 724 843491 Fax: 44 724 867680	Activities: Turnover: £74m No. of employees: 530 Capacity: Contracts up to £15m One of two principal divisions of Clugston Ltd (a private company established in 1937), Clugston Construction is responsible for all building, civil engineering and plant hire operations within the group, including traditional, design & build, and management contracting. With a projected turnover of £80m in the current financial year, Clugston Construction is one of the top 50 UK building (non-housing) and civil engineering contractors. In addition to contracting and plant hire operations, a regional supporting service, dealing with land surveying and material testing, is offered by the Technical Services division.
Costain Oil, Gas & Process Limited
Address: Process Contracting Division Costain House Styal Road Manchester M22 5WN UK Tel: 44 61 499 3030 Fax: 44 61 437 5829 Tlx: 666031 g	Activities: Turnover: £80m No. of employees: 800 Capacity: 1.5m manhours of EPC capacity for minor & major projects The Process Contracting Division of Costain Oil, Gas & Process provides a complete engineering, procurement, construction, project management and maintenance capability for facilities across the following international sectors: oil & gas processing, petrochemicals & polymers, specialities & pharmaceuticals, energy & environmental. Within these and other adjacent sectors, Costain undertakes projects from conceptual design and project definition through to a fully-financed turnkey package.
Courtaulds Engineering Ltd
Address: PO Box 11 Foleshill Road Coventry CV6 5AB Tel: 44 203 862000 Fax: 44 203 862200 Tlx: 94023090 celg g	Activities: Turnover: £61m No. of employees: 450 Capacity: Projects undertaken up to £75m Courtaulds Engineering is a specialist process contractor providing quality services/total capability worldwide to pharmaceutical, fine/speciality chemical, food processing and fibre/polymer industries. Offering a total service, Courtaulds Engineering's capabilities reflect a detailed knowledge and understanding of the process industries. Extensive, integrated in-house resources are enhanced by the use of leading-edge technologies. Our detailed understanding of clients' critical operational issues and our flexible approach deliver fast-track programmes - from concept to completion. Committed to excellence, innovation and continuous improvement, we ensure that our service remains closely matched to our clients' changing needs. We have extended our portfolio of skills and technology by forming alliances which benefit our clients, and have at our disposal the specialist resources of the Courtaulds Group. We work in partnership with our clients to develop the optimal solution, maximising their investment in plant and facilities.

Davy Powergas India Pte Ltd
Address: Powergas House PO Box 9789 177 Vidyanagari Marg Kalina Bombay 400 098 India Tel: 91 22 6142150 Fax: 91 22 6110361 Tlx: 011 78322/78323	Activities: Turnover: Rs100m No. of employees: 450 Capacity: Engineering services up to 1m manhours/year Davy Powergas India Private Ltd (DPG) is an Indian associate of the engineering division of Trafalgar House PLC. DPG offers services in detailed engineering, project management, procurement, inspection and expediting and construction supervision. The company also offers front end services for preparation of basic engineering packages and transfer of technologies. All work is carried out to the internationally accepted standards of the group. Effective computer systems are used for design & management. DPG has constructed a large number of projects in the chemical, petrochemical, polymer and fibres sectors. Projects have involved interactions with all the leading international licensors. In recent years, the company has developed an international presence through a number of projects in SE Asia. The value of current projects exceeds $1.5bn.
De Nora Permelec SpA
Address: Via Bistolfi 35 20134 Milano Italy Tel: 39 2 21291 Fax: 39 2 2154953 Tlx: 310552 i	Activities: Turnover: L136bn No. of employees: ca 530 Capacity: Projects up to $130m Design engineering and supply of electrochemical plants for the production of chlorine & caustic soda, sodium or calcium hypochlorite, ferric chloride, and hydrogen; 'Seaclor' systems for on-site generation of active chlorine solutions from seawater or brine for control of fouling in water circuits and/or disinfection. Manufacturing, marketing and servicing of titanium anodes and permanent electrodes for the electrolytic production of chlorine & caustic soda, hypochlorites, chlorates, nickel, copper/zinc and other electochemical products. Design and marketing of cathodic protection systems based on impressed current for onshore pipelines, reinforced concrete, offshore metal structures.
Dyno Industrier AS
Address: Chemicals Group PO Box 160 Svelleveien N-2001 Lillestrom Norway Tel: 47 2 71 70 01 Fax: 47 2 31 76 10 Tlx: 78855 kemi n	Activities: Turnover: NK7bn No. of employees: 7300 Capacity: Contracts up to NK50m for the silver and 'Formox' formaldehyde processes In addition to its chemicals business, Dyno offers two processes for the production of formaldehyde. The first process uses a silver catalyst, giving a high concentration of product without distillation, with low energy consumption. The 'Formox' process uses a metal oxide catalyst, yielding a 55% concentration of product with low methanol content.
Eltech Systems Corp
Address: 100 7th Avenue, Suite 300 Chardon Ohio 44024-1095 USA Tel: 1 216 285 0343 Fax: 1 216 285 0302	Activities: Turnover: $80m No. of employees: 350 Specialists in cell design and catalysed titanium anodes for the chlor-alkali industry for oxygen evolving applications and for the battery markets. Equipment for water and wastewater treatment and disinfection. Services and equipment for cathodic protection of steel in concrete and conventional applications.
EMS-Inventa AG
Address: CH-7013 Domat-Ems Switzerland Tel: 41 81 36 63 11 Fax: 41 81 36 74 03 Tlx: 851410 invt ch	Activities: No. of employees: 175 Design and construction of synthetic fibre plants.

FB&D Technologies, Inc
Address: 375 Chipeta Way PO Box 58009 Salt Lake City Utah 84158-0009 USA Tel: 1 801 583 3773 Fax: 1 801 584 1440 Tlx: 792 488 fbd dal	Activities: Turnover: $80m No. of employees: 1500 Capacity: Contracts of $100m and less FB&D Technologies is a full service engineering and construction company with some 1500 employees operating from several permanent and field offices, who are prepared to handle entire projects or any part of a project. The wide range of services offered by FB&D include: feasibility studies, conceptual design, process engineering, engineering & design, project management, scheduling & cost control, estimating, computer aided design & drafting, purchasing, expediting, construction management, inspection, operator training, plant start-up, scale models. The company uses the most advanced technology and procedures. Our industry base includes hazardous & industrial waste incineration, industrial power/cogeneration, chemical & petrochemical, refining, gas processing, sulphur removal & recovery, industrial manufacturing, special services.
Ferox AS
Address: Ustecká ul. 30 40530 Decín V Czechoslovakia Tel: 42 412 27221 Fax: 42 412 27288 Tlx: 186656	Activities: Turnover: Koruna 542m (1991) No. of employees: 1330 Capacity: Koruna 650m; 1.2m manhours Ferox is a design and manufacturing company, employing 1330 staff. Ferox has its own development, design, manufacture and assembly departments, where single pieces of equipment and machinery, as well as complete plants, are produced. Products exported include pressure vessels, heat exchangers, vessels, tanks, strippers, reactors, fermentors, storage tanks, equipment for the production, transportation and storage of oxygen and nitrogen, argon and other rare gases, air coolers. The company also produces various vessels, tanks and heat exchangers in aluminium & aluminium alloys, copper and copper alloys.
Fluor Daniel
Address: 3333 Michelson Drive Irvine California 92730 US Tel: 1 714 975 3971 Fax: 1 714 975 5981	Activities: No. of employees: 17 602 Capacity: New awards for 1991 were $6.5bn. Backlog for 1991 is $11.2bn Fluor Daniel provides engineering, construction and technical services to more clients in more industries and geographic locations than any global competitor. Organised to meet client needs, the company is structured into five business sectors: hydrocarbon, government, industrial, process and power. Services include feasibility studies, conceptual design, project management, engineering, construction, procurement, technical services, project financing, maintenance and plant operations. Fluor Daniel provides global capability from over 50 offices located around the world.
Foster Wheeler Corporation
Address: Perryville Corporate Park Clinton NJ 08808-4000 US Tel: 1 201 730 4000 Fax: 1 201 730 5315 Tlx: 0138428	Activities: No. of employees: 10 000 Founded in 1927, Foster Wheeler Corp (FWC) traces its lineage to 1891, when its predecessor was formed. It is a publicly owned company quoted on the New York stock exchange. FWC's Engineering & Construction Group consists of engineering centres in the UK, France, Italy, Spain, US and Singapore, with associated offices in Ireland, USSR, Turkey and Venezuela. FWC employs more than 3000 technical personnel in Europe. Each of the European offices has a minimum of 25 years operating experience. Foster Wheeler Energy Ltd in the UK last year celebrated its 70th anniversary. Services offered by the company include feasibility studies, project management, process design, detailed engineering & design, procurement on a worldwide basis, construction management, training and plant start-up. The company is also an acknowledged leader in the design & engineering of fired heaters & heat exchangers. Foster Wheeler's work spans a wide variety of industries including petrochemical refining, pharmaceutical, oil & gas, power, and water. Foster Wheeler International Corp has recently formed a joint venture company Hytech with Grozny Institute in the CIS.
Freeman Process Systems Ltd
Address: Hyde Park House Hyde Cheshire SK14 4UL UK Tel: 44 61 367 9701 Fax: 44 61 367 9702	Activities: Turnover: $6m No. of employees: 100 Capacity: Contracts up to $10m (total value). 60 000 manhours/year Process design and detailed design, construction and commissioning of fine chemical, pharmaceutical and agrochemical plants. Technology packages available for: sodium silicate solutions, polyols, ethoxylates, salicylic acid/aspirin. Environmental audits; process development; liquid, solid and gaseous effluent treatment.

Fu Tai Engineering Co Ltd
Address: Formosa Plastics Building (B), 7th floor, 201 Tun Hwa North Road Taipei 10591 Taiwan ROC Tel: 886 2 717 1687 Fax: 886 2 717 1698 Tlx: 13224 futaiec	Activities: Turnover: $24m No. of employees: 502 Capacity: 200 000 manhours/year; contracts to $20m Petroleum refining, petrochemical, chemical, oil & gas storage & pumping facilities including tank farms, pumping stations & pipelines pharmaceutical, environmental control, steel and power plants.
H&G Hegmanns Ingenieur GmbH
Address: Hafenstrasse 12 D-4650 Gelsenkirchen 1 Germany Tel: 49 209 40 980 Fax: 49 209 409 810	Activities: No. of employees: 80 - 100 Capacity: 150 000 manhours/year Engineering services for chemical and petrochemical plants, basic and detailed engineering, computer aided design, process flow and P&T diagrams, models, safety analysis, environmental procedures and pollution control processes.
Haldor Topsøe AS
Address: Nymollevej 55 Box 213 DK-2800 Lyngby Copenhagen Denmark Tel: 45 45 27 20 00 Fax: 45 45 27 29 99 Tlx: 37444 htas	Activities: Turnover: DK1bn (1991) No. of employees: ca1000 The development, production and engineering associated with catalysts and catalytic processes has taken the Topsøe group into many different areas of technology. The main areas are in the chemical industry: more specifically in the production of fertilisers and other chemicals & petrochemicals, oil refining, gas conversion & related technologies, energy and environment. The Topsøe range of activities includes: supply of know-how, engineering services and catalysts for ammonia synthesis, methanol synthesis, tubular steam reforming (hydrogen, town gas, synthesis gas and reducing gas), high & low temperature shift conversion, methanation, desulphurisation of hydrocarbons, hydroprocessing of residual & heavy oil fractions, sulphuric acid and formaldehyde. Haldor Topsøe has also developed technologies for the catalytic combustion of solvents and other combustibles in off-gases as well as methods for desulphurisation and denitrification of flue gases and off-gases from power plants and boilers, and roaster off-gases.
H&G Process Contracting Ltd
Address: Grosvenor House 125 High Street Croydon CRO 9XP Tel: 44 81 688 4477 Fax: 44 81 681 3869 Tlx: 261 821 handgl g	Activities: Turnover: £100m No. of employees: 1200 Capacity: 1.5m manhours; contracts from £50 000 to £70m International engineering contractors & consultants providing project management, design, engineering, procurement and construction services to the chemical, petrochemical, oil & gas, pharmaceutical, food & drink, water, nuclear, power and environmental industries.
H-R International Inc
Address: 2045 Lincoln Highway Edison New Jersey 08817 USA Tel: 1 908 287 1111 Fax: 1 908 287 5252 Tlx: 21960	Activities: No. of employees: 275 Capacity: Annual utilisation rate: 400 000 manhours H-R International is a worldwide engineering and construction company serving industry, commerce and government. Services range from feasibility studies to complete turnkey design and construction, as well as planning and monitoring, plant maintenance and training. Experience includes projects from under $1m to more than $1bn total installed cost. H-R serves clients in the chemical, petrochemical, petroleum refining, metallurgical, environmental, food and pharmaceutical industries. Other clients include the banking community, city & state governmental agencies and the Federal government. H-R, founded in 1957 as the Heyward-Robinson Co, Inc. is a subsidiary of Outokumpu Oy, a Finland-based group with international operations. Outokumpu is well known for its position in copper and base metals, as well as being a major producer of stainless steel. The group currently has 10 operating companies in the US and reports worldwide sales in excess of $3bn. H-R maintains an affiliate in Caracas, Venezuela.

IIT (Impianti per Industrie dei Tensioattivi)
Address: Via G Rossini 52 21052 Busto Arsizio (VA) Italy Tel: 39 331 684317/685544 Fax: 39 331 380810	Activities: Turnover: $2-3m No. of employees: 10 Capacity: $4-5m Planning, manufacture and installation of sulphonation equipment and plants. Complete pilot and industrial plants. Integrated system sulphur trioxide production plant. Multitube film reactor. Heat recovery steam boiler of special design. Electrostatic precipitators. Homogenisers. Granulated detergent plants.
Incro SA (Cros)
Address: Edificio Alfredo Mahou Plaza Manuel Gomez Moreno s/n 28020 Madrid Spain Tel: 34 1 555 9400 Fax: 34 1 556 7107 Tlx: 49722 fesam e	Activities: Incro SA was founded in 1975 by SA Cros, a major manufacturer of fertilisers, chemicals and pharmaceuticals, and Intecsa (now known as Intecsa-Uhde), an international engineering company with a large experience and capacity for project implementation. In 1988 after a full merger with ERT, Ercros was formed, the chemical division of which is Fesa/Enfersa. Incro's main objective is the development and transfer of basic technology, know-how and own or third party processes. SA Cros' wide experience has allowed Incro to place specialised engineers in production plants, start-up and expert plant operators, thus allowing, from the first stages of project development, a trouble free installation. Incro may also offer personnel training in Fesa/Enfersa's plants for plant start-up and operation trouble shooting.
Initec
Address: Calle Alenza 4 Madrid Spain Tel: 34 1 587 1267	Activities: Turnover: >$100m No. of employees: 1089 Capacity: 1.9m manhours; contracts between $50 000 and $30m The services offered by Initec (Empresa Nacional de Ingeniera y Tecnologia) in its different fields of activity range from preliminary studies to the execution of complex projects, including turnkey installations. Initec's four major business areas are: industrial plants, power, nuclear, and infrastructure.
Institut Françaisdu Pétrole
Address: 1/4 avenue de Bois-Préau BP 311 92506 Rueil-Malmaison Cedex France Tel: 33 1 47 49 02 14 Fax: 33 1 47 49 04 11 Tlx: 203050 ifpa f	Activities: No. of employees: ca1800 IFP is an information, training and research centre for oil, gas and their substitutes. IFP has developed a technical and economic documentation centre, open to the public. As a part of IFP, the Ecole Nationale Supérieure du Pétrole is a specialised post-graduate school which accepts students with an engineering, scientific or business degree. R&D is the essential part of IFP's activity absorbing 70% of the budget. The R&D programme is structured around the following topics: exploration and reservoir engineering, production systems, refining & petroleum products, energy and environment. IFP implements a dynamic policy of commercialising its scientific results. This action takes the form: 1. Cooperation agreements for joint research, training and technical assistance. 2. Granting licenses for the use of processes and products. 3. Creating consulting, engineering and manufacturing companies under the ISIS network. 4. Transferring technologies to small and medium size enterprises.
Intecsa-Uhde Industrial SA
Address: c/Rosario Pino, 14-16 28020 Madrid Spain Tel: 34 1 279 3000 Fax: 34 1 279 5925 Tlx: 46058 intsa e	Activities: Turnover: Pta3.6bn (1991) No. of employees: 300 Capacity: 50 000 manhours/month. Current contracts $70m Intecsa-Uhde Industrial SA is a Spanish firm dedicated to the engineering of industrial plants and buildings since 1965. The services offered include project management, either as individual activities or fully integrated within a single responsibility scheme. The head office is based in Madrid, with a staff of about 300, heavily supported by computer management and design of hardware and software. The main areas covered are: A) Process plants: refineries, petrochemicals, fertilisers, inorganics, metallurgical, pulp & paper, pharmaceutical, food processing. B) Manufacturing plants: automobile components & assembly, electronic components, glass derivatives, packing plants, solids handling. Cogeneration. C) Environment & safety: effluent treatment (industrial), effluent control and impact studies. Safety studies. D) Buildings: space planning. Industrial and office building architecture. Business parks. Communication centres. Hypermarkets. Automated warehouses. Hotels. Hospitals.

Jacobs Engineering Group Inc
Address: 251 S Lake Ave Pasadena CA 91101 USA Tel: 1 818 449 2171 Fax: 1 818 578 6916	Activities: Turnover: $20m (1991) No. of employees: 4600 Capacity: Backlog of $1.6bn Jacobs is one of the largest professional service firms in the US providing engineering, design and consulting services; construction and construction management; and process plant maintenance. The company provides its services on a nationwide basis through regional offices for many of the nation's largest corporations and federal agencies. Jacobs has focused its services on selected industries and applications including environmental and hazardous waste; facilities for aerospace, electronics, high technology and other industrial commercial and municipal buildings; and process plants for the chemical, petrochemical and pharmaceutical industries, the energy and refining industries, and the mineral and fertiliser industries.
JGC Corporation
Address: New Ohtemachi Building 2-1 Ohtemachi 2-chome Chiyoda-ku Tokyo 100 Japan Tel: 81 3 3279 5441 Fax: 81 3 3273 8047 Tlx: 02223096 JGTOK J	Activities: Turnover: ¥279bn No. of employees: 2387 Capacity: 1761 technical personnel for project execution. JGC Corp, founded in 1928, is a fully integrated Japanese engineering company. To date, JGC has handled well over 10 000 projects of various sizes and types in more than 40 overseas countries in diverse industrial fields, including petroleum refining, petrochemicals, chemicals, nuclear energy, natural gas, foods, pharmaceuticals, life sciences, factory automation, communications and environmental conservation. Through execution of these projects, JGC has not only accumulated vast amounts of know-how and technical capabilities, but also established its own project management practices. The spirit of JGC's activities lies in providing a wide range of services for users - that is, the execution of overall tasks under a consistent philosophy, from feasibility studies to project planning, design engineering, procurement, construction, operation, and including training and maintenance/after installation services.
John Brown Engineers & Constructors
Address: 20 Eastbourne Terrace London W2 6LE UK Tel: 44 71 262 8080 Fax: 44 71 402 0387 Tlx: 8950033 jbpic g	Activities: Turnover: £1bn No. of employees: 12 500 John Brown provides a comprehensive range of engineering, management & construction services to the oil & gas, petrochemical, polymer, pharmaceutical, food and other process industries. We are major players in Eastern & Western Europe, North & South America, Asia, the Far East and Africa. John Brown currently has projects in 35 countries and this local execution and market knowledge is invaluable to our clients. To take advantage of the significant opportunities in South East Asia, an office has been established in Thailand, and we currently have projects in Singapore, China, Brunei, India, Indonesia, Hong Kong, Taiwan & Japan. In the CIS, we have set up joint companies, which will benefit from our long record of business in the region.
Karl Fischer Industrieanlagen GmbH
Address: Holzhauser Strasse 157 D-1000 Berlin 27 Germany Tel: 49 30 43 020 Fax: 49 30 430 250/251/252 Tlx: 181715 kfbld	Activities: Karl Fischer constructs plants for: polymers (polyamide 6,66,11,12, copolamides; polyester-PET, PBT & copolyesters; acrylics); spinning (polyamide, PET, PP, & acrylic textile fibres & filaments, industrial yarns); PET films (photographic, X-ray, insulation & other films & tapes); polyamide, PET & PP spunbonded nonwovens for technical and textile end-uses; recovery of polymer waste, caprolactam, ethylene glycol, methanol; drying & postcondensation of polyamide, PET & PBT chips; pneumatic conveyance of chips. Chemical plants include: formaldehyde, acetaldehyde, formaldehyde-based synthetic resins & adhesives, formic acid and alkali formates, oxalic acid, salicylic acid, hexamethylene tetramine. Plastic coating plants (single wires, single parts, wire mesh, glass bottles). Drying plants: tumble dryer for chemicals & polymer chips; column dryer for polymer chips; flash dryers (powder & particles) and spray dryers (liquid solutions) for chemicals, food and feed.

The MW Kellog Company
Address: 601 Jefferson Avenue East Houston Texas 77210-4557 US Tel: 1 713 753 2000 Fax: 1 713 753 5353 Tlx: 166385 mwkhoc	Activities: No. of employees: 4000+ Capacity: 1989 contracts: $9.39bn (expected 30% increase on this for 1991) The M W Kellogg Company is one of the world's leading technology-oriented engineering & construction contractors, serving primarily the hydrocarbon, energy and energy-related industries. Kellogg provides its own proprietary processing technologies & those advanced technologies of others which enable the environmentally acceptable conversion of hydrocarbons & other chemicals into petroleum, petrochemical & energy end products. With world headquarters in Houston, Tx, US, Kellogg provides the full spectrum of engineering & construction services, from the development of processes in its own laboratories through the application of those processes in demonstration plants or in co-development with others. Often, for large refining, petrochemical & energy complexes outside the US, particularly in developing nations, Kellogg heads multinational engineering & construction consortia to make use of abundant natural resources in a way beneficial to the individual economy and the world economy as well. The M W Kellogg Company is a technology-oriented subsidiary of Dresser Industries Inc. Dresser, headquartered in Dallas, Tx, US, is a major supplier of highly engineered products & services primarily used in energy-related activities throughout the world.
Kinetics Technology International BV (KTI)
Address: 26 Bredewater 2715 CA Zoetermeer The Netherlands Tel: 31 79 531600 Fax: 31 79 513561 Tlx: 31757	Activities: Turnover: Dfl500m (1990) No. of employees: ca950 KTI's proprietary technologies include: hot sections ethylene plants; reforming (H₂, CO, NH₃, methanol); butane dehydrogenation; CO recovery from gas streams; natural gas treatment systems; liquid gas storage facilities; heat transfer system (including reactor furnaces); re-refining of lube oils; advanced plant management systems; waste processing; burner technology. Licensed technologies include: CO₂ & H₂S removal systems; ammonia & methanol technologies; sulphur production (Claus); deNOx technologies. KTI offers EPC services based on client or third party technologies (eg UOP, IFP & others) for the chemical and petroleum refining industries (eg platformers, isomerisation, aromatics recovery, MTBE). KTI Group's strengths can be summarised as follows: international networking between the various companies; process design oriented (high percentage of staff active in process design & control services); track record for worldwide project execution & procurement; track record to undertake projects on a fixed fee basis - either complete projects and/or lump sum for engineering services; can work as a single source contractor, consortium partner, or subcontractor; financing packages can be arranged; motivated, dynamic staff; quality assurance to ISO 9001; business relations.
Klöckner Industrie-Anlagen GmbH
Address: Neudorfer Strasse 3-5 D-4100 Duisburg 1 Germany Tel: 49 203 18 1 Fax: 49 203 340095 Tlx: 855 81870	Activities: Turnover: DM500m No. of employees: 5500 Capacity: Largest single contract underway: DM700m Klöckner Industrie-Anlagen GmbH (Klö ckner Ina) is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Klöckner & Co AG, which was founded in Duisburg, Germany, in 1906. Klöckner Ina offers more than 40 years worldwide contracting experience comprising planning, engineering, delivery, financing, construction, commissioning and start-up of complete plants on a turnkey basis. The following sectors are covered: inorganics, fertilisers, organics, petroleum refiming, petrochemicals, polymers & synthetic resins, synthetic fibres, natural, synthetic and industrial gases, pulp & paper, environmental protection.
Krebs & Cie
Address: 8 Rue Jean-Pierre Timbaud BP 68 78391 Bois d'Arcy cedex France Tel: 33 1 30 45 92 56 Fax: 33 1 30 45 97 67 Tlx: 695136 f	Activities: Turnover: $100m No. of employees: 400 Capacity: Krebs' engineering task force represents an average of 600 000 manhours/year. Contracts range from $2m - 200m. Krebs is an international engineering contractor with over 60 years experience in process and plant design and construction. Krebs' activities cover almost all sectors of the chemical industry including: inorganic acids and fertilisers, chlorine compounds, non-ferrous metals, soda ash, inorganic chemicals, pesticides, organic compounds, petrochemicals, waste treatment and Environmental protection. Krebs' expertise covers technologies for mineral processing, hydrometallurgy, pyrometallurgy, electrochemistry and oil refining. Additional expertise has been developed in automation and process control systems. As a technology oriented company, Krebs has developed many patented processes in use throughout the world. The company is recognised as a designer of numerous, first-of-a-kind processing plants. Krebs provides a total service ranging fron technical consultancy and feasibility studies to complete turnkey installation. The company demonstrates its versatility working both for small firms as well as large international groups. Krebs has built over 300 chemical plants situated in 50 countries & has been a major contributor to more than 500 projects worldwide.

Krebs Swiss, Krebs & Co Ltd
Address: 20 Claridenstrasse CH-8022 Zurich Switzerland Tel: 41 1 202 6905 Fax: 411 201 4161 Tlx: 815348 ks ch	Activities: Turnover: SF25-50m No. of employees: 50 Capacity: 75 000 manhours (engineering) Established in Zurich in 1946, Krebs Swiss, Krebs & Co Ltd, is a private firm of chemical engineering consultants and process plant contractors. Krebs Swiss has designed, built and operated plants for the basic chemical industry as well as plants for the production of speciality chemicals employed in industries such as pulp and paper, textiles and water treatment. The company has completed several hundred chemical and electrochemical plants in more than 40 countries. The company's head office in Zurich and subsidiary office in Therwil include design and project offices and are staffed with consulting specialists, design staff, procurement and field staff. Krebs Swiss offers licenses for technology directly and indirectly, including membrane cell chloralkali production, salt processing, chlorates and inorganic chemicals as well as environmental technologies including treatment of water and wastes, recycling and handling of hazardous materials. The Commerce Department offers plants and plant components for the pharmaceutical, chemical, food, plastics and packaging industries.
Krupp Koppers GmbH
Address: Postfach 10 22 51 D-4300 Essen 1 Germany Tel: 49 201 828 01 Fax: 49 201 828 2566 Tlx: 857817 d	Activities: Turnover: DM350m No. of employees: 800 Capacity: 750 000 manhours/year As an internationally active engineering contractor, Krupp Koppers offers the following services: preparation of feasibility studies, process evaluation; process design, development & optimisation; process licensing; basic & detailed engineering; procurement/supply of equipment; erection & commissioning; consultancy. Areas covered include the construction of: complete coke oven plants including servicing machinery, coal, coke and coke oven gas treatment & recovery of coal byproducts; coal gasification plants ('Koppers Totzek' & 'Prepflo' pressurised gasification) for the production of synthesis gas for the chemical industry, reduction gas, or gas for use in combined cycle power plants; hot blast stoves for the steel industry; plants for petroleum processing & refinery products manufacture; plants for production & recovery of aromatic hydrocarbons; plants for production of polyester fibre feedstocks, petrochemical and chemical raw materials; PET granule & PS production plants; E-PVC & S-PVC production plants; titanium dioxide production plants; pollution control facilities; deNOx & deSOx facilities.
Latinoamericana de Ingenieria, SA de CV
Address: Cultacan No 108 Hipodromo Condesa 06170 Mexico DF Mexico Tel: 52 5 272 3445/1574 Fax: 52 5 272 1627 Tlx: 1772766 latime	Activities: Turnover: $8.5m No. of employees: 385 Capacity: 700 000 manhours/year Latinoamericana de Ingenieria (Latisa) is a subsidiary of The Parsons Corp, Pasadena, Ca, US, and GMD of Mexico City. Latisa provides the following services to the petroleum, petrochemical & chemical industries: consulting & special studies, technology selection, basic & detail engineering, process civil-structural, architectural, mechanical, piping, electrical, instrumentation; environmental engineering, procurement, purchasing, inspection, expediting, traffic; planning & scheduling, cost estimation & control, construction supervision & management.
Linde AG
Address: Process Engineering & Contracting D-8023 Hoellriegelskreuth Germany Tel: 49 89 7445 0 Fax: 49 89 7445 4908	Activities: Turnover: DM995m (sales); DM2.3bn (orders) No. of employees: 4300 Capacity: >2m manhours (engineering & specialists) Plants for petrochemicals, synthesis gas, gas processing, natural gas processing, air separation, cryogenic and environmental protection. Plant components.
Litwin SA
Address: 1 Rue des Chauffours 95000 Cergy-Pontoise France Tel: 33 1 30 73 58 58 Fax: 33 1 30 73 16 56 Tlx: 688411 f	Activities: No. of employees: 1800 Capacity: 2.75m manhours/year (Litwin SA: 620 000; Litwin E&C: 2.13m) Project development, feasibility studies, process design, engineering design, advanced instrument control, procurement, construction, start-up, financing and trading for oil & gas production, petroleum refineries, petrochemicals, chemicals, polymers, speciality chemicals, environmental protection.

Lucky Engineering Co Ltd
Address: 275 Kongdok-dong Mapo-gu Seoul Korea Fax: 82 2 715 5778	Activities: Turnover: $150m No. of employees: 730 Capacity: Contracts of $200m Established in 1978 as a general engineering and contracting firm, Lucky Engineering Co (LEC) offers all kinds of technical services required for converting industrial technology into commercially viable facilities & achieving project objectives. LEC has built a reputation for completing projects on time & within budget. The company's highly trained staff take pride in their reliable & expeditious handling of all types of projects. LEC is a member of the Lucky Goldstar Group, one of Korea's leading conglomerates, which owns & operates over 50 plants. This explains why LEC correctly understands the importance of the client's requirements in engineering & construction of industrial facilities, as well as the necessity of providing the client with proper know-how for plant operation and staff training. Services include project management; feasibility study & planning; engineering; procurement, expediting & inspection; construction; commissioning & start-up; training; operation & maintenance. LEC's fields of speciality include process plant; energy-related facilities; electrical power systems; offsite & utilities; environment control facilities; HVAC, clean room; architecture & civil work; other industrial facilities.
Lurgi AG
Address: Lurgi-Allee 5 PO Box 11 12 31 D-6000 Frankfurt am Main Germany Tel: 49 69 58 08 0 Fax: 49 69 58 08 38 88 Tlx: 412360 lg d	Activities: Turnover: DM 1.7bn (90/91) No. of employees: 4400 Capacity: Current projects range from DM5m to DM500m Lurgi, the Engineering Services Division of the Metallgesellschaft Group, specialises in process technology, design engineering & contracting, operating worldwide. Activities & services include: Design, supply, construction & erection of plants for all sectors of industry, including infrastructure. Lurgi is free to select plant & equipment from the most suitable manufacturers in terms of quality, reliability & financing, locally or abroad. Lurgi offers consulting, engineering & management activities within the project execution or as a separate service. Experienced specialists provide every kind of service for construction projects: feasibility studies, proposals, procurement, quality control, expediting, erection & start-up, guarantee testing, and training of personnel. Financing can be arranged on a national or multinational basis. Customers can be helped with product marketing & to develop overall plant concepts. Lurgi has over 200 processes relating to the design & construction of complete turnkey plants, plant units & individual equipment, complemented by a wide-ranging know-how for plant contracts unrelated to a particular Lurgi process.
Mannesmann Anlagenbau AG
Address: Theodorestrasse 90 D-4000 Düsseldorf 30 Germany Tel: 49 211 659 0 Fax: 49 211 659 2372 Tlx: 8586677 d	Activities: Turnover: DM2.3bn (average) No. of employees: 8100 Capacity: EPC-lump sum contracts up to DM600m Mannesmann Anlagenbau is the international EPC-contractor of the Mannesmann Group working in the fields of oil & gas development; pipeline systems for oil, gas and derivatives, and water; refinery units for the processing of light & heavy naphthas, diesel fuels & residues; petrochemical plants (including methanol & MTBE); fresh & wastewater technology; piping systems for power plants; building installations; environmental protection technologies.
Ing A Maurer SA
Address: Dammweg 3 3000 Berne 11 Switzerland Tel: 41 31 42 46 15 Fax: 41 31 42 22 75 Tlx: 911762 amsa ch	Activities: No. of employees: 90 An international organisation for: engineering; construction; consulting; process design; market studies; feasibility studies; management planning for the chemical and related industries, cellulosic (viscose) fibres and filaments, cellulosic films (cellophane), and plastic films.
Mitsui Engineering & Shipbuilding Co Ltd
Address: Plant Engineering & Construction 6-4 Tsukiji 5-chome Chuo-ku Tokyo 104 Japan Tel: 81 3 3544 3131 Fax: 81 3 3544 3052 Tlx: 22821/22924 j	Activities: Turnover: ¥300bn No. of employees: 6000 Capacity: Projects undertaken up to $1.2bn Mitsui Engineering & Shipbuilding (MES), established in 1971, provides a wide range of products and services, including engineering services for chemical plants, chemical process equipment, ships and offshore plants, steel structures, industrial equipment and machinery, construction machinery, computer control systems, and nuclear plants. MES has won international recognition for its sophisticated and integrated engineering and manufacturing technology. MES started its services to the chemical processing industries in 1938, when it established a Chemical Plant Division. Since then, MES has built more than 1000 units for various sectors of the chemical industry including petrochemicals, synthetic resins, synthetic fibres, inorganic and other chemicals, as well as petroleum refining and pollution control facilities..

Monenco Inc
Address: 400 Monenco Place 801-6th Avenue SW Calgary Alberta Canada T2P 3W3 Tel: 1 403 298 4104 Fax: 1 403 298 4125 Tlx: 06 3671029	Activities: Turnover: Can$150m No. of employees: 2300 Capacity: 4m manhours/year Monenco engages in five main lines of business as follows: power (thermal, hydro, power systems, mining, management consulting); process industries (oil, gas and petrochemical, resource and manufacturing); systems technology (information systems, automated mapping/facilities management/geographic information systems (AM/FM/GIS), radio spectrum management); environment (waste minimisation and treatment, site characterisation, remedial investigation and feasibility studies, impact assessment); and infrastructure (transportation, science and technology, communications). Monenco provides services in engineering, integrated project management, systems technology and the environment, including research, study, design, development and implementation of projects, large and small, worldwide
Mostotal Krakó SA
Address: 30-969 Kraków ul. Ujastek Poland Tel: 48 12 442434/445716 Fax: 48 12 445658 Tlx: 0322306	Activities: Turnover: $34m No. of employees: 2400 Production of steel structures (>10 000 tonne/year); assembly of steel structures & industrial machinery.
Mowlem Engineering
Address: Port Causeway Bromborough Wirral Merseyside L62 4TP UK Tel: 44 51 334 4990 Fax: 44 51 334 8131	Activities: Turnover: £75m No. of employees: 400 Capacity: Contracts up to £25m; 150 000 manhours/year Mowlem Engineering provides a multi-disciplined, specialist engineering contracting service assisting clients with the execution of capital projects by supplying professional engineering and management resources for the following: front-end studies, conceptual and detail design, project management, construction management, commissioning services. The benefit of experience gained within manufacturing and service industries (food, pharmaceuticals, fine chemicals, wastewater & effluent treatment, CHP plants, paints, resins and coatings) allows Mowlem Engineering a 'single responsibility approach' to handling multi-disciplinary projects. Our in-house resource can ensure that there is a fast track response in producing overall turnkey capability for the design and construction of plant. Alternatively, services are offered individually or as part of a design and management contract to meet specific project and business needs.
Niro A/S
Address: 305 Gladsaxevej DK 2860 Soeborg Denmark Tel: 45 39 69 10 11 Fax: 45 39 69 14 14 Tlx: 15603	Activities: The Niro Group specialises in the development, design and engineering of industrial, pilot and laboratory scale plants for liquid treatment, powder production and processing in the chemical, polymer, pharmaceutical, ceramics and food industries. Main areas of activity are spray and fluid bed drying with associated pre- and after treatment such as evaporation, homogenisation, membrane filtration, solid-liquid extraction, granulation, agglomeration, coating and mixing. Niro also designs flue gas cleaning plants based on spray dryer absorption for power generating stations and incinerators.
Noram Engineering & Constructors Ltd
Address: Suite 400 1477 West Pender Street Vancouver British Columbia Canada V6G 2S6 Tel: 1 604 681 2030 Fax: 1 604 683 9164	Activities: Noram Engineering and Constructors is an independent, Vancouver based technology & engineering company. The company was formed essentially to develop & supply complete process systems, technical services and custom designed, specialised equipment to the chemical, pulp & paper, mining and associated industries. In proven services, a reactor system with no moving parts was developed by Noram to enhance reaction rates in heterogeneous liquid/liquid process systems. Also patented, a novel system for nitric acid concentration is offered which provides benefits in capital and energy requirements. In collaboration with an associate company, Noram has developed proprietary technology in the general area of sulphuric acid production. Currently, Noram has projects active in Europe, China, Canada & the US, with further business at the negotiation stage in these and other areas.

Salzgitter Anlagenbau
Address: Piaza della Repubblica 11/A 20124 Milan Italy Tel: 39 2 29000046 Fax: 39 2 6599065 Tlx: 351376 odntec i	Activities: Turnover: $25m Design and construction of monopolar and bipolar membrane cell process chloralkali plants.
Plinke GmbH & Co Chemieanlagen KG
Address: Kaiser Friedrich Promenade 24 D 6380 Bad Homburg Germany Tel: 49 6172 1260 Fax: 49 6172 12655 Tlx: 415151 d	Activities: No. of employees: 50 Plinke supplies complete plants in two main areas. 1. Acid/waste acid concentration (mainly sulphuric, nitric or hydrochloric acids) to the chemical, explosives and other process industries eg waste incineration facilities. 2. Waste gas cleaning plants for the recovery of nitric and sulphuric acids by absorption of nitrogen oxides and sulphur dioxide; acid treatment, mixing, dilution of acids. Co-operation is offered on a worldwide basis: Plinke has partners in many countries.
Pressindustria SpA
Address: Via Porta d'Arnolfo 35 20046 Biassono (Milan) Italy Tel: 39 2 49831 Fax: 39 2 752829 Tlx: 333322 pind i	Activities: No. of employees: 300 Capacity: Contracts from $10m to $100m The Pressindustria Group operates in the research and development, engineering design and construction of plants and process equipment for the fine chemical, food, cosmetics and pharmaceutical and biotechnology industries.
The Pritchard Corporation
Address: 10950 Grandview Drive Overland Park KS 66210 US Tel: 1 913 661 6000 Fax: 1 913 661 6091	Activities: Turnover: $250m No. of employees: 650 Capacity: 1.3m manhours The Pritchard Corporation is an engineering-construction organisation with 70 years of worldwide experience in natural gas processing, petroleum refining, sulphur recovery, chemical synthesis, cryogenics, cogeneration and other energy related activities. Pritchard provides process design, detailed engineering, procurement and construction expertise to the process industries with services ranging from feasibility studies to plant start-up and operator training. Plant designs may be based on processes developed by Pritchard, provided by the client, or licensed from a third party. Pritchard's own propietary processes include the 'Prico' process for the liquefaction of natural gas, and processes for ammonia and hydrogen production. Pritchard also offers licensed technology for Claus and CBA sulphur recovery, plant tail gas clean up, nitric acid production and NOx abatement. Pritchard offers complete turnkey services which are supported by years of experience and expertise in estimating, forecasting and project cost control evidenced by a record of on-time project completions executed within budget constraints.
Salzgitter Anlagenbau
Address: Eisenhüttenstrasse 99 PO Box 41 11 69 D-3320 Salzgitter 41 Germany Tel: 49 5341 211 Fax: 49 5341 214310/213334 Tlx: 9544810 sg d	Activities: No. of employees: 352 In 1991, the former Salzgitter Industriebau GmbH (founded in 1940) merged with Preussag Anlagenbau GmbH, a subsidiary of the Preussag Group. Preussag Anlagenbau has a staff of about 4700 employees worldwide in four divisions: industrial plant engineering, represented by the Salzgitter Anlagenbau division; piping engineering & sanitation; inspection technology & service; special underground engineering & sanitation. Salzgitter Anlagenbau designs and suppliesindustrial plants mainly for the chemical industry. The field of activities comprises refinery, chemicals & petrochemicals, plastics, building materials, processing of chemical & natural gypsum for the production of gypsum building materials, mining and benefication plants. The range of services provided includes project management, financing, feasibility studies, authorities engineering, basic & detailed process design, procurement, construction & erection management, training and start-up.

Samsung Engineering Co Ltd
Address: CPO Box 4351 Seoul Korea Tel: 82 2 399 3405 Fax: 82 2 399 3400 Tlx: 27204 samenco k	Activities: Turnover: $330m (1991) No. of employees: 885 Capacity: 2m manhours/year (excluding subcontractors) Samsung Engineering is a general contracting firm for engineering, procurement and construction services in such areas as gas & petroleum, petrochemicals, chemicals, power, food processing, fertilisers, town gas, storage & distribution, energy conservation, environment protection & controls, and other industrial developments as well as high-technology fields including VLSI, optical fibres, GMP, clean rooms and factory automation facilities. Samsung Engineering, an engineering arm of Korea's Samsung Group, comprising 31 companies, works with other members of the group to provide virtually all project services including: financing (handled by Samsung Co); plant equipment & machinery (manufactured by Samsung Heavy Industries Co); and construction (Samsung Engineering & Construction Co).
Serete Industries
Address: 86 Rue Regnault 75640 Paris Cedex 13 France Tel: 33 1 45 70 50 00 Fax: 33 1 45 70 52 00 Tlx: 250640 seret f	Activities: Turnover: FF1bn No. of employees: 1800 Serete Industries is an engineering company active in the following fields: Heavy industries (process and energy). Manufacturing (pharmaceutical, electronics, etc). Agro industries (food and beverages). Advanced technologies (space, defence, etc).
Setal Lummus Engenharia e Construçoes
Address: Av das Naçoes Unidas 18605 (Santo Amaro) 04795 Sao Paulo SP Brazil Tel: 55 11 525 4711 Fax: 55 11 246 3211/522 8004 Tlx: 1154825 seta br	Activities: Turnover: $74m No. of employees: 737 Capacity: 900 000 manhours/yr (engineering/procurement); 11m direct labour manhours/year onshore; $90m offshore construction Engineering, procurement, construction and maintenance in the following industries: oil & gas (onshore, production and refinery and offshore jackets & platforms), petrochemicals, chemicals, pharmaceuticals, fertilisers, pulp & paper, textiles & synthetic fibres, iron, metallurgical & mineral processing, alcohol distilleries, both locally and abroad. Engineering and offshore construction offices are located in Sao Paulo. A 110 000m² facility in Niteroi (Rio) constructs all types of offshore installations.
Simon-Carves Limited
Address: Sim-Chem House PO Box 17 Cheadle Hulme Cheadle Cheshire, SK8 5BR UK Tel: 44 61 485 6131 Fax: 44 61 486 1302 Tlx: 667844 simcar g	Activities: Turnover: £150m (group) No. of employees: 400+ As a member of the international Simon Group, Simon-Carves offers a fully integrated project management, engineering, procurement, supply, construction and consultancy service to process industries worldwide. The company's expertise in the chemical industry includes: sulphuric acid, polymers, chlorine, petrochemicals, pharmaceuticals, and fine and general chemicals. Simon-Carves' experience in the nuclear industry covers nuclear fuel cycle facilities and nuclear waste treatment. Industrial process facilities include those for tyres & rubber, glass, electronics and edible oils & fats, and incineration. A comprehensive materials management capability and a technology transfer service is available to suit a client's specific requirements.
Snamprogetti SpA
Address: San Donato Milanese PO Box 12059 20120 Milan Italy Tel: 39 2 520 5470 Fax: 39 2 520 35140 Tlx: 310246 eni I	Activities: Turnover: $1.144bn No. of employees: 3272 Snamprogetti, the international engineering contractor and technology company of the ENI Group, is working worldwide on the development, design and construction of industrial facilities and associated infrastructures which includes pipelines and plants for offshore processing, refining, gas treatment, fertilisers, chemicals, metallurgical processing and waste treatment. With a background of over 30 years of professional experience, Snamprogetti is able to offer its clients highly qualified services and support covering a range from individual packages of integrated services up to complete turnkey projects. The scope of these services for most projects includes: technical and economic feasibility studies, conceptual design, project financing arrangements, commercial and technical management, basic and detailed engineering, risk analysis, procurement, quality assurance, construction, training of skilled workers and plant operators, plant start-up and operations, and product marketing assistance.

SNC-Lavalin Inc
Address: 2, Place Fé lix Martin Montréal Québec H2Z 1Z3 Canada Tel: 1 514 393 1000 Fax: 1 514 866 0795 Tlx: 5560042 snc mtl	Activities: Turnover: $Can580.8m No. of employees: 6000 Capacity: SNC-Lavalin International Inc (SLII) is the international marketing arm of SNC-Lavalin. Its operations are geographically oriented, and it supports all business units in project identification and development. Coppé e's principal business is in chemicals, phosphoric acid, hydrocarbon processing, pharmaceuticals, and general engineering, including buildings. Branch offices are located in Antwerp and Liè ge, Belgium. Bouygues-SNC-Lavalin Industries (BSI), owned jointly with Bouygues Offshore, has been in operation since September 1991. Its mandate is to bid for, and execute, industrial process plants projects, primarily on a turnkey lump-sum basis. SNC-Partec, based in Calgary, serves the oil & gas industry, including pipelines and hydrocarbon processing. It has carried out extensive hydrocarbon production facilities work in Russia, and is also active in East Africa and the Middle East. SNC-Lavalin's Industrial Division is responsible for projects in mining and metallurgy, chemicals and general industry. Cowan, based in Montrè al, serves the pulp and paper industry.
Snia Engineering SpA
Address: Via C Cantu 20 20092 Cinisello B Milan Italy Tel: 39 2 618371 Fax: 39 2 6185542 Tlx: 310094 sniaen i	Activities: Turnover: $100m No. of employees: 140 Snia Engineering activities range from plant design to the supply of turnkey plants, in particular: 1. Plants for chemical production: dissolving and paper grade pulp, semi-chemical pulp, half stocks, caprolactam from toluene, caprolactam recovery, carbon disulphide from methane, technopolymers, synthetic monofilaments, nylon cord, terephthalic acid, maleic anhydride, furfural, chlorinated paraffins & rubbers. 2. Plants for man-made fibres: polyamide 6 and 6,6, polyester, acetate filament, viscose filament & staple. 3. Other production plants including: printing inks, PVC window frames, polyester painting, parenteral solutions, pharmaceutical, agro-industry. 4. Industrial and civil construction work. Services covering: feasibility & market studies; license, know-how, training; process & detail design; project management; procurement of equipment & materials; construction supervision, commissioning; project financing.
Stone & Webster Inc
Address: One Penn Plaza 250 West 34th Street New York NY 10119 US Tel: 1 212 290 7000 Fax: 1 212 290 6501 Tlx: 229038	Activities: Turnover: £270m (services) No. of employees: 8000 Stone & Webster, founded in 1889, is one of the world's most experienced engineering construction companies. Stone & Webster Inc is quoted on the New York Stock Exchange. The group is active in the petrochemical, polymer, C4 and MTBE, oil & gas processing, refining, power, transportation, pulp & paper, and industrial sectors. Services provided include engineering, design, procurement, project management, construction management, operations and maintenance, environmental consulting, information management and CAD. Major operations centres are in the US, UK, Canada and Saudi Arabia. Stone & Webster Engineering Ltd, established in the UK in 1938, provides the full range of project services to clients in Europe, Scandinavia, the Middle East and North Africa. Stone & Webster owns some proprietary technologies, notably in olefins production and refining. Stone & Webster is a leader in Quality Management. It is qualified to ISO 9001 and the company has been run according to Total Quality Management (TQM) principles for over three years.
Tata Consulting Engineers
Address: 414 Veer Savarkar Marg Prabhadevi Bombay 400 025 India Tel: 91 22 430 2419 Fax: 91 22 437 4402 Tlx: 011 71124 tce in	Activities: Turnover: $4bn (Tata Group) No. of employees: 1342 Tata Consulting Engineers (TCE) offer a total engineering consultancy from concept to commissioning for projects in the fields of petrochemicals, manmade fibres, heavy chemicals, pharmaceuticals & bulk drugs, pesticides, fertilisers, food processing, pulp & paper, thermal, hydro & nuclear power generation, power transmission and distribution, rural electrification, industrial, water supply & sewerage, ports & harbours, engineering software, database management, special projects such as radio & optical telescopes, plasma research, etc. TCE is registered with the World Bank, Asian Development Bank, African Development Bank, KFW, UNIDO, UNDP, etc, and has carried out several projects financed by them.

Tebodin Consultants & Engineers
Address: Laan van Nieuw Oost-Indië 25 Postbus 16029 2500 BA The Hague The Netherlands Tel: 31 70 348 0911 Fax: 31 70 348 0645 Tlx: 31580 tebgv nl	Activities: Turnover: Dfl 199m No. of employees: 1350 Capacity: Contracts from Dfl 1000 to Dfl 65m.2.57m manhours/year Tebodin is a multidisciplinary firm of consultants and engineers, working in the fields of fine chemicals, pharmaceuticals, food, oil & gas, and the environment, and has expertise in plant and civil engineering, technology and logistics. Engineering activities range from feasibility studies to turnkey delivery of complete installations. Consultancy activities are mainly based on Tebodin's technological, logistical, environmental and economic expertise, and range from location studies, pre-feasibility studies, product chain management systems to master planning for new factories. Tebodin has gained Lloyds ISO 9001 certification for a proven quality system.
Techint SpA
Address: C. So Venezia 48 20121 Milan MI Italy Tel: 39 2 7756 1 Fax: 39 2 7756 7613 Tlx: 310241 temil i	Activities: Turnover: $1.8bn No. of employees: >20 000 Capacity: 600 000 engineering manhours/year at Techint's Milan offices The Techint group of companies comprises industrial, engineering, service and commercial organisations operating worldwide. Techint was founded in 1945 by Agostino Rocca, a leading Italian entrepreneur, and commenced engineering and construction operations in Europe and Latin America. Today, the Techint group comprises more than 60 independent companies sharing a common origin and still guided by the founder's philosophy of excellence and long term commitment to local development and growth. Techint designs and executes iron & steel plants, production plants for light industry, chemical & petrochemical plants, oil & gas facilities, power plants and transmission lines, telecommunications networks, public utilities and infrastructures, water & waste treatment facilities, and information & automation systems.
Technip
Address: Tour Technip La Défense 6 Cedex 23 92090 Paris La Dé fense France Tel: 33 1 47 78 21 21 Fax: 33 1 47 78 33 40 Tlx: 612835 tcnipa f	Activities: Turnover: FF6.47bn (1991) No. of employees: 5400 Capacity: Work in progress for 1991 represented FF11.835bn Technip is a world class engineering and construction group based in Paris with 34 years of experience and over 2000 projects to its credit in the sectors of oil & gas field development, oil refining, natural gas processing & liquefaction, gasoline substitutes production, chemicals & petrochemicals, olefins & derivatives, aromatics & derivatives, polymers, fertilisers, fine chemicals & biotechnology, pharmaceuticals & cosmetics, controlled environments, cement & building materials, flat & hollow glass, glass fibre, pulp & paper, brewing & beverages, food & agro-industry, plastics processing, manufacturing industries, environmental protection, automation & systems, management, urban & architectural engineering.
Technicas Reunidas SA
Address: Arapiles 14 28015 Madrid Spain Tel: 34 1 592 0300 Fax: 34 1 592 0399 Tlx: 27429/42845 e	Activities: Turnover: Pta7.5bn ($75m) No. of employees: 880 Capacity: 85 000 technical manhours/month Tecnicas Reunidas provides engineering and construction services including feasibility studies, project financing, turnkey installation, basic & detailed design and design management, basic & detailed engineering, procurement and equipment supply, construction management & supervision, project management, commissioning, start-up & start-up assistance, and operator training to the following industries worldwide: oil & gas, petrochemical, fertiliser, chemical industry, power generation, environmental engineering, hydrometallurgy, advanced control systems engineering, steel & iron, mining, pulp & paper, synthetic fibres, paints, pharmaceuticals, food, civil engineering & buildings.
Technimont SpA
Address: Viale Monte Grappa, 3 20124 Milan Italy Tel: 39 2 63331 Fax: 39 2 62709534 Tlx: 323386 i	Activities: Turnover: L307bn No. of employees: 796 Capacity: Orders totalling L1368bn at 31 Dec 1991, for contracts entered in a very wide range of production industries Tecnimont operates at an international level in the fields of chemicals, petrochemicals, intermediates, plastics, engineering polymers, fine chemicals, pharmaceuticals, and agro-industry, as well as in the sectors of industrial and civil infrastructures, environmental protection and energy plants. The range of services made available by Tecnimont for the implementation of industrial projects includes all steps from feasibility studies to turnkey delivery, as well as the arrangement of project financing, whenever required, technical assistance for plant operation and maintenance, counter-trading and product marketing. Work flows through a structure based on a staff of about 800 people, of which 24% have a university degree and 49% have a secondary school diploma. Through the expertise acquired with the construction of over 1000 plants on four continents, Tecnimont is a global operator for complex integrated projects in all sectors.

Tekfen Construction & Installation Company Inc
Address: Göreme Sok. 8/6 Kavaklidere 06700 Ankara Turkey Tel: 90 4 426 3602 Fax: 90 4 426 1642 Tlx: 42316 fen tr	Activities: Turnover: $500m No. of employees: 6000 Capacity: Tekfen can undertake large projects to values of over $1bn Tekfen Construction & Installation is a major international contractor based in Turkey. Activities include: Construction, fabrication & erection of oil refineries, chemical, petrochemical, fertiliser, process and power plants. Design, construction, commissioning and project financing of turnkey industrial plants. Design, engineering, fabrication and erection of: steel storage tanks, pressure vessels, heat exchangers, steel structures and structural elements. Design, engineering & construction of: land and submarine oil, gas & water pipelines, pump, compressor, metering and regulating stations, loading & unloading terminals, off-shore platforms. Engineering & construction management: feasibility studies, consulting services, project management, procurement, design & engineering, operation & maintenance. Design, engineering & construction of civil works: highways, bridges, viaducts, airports, buildings, housing; desalination plants, reservoirs, dams, water & sewage treatment plants; underground services & utilities. Design, installation & erection of electrical & instrumentation works. Non-destructive testing & Quality Assurance.
Toyo Engineering Corporation
Address: 8-1, Akanahama 2-chome Narashino-shi Chiba 275 Japan Tel: 81 474 51 1111 Fax: 81 474 54 1800 Tlx: 2983371 tecfu j	Activities: Turnover: $1.01bn (1991) No. of employees: 1487 Capacity: New orders in 1991 $1.58bn From turnkey contracts of plants and facilities to more specialised contracts for specific studies, planning, procurement and field work. R&D contract and technical aid to clients. Activities cover various industrial sectors including: Energy: natural gas, oil, coal. Power generation: boilers, steam & gas turbines, cogeneration, combined cycle. Petrochemicals: ethylene, propylene, styrene, ethanol, higher alcohols, acrylonitrile, VCM, C3-C4 dehydrogenation, etc. Polymers: ldPE, hdPE, PVC, GPPS & HIPS, SAN, etc. Fertilisers: urea, ammonium phosphate, NP & NPK compound fertilisers, etc. Chemicals: acids, formalin, melamine, dyes, agrochemicals, etc. Nuclear: reactors, nuclear fuel conversion, radioactive waste treatment, etc. Food, medical, biotechnology, environmental, ceramics, metallurgical, facilities, factory automation, regional development, computer application and contract research.
TPL - Technologie Progetti Lavori SpA
Address: Viale Castello della Magliana 68 00148 Roma Italy Tel: 39 6 54521 Fax: 39 6 655 1402 Tlx: 610696 tipiel i	Activities: Turnover: $641m (1991) No. of employees: 935 Capacity: 1.7m manhours; contracts acquired in 1991 amount to $765m TPL is Italy's leading engineering & contracting company, providing a full range of services for the realisation of major complexes worldwide in the following fields: oil refining, gas processing, petrochemicals, chemicals, fertilisers, pharmaceuticals, ethanol, food processing, environmental engineering, textiles, glass, pulp & paper, industrial manufacture, effluent technology, civil & industrial infrastructures, plant offsite facilities, EDP, plant automation, and management information systems.
Uhde GmbH
Address: Friedrich-Uhde Strasse 15 Postfach 105062 W4600 Dortmund 1 Germany Tel: 49 231 547 0 Fax: 49 231 547 3032 Tlx: 4075040 ud d	Activities: Turnover: DM1.25bn (Uhde worldwide) No. of employees: 2006 Uhde, a wholly owned subsidiary of Hoechst AG, designs & constructs complete chemical & other industrial plants & complexes. All tasks are coordinated & controlled from Dortmund. There is a branch office at Bad Soden and a factory for the manufacture of especially high-pressure and vibratory equipment at Hagen. Uhde's fields of activity include: ammonia, methanol, coal technology, synthesis gas process, gas treatment, refineries, fertilisers, electrolysis, electrothermal processes, environment protection & energy technology, synthetic fibres, plastics, organic chemistry, biotechnology, pharmaceuticals, cosmetics and industrial plants. Uhde offers consulting services in all fields of engineering as well as project, market studies, project financing on an international scale, worldwide procurement services, inspection, shipping, civil works & erection, management and plant supervision. Each project implemented by Uhde in connection with these fields of activity corresponds to state-of-the-art technology. Each individual plant is the product of R&D work and is based on the findings & experience gained by Uhde in the construction of over 1200 plants throughout the world. Uhde offers over 250 processes and is currently involved on 56 projects worldwide.

Ultratec Engenharia SA
Address: Av brigadeiro Luís Antonio 1343 20 andar Sac Paulo, SP Brazil Tel: 55 11 283 6258 Fax: 55 11 283 1116 Tlx: 1131727 br	Activities: Turnover: $110m No. of employees: 5400 Capacity: Head office (SP): 46 000 manhours/month; branch office (RJ): 30 000 manhours/month Ultratec Engenharia provides the following services: feasibility study, project financing, turnkey installation, basic & detailed design and design management, basic & detailed engineering, procurement, construction and construction management & supervision, project management, commissioning, start-up & start-up assistance, specialised maintenance service.
United Engineers & Constructors
Address: 30 South 17th Street PO Box 8223 Philadelphia PA 19101 US Tel: 1 215 422 3000 Fax: 1 215 422 4871	Activities: Turnover: $15bn No. of employees: 14 000 Capacity: UE&C manages over 950 assignments with annual projects valued at $15bn UE&C is a company of engineers construction managers, and their diversified support groups, which was incorporated in 1928, although some segments of the company have histories which go back more than 100 years. In 1969, UE&C became a wholly-owned subsidiary of Raytheon Company, a science & technology based firm with current annual sales of over $9bn. UE&C now recognises seven principal product lines: utility and industrial power supply plants in all commercial modes of industry and metals, government-related aerospace and military installations, industrial process maintenance, petroleum and mining facilities, and speciality processing (chemical plants, pharmaceutical and biotechnical plants).
VUMA
Address: Piestanská 44 CS 915 28 Nové Mesto nad Váhom Czechoslovakia Tel: 42 834 3441-7/5551-6 Fax: 42 834 4192 Tlx: 66 93719	Activities: Turnover: $7.65m No. of employees: 1290 Capacity: 1m hours for development, 1130 hours production. Present contracts: $4.5m VUMA (Research Institute for Mechanisation and Automation) has almost 40 years experience in the fields of R&D and manufacture of systems for mechanising and automating assembly works, R&D and manufacture of technologies and equipment in the fields of electric machining processes (EDM, ECM) and ultrasound. Development, projects, production machinery and equipment, supplies and services are provided for the following scetors: internal assemblies, electrodischarge machining (EDM), ultrasound, electronics & microelectronics, laser equipment, environment, power engineering, medicine, pharmaceuticals.
Ventron Technology Ltd
Address: Seymour House Reddish Road Reddish Stockport Cheshire, SK5 7AA UK Tel: 44 61 442 0222 Fax: 44 61 443 1151 Tlx: 669801 vtl g	Activities: Turnover: £6m No. of employees: 100 Capacity: 160 000 manhours/year, specialising in projects below £10m The company offers a fully integrated multidiscipline design engineering and management service capable of handling any aspect of a process plant project from development of a laboratory process through to commissioning the completed full scale plant. These services include: - Process development, optimisation, scale up & full process design - Detailed engineering design in all disciplines including mechanical, piping, civil, structural, electrical, instrumentation and control - Project management, planning and procurement - Construction and subcontract management - Commissioning. The company specialises in complete fine chemical, pharmaceutical or speciality chemical plants, distillation and solvent recovery units and packaged or modular plants.
Weatherly Inc
Address: 1100 Spring Street, N.W. Suite 800 Atlanta GA 30309 US Tel: 1 404 873 5030 Fax: 1 404 873 1303 Tlx: 819 751 8477	Activities: No. of employees: 40 Weatherly provides full-scale turnkey process engineering services. Our process technologies include nitric acid, ammonium nitrate, urea, NPK, DAP, GTSP and CAN. We market technologies for our sister company Chematur AB, which are in the areas of ethanol, nitration, solvent adsorption and VOC control, explosives, propellants, pharmaceuticals and isocyanates.

Zimmer AG
Address: Borsigallee 1 Postfach 60 08 29 D6000 Frankfurt/Main 60 Germany Tel: 49 69 40 07 01 Fax: 49 69 40 07 546 Tlx: 417172 d	Activities: No. of employees: 575 Zimmer's worldwide success as a supplier of plants for synthetic fibres, polymers for engineering plastics, packaging materials, technical films and the related recycling processes using in-house technology continues to grow. Founded in 1950, Zimmer has already completed in 50 countries over 570 plants including: - Over 330 polyamide 6 and polyamide 6.6 plants. Design capacities of up to 85 tonne/day in one line for polyamide 6 polymerisation plants. - 85 polyester polymer plants (PET & PBT). Design capacities of up to 400 tonne/day in one line. - Over 90 high-speed spinning plants (POY & FDY) Some 40% of the worlds polyester polymer capacity, constructed during the past 10 years, has been built by Zimmer. The scope of service provided covers all stages of a project from initial feasibility studies, through master planning, financing, process & detail design, procurement, right up to the construction & commissioning of a complete complex, including the training of plant operatives and moreover plant operation advice & assistance and spare parts service after the plant has been handed over to the customer.
ZVU Hradec Králové
Address: Prazska Ul. 501 47 Hradec Krá lové PO Box 1 Czechoslovakia Tel: 42 49 397 Fax: 42 49 36877 Tlx: 194286	Activities: Turnover: Koruna 1.6bn No. of employees: 4300 Capacity: Koruna 120m/month ZVU designs, engineers and manufactures complete sugar factories, breweries and urea plants, including the machinery and equipment for such facilities. Construction of buildings is subcontracted, with ZVU providing project management services. In addition, ZVU manufactures machinery for the chemical and petrochemical industries, and is developing new coal gasification plants. Single pieces of equipment or complete plants can be supplied for the process industries. ZVU has complete design and engineering capabilities, and has ASME and TUeV certification. The company's production facilities can accommodate machinery up to 120 tonnes, with working temperatures ranging from -193¡C to 1500 C, and pressures from vacuum to 33MPa. ZVU has considerable experience in working with many different types of steel and coating materials. The company is located about 100km east of Prague on 350 000m² of land, with over 180 000m² covered facilities for production, assembly, storage, etc.

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