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| Amec signs multi-million dollar contract in China Amec, the international project management and services company, has been appointed by the Ningxia Coal Industry Group (NCG) as the project management contractor for the development of a new US$1.5 billion coal-to-chemical production complex in the Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region in northwest China. Work on the new facility, which is designed to produce 540, 000 tonnes of polypropylene per year, will begin in February this year and will be completed in early 2009. Polypropylene is a chemical product usually derived from oil refining and ethylene processing but the project will use coal as the feedstock, which will come from large reserves in the Ningxia area. The complex will include a coal gasifier plant, a methanol and methanol-to-propylene unit, and a polypropylene unit. Amec employs 44, 000 people in more than 40 countries, generating annual revenues of around £5 billion. Ningxia Coal Industry Group is a state-owned company, owned jointly by provincial and central government. The major holder is Shenhua Group which is the largest coal industry group in China, owned by the central government. write your comments about the article :: © 2006 Construction News :: home page |