Industry News

·       Ovivo’s Electronics group will design and supply an ultrapure water system (UPW) for a thin-film-transistor liquid-crystal display (TFT/LCD) manufacturer in China. The system will reach ultrapure water requirements and reduce chemical and water consumption at the same time.

·       Mettler-Toledo International, a Swiss-based maker of scales and analytical equipment with more than $2 billion in annual revenues, recently acquired Instant BioScan in a deal worth up to $30 million depending on future development and sales, the company said.  Founded in 2011, Instant BioScan developed a proprietary system to analyze water for microbial contamination in real time, using special optics and software.  Mettler-Toledo will for now keep the Instant BioScan operation and 15 employees in Tucson as part of its Thornton division, which provides water-quality instruments for the pharmaceutical, electronics and energy industries, said Dewey Manzer, co-founder and CEO of Instant BioScan who is now Tucson site manager for Mettler-Toledo.

Asian Purchasers will drive the $5.6 Billion Cleanroom Hardware Market

In 2017, suppliers of cleanroom hardware will be paid over $5.6 billion by semiconductor, pharmaceutical and other operators of cleanrooms around the world.  Over 2.3 million people will be working in cleanrooms. This is the latest forecast in N6F World Cleanroom Markets.

East Asia will be the regional leader with three times the revenue in NAFTA.  This is due to the concentration of semiconductor, memory and flat panel display manufacturing in the region.  The NAFTA market share is mostly due to its leading position in pharmaceutical manufacturing.

As of December 2015, Taiwan led all regions/countries in wafer capacity with nearly 22 percent of worldwide IC capacity installed in the country. Taiwan surpassed South Korea in 2015 to become the largest capacity holder after having passed Japan in 2011. China became a larger wafer capacity holder than Europe for the first time in 2010.

Mobile devices and wearable electronics are accounting for much of the cleanroom growth. Gartner, Inc. forecasts that 274.6 million wearable electronic devices will be sold worldwide in 2016, an increase of 18.4 percent from 232.0 million units in 2015.  Sales of wearable electronic devices will generate revenue of $28.7 billion in 2016.  Of that, $11.5 billion will be from smart watches.

For more information on N6F World Cleanroom Markets click on: http://home.mcilvainecompany.com/index.php/markets/2-uncategorised/474-n6f-world-cleanroom-markets

Daily Project Posting in McIlvaine Oil, Gas, Refining Supplier Program

OIL/GAS/SHALE/REFINING E-Alert

April 2016 – No. 1

This alert is being issued twice per month for suppliers in flow control and treatment who are coordinating market research with targeted pursuit of the larger and longer term orders.

PROJECTS

The following projects each will result in millions of dollars of orders for flow control and treatment products. Each project has been rated. The opportunity size is rated from 1-10 with 1 being small and 10 being very large. The timing for flow and treatment orders has been provided by year, e.g. T 16 = timing of order is 2016.

Minatitlan Refinery $800 Mln ULSD Contract Awarded to Técnicas Reunidas (07,T17)

KBR Wins Multi-phased Contract for Front-end Engineering and Design for Woodfibre LNG

CNOOC and Shell to Expand Nanhai Petrochemical Complex in China

European Commission Approves Finnish Cash for LNG Terminal (06)

CB&I to Build Oil Storage Tanks in Edmonton (06)

Black & Veatch Win Chinese Shanxi Qixian Liquefied Natural Gas Project (T16)

Expansion of the Alfa Laval Test & Training Centre for LNG and Other Fuels will Drive Environmental and Energy Solutions

Neste Jacobs to Perform Energy Study of INA's Oil Refinery in Croatia

Saudi Aramco Tenders for $500 Mln Uthmaniyah Gas Treatment Units (06, T17)

Boskalis Awarded Gas Pipeline Contract in Abu Dhabi (T16)

Technip Wins Engineering Services Contract by Total E&P Angola (T17)

PetroVietnam Plans to Build Natural Gas Plant in Vietnam (08, T20)

Meridian Bucking Trend with Proposed North Dakota Refinery

Deep Down Receives Mooring Line System Order from Shell

FEED Contract Signed within Framework of the Heydar Aliyev Refinery Reconstruction Project

Iraq Signs MOU with Egypt for Oil & Gas Cooperation

South Korea Continues Push to Become Northeast Asian Oil Hub, Despite Delays

Onesubsea Wins Contract for BP's West Nile Delta Fields in Egypt (T16)

These projects are covered in more detail and are integrated in a database which is part of Oil, Gas, Shale and Refining Markets and Projects. This semi-monthly report is available as part of this service or as a stand-alone subscription.

The Oil/Gas/Shale/Refining E Alert is issued twice per month to registered subscribers. It is not to be resent to others. Each subscriber must be registered. The first subscription is $950/yr. and additional subscribers are $90/yr. The newsletter is free for those who subscribe to N049 Oil, Gas, Shale and Refining Markets and Projects.

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