Braby, the UK's leading manufacturer of aluminium and stainless steel silos and storage tanks, have supplied a silo system for polypropylene, with load-cell contents weighing, to Craemer in Telford.

Bristol-based Braby, the UK's leading manufacturer of aluminium and stainless steel silos and storage tanks, have successfully completed a contract to supply the Craemer Group of Germany with a silo system for the storage of polypropylene. The Craemer Group recently announced that it was to start manufacturing injection moulded waste bins at its brand new factory in Telford this autumn. The company, which produces the Kliko range of two-wheeled and four-wheeled bins, called on Braby to install four new silos which have also been equipped with a specially designed load cell system for accurate weighing.

Dr Paul Corscadden of Craemer commented, 'This is the first time that we have used load cell technology in our factories and we are extremely impressed with the results.

The technology provides us with accurate figures that we feel we can rely on.

Braby supplied Craemer with four new 4.5 x 22m silos for storing polypropylene.

The silos all feature the Braby new style plastic skirt doors which are ABS moulded and 100 per cent weather-proof.

The doors also have twin hinges and twin locks making them much less susceptible to damage or being stolen than the more traditional metallic doors.

Paul Mayer, Sales and Marketing Director at Braby said, 'The move into injection moulding at its Telford facility is a significant development for the Craemer Group.

We were delighted to be awarded the contract and be able to use our expertise to assist the company expansion'.

Indian Oil Corporation (IOCL) has awarded Foster Wheeler services contracts for the Paradip Refinery Project, expected to be one of the largest integrated refinery petrochemicals complexes in India.

Foster Wheeler Energy and Foster Wheeler India have been awarded services contracts by the Indian Oil Corporation (IOCL) for the Paradip Refinery Project, which is expected to be one of the largest integrated refinery petrochemicals complexes in India. This world-scale facility, comprising a new export refinery and petrochemicals complex, will be built in Orissa State.The Foster Wheeler scope includes the front-end engineering design (FEED), preparation of cost estimates and the overall project strategy, and supervision of early works on site up to financial investment decision for the refinery, which is expected in mid-2008. The planned new refinery, with a crude processing capacity of 15 million tonnes per annum (TPA), will include a fluidised catalytic cracking unit, an aromatics complex and a polypropylene unit.

The new complex will ultimately produce 700,000 TPA of polypropylene, 1.2 million TPA of paraxylene, 600,000 TPA of styrene monomer, along with 10.5 million TPA of refined petroleum products.

This award also includes a detailed feasibility study for Phase 2 of the development, the Paradip Naphtha Cracker Project.

'Foster Wheeler is very pleased to be awarded this strategically important project,' said Steve Davies, chairman and chief executive officer, Foster Wheeler Energy: 'This award reflects our in-depth expertise in refining and petrochemicals and in the successful integration of refining and petrochemicals production.

We have been active in the Indian market for over seventy years and it remains a very important market for Foster Wheeler.

We look forward to working with IOCL to deliver a high quality FEED which meets or exceeds our client's expectations'.