CONTRACTS

Process plant design software specialists are licensing its PDMS product to the engineering division of BASF as its chief plant design system. The agreement includes the provision of software, training and consultancy, mainly in Cadcentre's base in Frankfurt.

* FIN buys Bentley through Meta4

Software reseller Meta Systems 4 has sold the first installation in Ireland of Bentley's PlantSpace software solutions to process specialists, FIN Engineering group. Fin Engineering converted from AutoCAD to Bentley MicroStation in 1997.

* BP Films to use MAX's ERP

BP Chemicals Performance Films at Darton has made an order worth £500 000 from MAX International of Bristol for an Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system to integrate with BP's finite capacity software.

* Vitamins for Foster Wheeler health

Roche Products in Ayrshire has given Foster Wheeler Energy in Glasgow the job of modernising its vitamin C production plant. FWEL built the original plant in the early `80s.

* Heated exchange in the Middle East

Wellman Graham of Gloucester will design and manufacture eleven heat exchangers for a new ethylene plant in the Middle East.

* Government monitors atomic sites

AEA Technology is to monitor levels of radiation and contamination at Harwell, Culham, Windscale, Winfrith and Dounreay. The contract, worth £11million, was awarded by the UK Atomic Energy Authority.

* Honeywell solves automation in Saudi

Honeywell Industrial Automation to provide a total plant solution for the $2billion expansion of Yanbu Petrochemical Company's complex in Saudi Arabia. The complex is half owned by Mobil and Honeywell will provide automation control to the project.

* Welsh plant scrubs up well

Chem Resist has completed the design, manufacture, installation and commissioning of a fume scrubbing system at LG Electronics' plant in South Wales. The installation has four scrubbers with a total flow rate of 93 000m3/h; an additional 35 000m3/h scrubbing unit and four 20 000litre storage vessels.