Jacobos Engineering Group will support Nippon Shokubai Europe for the contruction of a new polymer plant in Belgium

Jacobs Engineering Group Inc. announced today that it received a contract from Nippon Shokubai Europe N.V. for detailed engineering, procurement and construction management services for the expansion of the Superabsorbent Polymer Plant and a new acrylic acid plant at the Nippon Shokubai Europe site in Zwijndrecht (Antwerp), Belgium. The total investment cost (TIC) of the installation is approximately $390 mln (€350 mln). The project is scheduled to be mechanically complete in October 2017.