Jacobs Awarded Contracts by Foskor in South Africa

Jacobs Engineering Group Inc. JEC announced today that it has been awarded two contracts by Foskor (Pty) Limited to design and fabricate two final acid towers and one acid cooler for Foskor's sulfuric acid plants at its Acid Division in Richards Bay, South Africa. Officials did not disclose the contract values. Under the terms of the contracts, Jacobs is designing the equipment and process for two final acid towers using Jacobs' proprietary Chemetics® alloy SARAMET®. Jacobs is also designing and fabricating a proprietary anodically protected sulfuric acid cooler being manufactured at Jacobs' facility in Pickering, Ontario, Canada; and managing local fabrication and site coordination from Jacobs' operations in South Africa.