Jacobs Receives Contract from Syngenta for World-beating Fungicide Plant in Scotland

PASADENA, Calif., Nov. 18 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Jacobs Engineering Group Inc. (NYSE: JEC) announced today that it received a contract from Syngenta to provide engineering, procurement, and construction management (EPCM) services for a new fungicide manufacturing plant to be built at Grangemouth, Scotland.

Officials did not disclose the contract value.

Syngenta is a world-leading agribusiness and a leader in crop protection, ranking third in the commercial seeds market. Syngenta employs over 21,000 people in more than 90 countries. The new plant will produce the active ingredient azoxystrobin, a naturally derived crop fungicide and one of Syngenta's top products.

The new installation will be similar to existing azoxystrobin plant at the Grangemouth facility except for debottlenecking in specific process areas. Jacobs is currently working on front-end engineering for the project. Work is being executed from its offices in Glasgow with support from its operations in Mumbai, India. Plant construction will start in 2009 and production is scheduled to begin during 2010. Jacobs and Syngenta will work as an integrated team to achieve smooth transitions between the different phases of this project.

In making the announcement, Jacobs Group Vice President Allyn Taylor stated, "Syngenta is a new client for Jacobs and this project is our opportunity to form a mutually satisfying long-term relationship. We have worked with numerous leading clients at the Grangemouth site for over 10 years, and our team is confident to deliver high-value services to Syngenta for this challenging opportunity." Paul Brown, Head of Engineering for Syngenta, commented that "We look forward to working as a team with Jacobs to deliver this important project on budget and to schedule."

Jacobs, with over 57,000 employees and revenues exceeding $11.0 billion, provides technical, professional, and construction services globally.

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