Histor和y of Jacobs-美国著名工程公司.docVIP

History of Jacobs 1947 Joseph J. Jacobs went into business as Jacobs Engineering Co., operating as both an engineering consultant and a manufacturers representative for process equipment. 1956 With 20 people on staff, we completed our first substantial chemical project: engineering of a caustic chlorine plant for Kaiser Aluminum in Louisiana. 1960 Awarded our first design-construct project: a potash flotation plant for Southwest Potash Co. By projects end, our staff had expanded to 150 people. 1963 Southwest Potash Co. received the American Institute of Chemical Engineers Kirkpatrick Merit Award for their Vicksburg plants potassium nitrate process technology, which we helped develop. 1964 Began feasibility studies on our largest project to date: the $500 million Dead Sea Project for Arab Potash Company in Jordan. 1966 Designed our first diatomaceous earth (DE) facility. Went on to design virtually all the DE plants built in the United States over the next decade. 1967 Began work with U.S. Borax at?its plant in Boron, California, the worlds largest borax-producing facility. This launched our long-term relationship with U.S. Borax, providing design-construct services at?its facility. 1967 Now over 300 employees strong, we opened our first satellite office in New Jersey to establish proximity to a client. 1970 Became a publicly owned company and saw our stock listed on the American Stock Exchange in 1971. 1974 Opened our Dublin, Ireland office as a project office. 1974 Expanded our geographic coverage to the Gulf Coast with our entry into the hydrocarbons market. 1974 Started our first major chemical project abroad: EC management of a $25 million pharmaceutical plant for Syntex in Ireland. 1976 Began an EPC project to expand Pennwalt Corp.s alkyl mercaptans facility, increasing world production by 50 percent. 1978 Completed a decade in which we designed/constructed more than one-third of the uranium projects in the United States. Jacobs now had over 1,6