Jacobs Engineering gets contract with Netherlands manufacturing firm

Jacobs Engineering is on a roll. In addition to a big seismic retrofit project of the Transbay Tube between Oakland and San Francisco, and an indefinite delivery contract with the GSA, they have just been awarded a contract with a major manufacturing firm in the Netherlands. According to the Los Angeles Business Journal, the contract is with Teijin Twaron B.V. to provide engineering, procurement, and construction management services as part of the “NIKKO Project” being implemented at Teijin Twaron’s existing site in Emmen. “Teijin Twaron is an international company that supplies customers throughout the world with a broad portfolio of aramid high performance fibers. Jacobs will develop a new spinning facility to turn base polymer materials into Teijin Twaron’s synthetic aramid fiber, called Twaron”, the article said. Jacobs is based in Pasadena and provides technical, professional, and construction services globally. It employs more that 45,000 worldwide.