http://www.industrialinfo.eu/ 2008 Industrial Info Resources, Inc. 360 Fri, 30 Jul 2010 16:16:16 -0500 http://www.industrialinfo.eu/ http://www.industrialinfo.eu/images/indalert.gif 210 29 http://www.industrialinfo.eu/showAbstract.jsp?newsitemID=162815 solar power companies after they were selected last week to receive $1.85 billion in federal loan guarantees under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA).

Other companies featured: Pinnacle West Capital Corporation (NYSE:PNW)]]> Fri, 09 Jul 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.industrialinfo.eu/showAbstract.jsp?newsitemID=163778 Fluor Corporation (NYSE:FLR) (Irving, Texas) and Jacobs Engineering Group (NYSE:JEC) (Pasadena, California) recently reported quarterly results. Earnings for Fluor's second quarter (ended June 30) and Jacobs' third quarter (ended July 2) were both down from the same period of the previous year, although the companies' backlog activities for the quarter differed significantly.]]> Wed, 28 Jul 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.industrialinfo.eu/showAbstract.jsp?newsitemID=163576 biomass power plant in Kentucky. The plant will be situated on 125-acre site and will utilize low-quality wood materials, such as sawdust, bark, wood chips and sawmill waste. A 1.5-mile transmission line will also be built to connect the plant to an American Electric Power (NYSE:AEP) substation to deliver power to the grid.]]> Mon, 26 Jul 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.industrialinfo.eu/showAbstract.jsp?newsitemID=163311 Johnson Controls Incorporated (NYSE:JCI) (JCI) (Milwaukee, Wisconsin) has selected a firm to provide architectural and engineering services for a planned $100 million grassroot automotive battery-recycling center and secondary lead plant in Florence, South Carolina. JCI makes car batteries for retailers such as AutoZone (NYSE:AZO), Advance Auto Parts (NYSE:AAP), Pep Boys (NYSE:PBY) and Wal-Mart (NYSE:WMT).]]> Tue, 20 Jul 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.industrialinfo.eu/showAbstract.jsp?newsitemID=162528 Fluor Corporation (NYSE:FLR) (Irving, Texas) was awarded a $1.3 billion engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contract at Lumina Copper's Caserones project.]]> Thu, 01 Jul 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.industrialinfo.eu/showAbstract.jsp?newsitemID=162650 mining projects totaling $186 billion in the U.S. and Canada, as part of its North America Industrial Project Database. This represents about 30% of the value of the global mining industry. Projects include all projects that the owner is actively working on, from early planning and feasibility studies to those that are under construction. Opportunities for equipment and service providers to the mining industry are showing much promise, especially for those with expertise in engineering, construction, material-handling and mining equipment. Industrial Info has detailed these mines in the newly released Canada & U.S. Mining Industry - 2nd Edition Wall Map, which is currently available for purchase online by clicking this link.]]> Wed, 07 Jul 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.industrialinfo.eu/showAbstract.jsp?newsitemID=163238 Georgia-Pacific LLC (Atlanta, Georgia) (GP) in Pennington, Alabama, is in competition with several of the company's other mills to build a towel and tissue paper machine. GP has announced plans to invest approximately $500 million to build two machines in North America during the next few years.]]> Mon, 19 Jul 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.industrialinfo.eu/showAbstract.jsp?newsitemID=162842 mining projects. "Currently, we are tracking more than 640 projects totaling $207 billion in North America alone," said Joseph Govreau, VP of Metals & Minerals Research for Industrial Info. The market is still recovering from the economic and financial crisis and is far from entertaining a full-blown growth mode, but more and more companies are dusting off old projects and re-evaluating the feasibility of projects put on hold during the past two years, which is a good sign for the industry.]]> Fri, 09 Jul 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.industrialinfo.eu/showAbstract.jsp?newsitemID=163382
Companies featured: Black Hills Corporation (NYSE:BKH), Xcel Energy (NYSE:XEL), Suncor Energy Incorporated (NYSE:SU)]]> Wed, 21 Jul 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.industrialinfo.eu/showAbstract.jsp?newsitemID=162631 Chevron Corporation (NYSE:CVX) (San Ramon, California) has not allowed the recent economic recession to prevent the company from expanding operations to keep up with industry competition and increasing customer demand. During the past two years, Chevron has been busy constructing a continuous catalytic reformer (CCR) unit at its refinery in Pascagoula, Mississippi. The project investment totals $500 million and consists of replacing two 30-year-old reformers and constructing a 55,000-barrel-per-day (BBL/d) CCR Platformer unit designed by UOP.]]> Tue, 06 Jul 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.industrialinfo.eu/showAbstract.jsp?newsitemID=162936 The Shaw Group (NYSE:SHAW) (Baton Rouge, Louisiana) recently reported earnings results for the third quarter of the 2010 fiscal year. Shaw's earnings and net income were relatively flat compared to the same period last year. In a conference call, CEO J.M. Bernhard Jr. spoke of Shaw's current projects and future prospects in the Power Industry. Discussing two of Shaw's larger nuclear projects, SCANA Corporation's (NYSE:SCG) 2,200-megawatt (MW) addition to the Summer nuclear power station near Jenkinsville, South Carolina, and The Southern Company's (NYSE:SO) (Atlanta, Georgia) 2,234-MW addition to the Vogtle nuclear power plant near Waynesboro, Georgia, Bernhard said: "These projects remain on-time and on-schedule and running on budget and are very major projects going forward in our nuclear part of the business." Industrial Info is tracking more than $82 billion of industrial projects involving Shaw, details of which can be found in Industrial Info's North American and Global project databases.]]> Tue, 13 Jul 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.industrialinfo.eu/showAbstract.jsp?newsitemID=162521 manufacturing plant in Gainesville, Georgia, by constructing another plant in Gainesville, estimated to cost approximately $90 million.]]> Fri, 02 Jul 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.industrialinfo.eu/showAbstract.jsp?newsitemID=162564 manufacturing plant that will produce crystalline-silicone photovoltaic solar panels.]]> Fri, 02 Jul 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.industrialinfo.eu/showAbstract.jsp?newsitemID=162931 Mid-Atlantic region of the U.S., which includes the Carolinas, Maryland, West Virginia and Virginia, is set to begin more than $4.5 billion of industrial projects this quarter. While the largest of these projects involves the Power Industry, the Pharmaceutical-Biotech and Pulp & Paper industries are also making significant contributions to industrial spending in the region.]]> Tue, 13 Jul 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.industrialinfo.eu/showAbstract.jsp?newsitemID=163837 capital and maintenance (MRO) projects during the third quarter of 2010. A recent survey taken from Industrial Info's PECWEB Direct forecasts 156 projects with a cumulative total investment value (TIV) of $5.4 billion are ready to begin construction in the third quarter. The projects are scattered throughout the region, which comprises Delaware, New Jersey, New York and Pennsylvania, and carry an average TIV of $35 million.]]> Thu, 29 Jul 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.industrialinfo.eu/showAbstract.jsp?newsitemID=163530 the New England region for industrial project spending, claiming bragging rights to a hefty $2.7 billion slice of a $4.4 billion pie. The New England region as a whole is doing remarkably well, as the average total investment value (TIV) of the 44 projects is an astounding $100 million (source: Industrial Info's North American Industrial Database).

Companies featured: Shire plc (NASDAQ:SHPGY)]]> Fri, 23 Jul 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.industrialinfo.eu/showAbstract.jsp?newsitemID=163513 Clearwater Paper Corporation (NYSE:CLW) (Spokane, Washington) has broken ground at the future site of a tissue paper mill in Shelby, North Carolina. Clearance has begun on a 100-acre site at Washburn Switch Road in Cleveland County, and construction will begin this fall.]]> Fri, 23 Jul 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.industrialinfo.eu/showAbstract.jsp?newsitemID=163920 Lubrizol Corporation (NYSE:LZ) (Wickliffe, Ohio) is only a few months from beginning construction on several major investments that will create growth opportunities in multiple regions worldwide. Several years ago, Lubrizol began planning a new plant in China, and earlier this year the company announced those plans were closer to reality. In North America, Lubrizol plans to construct a unit to expand production of its Carbopol polymer product at a plant in Calvert City, Kentucky.]]> Fri, 30 Jul 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.industrialinfo.eu/showAbstract.jsp?newsitemID=163226 power plants located in 31 states and the District of Columbia that contribute to ozone formation and fine-particle pollution.

Companies featured: Duke Energy Corporation (NYSE:DUK), Exelon Corporation (NYSE:EXC), (Chicago, Illinois), PG&E Corporation (NYSE:PCG), PNM Resources Incorporated (NYSE:PNM), Dominion Resources Incorporated (NYSE:D)]]> Mon, 19 Jul 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.industrialinfo.eu/showAbstract.jsp?newsitemID=162787 Saudi Aramco, unveiled the Aramco expansion plan in April. The plan is structured to meet Saudi local demand and put company production in line with a projected growth in oil demand worldwide.]]> Thu, 08 Jul 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.industrialinfo.eu/showAbstract.jsp?newsitemID=163002 power plants have won an important stay of execution this week, following the ratification of the Industrial Emissions Directive (IED) by the European Parliament. The new directive will see the introduction of stricter levels of air pollution on industrial facilities, but thanks to a series of compromises, large combustion plants, including coal-, gas- and oil-fired power plants, will now have much longer to comply with the regulations.]]> Tue, 13 Jul 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.industrialinfo.eu/showAbstract.jsp?newsitemID=162587 nuclear power units in 2010," said Tian Jiashu, the director of the Nuclear and Radiation Safety Center for the Ministry of Environmental Protection, in a recent interview. The six units have a total planned capacity of about 5,300 megawatts and are in Ningde, Fujian province; Changjiang, Hainan province; and Fangchenggang, Guangxi region.]]> Fri, 02 Jul 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.industrialinfo.eu/showAbstract.jsp?newsitemID=163757 secondary fiber unit that will allow the mill to increase processing capacity of recycled material by 500 tons per day. The Morrilton site has a two secondary fiber units: a 210-ton- per-day unit and a 310-ton-per-day unit.]]> Wed, 28 Jul 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.industrialinfo.eu/showAbstract.jsp?newsitemID=163096 Valero Energy Corporation's (NYSE:VLO) (San Antonio, Texas) Delaware City refinery for $220 million. The acquired assets include a 190,000-barrel-per-day refinery that is currently idle; an associated terminal and pipeline; and a 218-megawatt power plant complex.

Other companies featured: Petroplus Holdings AG (VTX:PPHN), The Blackstone Group (NYSE:BX)]]> Thu, 15 Jul 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.industrialinfo.eu/showAbstract.jsp?newsitemID=163674 Pharmaceutical Tracker - Online Database.) The largest comes in at a whopping $464 million, while the smallest is a respectable $185 million, resulting in a project dollar average of $300 million.

Companies featured: Teva (NASDAQ:TEVA), McKesson Corporation (NYSE:MCK)]]> Tue, 27 Jul 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.industrialinfo.eu/showAbstract.jsp?newsitemID=162525 ethanol producer, privately held POET Biorefining (Sioux Falls, South Dakota), has purchased the closed Altra Indiana LLC (Cloverdale, Indiana) ethanol plant. Bankrupt Altra Indiana began construction on a $170 million plant in 2006 and shuttered it in 2008, after a brief production run.]]> Thu, 01 Jul 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.industrialinfo.eu/showAbstract.jsp?newsitemID=163091 automotive parts manufacturing plant for SL Alabama LLC in Alexander City, Alabama.]]> Thu, 15 Jul 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.industrialinfo.eu/showAbstract.jsp?newsitemID=162524 Power Industry increase efficiency. The legislation will provide funding and grants to help establish research, development and technology-demonstration programs to improve the efficiency of gas turbines used in combined-cycle and simple-cycle power generation.]]> Thu, 01 Jul 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.industrialinfo.eu/showAbstract.jsp?newsitemID=162724 Industrial Manufacturing Industry have been suffering throughout the recession in the United States. Spending has been trending downward as companies have focused on consolidation rather than expansion during the past 18 months. However, as the national economy has begun recovering, companies are once again beginning to invest money in expansion rather than consolidation. During the first half of 2010, 249 capital and maintenance projects worth an estimated $9.7 billion began construction within the Industrial Manufacturing Industry in the U.S., a significant reduction from a year ago, when $17 billion worth of projects began construction between January and June 2009.]]> Mon, 12 Jul 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.industrialinfo.eu/showAbstract.jsp?newsitemID=163617 reduction of emissions thought to contribute to climate change, will not be coming, at least this year, after Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) last Thursday told reporters that he was abandoning efforts to schedule a vote on comprehensive energy legislation. "We know where we are," Reid told reporters. "We don't have the votes. We (didn't) have a single Republican to work with us." Instead, Reid pledged to bring narrower energy legislation tightening energy efficiency standards and responding to the Gulf of Mexico oil spill.]]> Mon, 26 Jul 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.industrialinfo.eu/showAbstract.jsp?newsitemID=163098 Merck & Company Incorporated (NYSE:MRK) (Whitehouse Station, New Jersey) announced that it is cutting its workforce by another 15% during the next 24 months.]]> Thu, 15 Jul 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.industrialinfo.eu/showAbstract.jsp?newsitemID=162916 Scottish and Southern Energy plc (OTC:SSEZY) (SSE) (Perth, Scotland) has announced plans to begin a large carbon capture and storage (CCS) demonstration project at the gas-fired power station in Peterhead, Aberdeenshire. The project will demonstrate the post-combustion capture of carbon dioxide emissions from the equivalent of 400 megawatts of electrical output. It will use an existing gas turbine, an existing steam turbine, an existing electricity network connection and land adjacent to the power station that is owned by SSE.]]> Mon, 12 Jul 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.industrialinfo.eu/showAbstract.jsp?newsitemID=162822 oil sands producer MEG Energy Corporation (Calgary, Alberta) hopes to succeed where other oil sands companies have met with limited results by raising about $950 million to expand its Christina Lake project in Alberta, through an initial public offering (IPO) to be launched later this month.

Other companies featured: Athabasca Oil Sands Corporation (TSX:ATH)]]> Fri, 09 Jul 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.industrialinfo.eu/showAbstract.jsp?newsitemID=163158 Fri, 16 Jul 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.industrialinfo.eu/showAbstract.jsp?newsitemID=163596 coal-fired plant in Newburgh, Indiana, is running at a reduced load after Unit 1 (104 megawatts) was forced offline Wednesday evening.]]> Fri, 23 Jul 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.industrialinfo.eu/showAbstract.jsp?newsitemID=163687 Tennessee Valley Authority's (NYSE:TVC) (Knoxville, Tennessee) Browns Ferry Nuclear Power Station has de-rated the facility's three units because the Tennessee River, used as a coolant for the power plant, is too hot.]]> Tue, 27 Jul 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.industrialinfo.eu/showAbstract.jsp?newsitemID=162655 power sector has been growing at a significant pace in the Middle East during the last few years, and several international players have been investing in the region's electricity generation, transmission and distribution (T&D) projects. Growing industrialization, increasing residential subscribers, and attractive government subsidies are the primary factors driving demand for electricity and resulting in the flourishing power sector.

Other companies featured: Saudi Electricity Company (SAU:5110), ABB Limited (NYSE:ABB), Ezdan Real Estate Company QSC (DOH:ERES), WorleyParsons Limited (ASX:WOR), GDF Suez S.A. (EPA:GSZ), General Electric (NYSE:GE)]]> Tue, 06 Jul 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.industrialinfo.eu/showAbstract.jsp?newsitemID=163004 Wed, 14 Jul 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.industrialinfo.eu/showAbstract.jsp?newsitemID=162752 windfarm, located 12 kilometres off the coast of Kent in England. The facility will be the world's largest offshore windfarm. The installation of the 100th turbine means that the windfarm will be completed by the end of the summer, when it will be capable of supplying electricity to up to 240,000 homes. The facility is owned by Swedish energy giant Vattenfall AB (Stockholm, Sweden), which acquired the project in November 2008.

Other companies featured: StatoilHydro (NYSE:STO)]]> Wed, 07 Jul 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.industrialinfo.eu/showAbstract.jsp?newsitemID=162930 Weyerhaeuser Company (NYSE:WY) (Federal Way, Washington) is gearing up to begin construction of a grassroot cellulosic fiber plant in Gdansk, Poland. Construction is scheduled to start after Weyerhaeuser has selected contractors and equipment suppliers later this year.]]> Tue, 13 Jul 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.industrialinfo.eu/showAbstract.jsp?newsitemID=162821 power plant in Gujarat with a power generation capacity of 7,000 to 8,000 megawatts (MW). Bharuch and Dahej have been shortlisted as possible project locations.]]> Fri, 09 Jul 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.industrialinfo.eu/showAbstract.jsp?newsitemID=162704 nuclear plants that will add at least an extra 3,200 megawatts to the country's generation capacity. The final decision was pushed through by the ruling coalition parties, which had signalled their intent to approve two of three proposed nuclear plants last April.]]> Tue, 06 Jul 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.industrialinfo.eu/showAbstract.jsp?newsitemID=162841
Other companies featured: General Electric (NYSE:GE)]]> Fri, 09 Jul 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.industrialinfo.eu/showAbstract.jsp?newsitemID=163037 Chemical Processing Industry (CPI) remains small, although the number of opportunities continues to increase. Last year, in the midst of a global economic recession, the average total investment value (TIV) for the industry reached its lowest level in decades, at $8.5 million. Although this came as no real surprise to most, this was still a drastic reality shock when compared to previous years, where the average TIV varied between $13 million and $20 million. So far this year, the average TIV has improved only slightly, to just more than $8.8 million, based on project activity being tracked as part of Industrial Info's North American Project Database.]]> Wed, 14 Jul 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.industrialinfo.eu/showAbstract.jsp?newsitemID=163080 Thu, 15 Jul 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.industrialinfo.eu/showAbstract.jsp?newsitemID=163138 Thu, 15 Jul 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.industrialinfo.eu/showAbstract.jsp?newsitemID=163746 manufacturing plant in Muskogee, Oklahoma.]]> Wed, 28 Jul 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.industrialinfo.eu/showAbstract.jsp?newsitemID=162707 Wed, 07 Jul 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.industrialinfo.eu/showAbstract.jsp?newsitemID=162562 SunPower Corporation's (NASDAQ:SPWRA) (San Jose, California) setting a world record in solar cell efficiency. The company recently claimed to have produced a full-scale solar power cell with a 24.2% conversion efficiency of sunlight to electricity. The cell was developed at the company's manufacturing unit in the Philippines. The new world record for large silicon wafers was confirmed by the U.S. Department of Energy's National Renewable Energy Laboratory (Golden, Colorado).]]> Fri, 02 Jul 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.industrialinfo.eu/showAbstract.jsp?newsitemID=163463 Vestas Wind Systems A/S (CPH:VWS) (Randers, Denmark) opened a large nacelle and hub assembly factory in Brighton, Colorado, earlier this month. For Vestas, 2008 and 2009 were very good years--so successful, in fact, that orders placed in 2008 sometimes were fulfilled in 2009, as demand outstripped the company's ability to fill them. But Vestas recorded only two new North American turbine orders in 2009, a victim of the new-build slowdown in the wind power industry. But a more vibrant future was evident when Vestas opened its Colorado factory with news that the new site will produce components for the recently announced 250-megawatt Cedar Point Wind project in Colorado.]]> Thu, 22 Jul 2010 00:00:00 -0500