The News Review:
- PowerLight Invovled in 61 Megawatts of New Plant Construction
- Business: A new page digital plant company – Business – Gazette.com
- German Workers Stage Warning Strikes
- Area’s Public Water System Has Been His Baby
- Country diary Lake District
- ADF Group Inc. announces the results of the first quarter ended April…
- Indian fertilizer firm chooses Topsoe for methanol plant
PowerLight Invovled in 61 Megawatts of New Plant Construction
AZoBuild – Apr 30, 2007
PowerLight announced one of those projects the approximately 4. 8 megawatt power plant in Llerena earlier this month. PowerLight is managing the design engineering procurement installation operation and maintenance of these three solar power plants on a turn-key basis. PowerLight is supplying proprietary solar tracker technology and equipment to the 21 megawatt 80 hectare Hoya de los Vicentes project in Jumilla near Murcia Spain which is nearing completion. The proprietary PowerTracker(R) solar tracking technology tilts the solar panels toward the sun as it passes across the sky increasing annual energy production by up to 25 percent compared with fixed-tilt systems.
Business: A new page digital plant company – Business – Gazette.com
Colorado Springs Gazette – Apr 30, 2007
“Even during the slumps later on we thought we were all in it together. That is why people still get together at these reunions. ” More than 30 years ago Digital selected the Springs for the plant because the designer of its first disk drive was from Boulder. Company officials wanted the plant to be near his research operation but far enough away that competitor Storage Technology Corp. wouldn’t hire away employees said Tom Burniece the plant’s engineering manager. Nelson Diaz one of Digital’s first employees in the Springs said the company built its permanent manufacturing plant in a valley of the Rockrimmon subdivision because it promised neighbors that lights from the plant couldn’t be seen from the surrounding neighborhood. “Before the plant was built we would go four-wheeling there and chase coyotes” Diaz said… ” More than 30 years ago Digital selected the Springs for the plant because the designer of its first disk drive was from Boulder. Company officials wanted the plant to be near his research operation but far enough away that competitor Storage Technology Corp. wouldn’t hire away employees said Tom Burniece the plant’s engineering manager. Nelson Diaz one of Digital’s first employees in the Springs said the company built its permanent manufacturing plant in a valley of the Rockrimmon subdivision because it promised neighbors that lights from the plant couldn’t be seen from the surrounding neighborhood. “Before the plant was built we would go four-wheeling there and chase coyotes” Diaz said. “I remember there were problems with rattlesnakes in the parking lot. ” The company later opened a technical support center next to the plant and grew to be the city’s largest private employer in 1990 with 3750 workers.
German Workers Stage Warning Strikes
BusinessWeek – Apr 30, 2007
5 percent higher pay. Further talks are due on Thursday. The country’s economic recovery has fuelled demands for a big pay rise after… 5 percent more pay for 3. 4 million manufacturing workers. At least 600 workers at a van assembly plant of DaimlerChrysler in Düsseldorf northwestern Germany downed tools during the night shift on Sunday and a further 800 stopped work at another plant of the German auto manufacturer a spokesman for the IG Metall engineering union said. In Berlin workers at a Gillette razor blade factory walked off their jobs and demonstrated outside the plant waving flags blowing whistles and holding banners demanding that employers increase their offer of a 3 percent increase — made up of a formal wage rise of 2. 5 percent and a half-percent ‘economy bonus’ as a one-off payment. IG Metall says its pay claim is justified by the nation’s economic recovery after years of stagnation with growth fuelled by soaring global demand for goods Germany specializes in such as cars chemicals and industrial equipment. A union leader insisted employers were to blame for the strikes and warned that they would escalate unless a deal was reached.
Area’s Public Water System Has Been His Baby
Washington Post – Apr 30, 2007
You couldn’t sweat or touch those linens — it would ruin them. They finally air-conditioned those buildings when they found out they had to let us off at 1 or 2 o’clock every day during the summer. “Years later working at the Dalecarlia plant Monch shifted to drawing with ink on Mylar a plastic sheet. Now the design team uses computer software to make drawings and store them on discs but Monch prefers to start his designs with a ruler and pencil at a drafting table before entering his drawings into the computers. Monch retires as a civil engineer technician holding the senior technician position on the aqueduct’s design team. In this job he usually oversaw junior technicians who do the initial field work on new projects. During the design phase he developed construction drawings showing the various elevations sections and building requirements.
Country diary Lake District
guardian.co.uk – Apr 30, 2007
The emerald green and sheep-nibbled shelf on which it stands is set so high on its eponymous fellside that when bombers crashed into Skiddaw during the war years Skiddaw House was near the smoking craters. It was from here they brought down the dead by horse-drawn sled. In Grasmere the birth certificate of Billy Robinson a retired quarry plant engineer states he was born here. He remembers lads at Bassenthwaite village school swapping scraps of metaland Perspex that folk had retrieved from the wrecks. Picture this former shooting lodge this wonderful April and such a grim past might seem hard to conceive. For Skiddaw House has reason to celebrate. Set amid purple-gowned moors and chattering ghylls the House has opened up again as a bunkhouse intended to be within the network of YHA (England and Wales) enterprise operation.
ADF Group Inc. announces the results of the first quarter ended April…
newswire.ca – Apr 30, 2007
5 million gain on forgiveness of interest. ADF Group also announces today an investment of approximately$3. 0 million at its Terrebonne fabrication plant for the acquisition of newstate-of-the-art semi-automated fabrication equipment and to convert one ofthe plant’s areas currently used for the storage of raw material into a50000 square feet (4650 m2) fabrication bay. With the plant’s new layoutthe Company will be able to improve its plant’s overall effectiveness andfabrication capacity. The funds will come from the proceeds from the boughtdeal treasury issue of Subordinate Voting Shares of the Company which isexpected to close by June 20 2007 as announced by the Company on May 312007. Jean Paschini Chairman of the board and Chief executive officer adds”We are pleased with the results posted in the first quarter ended April 302007 which are in line with our forecasts and have progressed according tothe Company’s three-year business plan. Fiscal year 2007-2008 begins wellboth in terms of contract awards and profitability of operations”… The disclosure of the Company’s first quarter results initially scheduledfor June 12 2007 at the Annual Shareholders General Assembly has beenadvanced to June 4 2007 due to the bought deal previously announced. About ADF ADF Group Inc. is a North American leader in the design engineeringfabrication and selective installation of complex steel superstructures aswell as in architectural metal work. ADF is one of the few players in theindustry capable of handling highly technically complex mega projects onfast-track schedules in the commercial institutional industrial and publicsectors. Forward-Looking Information This press release contains forward-looking statements reflecting ADFobjectives and expectations. These statements are identified by the use ofverbs such as “expect” as well as by the use of future or conditional tenses. By their very nature these types of statements involve risks and uncertainty.
Indian fertilizer firm chooses Topsoe for methanol plant
ICIS – ICIS (subscription) – Apr 30, 2007
GSFC will pay Topsoe ?8. 9m) for the supply of design and engineering services proprietary equipment and a catalyst according to the Indian government. The total investment is estimated at rupees (Rs) 2… When the plant comes on stream scheduled for mid-2009 GSFC will become the fifth fertilizer company in India to make methanol. The others are Gujarat Narmada Valley Fertilizers Rashtriya Chemicals and Fertilizers Deepak Fertilizers and Petrochemicals Corporation and National Fertilizers. It is set to come on stream in 2010.