The News Review:
- Japan aims to secure coal supply through refinement
- In the lap of super luxury
- RUSAL Complete Feasibility Study on 1.4M tpa Alumina Plant
- Suntech starts China solar plant
- Saline County welcomes new plant to make popcorn chips
- PLANT GENE DISCVERED THAT HELPS CELLS THRIVE IN SALTY DRY SETTING.
Japan aims to secure coal supply through refinement
marketwatch.com – May 23, 2007
We can easily compete with this level. Kobe Steel also a plant engineering company hopes to receive orders for coal refinement plants from coal users worldwide after completing this pilot project he said. “With this technology Indonesia may take advantage of its coal reserves power utilities may buy coal and we may get plant orders. Japan the world’s largest coal importer each year uses about 90 million tons of coal for power generation and another 90 million tons for steelmaking according to the Ministry of Economy Trade and Industry. About 58% of Japan’s coal imports come from Australia 17% from Indonesia and 12% from China according to the Ministry of Finance. China recently became a net coal importer and Chinese exporters have asked their Japanese buyers to accept reduced export volumes so China can meet its domestic coal requirements.
In the lap of super luxury
Asiane – May 23, 2007
‘Strive for perfection in everything you do’ Sir Henry Royce as Rolls-Royce’s first chief engineer was once quoted as saying. ‘Take the best that exists and make it better. When it doesn’t exist design it. ‘And this engineering philosophy has been embraced by the company ever since according to Mr Robertson. ‘When Henry Royce developed the first cars it was about engineering. In 1907 when that first Silver Ghost came off the line it changed the face of motoring’ he says adding that this was at a time when the automobile was still in its infancy and ’20 years before the Ford Model T’ the world’s first mass-produced car. ‘And that Silver Ghost did 14000 miles without a service which rewrote what motor cars are about… ‘But he also takes pains to point out that a British design team was behind the creation of the Phantom. That team was led by Ian Cameron who is still design director and chief engineer Tim Leverton who has since left the company. ‘f the 550 people at our plant 90 per cent are British and the fact that it is located in England. We’ve taken the best of both worlds and we’ve combined it so all of the people making the components and the craft are allBritish people with minor exceptions like some Portuguese and some French people but they are not coming out from Munich’ referring to the German city where the BMW Group is headquartered. ‘So from that perspective we have succeeded in retaining our Britishness enhancing our engineering and developing a car which has all of the attributes of a Rolls-Royce the technology where appropriate from the group and more importantly the intellectual capability which is behind it to make sure it is absolutely future-driven as well as not forgetting our past.
RUSAL Complete Feasibility Study on 1.4M tpa Alumina Plant
Azom.com – May 23, 2007
The refinery will operate using state-of-the-art Bayer technology. The future refinery’s infrastructure is currently being built at the production facility site in the Sosnogorsk region. Railway tracks have been laid from the Vorkuta-Moscow line to the site and a small concrete production plant has been built in addition to administrative and general-use buildings. All construction is being carried out by the Engineering and Construction Division (ECD) of United Company RUSAL. Valery Matvienko director of the Engineering and Construction Division commented: “The Komi Aluminium project is one of the company’s top strategic priorities due to its potential to strengthen United Company RUSAL’s raw materials base and play a crucial role in the implementation of greenfield smelter construction projects in Russia. The fact that an in-house engineering and construction division can manage this project at all stages – from feasibility study development to commissioning and maintenance – gives United Company RUSAL the opportunity to quickly and efficiently implement business ideas and maintain production dynamics”. The proven reserves of the Eurasia Middle-Timan bauxite deposit the largest in Russia and Eurasia amount to 260 million tonnes… The future refinery’s infrastructure is currently being built at the production facility site in the Sosnogorsk region. Railway tracks have been laid from the Vorkuta-Moscow line to the site and a small concrete production plant has been built in addition to administrative and general-use buildings. All construction is being carried out by the Engineering and Construction Division (ECD) of United Company RUSAL. Valery Matvienko director of the Engineering and Construction Division commented: “The Komi Aluminium project is one of the company’s top strategic priorities due to its potential to strengthen United Company RUSAL’s raw materials base and play a crucial role in the implementation of greenfield smelter construction projects in Russia. The fact that an in-house engineering and construction division can manage this project at all stages – from feasibility study development to commissioning and maintenance – gives United Company RUSAL the opportunity to quickly and efficiently implement business ideas and maintain production dynamics”. The proven reserves of the Eurasia Middle-Timan bauxite deposit the largest in Russia and Eurasia amount to 260 million tonnes. The complex is expected to be commissioned at the end of 2009 and will create more than 10000 new jobs.
Suntech starts China solar plant
earthtimes.org – May 23, 2007
announced the thin film research and development and manufacturing facility is being built in Caohejing Hi-tech Park in Shanghai. The first phase of the new plant is expected to begin operation in 2008 with production targets set for 2009. The thin film module production will be based on technology that deposits amorphous and micro-crystalline silicon thin film on glass substrate. The product will use less than 2 percent of the silicon required to manufacture equivalent crystalline silicon PV products. Suntech projects that the thin film modules will have a solar conversion efficiency of 6 percent to 9 percent and an initial production cost of approximately $1. 20 per watt (based on 6 percent solar conversion efficiency) which is forecasted to continue to decline as both production scale and conversion efficiencies increase… Suntech made strides to become a world leader in the solar industry through its 2006 acquisition of Japan’s MSK Corp. Many senior members of Suntech’s R&D team and its officers have significant expertise in the thin film field. Zhengrong Shi Suntech’s chairman and chief executive officer was a senior research scientist and the leader of the Thin Film Solar Cells Research Group in the Centre of Excellence for Photovoltaic Engineering at the University of New South Wales in Australia and holds multiple patents in thin film technology. “After having acquired MSK one of the industry leaders in the building integrated photovoltaic products we were very pleased to see that there is both a strong and long term global sales market for these products especially thin film PV modules” Shi said. Copyright 2007 by UPI.
Saline County welcomes new plant to make popcorn chips
Benton Courier – May 23, 2007
Creative Food Products was founded in July of 2004 as a sales marketing and promotional entity to commercialize healthy snack foods. The product development of Leanne’s Popcorn Chips began in a benchtop laboratory in the founder’s garage. The process development was successfully concluded under the engineering leadership of McGregor and McAllan a technology company that has filed for a patent on the process and products created by it and has licensed the technology to Creative Food Products Inc. The patent process usually takes around 18 months. Following the process development Creative Food Products opened a pilot plant in Vancouver Wash. where the product and process was tested. In March 2006 the facility was moved to Bryant for the final step to market its first product entry in the chip market… Leanne’s Popcorn Chips will be the newest product manufactured in Saline County. (Courier photo by Matt Burks) Saline County held a ribbon-cutting ceremony on Tuesday for the grand opening of Creative Food Products and the newest product on the snack market Leanne’s Popcorn Chips. “Welcome to a new adventure” state Sen. Shane Broadway said to the crowd of residents new employees and community leaders.
PLANT GENE DISCVERED THAT HELPS CELLS THRIVE IN SALTY DRY SETTING.
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