The News Review:
- Ford proposing $105 million in improvements at Kentucky Truck Plant
- Power Plant Doesn’t Need Permit to Merge Stacks Agency Rules
- Nuclear engineer gets life
- … of 30 million planned at Sanmina-SCI manufacturing plant…
- Eduardo Pereira de Carvalho
- Chiyoda loses bid for Exxon Singapore petchem plant
Ford proposing $105 million in improvements at Kentucky Truck Plant
Bizjournals.com – Jun 28, 2007
has proposed making a $105 million investment to upgrade its Kentucky Truck Plant on Chamberlain Lane. Ford announced its potential project at Kentucky Truck Plant during a June 28 meeting of the Kentucky Economic Development Finance Authority in Frankfort. The KEDFA board granted the Dearborn Mich. -based automaker preliminary approval for a total package of state tax incentives worth up to $66. 3 million for up to 10 years. Ford's plans filed with the state call for a $75 million investment in new equipment and a $30 million investment in engineering costs at the Kentucky Truck Plant… Under the program Ford could receive incentives to make investments in its Kentucky Truck Plant on Chamberlain Lane and its Louisville Assembly Plant on Fern Valley Road. The incentives could be used toward investments in equipment and facility upgrades technology updates and the purchase of new machinery and supplies. Engineering and operations costs and the retraining of local employees working at the plants also would covered by the program. The need for new program grew out of increasing concerns about Ford's long-term future in Louisville. Both local factories have had various shutdowns during the last year as Ford has tried to balance supply and demand. The automaker had its worst year ever in 2006 when it lost $12.
Power Plant Doesn’t Need Permit to Merge Stacks Agency Rules
Washington Post – Jun 28, 2007
City officials say the decision will allow the plant to spew more pollutants into the air. "The bottom line is that approving the stack merge without linking it to a permit will allow Mirant to increase the amount of pollution exponentially" City Attorney Ignacio B. n Monday Pessoa and other city officials met with representatives from… But the state agency changed course last week and informed the city that no permit was required and that the merger could move forward within days. The DEQ said the merger would require a permit only if it increased the amount of air emissions and the department thought this to be the case when it issued the May decision. But the agency has since received a new engineering analysis. In a May editorial in. Muller said the company’s goal in merging the stacks is to reduce the possibility of pollutants gathering at ground level near the plant.
Nuclear engineer gets life
Al-Ahram Weekly – Jun 28, 2007
Dozens of reporters and photographers were already crammed into the room. They were there to record any and every move made by Mohamed Sayed Saber behind the bars of the dock. The trial of Saber a nuclear engineer at Egypt’s state-run Atomic Power Agency (EAPA) has been underway for the past two months in a state security court. He is charged with passing documents relating to Inshas the site of one of Egypt’s nuclear reactors to foreign agents believed to be working for the Israeli Intelligence Agency Mossad for which he allegedly received $17000. Since his trial opened in April Saber has spent much of his time in court smiling and waving at photographers. His responses have been variously interpreted as a failure to comprehend the gravity of his situation or else a manifestation of anxiety. Those attending the session as they waited for the three-judge panel to deliver its verdict expressed little sympathy for the man in the dock — he had after all expressed his admiration for Israel on several occasions — though his devastated parents who throughout the trial maintained that their son was innocent were treated more kindly… Egypt recently announced its intention to restart the nuclear energy programme it abandoned more than two decades ago in the aftermath of the 1986 Chernobyl disaster. In statements made earlier this year Minister of Electricity and Energy Hassan Younis said that Egypt could have an operational nuclear power plant within 10 years. The current plan is to build a 1000 megawatt nuclear power plant at Al-Dabaa on the Mediterranean coast. Saber’s is the second espionage case this year. In April a state security court sentenced Egyptian-Canadian Mohamed Essam El-Attar to 15 years in prison. Three Israeli accomplices tried in absentia were also found guilty. Thirty-one-year-old El-Attar confessed to collaborating with Mossad providing it with information about the Arab expatriate community in Turkey and Canada.
… of 30 million planned at Sanmina-SCI manufacturing plant…
finfacts.com – Jun 28, 2007
It will also consolidate the existing employment in Fermoy further enhance the facility’s position within the parent company and will make it a flagship operation within Sanmina-SCI. Supported by IDA Ireland the investment will establish an R&D centre of engineering excellence to develop and design processes and products. Additionally the investment will facilitate the continuous upgrade of the facility and equipment to enable it to stay ahead of the ever increasing and exacting regulatory and quality standards of the medical industry. Upgrading of the skills of existing employees plus the addition of new highly skilled professionals in multiple disciplines is envisaged. Sanmina-SCI is the world’s largest electronics manufacturing services (EMS) provider to the medical industry. It provides manufacturing design and supply chain management solutions for original-equipment-manufacturers (EMs).
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Eduardo Pereira de Carvalho
Business News Americas – Jun 28, 2007
6bn) investment plan to invest in the sugar and ethanol industry over the next 10 years. Although this is a new move for a group that focuses on power petrochemicals civil construction and real estate development it was not surprising in light of the boom in Brazil’s ethanol sector. The project aims to produce ethanol and sugar using sugarcane grown on leased farming areas. debrecht will install several plants to process the sugarcane with cogen power capacity at each unit… We are concluding negotiations in coming days which means I cannot give details. We are also in talks in some states that neighbor S?Paulo state to start of operations with several sugarcane producers. Hopefully they will be ready to plant vast quantities of sugarcane by December. We do not invest in real estate directly. We will lease the land and have local partners who will produce because they know the conditions in the different regions. We are in advanced stage of negotiations to form partnerships with local producers. BNamericas: How many of the 12-15 plants in the project will be acquired and how many will be greenfield projects?Carvalho: At the moment we have one acquisition and the rest will be greenfield.
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Chiyoda loses bid for Exxon Singapore petchem plant
signonsandiego.com – Jun 28, 2007
-based Shaw Group Inc. unit and a joint venture between France’s Technip and Chiyoda for engineering procurement and construction (EPC) work on the steam cracker… ne source with a local industry services firm said they expected an announcement soon to confirm Shaw as the formal winners of the bid which would also likely signal Exxon Mobil’s intent to proceed with the project estimated to cost over $2 billion. An Exxon Mobil spokeswoman in Singapore declined to comment on the contract award saying only that work on the feasibility study was progressing well and it expected to make a final investment decision in the near future. The proposed project due for completion in three to four years on Jurong island is expected to add a further 800000 to 1 million tons of ethylene production capacity to its existing 900000 tpy Singapore plant Exxon’s largest worldwide. Analysts said the necessary investment would total over $1 billion for the steam cracker although the winner of the EPC bid would farm out much of the work to sub-contractors. “The cost to build an 800000-ton steam cracker in Singapore will likely be $1.