The News Review:
- Uhde Win Contract to Build Coke Plant for Hyundai Steel
- Merkel to Tackle Skills Shortage in Einstein’s Home (Update1)
- America’s Hackable Backbone
- USA : Shaw to develop two Petrochina ethylene plants in China
- Ford CE Mulally faces new challenges in his second year
- … Awarded Contract by Force Protection for Engineering and…
Uhde Win Contract to Build Coke Plant for Hyundai Steel
Azom.com – Aug 22, 2007
Uhde participated to a large extent in the realisation of the coke plant by an engineering contract. The modern CSQ (Coke Stabilisation Quenching) process with an integrated two-stage particle separator will be used for coke cooling. Apart from very good emission values which are comparable to those obtained in dry coke cooling processes the CSQ process is characterised by producing cooled coke with an extremely high degree of stability. This is highly important for today’s high-capacity blast furnaces. The gas treatment unit will also use the latest technology.
Merkel to Tackle Skills Shortage in Einstein’s Home (Update1)
Bloomberg – Aug 22, 2007
“But we must also saywe're prepared to take steps at home. '' The coalition faces pressure for action from Germany'sbiggest companies. Siemens AG Europe's largest engineeringcompany awards each employee a 3000-euro bonus for proposing anew hire at its power-plant engineering unit where it currentlylacks 600 experts. Lufthansa AG the continent's second-largestairline is turning away orders at its maintenance divisionwhere aircraft systems are tested and plane body shellsoverhauled. It wants to hire 400 technical engineers by 2009. `Rejecting rders' “We barely know how to process the workload'' withexisting staff said Bernd Habbel spokesman for LufthansaTechnik AG. “We're already rejecting orders.
America’s Hackable Backbone
Forbes – Aug 22, 2007
“It turned out to be one of the easiest penetration tests I’d ever done” he says. “By the first day we had penetrated the network. Within a week we were controlling a nuclear power plant. This is a big problem. ‘”In retrospect Lunsford says–and the Nuclear Regulatory Commission agrees–that government-mandated safeguards would have prevented him from triggering a nuclear meltdown. But he’s fairly certain that by accessing controls through the company’s network he could have sabotaged the power supply to a large portion of the state… 11 2001 have largely been dismissed as hype and paranoia. But given SCADA systems’ vulnerability many experts wonder why those attacks haven’t yet materialized. ne answer may be the sheer complexity of major infrastructure systems: Though SCADA computers have weak external security controlling them takes engineering expertise. Most hackers could only gain enough control to create the fear that they’re capable of something worse says Alan Paller director of the SANS Institute. That means that even if outright attacks aren’t increasing there’s a growing threat of extortion says Paller. In fact the SANS Institute hosts a crisis response center for cyberattacks and Paller says he’s learned of multiple threats within the last year and a half from hackers claiming to have infiltrated SCADA systems and demanding ransom. ther shakedowns have likely gone unreported.
USA : Shaw to develop two Petrochina ethylene plants in China
Fibre2fashion.com – Fibre2fashion.com – Aug 22, 2007
The value of Shaw’s contracts which will be reflected in its fourth quarter fiscal year 2007 backlog was not disclosed. The first plant for PetroChina Fushun Petrochemical Company will be located in Fushun Liaoning Province. The second plant for PetroChina Sichuan Petrochemical Company will be located in Pengzhou Sichuan Province. The contracts cover basic engineering technology licensing procurement of key equipment and materials technical training commissioning and start-up services. “Shaw has worked closely with China’s olefins producers to license its technology and help source more than three million tons of ethylene production capacity in China during the past 30 years” said J… ” We are pleased to be selected by our long-time client PetroChina for these significant new projects. Shaw’s ethylene plants possess a global reputation for high operational reliability rapid start-up and superior performance. Since 1990 Shaw technology has been selected for 35 percent of the world’s ethylene capacity increases.
Ford CE Mulally faces new challenges in his second year
International Herald Tribune – Aug 22, 2007
” Mulally hired by then-chairman and CE Bill Ford on Sept. 5 was brought in to turn around a company that was unprepared when rising gasoline prices pushed people away from its trucks and sport utility vehicles. Just two weeks after he started the company unveiled another restructuring plan with more plant closures and early retirement or buyout offers to all 75000 hourly workers. Ford at the time said it would take three years for the company to return to sustained profitability after billions of dollars in losses and said its share of the U. auto market would shrink to around 14 or 15 percent. It was 26 percent in the early 1990s… Mulally cannot be held responsible for the lower sales said David Healy an analyst with Burnham Securities because he had little to do with the products now on the market. “The stuff they've introduced in the first year of his tenure was all pretty much in metal before he got there” said Healy adding that it's too early to tell what influence Mulally will have on Ford's future vehicles. Schrager said Mulally has worked to fix Ford on the production side by reducing factory capacity and globalizing its design and engineering but the key to any automaker's profitability is whether it can design and produce vehicles for which people will pay full price. “That's really what he needs to do. This is a very innovative very creative business. It's not all about how can we make the door handles 2 cents cheaper” Schrager said. “I think Mulally comes well-equipped on the science side and we're going to be able to judge him here on the artistic side.
… Awarded Contract by Force Protection for Engineering and…
Free with registration – PR Newswire – AccessMyLibrary.com – Aug 22, 2007
today announced that its Tecstar Automotive Group was awarded a major contract by Force Protection Inc. of Ladson South Carolina to provide engineering design and production support for its Mine Resistant Ambush Protected (MRAP) Cheetah vehicle series. Force Protection recently announced the purchase of a new 430000 square foot facility in Roxboro North Carolina to expand its production capacity for current and future products including the Cheetah vehicle line. The initial efforts under this production implementation contract included prototype vehicle builds manufacturing process development and pre-production vehicles. Under this follow-on contract Quantum’s Tecstar Automotive Group.