The News Review:
- Honda adding high-tech engineering facility at Alabama plant
- QuestAir to Supply Hydrogen Purifier to Hydro-Chem for New Hydrogen…
- FLSmidth negotiates cement plant contract with Russia’s LLC…
- Bombay Dyeing sells DMT plant to Gujarat co
Honda adding high-tech engineering facility at Alabama plant
al.com – May 30, 2008
The project scheduled to be completed this summer willbe home to a branch of Honda Engineering North America Inc. also known as EGA which designs develops and manufacturesspecialized production and tooling equipment. Honda has not announced any new jobs tied to the facility. EGA has employees based at all of Honda’s NorthAmerican auto plants including Lincoln… The facility will allow EGA to increase its capability formanufacturing powertrain dies which are used in high- andlow-pressure casting operations. High-pressure casting formscylinder blocks for V-6 engines and low-pressure castingforms the engine cylinder heads. Honda’s Alabama plant is the sole global source ofthe Pilot sport utility the Odyssey minivan and the V-6engines that power them. Next year the plant will add theRidgeline pickup to its assembly lines. 4 billion plant employs more than 4500 people andhas an annual production capacity that tops 300000vehicles. Since October 2006 Honda has announced plans for nearly$100 million in additional construction and investment atLincoln.
QuestAir to Supply Hydrogen Purifier to Hydro-Chem for New Hydrogen…
Maketwire РMaketwire (Communiqu̩s de presse) РMay 30, 2008
QuestAir is based in Burnaby British Columbia and its shares trade on the AIM Market of the London Stock Exchange Plc. and on the Toronto Stock Exchange under the symbol “QAR”. About Hydro-ChemHydro-Chem specializes in the design engineering and construction of modular hydrogen plants. Hydro-Chem has supplied over 140 hydrogen plants to key clients in the food steel glass and petrochemical industries since 1975. Forward Looking StatementsCertain statements in this press release may constitute “forward-looking” statements which involve known and unknown risks uncertainties and other factors which may cause the actual results performance or achievements of the Company or industry results to be materially different from any future results performance or achievements expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements. When used in this press release such statements use such words as “anticipate” “believe” “plan” “estimate” “expect” “intend” “may” “will” and other similar terminology. These statements reflect current expectations regarding future events and operating performance and speak only as of the date of this press release.
FLSmidth negotiates cement plant contract with Russia’s LLC…
Forbes – May 30, 2008
‘If and when the contract is finalised and becomes binding we shall immediately inform the market’ the Danish engineering group said and added that a contract would require not only signing but also exchange of down payment and guarantees to be considered binding. sandstrom@thomsonreuters. All rights reserved.
Bombay Dyeing sells DMT plant to Gujarat co
Economic Times – May 30, 2008
The NusliWadia-controlled Bombay Dyeing has been the largest maker of DMT a keyingredient in the manufacture of polyester and a major supplier to varioustextile firms. The company had the capacity to manufacture 165000 tonnes of DMTat its Patalganga unit. DMT is used as a raw material for making polyesterfibre film filament and yarn and engineering plastics. An e-mail query sent toBombay Dyeing elicited noresponse. In a recentadvertisement a Gujarat-based trading company Laxmiraj said it had bought theplant from Bombay Dyeing for an undisclosed amount. A senior executive withLaxmiraj Bhavesh Jain confirmed the development and said the company woulddismantle the DMT plant. Laxmiraj trades in stainless steel pipes the ones usedin chemical companies such as in Bombay Dyeing’s DMTplant… The NusliWadia-controlled Bombay Dyeing has been the largest maker of DMT a keyingredient in the manufacture of polyester and a major supplier to varioustextile firms. The company had the capacity to manufacture 165000 tonnes of DMTat its Patalganga unit. DMT is used as a raw material for making polyesterfibre film filament and yarn and engineering plastics. An e-mail query sent toBombay Dyeing elicited noresponse. In a recentadvertisement a Gujarat-based trading company Laxmiraj said it had bought theplant from Bombay Dyeing for an undisclosed amount. A senior executive withLaxmiraj Bhavesh Jain confirmed the development and said the company woulddismantle the DMT plant.