The News Review:
- Robotics mentor gets surprise farewell
- Desalination for a World Short of Water
- Verma takes over as RSP’s executive director
- Report: Money woes may have led to bridge collapse
- Mahindra and Mahindra may buy out Hitachi in components JV
- Asia Ex-Japan Equity Preview: Daewoo Ship Filinvest QBE Rio
- Bannerman awards GRD Namibia contract
Robotics mentor gets surprise farewell
Charleston Post Courier – May 21, 2008
But Mike Bryan who is leaving the Dorchester County School District 2 robotics engineering program is departing with plenty of emotions. “I’ll miss the kids” he said shortly after dozens of students associated with current and past robotics programs treated him to a surprise going-away reception. Bryan a Robert Bosch plant engineer who has been with the district robotics program for nine years is leaving the North Charleston plant to take a post with Bosch Rexroth Corp. He said he will conduct apprentice and training programs at Rexroth just as he has done at Bosch in North Charleston. The local Bosch plant’s Hank Bennett will take Bryan’s place on the corporation’s team of engineers who serve as “Team 342″ mentors and advisers. A native of Anderson Bryan said he’s been in the Lowcountry for 25 years and is looking forward to working near his hometown.
Desalination for a World Short of Water
BusinessWeek – May 21, 2008
7 billion yen ($118 million) in annual revenue from water-related businesses including seawater-desalination equipment and evaporation concentrators. investors two desalination companies recently announced initial public offerings for their shares.
Verma takes over as RSP’s executive director
Economic Times – May 21, 2008
Verma who wasgeneral manager electrical of Bhilai Steel Plant (BSP) took chargeyesterday. A gold medalist inelectrical engineering Verma had joined as a graduate engineer in 1975 inBSP. He made a significantcontribution in setting new benchmarks in production and productivity in railsand structural mill and encouraging innovations in technology maintenance andoperation practices in central electrical organisation RSP sources said onWednesday. getElementById(“storydiv”).
Report: Money woes may have led to bridge collapse
USA Today – May 21, 2008
The report commissioned by the Legislature also criticized the Minnesota Department of Transportation for bridge inspections that were mishandled or not acted upon over the years even when they called for immediate repairs. The department has come under sharp criticism for its upkeep of the 40-year-old Interstate 35W bridge even as an ongoing federal investigation has highlighted a design flaw and the weight of construction materials on the bridge rather than maintenance as critical factors in the collapse that killed 13 people. “Financial considerations we believe did play a part in the decision-making” over repair of the bridge said Robert Stein who oversaw the report prepared for lawmakers by the law firm Gray Plant Mooty. “Sometimes it’s easier just to take the least expensive alternative or just commission another study” Stein said. For example instead of a $40000 ground-penetrating radar survey of the bridge deck in 2006 engineers dragged a chain across the span to listen for unsound concrete. The radar test an internal e-mail notes “was not completed due to lack of funding. That same year officials from the state’s bridge division examined rehabilitation and reconstruction options… Transportation Commissioner Tom Sorel who took the job last month after previous leader Carol Molnau was ousted said he was reviewing the report and couldn’t comment in detail on many of its findings. “Addressing the condition and safety needs of our bridge system has never been and never will be subject to question due to budgetary concern” Sorel said. “We rely on and invest in the expert opinions and recommendations of our bridge engineering professionals. Tim Pawlenty has asked Sorel to determine whether the report should lead to changes in organization of the transportation department. But Pawlenty spokesman Brian McClung said “Until the cause of the collapse is determined it is not possible to know whether anything in this report is relevant to the bridge collapse. Much of the report was devoted to flaws in the way the state DOT carried out inspections then reacted to what they found.
Mahindra and Mahindra may buy out Hitachi in components JV
Economic Times – May 21, 2008
M&M holds66% in the Pune-based JV while Hitachi Metals owns the remaining 34% stake. M&M bought the stake in 2005 from DG Piramal in what was then DGP Hinoday. Mahindra Hinoday is a part ofMahindra Systech the company which is positioned as a provider of services andproducts from design to delivery. Mahindra Systech?s other businessesinclude forgings stamping gears composites engineering services and contractsourcing businesses… Mahindra Hinoday is eyeing a Rs 300-crorecapacity expansion since it is looking to manufacture engine crankshafts blocksand heads. It has two plants in Pune ? one in Bhosari and the other mainlyfor the automotive business at Urse near the emerging auto-hub ofTalegaon-Chakan. ?Wealready manufacture cast crankshafts in our existing plant and can easily expandits capacity? said the company official. ?A dedicated line formanufacturing cranks will come up by 2009-10. We will be able to transfer thecrankshaft line then. For other products like engine blocks and heads we willneed a specific new plant. It will be ready by 2011? headded.
Asia Ex-Japan Equity Preview: Daewoo Ship Filinvest QBE Rio
Bloomberg – May 21, 2008
4 billion pesos ($634 million) this year almost double theamount in 2007 to expand its energy assets. The company also saidthat it borrowed 3. 5 billion pesos to build a hydropower plant. Thestock was unchanged at 5. Banyan Tree Holdings Ltd. (BTH SP): The Singapore-basedoperator of luxury resorts and hotels said it signed a managementcontract for Angsana Resort & Spa in the island of Saint Luciaincreasing its Caribbean ventures to four.
Bannerman awards GRD Namibia contract
WA Business News – WA Business News (subscription) – May 21, 2008
gg { font-weight: bold; color: #30a72f; }–> Bannerman awards GRD Namibia contract 21-May-08 Written by Edited announcement Uranium explorer Bannerman Resources Ltd has awarded GRD Ltd subsidiary GRD Minproc a contract to carry out a bankable feasibility study for its Namibian mine project. Leederville based Bannerman awarded the contract for its Anomaly AUranium Project in Namibia which is located in a recognised uranium province near the existing Rossing and Langer Heinrich uranium operations. GRD Minproc will study management and design of the mine as well as process plant and infrastructure to help progress Anomaly A through to a fully functioning uranium process plant. Welcome to the new WA Business News website.