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- Azima DLI OnWatch Selected as Finalist for Plant Engineering’s …
- Shaw to Provide Furnace Technology Engineering and Procurement …
- Water District plant on track for expansion
- Linde North America’s Tennessee Plant Receives Responsible Care …
- New Reading sewer plant might cost less than $250 million estimate
- Oswego finalist for solar plant
- Engineering issues on work session agenda

Azima DLI OnWatch Selected as Finalist for Plant Engineering’s …
MarketWatch 
Dec 10 2008 (BUSINESS WIRE) –Azima DLI the innovation leader in the delivery of condition monitoring services today announced that OnWatch(TM) its remote machine monitoring and alert system has been selected as a 2008 Product of the Year finalist by Plant Engineering. OnWatch is one of only four products in the program’s Maintenance Software category and is featured along with the other award finalists in the November 2008 issue of the leading manufacturing industry publication. Plant Engineering will select Product of the Year winners based on votes by eligible readers who have direct buying authority and purchasing responsibility in America’s manufacturing plants. According to Plant Engineering at a time when improving efficiency in manufacturing plants has never been more important its list of Product of the Year finalists represents the best new ideas to help manufacturers operate safer smarter and faster. Entries were received from all over the world and were narrowed down by a panel of experts who selected finalists based on their ability to deliver the greatest value to manufacturing. OnWatch is a complete machine monitoring and alert system that is comprised of intelligent monitoring hardware telecommunications and a team of highly experienced technical and engineering personnel dedicated to customers’ uptime objectives using proven monitoring techniques. With OnWatch industrial plants can outsource their entire condition-based monitoring initiatives – from data collection and analysis to distributing results to key stakeholders – while benefiting from the superior service and operational improvements that only Azima DLI can deliver.

Shaw to Provide Furnace Technology Engineering and Procurement …
MarketWatch 
The plant for PetroChina Daqing Petrochemical Company will be located in Daqing Heilongjiang Province. The scope of work will cover furnace technology licensing basic engineering procurement of key equipment and materials technical training commissioning and start-up services. “Shaw continues to work closely with China’s olefins producers to license its technology and has helped source more than three million tons of ethylene production capacity in China during the past 30 years” said Lou Pucher president of Shaw’s Energy & Chemicals Group. The value of Shaw’s contract which was included in the company’s previously announced backlog of unfilled orders was not disclosed. Shaw’s ethylene plants have a global reputation for high operational reliability rapid start-up and superior performance.

Water District plant on track for expansion
Redlands Daily Facts CA 
The upgrade and expansion would double the water-treatment capacity at the plant east of Highway 330 to 8million gallons a day said Robert Martin the district’s general manager. In return the district’s approximately 20000 customers could expect an increased water supply that has gone through a more refined purification process Martin said. At its Monday meeting the district’s budget committee gave the green light to Ontario-based CDM Engineering’s design proposal. It now goes before the district’s board of directors on Dec. The board’s approval of the plan would pave the way for the plant’s $16million expansion Martin said adding that no additional space would be required for the expansion. “We’re able to use the same footprint of property” Martin said.

Linde North America’s Tennessee Plant Receives Responsible Care …
MarketWatch 
The ACC is an association of producers manufacturers and suppliers of chemical products. Earlier this year Linde’s corporate headquarters in Murray Hill NJ received certification under the Responsible Care(R) program. The Nashville plant is the fifth of eight additional locations on track to be certified before the end of the year. The others that have been certified are located in Cartersville Georgia; South Bend Indiana; Kittery Maine; and Vancouver Washington. The Nashville plant in operation since 1989 separates air cryogenically to produce over 280 tons a day of liquid oxygen nitrogen and argon. These products are trucked to hospitals food processors and metal smelters as well as chemicals automobile and tire manufacturers in Alabama Kentucky and Tennessee. The plant employs 17 people.

New Reading sewer plant might cost less than $250 million estimate
Reading Eagle PA 
Jones said his staff will decide which recommendations to accept and present the plan to council in January. At that point the plan still will be preliminary. When the design is 90 percent complete the value engineering team will take a new look at it Jones and Hottenstein said. •Contact reporter Don Spatz at 610-371-5027 or dspatz@readingeagle.
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Oswego finalist for solar plant
The Post-Standard – Syracuse.com NY 
Tuesday December 092008By Mark Weiner Washington bureau Oswego County is among three finalists in a solar panelproducer’s nationwide search for a new plant site thatwould serve the growing solar power industry according tofederal and county officials. The plant would open in time to meet sales orders for thesecond quarter of 2010 eventually employing up to 500people in manufacturing and engineering jobs the officialssaid Monday. Solar Array Ventures a green business startup based inAustin Texas plans to produce solar panels for utilitycompanies and commercial projects that need large amounts ofelectricity.

Engineering issues on work session agenda
Atlantic News Telegraph IA 
Last month City Councilman Dave Jones asked city officials to look into the contract the city currently has with Fox Engineering for work at the plant to see if it covers the expanded scope of the project. Last week the Council agreed to move ahead with plans for the construction of a new $16 million waste-water treatment plant at the site of the current plant which is expected to utilize many of the existing structures. It will also include ?reed ponds? that will help filter the water and will meet all current and known future DNR standards. The city is currently in the process of attempting to acquire property for the planned detention basin that along with some improvements to the plant itself had been the scope of the project.

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