The News Review:
- Powering the future: Obama’s energy plan could create …
- Boeing suspends talks at Wichita Kan. site: union
- Major piece of Muskegon’s history joining scrapheap
- Global Plant Engineering debuts
Powering the future: Obama’s energy plan could create …
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1 in the nation in production of agricultural biomass that can be converted into electricity or fuel she said. “I see that as being a real potential for alternative fuels” Benson said. Verenium a Massachusetts-based company has built a demonstration-scale plant in Jennings that makes cellulosic ethanol from sugarcane bagasse. The plant the first of its kind in the country produced its first ethanol this harvest season and is expected to be running at full speed early next year producing up to 1. 4 million gallons a year. Next year the company plans to break ground on its first commercial-scale plant which could produce 25 million to 30 million gallons of ethanol annually. The company has targeted sites from Texas to Florida for the facility including at least one in Louisiana.
Boeing suspends talks at Wichita Kan. site: union
MarketWatch
17 on new contracts for 700 staffers at the Wichita Integrated Defense Systems plant. The Speea said it had implemented work to rule usually a situation where staffers do only and exactly what they’re required to do. The union asked the affected engineers to decline all voluntary overtime and voluntary work during the holidays. “Boeing’s most recent offer includes only a single wage increase in the first year of the three-year contract” and it “wants to eliminate the pension for new engineers and switch employees to an [health-maintenance organization] medical plan that increases costs while providing less coverage” the union statement on Friday said. In mid-November Boeing (.
Major piece of Muskegon’s history joining scrapheap
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days after the company sold its famed Sealed Power division to auto-parts maker Dana in 1996. “I have some wonderful memories of the great people that have worked there” said Johnson a North Muskegon resident and community leader. “The piston ring foundry’s original design was still being used in the industry until the early 1990s. That plant was still the most productive piston ring operation in the world. But the auto parts industry began to change in the later years as Sealed Power became SPX and the Muskegon company became a diversified manufacturer. After selling Sealed Power to Dana SPX eventually moved its corporate headquarters to Charlotte N.
Global Plant Engineering debuts
Plant Engineering IL
The e-book’s unique horizontal format makes it easy for readers to access pertinent plant floor knowledge and critical product and trend information on their computer desktop. The first issue of the e-book can be found by. globalplantengineering.
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