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- Snohomish may pipe its sewage to Everett plant
- Novavax Announces perational Status of Its Vaccine Pilot Plant …
- Steel workers fear for the future
- SAIT Polytechnic Receives $1.4 Million Educational Software Grant …
Snohomish may pipe its sewage to Everett plant
HeraldNet WA
Snohomish residents have already started to pay with a 25 percent rate increase and that won’t be anywhere near enough. Changing environmental regulations and a lawsuit that requires the city to meet clean-water standards forced the city to consider a $38 million upgrade project. Just two weeks earlier city staff had recommended paying an engineering firm $2. 2 million to continue with plans for an updated sewer treatment plant. City officials were concerned that if they didn’t move forward on design plans the city would miss an opportunity to take advantage of federal stimulus money for “shovel-ready” projects and miss deadlines spelled out in the lawsuit. The city also can’t apply for grants from the Department of Ecology until plans are drawn up. The council opted Tuesday to wait on the upgrade plans until they know more.
Novavax Announces perational Status of Its Vaccine Pilot Plant …
PR Newswire (press release) NY
The project was initiated in December 2007. The facility demolitionconstruction and initial qualification were completed in 120 days and wereannounced with a ribbon cutting in May 2008. The original design by JacobsEngineering (Conshohocken PA) which included multiple Wave bioreactors forproduction of VLPs has been modified to include stirred reactors based on thepotential for enhanced production yield. The stirred reactors which utilizedisposable liners in keeping with the desire to maintain a disposablemanufacturing process were received September 2008 and are now installed inthe facility. Likewise thefacility can support up to 20 – 25 million doses of trivalent influenzavaccine in six months. The facility is GMP compliant and includes a total of10000 square feet of production and support space.
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Steel workers fear for the future
BBC News UK
At its height the plant provided work for around 10000 people directly and indirectly. Falling demand for products ranging from cars to washing machines have hit the plant hard. Workers spoke of low morale and worries the plant would not re-open. Core technical and engineering staff will be kept on so they can restart it when the economy picks up. But contractor Chris Stevens 64 said he feared the job losses would spell the end for the works. “We’ve been just on call-outs and working only a day a week or sometimes nothing at all for about three months now” said Mr Stevens. “Everything is closed down and we’ve been expecting it for months.
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SAIT Polytechnic Receives $1.4 Million Educational Software Grant …
PR Newswire (press release) NY
4 million in AVEVA PDMS software to SAIT Polytechnic. This initiative will help to meet the challenges and requirements from owner operator and engineering firms particularly with regards to ensuring their designers have the necessary skills and qualifications for the Alberta market. In providing this grant AVEVA Americas is helping support SAIT students by providing state-of-the-art training on the globally renowned engineering design IT solution; PDMS a best-in-class plant design tool. PDMS has been successfully used in many of the world’s most complex design projects both on and offshore.