Cessna Aircraft plans furloughs at Wichita plant
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- Cessna Aircraft plans furloughs at Wichita plant
- Area Surface Water Supply Nearly Gone Supplier Says
- Taylor Made to idle Fla. plant rehire Gloversville workers
- Think considers Michigan for battery-powered vehicle plant
- Pacific Gas and Electric seeks suppliers for pilot PV power plant
- Robins earns Plant of the Year honors
- Engineering firm among national competition finalists
Cessna Aircraft plans furloughs at Wichita plant
Forbes
The company must now reduce that staffing to produce just 375 planes in 2009 liver said. Friday’s furloughs will not affect the company’s Independence plant where Cessna builds its smaller more popular Mustang business jets. The company plans to build 130 Mustangs in 2009 up from 100 last year liver said. Pelton said the Citation Columbus jet also has been affected by the economy. “The economic issues facing us today are also impacting the future and circumstances have caused us to extend engineering development work on the Citation Columbus at least six months” he wrote. Cessna began construction in ctober of a new facility in Wichita to build its Citation Columbus business jet.
Area Surface Water Supply Nearly Gone Supplier Says
MSNBC
“The reservoir’s level is so low we are unable to provide water consistently to the water treatment plant and we are unable to pull water from the Alafia River or the Tampa Bypass Canal” said Tampa Bay Water spokeswoman Michelle Robinson. The agency is asking everyone to cut back in every way possible from repairing leaky toilets and faucets to shortening showers and only watering lawns when it is absolutely necessary. Story continues below ?advertisement |.
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Taylor Made to idle Fla. plant rehire Gloversville workers
Schenectady Gazette
?Doing so will ensure that Taylor Made Systems stays both at optimum health for the duration of this downturn and very importantly poised to be an even higher-value supplier to our customers when the market does rebound. ?athout said the downturn has increased Taylor Made?s reliance on Gloversville the city where it was founded in 1908. He said over the last three months the company has consolidated its U. engineering and design team to Gloversville and created a central customer service call center in Gloversville. ?It?s given us the opportunity to take advantage of the people we have here fully. We haven?t necessarily been able to add people as of yet but it?s certainly saved jobs? he said.
Think considers Michigan for battery-powered vehicle plant
DetNews.com
Think will launch its expansion with fleet customers and pilot projects next year then add retail sales in 2011. Advertisement Canny said he plans to whittle the site selection for the U. plant to one or two states by March 31. By then Think will have submitted a grant request to the $25 billion Department of Energy program that supports automotive retooling and advanced technology. Canny would not say how much the company is seeking but said its plans for U.
Pacific Gas and Electric seeks suppliers for pilot PV power plant
PV Tech
The utility says it wants to use the pilot project which will be completed by the end of 2009 to help develop its processes for building and operating PV facilities while it seeks regulatory approval for the full proposal with the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC). A “contract opportunity announcement”.
Robins earns Plant of the Year honors
Macon Telegraph
”About 40 strategically located shallow wells pull contaminated water from the sites. A network of underground pipes then transports the fluid to a central treatment plant. “At the plant we run the water through a series of steps to remove solids and an assortment of chemical compounds” the engineer said. “Then the water is commingled with output from our sanitary and industrial waste treatment plants and piped to the (cmulgee) river. ”About a million gallons of water move through the treatment facility each day. “That translates to about 645 gallons per minute” Manning said. Eventually the extraction and treatment process will clear the six sites of pollutants.
Engineering firm among national competition finalists
Fairfaxtimes.com
is a finalist in the American Council of Engineering Companies’ 43rd annual Engineering Excellence Awards competition for the Broad Run Water Reclamation Facility in Ashburn in neighboring Loudoun County. The $190 million 11 million-gallon-per-day plant is the first membrane bioreactor plant to simultaneously meet extremely stringent nutrient limits while providing multiple pathogen barriers to protect public health. All winners including 16 Honor Awards eight Grand Awards and the “Grand Conceptor Award” for the best overall engineering achievement will be recognized at the Engineering Excellence Awards Gala on April 28 at the Grand Hyatt Hotel in Washington D.
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