The News Review:
- Keeping it together at factory at home
- Samsung Eng wins $300 mln Saudi Arabia plant order
- Jupiter submarine maker to lay off 64
- City officials seek shift of funds for wastewater treatment plant …
- Novato Sanitary forges ahead on privatization plans
- S. Ind. town considers bankruptcy over $1.4M debt
- Ford plans steady stream of global high-mpg vehicles
Keeping it together at factory at home
Chicago Sun-Times
The new EcoBoost engine will be installed on 90 percent of the Ford vehicle lineup by 2013. Allman the first in her family to graduate from college started her career in the auto industry when she attended a co-op program at General Motors Institute now named Kettering University. She rotated attending school for three months and working at the Lima (hio) Engine plant. She earned a bachelor’s in mechanical engineering and wrote her bachelor’s thesis on correcting distortion in an overhead camshaft. She started her career at the Lima plant out of college 23 years ago and worked her way up as area manager engineering manager and programs operations manager before returning to the Lima plant in 2002 as plant manager. She has spent the last two years in Cleveland as site operations manager responsible for two engine plants and a casting plant. She will oversee what analysts believe will be an expanding Chicago assembly plant that will produce the Taurus the Lincoln MKS sedan and next year the Explorer SUV.
Samsung Eng wins $300 mln Saudi Arabia plant order
Reuters India
Located in Al-Jubail Saudi Arabia the air separation plantwould produce gaseous oxygen nitrogen and argon from 2011Samsung Engineering said in a statement. The order was the fourth overseas project awarded to SamsungEngineering in July with deals for the month totalling $4. 5billion 70 percent of its target for the year of 7 trillion won($5.
Jupiter submarine maker to lay off 64
Bizjournals.com
according to its Web site. The Jupiter plant is 45000 square feet. Earlier this month The Palm Beach Post reported the company was closing that plant but planned to keep an engineering and development center in Jupiter. Calls to Perry Slingsby for comment were not immediately returned.
City officials seek shift of funds for wastewater treatment plant …
Daily Journal
Cotton said the city has also learned the financing requirements of the State Revolving Loan Fund include a mandatory five-percent construction contingency that cannot be covered within the existing budget. In this case the five-percent contingency would be $233000. The Pendleton-Clemson Wastewater Treatment Plant serves Pendleton Clemson and a portion of Anderson County. Extensive upgrades will enable the treatment process to meet more stringent discharge permit requirements and EPA standards. Design South has estimated the construction cost of the improvements at $5. 3 million to be funded with $3. 15 million stimulus money a $1.
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Novato Sanitary forges ahead on privatization plans
Contra Costa Times
While the meeting highlighted broad opposition to the proposal to turn over plant operations to Veolia Water North America it stood in stark contrast to the board’s acrimonious messy meeting on the same subject a week earlier. The move gives the district the green light to begin contract negotiations with Veolia. The board cited the $7. 148 million the district says it would save by handing over the reins of the plant to Veolia saying it was simply too significant to outweigh the opposition’s concerns. Much of the criticism centered on the plan’s long-term impact on the job security of the plant’s nine current employees.
S. Ind. town considers bankruptcy over $1.4M debt
Chicago Tribune
Federal law however has required since 1994 that anymunicipality filing for bankruptcy be specifically authorized to doso by state law — something not included in Indiana law said BrianBailey general counsel for the Indiana Department of LocalGovernment Finance. The financial problems for the town about 15 miles west of. stem from a 2006 plan to build its own wastewaterplant and end a contract for sewage treatment with New Albany. Development of the plant stalled after residents near theproposed site have fought Georgetown’s effort to annex the propertyand county officials have refused to needed zoning approval. In the meantime New Albany is seeking a $450000 terminationfee for its contract and the engineering firm the town hired ispursuing $1 million in equipment costs and damages.
Ford plans steady stream of global high-mpg vehicles
CNET News
Focus based on the next-generation European Focus will be available as a sedan and three-door hatchback. It will be built at Ford’s Michigan Assembly plant in Wayne with secondary production possible in Louisville Ky. In 2011 Ford will build a small-volume electric Focus. Fusion: Ford reskinned the 2010 Fusion and added a hybrid model. Along with its Mercury Milan and Lincoln MKZ siblings the Fusion sedan is expected to be redesigned for the 2013 model year. The three models will switch to Ford’s global midsize platform–an evolution of the current platform underpinning the European Mondeo.