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Welspun Gujarat Commissions Tubular Steel Pipe Facility in Arkansas
Indian steel-pipe manufacturer Welspun Gujarat Stahl Rohren Limited (WGSRL) (Bharuch, Gujarat) recently commissioned an API-certified state-of-the-art tubular steel pipe mill in Little Rock, AK. According to a report by Industrial Info Resources (Sugar Land, TX), the new $150 million facility…
Laboratory Testing Inc. Celebrates 25th Anniversary
Laboratory Testing Inc. (LTI, Hatfield, PA) is celebrating its 25th Anniversary in 2009. The company was started with 20 employees in 1984 by Robert W. McVaugh, Sr. During the previous eight years, McVaugh and a business partner ran Carson NDT,…
Alcoa Posts First-Quarter Loss of $480 Million on Falling Aluminum Prices and Sales
Alcoa Incorporated (Pittsburgh, PA) has posted a net loss of $480 million for the first quarter of 2009, compared with a profit of $370 million year over year. Industrial Info Resources (Sugar Land, TX) reports that the loss is attributed…
Sweden to Build World's Biggest Windfarm
Sweden could become home to the world's biggest land-based windfarm following a decision by a local government authority to approve the building of the 5 billion-euro ($6.8 billion) Markbygden windfarm, reports Industrial Info Resources (Sugar Land, TX). Located off the…
Romi Machine Tools Launches New Redesigned Website
Romi Machine Tools Ltd. (Erlanger, KY) has recently published a new website (romiusa.com) to help customers differentiate between its many models of CNC machine tools and provides a glimpse of new models. Romi manufactures some 25 models and sizes of…
China's Output of Solar Cells Jumps to 44 Percent of World Total
China's output of solar cells jumped to more than 3 gigawatts (GW) in 2008, accounting for 44 percent of the world's total. Industrial Info Resources (Sugar Land, TX) reports that in 2008, the global output of solar cells reached 6.85…
Construction Restarts on Wales' Rhyl Flats Windfarm
After construction delays last year, Industrial Info Resources (Sugar Land, TX) reports that turbine construction at the Rhyl Flats offshore windfarm off the north coast of Wales is set to restart. RWE Innogy, part of large German utility RWE (Essen),…
ILO Reports Global Unemployment Could Reach 7 Percent
The International Labor Organization (ILO), a specialized agency within the United Nations, announced predictions that global unemployment could reach 38 million workers, a rate of 7 percent, in 2009. Global unemployment increased by 14 million in 2008, a drastic change…
Trumpf Receives Special Innovation Award from Daimler
Trumpf (Ditzingen, Germany) announced that Daimler AG honored them with its Key Supplier Award in the Innovation category on March 12, 2009, in Stuttgart, Germany as part of its Key Supplier Meeting and the 2009 Daimler Supplier Awards Ceremony. In…
Seminar Event to Cover New Machining Strategies in a Challenging Economy
Emuge Corp. (West Boylston, MA) has announced that they, along with Hermle Machine Co., Open Mind Technologies USA, and M&H Probing Systems will jointly host a complimentary one-day intensive machining seminar on June 9th, 2009 revealing new ways to significantly…
LVD Establishes Joint Venture with China Company
LVD Company n.v. (Gullegem, Belgium) and Hubei Tri-Ring Metalforming Equipment Co., Ltd. (HD) have formed a joint venture company in Huangshi City, Hubei Province, China. The joint venture company will produce LVD sheet metalworking equipment, including turret punch presses, laser…
CNC Engineering Opens West Coast Division
CNC Engineering, Inc. has announced the start-up of a west coast sales and support division in response to their rapidly expanding GE Fanuc control retrofit business. Gene Moss, formerly a sales and applications engineer for GE Fanuc Automation, has been…
