Next Week Is the Hot Gas Filter Discussion in Charlotte at the AFS Power Conference

We will be discussing the factors shaping the options and the options to meet the particulate reduction requirements for coal-fired boilers, furnaces and kilns.  We have lots of experts functioning as discussion leaders.  All the attendees are urged to view the following decision guide in advance: Hot Gas Filtration Global Decision Guide

FABRIC FILTER NEWSLETTER HEADLINES

March 2015

MARKETS

• Surge in Demand for PPS for Hot Gas Filtration May Cause Supply Problems
• U.S. Utilities Will Spend More than 20 Billion Dollars per Year for New Gas Turbine Facilities
• Chinese Coal-fired Power Plants will Continue to Spend More Than Other Countries or Even Regions
• Lots of Mergers in the Gas and Liquids Flow, Control and Treatment Market
• Dry Scrubber Market will Grow at 9 Percent per Year
• Dry Scrubbing Market Growing in Many Directions
• Multi-Billion Dollar Mercury Air Emission Market is Taking a New Path

BAGS

• Haldor Topsoe and FLSmidth Join Forces to Market Game Changing Catalytic Filter Bag Technology
• Success at “Dry Fork” with 15,000 microvel Filter Bags from Gutsche            

BIOMASS

• Babcock and Wilcox Vølund Awarded Contracts for More than 200 Million Dollars for Biomass Power Plant in Wales
• Valmet to Supply Flue-Gas Cleaning and Condensation Plant to Tampereen Energiantuotanto’s Naistenlahti Power Plant in Finland

NEW ORDERS

• Nederman Receives Order from Major Steel Producer in the USA
• Porvair to Supply Gasification Filtration Spares

INDUSTRY NEWS

• Filtration Society to Unearth Unmet Needs in Power Generation Conference
• Ahlstrom’s Operative Result More than Doubled in 2014
• Donaldson Company Promotes Tod Carpenter to President and CEO
• Hamon Research Cottrell Announced Buzz Reynolds Will Be VP of Industrial Products

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OIL & GAS SALES LEADS HEADLINES

April 10, 2015

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(Listed by most current date)

Fluor Wins Major Contract for Natural Gas Transmission Project

Revision Date:  4/10/2015

Exterran Awarded Contracts in Latin America by Petrobras

Revision Date:  4/10/2015

Quanta Services Selected by Enbridge for Line 78 Pipeline Project

Revision Date:  4/10/2015

Jacobs Receives Contract from BP for Gelsenkirchen Refinery Upgrade in Germany

Revision Date:  4/10/2015

Part 2, Exterran Awarded Contracts in Latin America by Petrobras

Revision Date:  4/10/2015

Technip Awarded Two Subsea Contracts in the Gulf of Mexico by Stone Energy

Revision Date:  4/10/2015

Aramco Exec says Oil and Gas Industry May Cancel $1 Trln of Planned Projects on Price Fall

Revision Date:  4/10/2015

Verisk Analytics to Acquire Wood Mackenzie for $2.8 Bln

Revision Date:  4/10/2015

Total Pulls Joslyn North Oilsands Mine Amendment Application

Revision Date:  4/9/2015

Husky Says $2.5 Bln Sunrise Oil Sands Project Begins Production

Revision Date:  4/9/2015

CB&I Awarded Storage Tank Contract at Fort McMurray

Revision Date:  4/9/2015

Utah Could be Home of the Next Oil Sands Breakthrough

Revision Date:  4/8/2015

PetroChina Looks for Painless Exit from Oil Sands

Revision Date:  4/8/2015

Alberta Says Oilsands Tailings Ponds to be limited by New Rules

Revision Date:  4/8/2015

Sunshine Oilsands Delays West Ells Startup to Save Money

Revision Date:  4/8/2015

Alberta Moves to Ease Regulations on Reducing Toxic Oil Sands Waste

Revision Date:  4/8/2015

Oilsands Faces its Biggest Test in Extended Downturn

Revision Date:  4/8/2015

Harvest Operations BlackGold Oilsands Project on Hold

Revision Date:  4/7/2015

Connacher Oil & Gas Considers Sale as Bid to Restructure in Canada Denied

Revision Date:  4/7/2015

Canada's Cenovus Energy to Cut 800 Jobs as Losses Continue

Revision Date:  4/7/2015

CEMATRIX Secures $1.2 Mln in Additional Contracts Oil Sands Projects

Revision Date:  4/7/2015

Wood Group Awarded Engineering Modifications Contract for Gassco

Revision Date:  4/7/2015

Trucking Companies Serving Oilsands See Business Plummet

Revision Date:  4/7/2015

Booming Oilsands Increases Canada’s Natural Gas Demand

Revision Date:  4/7/2015

Energy Service CEO Says Oilsands Operators Must Cut the ‘Fat’

Revision Date:  4/7/2015

Canadian Upgrader Maintenance to Cut 2nd Qtr Synthetic Crude Supply

Revision Date:  4/7/2015

Cenovus Defers Spending on more Oilsands Growth Phases

Revision Date:  4/6/2015

WorleyParsons Wins Canadian Oil Sands Contract

Revision Date:  4/6/2015

Suncor Moves Ahead with Fort Hills Oil Sands Project In Spite of Falling Oil Prices

Revision Date:  4/6/2015

Imperial to Build Oil Sands Research Facility in Calgary

Revision Date:  4/6/2015

Saudi Kayan Olefins Plant Resumes Production

Revision Date:  4/2/2015

BASF Selects Freeport as Potential Site for MTP Complex

Revision Date:  4/2/2015

Orpic Awards Tech Services Contract to Amec Foster Wheeler

Revision Date:  4/2/2015

Saudi Sipchem Says Production to Begin at $800 Mln Plastics Plant

Revision Date:  4/2/2015

Nuberg Wins $35 Mln EPC Contract for Saudi Arabia Chemical Plant

Revision Date:  4/2/2015

Qatari Investors to Pay $5 Bln for 49 Pct Shandong Dongming Petchem Stake

Revision Date:  4/2/2015

Japan's Maruzen Says Naphtha Cracker Shut for Maintenance

Revision Date:  4/1/2015

Vopak Expanding Chemical Product Storage in Saudi Arabia

Revision Date:  4/1/2015

Saudi's Petro Rabigh Signs $5.2 Bln Loan for Expansion

Revision Date:  4/1/2015

Albemarle, ASOS Team Up for Abu Dhabi FCC Facility

Revision Date:  4/1/2015

South Africa's Sasol May Expand U.S. Cracker, Sell Power to Eskom

Revision Date:  4/1/2015

Fluor Selected as Project Management Contractor for OGPC Project in Azerbaijan

Revision Date:  3/26/2015

Shell’s Pearl GTL Plant Enters Planned Maintenance

Revision Date:  3/26/2015

RIL Awards Contract to Metso for Jamnagar Refinery Expansion

Revision Date:  3/26/2015

KBR & Showa Denko Sign Multi-Technology Acetyls Licensing Agreement

Revision Date:  3/26/2015

India’s IOC to invest $1.259 Bln in Processing-related Upgrades, Expansions

Revision Date:  3/26/2015

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INDUSTRIAL EMITTERS UPDATE HEADLINES

March 2015 – No. 2

TABLE OF CONTENTS

AMERICAS

Chemicals

• Praxair Gulf Coast Expansion to Serve Freeport, Texas, and Supply New Yara/ BASF Ammonia Project
• GEO Opens New Polyaluminum Chloride Facility in Texas
• Cement
• Haldor Topsoe and Flsmidth Develop New Catalytic Filter Bag Technology
• Charlevoix, Michigan Cement Plant Expansion Cleared
• Quebec Approved Mcinnis Cement’s Port-Daniel-Gascons Plant without Environmental Review
• RHI Gets US$11.6m Refractory Order from Lafarge
• Cementera Nacional Establishes JV with Yura for Riobamba, Equador Plant Expansion
• Cementos Argos Waste Tyres Scheme Tests Underway

Food

• Blue Shore to Open New Carp Food Production Plant in Kentucky
• Golden State Foods to Establish Meat Processing Plant in Alabama
• Butterball to Expand Turkey Processing Operations with New Facility in NC
• Nate’s Food Breaks Ground on Canning Facility in California; Plans New Indiana Factory
• Chaucer Opens New Freeze Dry Plant in Oregon
• Clemens Food to Build $255.7m Pork Processing Plant in Michigan
• Silgan Containers Building Metal Can Manufacturing Facility in Burlington, IA
• BrucePac Meat Packing to Operate in Old Durant, OK Plant
• JBS Launches $75M Expansion at Utah Beef Processing Plant
• JBS SA to Expand Beef Production in Brazil

ASIA

Mining

• India's Coal Mine Auction Results

Cement

• World Bank Pledges US$200m for Waste Heat Recovery at Vietnam Cement Plants
• Vietnamese Government Agrees Extra Cement Production Capacity
• MCL to Restart Cherthala, India Grinding Plant
• Ramco Cements Likely to Commission Vizag Grinding Plant, India, in April 2015
• Prism Cement Plans 3Mt/Yr Clinker Plant in Andhra Pradesh, India

Food

• Heinz Opens $70m Infant Cereal Production Plant in China
• Amul to Invest $786.8m to Ramp up Capacity in India

EMEA

Chemicals

• Technip Awarded Substantial Contract for New Fertilizer Unit in Slovak Republic
• Air Liquide to Build, Own and Operate World’s Largest Oxygen Production Unit for Sasol in South Africa

Cement

• Uzbekistan to Launch Two New Cement Plants in 2016
• DG Khan Plans US$300m Cement Plant in Pakistan
• Northern Cement's Jordanian Unit to Add New Clinker Line
• Arabian Cement Gets US$107m Loan
• Dangote Starts Preparations for 6000 tpd Cement Factory in Nepal, Startup by June 2017
• Dangote Group to Open 3rd Cement Factory in Cameroon

Food

• Tulip Pork Plant Expansion to Create 145 New Jobs in UK
• Conagra, Meijer Joint Venture to Invest $150m for Netherlands Plant Expansion
• Oman to Set Up $258.8m Dairy Plant
• Mondelez Breaks Ground on $90m Biscuit Plant in Bahrain
• Mondelez to Ramp up Capacity at Confectionery Plant in Turkey
• Pepsico Expands Middle East Footprint with New Snack Plant in Saudi Arabia
• Gruma to Invest $50m in New Russian Tortilla Production Plant

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World Municipal Wastewater Project News Provided Monthly

April 2015

This monthly update is devoted to wastewater infrastructure news around the world, outside of the United States and Canada, and is meant to complement McIlvaine's Electrostatic Precipitators: World Market or World Fabric Filter and Element Market.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

BUSINESS

• Suez Environment consolidates under Single Brand
• U.S. Headworks Company acquired by Italy-based WAMGROUP

AFRICA

• Egypt:  Metito awarded 4 Water Projects Totaling over US$28 Million

ASIA

• Australia:  90 Percent of Tasmania’s WWTPs fail to meet Environmental Standards
• India:  Treated Sewage from Bengaluru May be used to Restore 134 Dry Lakes
• India:  VA Tech WABAG Awarded US$35 Million Ganga Action Plan Project
• Malaysia:  Bina Puri Awarded US$78 Million Contract to Build WWTP in Kuala Lumpur
• Philippines:  Maynilad Awards Muntinlupa WWTP Contract to Degremont Consortium

EUROPE

• Belgium:  EIB Approves €100 Million Loan to Flemish Wastewater Operator TMVW
• Spain:  Veolia Awarded Contract to Upgrade La Cartuja WWTP
• UK:  EC Refers UK to Court Over Inadequate Urban Wastewater Treatment
• UK:  Severn Trent Plans to Invest £190 Million in Renewable Energy
• UK:  Laing O’Rourke JV Awarded £170 Million Davyhulme WWTP Upgrade Project

LATIN AMERICA

• Mexico:  Tuchtlan Sewage Treatment Plant Starts up in Chiapas

MIDDLE EAST

• Saudi Arabia: Kingdom Sets Goal of 100% Wastewater Reuse in Urban Areas

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