Let’s talk at Valve World Houston next Wednesday or Thursday
Bob McIlvaine will be a speaker at 11:00 a.m. July 15 in the speaker’s corner
located on the exhibit floor at Valve World in Houston.
He will be reviewing the market for gas turbine combined cycle valves.
This is the bi-annual premier event for the valve industry in North America. Two
years ago McIlvaine took pictures of many of the exhibits and is displaying them
at:
6/25/2013 |
Valve World Americas 2013 |
Bob delivered four speeches which can be viewed at:
Bob will be touring the stands on both exhibition days (July 15 and 16) and
would welcome the opportunity to meet with you individually. You can make
arrangements to do so by emailing him at:
rmcilvaine@mcilvainecompany.com
or by cell phone at 847-226-2391.
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July 3, 2015
(Listed by most current date)
PA DEP’s New Data Reveals Increase in Emissions from Natural Gas Drilling
Operations as Activity Increases - Revision Date:
7/3/2015
Air Products and ACWA Holding Win Saudi Aramco Contract for World's Largest
Industrial Gas Complex - Revision Date:
7/3/2015
Enable Midstream Completes Bradley Processing Plant
Revision Date: 7/3/2015
Enable Midstream Announces Completion of Bakken Crude Oil Gathering System
Revision Date: 7/3/2015
Technip Wins Subsea Contract on Triton FPSO
Revision Date: 7/2/2015
Erickson Inc Wins Mexico Pipeline Construction Contract
Revision Date: 7/2/2015
North Dakota Legislature OKs State-run Rail Safety Program
Revision Date: 7/2/2015
Alberta Lifts Levy on Carbon Output, Ups Target for Cuts
Revision Date: 7/2/2015
Scientists Say Tar Sands Development and Limiting Climate Change Are
‘Incompatible’
Revision Date: 6/30/2015
ExxonMobil Announces Kearl Expansion Project Starts Production Ahead of Schedule
Revision Date: 6/30/2015
Forecast Calls for 'muted' growth in Oilsands Production
Revision Date: 6/30/2015
Oil-Sands Megaproject Era Wanes as Suncor to Imperial Scale Down
Revision Date: 6/30/2015
Reducing Emissions should be the Goal as Canada Rethinks the Oil Sands Sector
Revision Date: 6/30/2015
ConocoPhillips Achieves First Steam at Surmont 2
Revision Date: 6/30/2015
Ewart: NDP must Move Carefully on Oilsands Upgrading
Revision Date: 6/30/2015
Southern Pacific Resource to “Hibernate” The STP-McKay Oilsands Project by July
31
Revision Date: 6/29/2015
Federal Regulator Urged to Suspend TransCanada Corp’s Energy East Pipeline
Revision Date: 6/29/2015
Shell Pushes Carmon Creek Oil Sands Project to 2019
Revision Date: 6/29/2015
Cash-strapped Oilsands Junior SilverWillow Returns 3 Leases to Province
Revision Date: 6/29/2015
Canadian Oil Sands Ltd Posts Loss
Revision Date: 6/29/2015
Canadian Natural Advances Planned Horizon Oil Sands Plant Maintenance to June
Revision Date: 6/29/2015
ExxonMobil Announces Cold Lake Project Expansion Starts Production on Schedule
Revision Date: 6/26/2015
Gibson Energy to Build 900,000 barrels of Crude Storage in Alberta
Revision Date: 6/26/2015
TransCanada Expects B.C. Regulatory Decisions on Two Pipeline Projects in Q2
Revision Date: 6/26/2015
Aecon Awarded $109 Mln Contract for Work on Alberta, Sturgeon Refinery Project
Revision Date: 6/26/2015
CNOOC's Nexen Schedules Work on Long Lake Oil Sands Upgrader
Revision Date: 6/25/2015
Oil-sands Crude Could Come to California
Revision Date: 6/25/2015
MCW Energy-Utah’s Oil Sands Go Green
Revision Date: 6/25/2015
Fluor Secures EPFC Tank Farm Contract in Athabasca Oil Sands
Revision Date: 6/25/2015
Major Oilsands Producers Focusing on Costs
Revision Date: 6/25/2015
Egypt Signs $300 Mln Deal with UOP to Produce High-Octane Benzene
Revision Date: 6/18/2015
Mexichem Plans $800 Mln Investments in 2015, New Factories
Revision Date: 6/18/2015
Constructing a Facility Siting Plan and the Critical Safety Components
Revision Date: 6/18/2015
Shell Acquires Land for Proposed Appalachia Ethane Cracker
Revision Date: 6/18/2015
Staffing the 'Plastics Manufacturing Renaissance'
Revision Date: 6/18/2015
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INDUSTRIAL EMITTERS UPDATE
June 2015
AMERICAS
•
EPA Regulation Rolls Backs Air Pollution Exemptions for Industry
Chemicals
•
Evonik Starts Basic Engineering Work for New Precipitated Silica
Production Plant in U.S.
•
Borealis and Agrifos to Set Up Ammonia Plant in Texas
•
PeroxyChem Breaks Ground On Hydrogen Peroxide Purification Plant in NY
Iron & Steel/ Metalworking
•
Dearborn Steel Plant to Pay $1.35M Fine to Settle Alleged Violations
Mining
•
K+S on Track to Begin Producing Potash from Legacy Mine Next Year
•
Long Canyon Gold Mine, Nevada, Starts Construction
Pulp and Paper
•
Fibria Invests $2.5 Billion in Três Lagoas Pulp Line, Brazil
Iron/ Steel/ Metalworking
•
Alcoa to get $259 million DOE Loan to Upgrade Tennessee Plant
•
Thyssenkrupp Opens Steering Components Plant in Mexico; See Strong Growth
in NA
Other Industries
•
Duke Energy Faces Record Fine over Coal Ash Pollution
NWI Ready to Break Ground on New Center
ASIA
Chemical
•
AkzoNobel to build €30 million Performance Coatings Facility in Thailand
•
Selena Gets EBRD Loan to Expand Construction Chemical Business in
Kazakhstan
•
Hexcel Launches Site for New Carbon Fiber Plant in France; Announces
Capacity
Expansions at Weaving and Prepreg Facilities
Mining
•
Rio Tinto Finalizes Deal with Mongolia for $5.4bn Oyu Tolgoi Mine
Expansion
EMEA
Chemical
•
Mexichem’s VESTOLIT Subsidiary to Increase Specialty PVC Capacity in
German Plant
•
Evonik Doubles Methacrylic Anhydride Capacity in Germany
•
Sasol Performance Chemicals Expands Catalyst Carrier Production Capacity
•
Jacobs Awarded Four-Year EPCM Contract by Sadara
Mining
•
Amec Foster Wheeler Awarded New Çőpler Gold Mine Contract in Turkey
•
Norilsk Nickel Secures $1bn Credit from VTB for Bystrinsky Project in
Siberia
•
South Africa Grants New Mining Right to Coal of Africa for Makhado
Project
•
True Gold Restarts Burkina Faso Project Construction in Africa
•
Kenya Awards Two Coal Blocks, Plans Power Plant
Other Industries
•
AstraZeneca to build $285 million Biologics Plant in Sweden
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PHARMACEUTICAL & BIOTECHNOLOGY INDUSTRY UPDATE
June 2015
TABLE OF CONTENTS
UNITED STATES
Unicep Moves to Larger Facility
Abiomed Plans Expansion
Lonza Will Build Viral Therapy Production Site
New Biomedical Research Centre at Northwestern University
Coquí RadioPharmaceuticals Plan Medical Isotope Production Facility
Argos Therapeutics Biomanufacturing Facility, Research Triangle Park, Durham, NC
New Academic Building, Davidson College, Davidson, NC
New England Biolabs to Build New Cleanroom Facility
GSK to Open Independent Research Institute for Medicine Development
Sartorius Opens New York Demonstration Lab
BioPharmaSpec Opens Analytical Lab
Allele Biotech Purchases cGMP Cell Production Facility
LSNE Completes PAI Inspection
Vetter Development Service Chicago Completes On-Site Expansion Activities
GW Plastics Completes Multiple Expansions
CRO Veristat Moves Headquarters
Accuratus Expands
Janssen and Rutgers Expand R&D
Poseida Therapeutics Expands Into JLABS
Takeda to Consolidate U.S. Vaccines Operations in Cambridge
The National Institutes of Health’s (NIH) Pharmaceutical Development Section
(PDS), Stops Operations
Coastal Life Technologies Adds Cleanroom
University of Tennessee Health Science Center (UTHSC) Expand Cleanroom
Facilities
Akron, Cognate Partner to Offer More Complete Services
Sequenom to Consolidate Lab Facilities
Gilead is Opening New Labs
NWI Ready to Break Ground on New Center
Rochester has Plans to be Biotech Hub
REST OF WORLD
GW Dongguan Expanding China Facility
Theorem Opens New State-of-the-Art Clinical Supplies Facility
ISO 3 Cleanroom and BSL3 Laboratory at Mintek, South Africa
Illumina Plans New Euro HQ/Science Center in Cambridge
Expansion of Boehringer Ingelheim Research Institute of Molecular Pathology
(IMP), Austria
SGS Opens New French Laboratory
Catalent Expands Packaging Capabilities in Singapore
West Breaks Ground for Waterford, Ireland Manufacturing Facility
Harper Government Announces Support for Life Sciences Manufacturer in
Mississauga
Pfizer Building New Consumer Products Production Facility in China
Ex-Sanofi Site Offering Manufacturing Space for Pharma in London
NBMC Darlington Biotechnology Gets Ardmac Cleanrooms
cGMP Certification for Phage Therapy Plant
Phillips-Medisize Opens Design and Development Center in China
Varian Medical Systems Establishes Saudi Arabia Facility
New Harmac Facility in Tijuana, Mexico.
Quotient Clinical to Double Manufacturing Capacity
WuXi, Fudan University Partner for Human Genomics
AstraZeneca Signs JV to Build Manufacturing Facility in Algeria
Green Cross Constructing Canadian Immunoglobulin and Albumin Plant
Gilead Sciences Has Opened a New Laboratory
Intertek Opens Drug Testing Facility
Three-way Collaboration for Packaging Serialization Ahead of EU Directive
Janssen and Rutgers Expand R&D
Novo Nordisk Invest in New Plant
SGS Completes Expansion in Mumbai, India
Porvair Opens New Facility in Hampshire, UK
Sigma-Aldrich Opens Cell Culture Technical Center in Singapore
Pluristem Therapeutics to Set Up Manufacturing Sites
Quintiles Opens Chinese R&D Hub
Quotient Clinical Expands cGMP Manufacturing with New Site in Nottingham, UK.
Opko Health acquires Bio-Reference Labs
Intertek to Open an Immunochemistry Lab in Manchester, UK
Intertek opens GMP Pharmaceutical Stability Storage Facilities
SEMICONDUCTOR INDUSTRY UPDATE
June 2015
TABLE OF CONTENTS
InVisage Expands with New Taiwan Factory
TI's Sugar Land, Texas Facility Awarded LEED® Gold Certification
Samsung to put 10nm Chips into Mass Production by End of 2016
Transphorm and ON Semiconductor Start of Production of GaN Power Devices
CHEMICAL UPDATE
APRIL 2015
AMERICAS
BASF Continues to Evaluate Natural Gas-Based Investment on U.S. Gulf Coast
Prayon to Build Food Grade Sodium Hexametaphosphate (SHMP) Plant in Georgia
Yara and BASF to Build Ammonia Plant in Freeport, Texas
Praxair Gulf Coast Expansion to Serve Freeport, Texas, and Supply New Yara/ BASF
Ammonia Project
GEO Opens New Polyaluminum Chloride Facility in Texas
Solvay to Expand Peroxides Production to Serve Growing North American Markets
EaglePicher Breaks Ground on Lithium Ion Center of Excellence
Airgas to Build New Air Separation Unit (ASU) in Tuscaloosa, AL
Linde starts up new air separation unit in Texas
LyondellBasell to Expand Production Capacity of Tri-ethylene Glycol in Texas
Plant
ASIA
Chiye Organic Silicon Material (Shanghai) Invests US1.6 Million on Production
Plant
Shin-Etsu to Expand Silicone Production in Thailand; Plans US Technical Center
Technip Awarded Contract for Qingdao 500 KTA Ethylbenzene Styrene Monomer Plant
AkzoNobel Performance Coatings Adds Capacity in Indonesia
Fluor Awarded Engineering Contract for New Chinese Polysilicon Plant
EUEA
Kuraray Boosts Production Capacity for Ethylene Vinyl Alcohol in Belgium
Styrolution Opens SBC Pilot Plant
PPG Plans Capacity Expansion for Precipitated Silica at Netherlands Site
Solvay Building Hydrogen Peroxide Grade Production Plant in Netherlands
A. Schulman to Establish Masterbatch Production Plant in Turkey
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
Grupa Azoty Announces Historical $450m Investment in New PDH Plant in Poland
MERGERS/ ACQUISITIONS
Solvay to Acquire Alkoxylation Plant in the Netherlands
A. Schulman to Acquire Citadel
Germany's Evonik to Acquire Monarch Catalyst
Polypore Sells Energy Storage Segment for $2.2B to Asahi Kasei, Separations
Media Segment to 3M for $1B
PULP MILLS UPDATE
May 2015
COMPANY NEWS
Eastman Cyphrex reinvents paper performance
Valmet Launches Calendering Technology for Board and Paper Machines
GE, Kemira Form Water Technology Alliance to Serve Pulp and Paper Sector
EXPANSIONS/ UPGRADES/ NEW PROJECTS
AMERICAS
Irving Pulp & Paper Invests over $640,000 in Saint John, NB Pulp Mill
Modernization
Northern Pulp to Install Electrostatic Precipitator at Nova Scotia Mill
Andritz to Rebuild Paper Machine at Suzano Mill, Brazil
Russia’s Sveza Set to Start Construction of 1.2 Million-Tonne/Yr Kraft Pulp Mill
in 2017
ASIA
China’s Vinda to Build Three Tissue PMs in 2015
China’s Hengan Starts up New 60,000-tonne/yr Tissue PM in Hunan Province
EUEA
Metsä Fibre to Build Next-Generation Bioproduct Mill in Äänekoski, Finland
Andritz to Supply Metsä Fibre's New Äänekoski Bioproduct Pulp Mill in Finland
BillerudKorsnäs Upgrades its 260,000-tonne/yr SC Fluting PM at Gruvön
Finland’s Kotkamills Upgrades PM 2 To Packaging Board
PMT Italia to Supply Film Size Press to Pehlivanoğlu Kağit's PM 1 in Turkey
UK's TRM Packaging Installs New £1 Million Pallet Press Line
Valmet Receives Order from Holmen for Softwood Line Rebuild at Iggesund Mill
Sappi to Invest in New Nanocellulose Pilot Plant in the Netherlands
Sappi Expands Alfeld Competence Centre with New Paper Lab
Eska Graphic Board Signs Contract for Construction of Reject Gasifier
Valmet to Rebuild Softwood Pulp Line at Iggesund Mill
Sofidel Starts New Wastewater Treatment Plant at Its Delicarta Tissue Mill in
Italy
Mondi to Raise Pulp, Kraftliner Production at Swiecie mill in Poland
ACQUISITIONS/ DIVESTURES
OpenGate Capital to Sell Kotkamills to Finnish Private Equity Firm MB Funds
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NORTH AMERICAN MUNICIPAL WASTEWATER TREATMENT PLANTS UPDATE HEADLINES
June 2015
ALABAMA
CALIFORNIA
COLORADO
CONNECTICUT
FLORIDA
IDAHO
ILLINOIS
INDIANA
IOWA
KANSAS
KENTUCKY
LOUISIANA
MAINE
MARYLAND
MASSACHUSETTS
MICHIGAN
MINNESOTA
MISSOURI
MONTANA
NEW JERSEY
NEW MEXICO
NEW YORK
NORTH DAKOTA
OHIO
OKLAHOMA
OREGON
PENNSYLVANIA
SOUTH CAROLINA
TENNESSEE
TEXAS
VERMONT
VIRGINIA
WASHINGTON
WEST VIRGINIA
WISCONSIN
CANADA
BUSINESS NEWS
RECENT CHEMICAL BID REPORTS
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WORLD POWER GENERATION PROJECTS
HEADLINES
This includes only projects where there was an update during the month. There
are thousands of projects in the database.
New power generation projects are tracked in two publications. Fossil and
Nuclear Power Generation includes both market forecasts and project data.
World Power Generation Projects has just the project data.
Revision Date: 5/1/2015
Project Title |
First Entry Date |
Location |
Startup date |
Thilaya Power Plant-Reliance
Power |
5/1/2015
|
India |
Unknown
|
Ngayokekaung Township power
plant |
5/1/2015
|
Myanmar
|
Unknown
|
Barangay Lamao (Limay) -SMC
Global Power |
1/1/2014
|
Philippines
|
2020 |
Lamu power plant-Centum
Investment, Gulf Energy |
10/1/2013
|
Kenya |
2017 |
Kyauk Phyu Township power
plant-Ministry of Electricity |
5/1/2012
|
Myanmar
|
Unknown
|
Goindwal supercritical
expansion-GVK Group |
8/1/2010
|
India |
2014 |
Hanhikivi 1 (Pyhajoki)
--Fennovoima nuclear power
project |
5/1/2010
|
Finland
|
2024 |
Tilaiya ultra mega power
project-Central Electricity
Authority |
5/1/2008
|
India |
Cancelled
|
Bellary 3 (Yaramaras)
supercritical
expansion-Karnataka Power Corp. |
9/1/2007
|
India |
2015 |
Dabaa nuclear power plant |
6/1/2007
|
Egypt |
Unknown
|
Newport (Fermi 3) nuclear power
plant-DTE Energy |
6/1/2007
|
MI |
Unknown
|
Watts Bar 2 nuclear power
plant-TVA |
6/1/2007
|
TN |
2015 |
Mong Duong 2-AES |
10/1/2005
|
Vietnam
|
2017 |
Mong Duong 1 CFB power
plant-Electricity of Vietnam |
10/1/2005
|
Vietnam
|
2015 |
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