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:

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.

OIL & GAS SALES LEADS HEADLINES

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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

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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

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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

• Rainbow requesting Bids for Pump Station Upgrade
• Rainbow requesting Bids for WWTP – Phase I Upgrade
• Decatur requesting Bids for Digester Cleaning
• Pell City explores Solutions to Aging Equipment at WWTP

CALIFORNIA

• Fresno requesting Bids for WWTP Digester Cleaning
• In California Turning Sewage into Drinking Water Gains Appeal
• $72 Million Eastvale WWTP Project will include Odor Control

COLORADO

• Dinosaur requesting Bids for Wastewater Treatment Plant Improvements
• Longmont requesting bids for WWTP Rehab

CONNECTICUT

• Naugatuck examining Future Wastewater Options

FLORIDA

• Longboat Key requesting Bids for WWTP Forcemain Condition Assessment
• Port Charlotte requesting Bids for WWTP Expansion
• Port St. John requesting Bids for WWTP Improvements

IDAHO

• Idaho Cities receive Funds for Wastewater Projects
• $28 Million for Twin Falls Wastewater Project

ILLINOIS

• Savanna requesting Bids for 2 WWTP Lift Stations
• Spring Valley requesting Bids for WWTP Project
• $11 Million for Spring Valley New WWTP
• $44 Million for Moline WWTP Upgrade
• Banner requesting Bids for WWTP Improvements
• Morrison requesting Bids for WWTP Improvements
• Morrison begins Bid Process for Wastewater Plant

INDIANA

• Marion requesting Bids for WWTP Pump Station Upgrade
• Monticello requesting Bids for WWTP Improvements
• $33 Million for Delaware County WWTP
• Wabash requesting Bids for WWTP Project
• Williamsport requesting Bids for WWTP Improvements

IOWA

• Stanley Consultants wins Awards for Iowa City WWTP Design
• Scarville Wastewater Informational Meeting
• Sioux City to replace Biofilters at WWTP

KANSAS

• Atchison requesting Bids for WWTP Project

KENTUCKY

• $13 Million for Augusta Regional Sewer Plant
• Murray receives Update on Wastewater Plant

LOUISIANA

• Shreveport requesting bids for WWTP Improvements
• Caddo Parish requesting Bids for WWTP Improvements
• Kenner awards Contract for WWTP Upgrade
• Gretna requesting Bids for Headworks Rehab
• Shreveport requesting Bids for WWTP Improvements
• $7-$8 Million for Thibodaux WWTP Project

MAINE

• East Millinocket buys former GNP Wastewater Plant for $1.00

MARYLAND

• Greensboro requesting Bids for WWTP Project
• Talbot, Queen Anne's Counties awarded Wastewater Grants

MASSACHUSETTS

• Grafton requesting Bids for WWTP Improvements
• Boston requesting Bids for WWTP Project

MICHIGAN

• Oscoda Township requesting Bids for WWTP Improvements
• Plainfield Charter Township requesting Bids for WWTP Improvements

MINNESOTA

• Kandiyohi County to Clean Leachate from Landfill
• $20 Million for New St. Francis WWTP
• Northfield agrees on Water Supply Plans for Wastewater Facility
• $4 Million for Afton WWTP Project

MISSOURI

• Monett requesting Bids for WWTP Improvements
• Waynesville Wastewater Treatment Facility to get Upgrade

MONTANA

• Stevensville receives Funding for WWTP Improvements

NEW JERSEY

• Plumsted Wastewater Plant still under Review

NEW MEXICO

• $11.7 Million for New Camino Real WWTP

NEW YORK

• Bloomingdale requesting Bids for Engineering Services for WWTP
• Report Card for Long Island Sound
• Little Falls OKs Bonds for Wastewater Treatment Plant Repairs
• Bids requested for Dechlorination Facility
• Yonkers requesting Bids for WWTP Rehab
• Armand requesting Bids for WWTP Project
• Medina Wastewater Project approved
• Upgrades at Monroe County Wastewater Plant
• Project to improve Wastewater Discharged into the Hudson River

NORTH DAKOTA

• $2 Million Grant for Fargo Wastewater Treatment Plant

OHIO

• Salem requesting Bids for WWTP Improvements
• Franklin County to improve Wastewater Treatment, Reduce Nutrients
• Sidney moves ahead with Funding for Wastewater Project
• Cleveland requesting Bids for WWTP Rehab
• Geneva requesting Bids for WWTP Improvements
• New Study Begins at Lakewood Wastewater Treatment Plant
• Jackson receives Funding for Wastewater Treatment Plant

OKLAHOMA

• Hominy requesting Bids for WWTP Rehab
• $13 Million for Broken Arrow Water/Wastewater Projects

OREGON

• Klamath Falls requesting Bids for WWTP Valve Replacement
• Clackamas County needs WWTP Expansion

PENNSYLVANIA

• Cleona requesting Bids for WWTP Pumps
• Bell Acres requesting Bids for WWTP Improvements
• Curwensville to bid out Arnoldtown Wastewater Project
• Conshohocken WWTP will solve Odor Problem in 2016

SOUTH CAROLINA

• Manning requesting Bids for WWTP Expansion
• Walterboro needs $3.4 Million for WWTP Improvement Project

TENNESSEE

• Knoxville requesting Bids for WWTP Improvements
• $50 Million for Franklin Sludge Drying Plant
• Jasper requesting Bids for Lagoon Cleaning
• Mosheim requesting Bids for WWTP Rehab

TEXAS

• Houston requesting Bids for Wastewater Rehab
• Dallas requesting Bids for WWTP Pump Station Rehab
• Stewart Creek WWTP requesting Bids for Expansion Project
• Patton Village awaits Decision on New WWTP
• Corpus Christi requesting Bids for WWTP Consolidation Program Development
• $245 Million for Waco Water, Sewer Projects
• San Angelo moves on Wastewater Recycling Pilot

VERMONT

• Saxtons River approves $3 Million Bond for Wastewater Treatment Plant
• Benefits of Vermont’s Clean Water Law will flow Down the Connecticut River

VIRGINIA

• Henry County receives Funds to Prevent Flooding at WWTP
• Richmond City requesting Bids for WWTP Upgrade
• Albemarle, Charlottesville move forward with Water/Wastewater Projects

WASHINGTON

• Walla Walla requesting Bids for Transfer Pump
• Sedro-Woolley requesting Bids for WWTP Equipment Repairs
• Quincy receives Funding to Divert Wastewater to New System
• Gig Harbor requesting Bids for WWTP Improvements

WEST VIRGINIA

• Martinsburg WWTP upgrades Take Shape
• Salem approves New Wastewater System

WISCONSIN

• $20.7 Million for Whitewater WWTP Update

CANADA

• $8.2 Million for Odor Control at Saskatoon WWTP
• Iqaluit $9.4 Million Short for WWTP Upgrades

BUSINESS NEWS

• GE’s LEAPmbr* Treatment Technology enables Wastewater Reuse for Drought-stricken Abilene, TX

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

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