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Siemens wins North American business

Siemens Energy & Automation Inc. has received an order from North American Stainless for addition of an extension to the existing meltshop substation.

Siemens wins SMI upgrade contract

Structural Metals Inc. has awarded Siemens a contract for new arc furnace switchgear for its minimill in Cayce-West Columbia, South Carolina, USA.

Titanium for Goro project

Allegheny Technologies (ATI) will supply all wrought product forms made of the specialised Titanium Grade 28 to be used in Inco Ltd's Goro mining project pressure acid leaching heat exchanger system.

Ethylene facility in Texas

Dow Chemical Co. is planning to build an ethylene plant in Seadrift, Texas.

New Sri Lanka refinery

An oil refinery is to be built in Sri Lanka by a private consortium, if it can gather USD 600 million in funding.

“Endless” pipe system

FLEXWELL-LPG Piping has produced a flexible, "endless" pipe system for buried automotive LPG piping installations at service stations. The system’s innovative feature is a flexible, "endless" metallic piping system made of stainless steel with simple mechanical joints.

Russian gas power plant

German utility E.ON will invest up to USD 500 million over three years to build a combined-cycle gas turbine plant at a site in the Tula region south of Moscow, Russian utility Unified Energy System has said.

Allegheny furnace upgrade

Allegheny Technologies Inc. has announced a project to reduce operating costs and increase productivity at the Allegheny Ludlum melt shop located in Brackenridge, PA, USA.

Sunoco sulphur refinery

Sunoco Inc. will build and operate a sulphur plant at the company's Marcus Hook Refinery.

LG wins South Pars contract

LG Construction (Korea) is to sign a deal with NIOC to develop phases 9 and 10 of the South Pars gas field.