Titanium study project
SINTEF Materials Technology, Norway, and the Corrosion and Surface Engineering Research Group of Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, are to collaborate on a joint industry project to study the advantages and costs of using titanium as compared to other materials.
Philippines hydro power plant
The Philippines' Negros Island, comprising Occidental and Oriental Negros, will develop its own 54.5 megawatt hydro-electric power plant in the next five years.
So you want to build it in stainless steel
Hence the British Stainless Steel Association (BSSA) and the Institute of Materials (IOM) have teamed up with other industry partners, to offer a workshop entitled âSo you want to build it in stainless steel!â? to be held on Tuesday 28 May 2002 in london.
Polypropylene unit in New Jersey
Phillips Petroleum Company is planning to start up a new polypropylene (PP) unit possibly by June of this year at its refinery in Linden, New Jersey, USA.
Soybean crushing
Cenex Harvest States Cooperatives (St Paul, Minnesota, USA) and its grain division Harvest States has initiated construction of a new soybean crushing plant in Fairmont, Minnesota.