Flowmeter clearly keeps wine on the list
Alfa Laval Wine makers around Europe can drink a toast to the clear advantages of reliability and low maintenance offered by Krohne's H250 flowmeter which plays a key role in centrifuges used to clarify their wine.
Gibson appoints new director
Gibson Tube Inc. (North Branch, New Jersey, USA), a specialist in welded stainless steel, nickel and duplex alloy tubing, has recently opened a new office in Houston, Texas.
Australia receives new power station
The Australian state of Queensland will get a new A$500 million (US$284.8 million) gas-fired power station by 2005.
Calpine constructs power plant
Calpine Corporation is constructing a $450 million electrical generating plant in southern California that is scheduled to come online at the end of 2003.
Located near Lebec, off Interstate Highway 5 North, Calpine's Pastoria Energy Center is a natural gas-fired combined cycle plant that will utilize three GE combustion turbines, heat recovery steam generators, and a steam turbine generator to produce 750MW of electricity. The company broke ground on the project last July and has started mechanical erection. Pastoria is being engineered by Utility Engineering (Minneapolis, Minnesota), while Kvaerner-Songer, Incorporated (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) is performing construction activities.
New bridge using stainless steel rebar
The Oregon Department of Transportation (ODOT), using highly alloyed stainless steel reinforcing bar in its concrete structures