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Sandvik makes Spanish investment

Recent investment at Sandvik Española SA (SESA), Sandvik Steel's stainless steel wire and profiles producing plant at Martorelles, near Barcelona, Spain, has increased production capacity for profiles used in applications as varied as watch bracelets, blades for hand blenders and orthopaedic implants.

Chevron Phillips plans Saudi addition

ChevronTexaco Corp. and Phillips Petroleum Co. have announced that their chemical business joint venture plans to build a USD 1 billion addition to an existing chemical plant in Saudi Arabia.

Long life for captive linear actuator

Haydon Switch and Instrument has developed a size 17 captive linear actuator.

Peaking plant in Georgia

LG&E Power Incorporated (Fairfax, Virginia), a subsidiary of PowerGen Plc, has awarded Black & Veatch the engineering and construction contract for an 850mw peaking plant in Georgia, USA.

Trinidad and Tobago banks on gas

Trinidad and Tobago is to intensify its industrial development and exports based on natural gas.

Industrial Gases joint venture in China

BOC and Sinopec Yangzi Petrochemical Corp. (Sinopec-YPC), a subsidiary of the Sinopec Group, have formed a joint venture known as Nanjing BOC-YPC Gases Company Ltd (BYG) to meet expanding industrial gases requirements in Nanjing, China.

High-tech metal tubing coded by inkjet

Fine Tubes Imaje S4+ inkjets have been chosen by Fine Tubes, one of the UK's leading manufacturers of high-tech seamless metal tubing, to upgrade the coding of its stainless-steel, nickel-alloy and titanium tubes.

Alstom wins Brazilian contract

The Brazilian subsidiary of France's Alstom Power will supply all the equipment for three small-scale hydroelectric projects that the Brazilian subsidiary of Canada's Brascan will build in Brazil's Rio Grande do Sul and Parana states under the terms of a USD 17.4 million contract.

El Paso to explore in Egypt

El Paso Global LNG, a subsidiary of El Paso Corporation has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to work with the Egyptian Natural Gas Holding Company (EGAS) and the Eqyptian General Petroleum Corporation (EGPC) to investigate opportunities for El Paso to invest in the natural gas sector in Egypt.

World’s most modern cold pilger mill

The new pilger machine for cold working 8–38mm precision tubes has come on line at stainless steel tubemaker TPS-Technitube Röhrenwerke GmbH.