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The International Titanium Association has announced the 2002 Titanium Achievement Award, to be presented at the 18th Annual Conference in Orlando, Florida, USA, 6–8 October 2002. To print out the nomination form. Visit the ITA site at www.titanium.org.

A GE MS6001FA (Frame 6FA) gas turbine-generator will be the heart of a new co-generation plant to be built in The Netherlands.

Together with Pagendarm BTT GmbH, BASF in Ludwigshafen is building a technical centre facility for aqueous pressure-sensitive adhesives that is designed to operate at a maximum speed of 1500 metres per minute.

Universal Stainless & Alloy Products Inc. has acquired certain assets of Empire Specialty Steel Inc. from the New York Job Development Authority (JDA).

Allegheny Technologies Inc. announced that Ray J. Groves has decided to retire from the Allegheny Technologies Board of Directors.

The Indian unit of Royal Dutch/Shell will soon sign a gas transmission agreement with a state-run firm to transport gas from its five-million tonne liquefied natural gas (LNG) import terminal in India's west coast, officials have said.

Philips Analytical (Almelo, The Netherlands) is highlighting its spectrum of XRF solutions for the plastics industry at Addplast 2002 (Brussels, Belgium 9–11 April 2002, booth number 508).

TotalFinaElf SA plans a 5-year, EUR 70 million programme to revamp its 114,000 bpd Feyzin refinery in the Rhône valley in eastern France.

NKK Corp. will start a power generation business using refuse-derived fuel in Fukuyama, Hiroshima

When Amari Metals wanted to create a twin site operation in the West Midlands capable of storing and supplying to UK stockholders all of the stainless steel, aluminium, copper, brass and bronze products in their range, they turned to Rivers Machinery for a materials handling solution.