Company News

Tenmat Ltd, a specialist manufacturer of highly technical composite materials, has announced that they have won the Queen’s Award for Enterprise for Outstanding Achievement in International Trade for the second year in a row.

Bahru Stainless SDN BHD has successfully rolled its first strip on a new 20-roll cold-rolling stand. In the south of Malaysia, the Asian company Bahru Stainless SDN BHD, a subsidiary of the Spanish Acerinox group, has erected a new production facility for cold-rolled specialty strip.

NRG Energy has plans to offer up to three proposals for a new natural gas-fired plant to replace the nuclear reactors at Entergy’s Indian Point nuclear power plant in New York, according to a report from Reuters.

AK Steel has announced that it will increase base prices for all 200, 300 and 400 series flat rolled stainless steel products, effective with shipments on May 6, 2013.

Foster Wheeler AG has announced that a subsidiary of its Global Engineering and Construction Group has been awarded a contract by Pecket Energy to perform feasibility, conceptual and basic engineering studies, and develop an overall investment cost estimate for a substitute natural gas (SNG) production facility which is planned to be built near Punta Arenas, Chile.

Spurred by the growth in sales of its diversified line of control valves, regulators and tank equipment in Brazil, Cashco, Inc.

AkzoNobel's new Jupiá Chemical Island in Brazil is now operational and has started supplying the Eldorado Brasil Celulose pulp mill, which is the biggest in the world. Operated by the company's Pulp and Performance Chemicals business, the state-of-the-art Jupiá facility represents one of AkzoNobel's largest investments in Latin America.

ADA-ES, Inc. has been awarded a contract from a large air pollution equipment company to supply Activated Carbon Injection (ACI) and Dry Sorbent Injection (DSI) systems for installation at two coal-fired power plants.

Voith has successfully secured contracts in its small hydro business in South America. The company has been awarded contracts for the erection of hydro power plants in the small hydro segment. The project in Brazil is to provide an additional small hydro unit for the extension of the existing Santo Antonio do Jari hydropower plant and will be conducted as a turnkey solution.

ArcelorMittal and Japanese steelmaker Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal Corp. are planning a joint bid to buy ThyssenKrupp AG's Steel Americas unit to ramp up automotive steel sheet production.