ThyssenKrupp continues work on Calvert mill
Local ThyssenKrupp stainless officials have announced that ThyssenKrupp AG is not cancelling or further delaying its plans for a stainless steel melt shop at the company's complex in Calvert, Alabama, US. US opens first biodiesel pipeline
Pipeline company Kinder Morgan Energy Partners has announced the first successful commercial shipment of biodiesel to be transported through a pipeline in the US. White Mountain agreement with SGS Lakefield
White Mountain Titanium Corp. has entered into an agreement with SGS Lakefield to complete the Stage 2 pilot plant test work program. Calpine plant environmentally friendly
Calpine Corp. has been working in cooperation with The Bay Area Air Quality Management District (BAAQMD) to respond to comments submitted by a number of environmental and local public interest groups, including the Sierra Club and EarthJustice, regarding the company’s proposed 600MW Russell City Energy Center to be built in Hayward, California, US. Ameron profits fall
Pasadena, California-based Ameron International Corp. has reported that fiscal second quarter profit plunged 42% due to sharply lower earnings at its steel minimill and a decline in public works spending in the western states. 
The San Jose City Council has authorized the City Manager to negotiate and execute a Memorandum of Understanding to develop guidelines and potential lease terms for the development of an organics-to-energy biogas facility on a 40acre site near the San Jose/Santa Clara Water Pollution Control Plan. 
Xstrata Nickel has announced that its Raglan operation in Northern Quebec has been awarded the 2008 F.J. O'Connell trophy for excellence in safety for the tenth time in the last eleven years. 
The International Titanium Association has announced that its keynote speaker at TITANIUM 2009 will be Simon Pickup, Director of Business Operations and Analysis for Airbus, who will present his company’s Global Market Forecast for aircraft demand over the next 20 years. 
Severstal North America Inc. has signed a letter of intent to sell its Allenport, Washington County, plant to a California-based company that wants to reopen the plant this fall. Severstal expects to complete the deal in August with North American Trading Co. of Chino Hills, California, which is owned by William R Kingston. 
Buffalo’s newest waterfront attraction, a stainless steel sculpture entitled “Energy Weave,” has been completed in front of Rigidized Metals on Ohio Street in Western New York.