Canada sues US Steel
On 17 July 2009, Canada took US steel to a federal court over what it claims are broken promises after the firm idled most of its operations in the country. M20+ pressing machine
Stanley Virax has launched the first of its Pressing Machines into the US industrial market. Video system enhanced
Longwatch has announced that it has added new features and functions to its Video System Version 5.0 to make it easier for users to integrate cameras in local and remote areas, combine video data with a wide variety of plant information, and enable operators to access video data from HMI terminals, cellphones or on a PC via the Internet. Stainless collars and couplings
A full line of standard shaft collars and couplings made in large sizes from stainless steel for applications in harsh and wet environments is available from Stafford Manufacturing Corp. of Wilmington, Massachusetts, US. Lincolnshire-based RathGibson files Chapter 11
Specialty tubing manufacturer RathGibson Inc. has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection under a heavy debt load. 
Rex Products Inc., of Fall River, Massachusetts, US, has introduced a new line of flexible, non-woven surface conditioning quick change discs for light grinding, blending, and finishing ferrous and non-ferrous metals. 
A wildfire burned more than a square kilometre of brush and forest near Long Harbour, Newfoundland, Canada on 13 July 2009, including an area where Vale Inco is preparing to build a nickel processing plant. 
Strongbow Exploration Inc. has received the results of a metallurgical study of the Main Zone nickel-copper-cobalt deposit at its wholly owned Nickel King project, in the Northwest Territories, Canada. 
Denbury Resources Inc. has initiated a comprehensive feasibility study of a possible long-term CO2 pipeline project which would connect proposed gasification plants in the Midwest to the company’s existing CO2 pipeline infrastructure in Mississippi or Louisiana. 
Fluor Corp. has been awarded an engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contract for infrastructure and offlease facilities for the first phase of Imperial Oil’s Kearl oil sands project, a surface mining and bitumen extraction operation located 70km NE of Fort McMurray, Alberta.