Projects

Zahner is designing and manufacturing the complex exterior form and surfaces for Aquario Ceara, a new public aquarium in Fortaleza, Brazil. The design was created by Leonardo Fontenele of Imagic Brasil, and upon its completion in 2015, it is projected to be the largest aquarium in South America, and the third largest aquarium in the world.

Van Oord secured two orders in Brazil and the Bahamas. The activities involve dredging work for the construction of a new shipyard in Aracruz, Brazil. The client is Estaleiro Jurong Aracruz (EJA), a Brazilian subsidiary of Sembcorp Marine’s Jurong Shipyard from Singapore.

The monthly stainless steel surcharges issued by producers in the US are projected to remain mostly flat for August, but slightly retracting for some austenitic grades.

The surcharges placed on type 304 stainless steel range between 89.

The voestalpine Group secured its second major pipeline contract this year after South Stream. voestalpine will deliver 120,000 tons of sour-gas-resistant, high-strength linepipe plates for the third Petrobras pipeline near Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, by March 2015.

Alstom signed a contract worth approx. EUR 120M with Tractebel Energia Brasil, the private power generator in Brazil, to supply 36 units of ECO 122 wind turbines to Trairí II project, a wind farm located in Ceará State, Northeast of Brazil.

During the Esri International User Conference held in San Diego, California, SGC Engineering was given the prestigious industry award of Special Achievement in GIS (SAG) Award for its application of geospatial technology.

In a statement from the Arkansas Economic Development Commission, Big River Steel said the financing necessary for the construction of a USD 1.3B steel mill in Mississippi County has been ‘officially closed’ and a formal groundbreaking will be set later this summer.

One of Canada’s largest pipeline companies was mandated to relocate a pipeline in an environmentally and politically sensitive area on a tight timetable.

The section that required relocation is part of the major 30” natural gas corridor that traverses west to east across Canada, delivering energy to one-third of the nation’s population.

BP has awarded Jacobs Engineering Group with a contract to provide engineering, design and procurement services for the Coker Heater Replacement project at the BP Cherry Point Refinery in Blaine, Washington.

Metal Technology has installed and begun operating a new 1200-ton press at its facility in Albany, Oregon. The new press will allow the company to further expand its deep-draw capabilities, by being able to offer a wider variety of diameter sizes, wall thicknesses and product form lengths.