Projects

V&M Star’s COO, Mr Joel Mastervich, will become the next president, succeeding Mr Roger Lindgren, who will retire in late April after leading the steel tube pipe maker into a USD 650 million expansion project.

ConocoPhillips has announced that, effective 1 April 2010, Trond-Erik Johansen, currently president of its SE Asia Exploration and Production organization, will become president of its Alaska operations.

Metso has announced that it will supply a complete ball mill and related equipment and services to Canada-based Kinross Gold Corp. for its Morro do Ouro Mine in Paracatu, located 230km south from Brasília.

Shandong Steel has signed MoUs with Shandong-based Xinwen Mining Group and Hong Kong-based Honbridge Holdings to jointly develop the SAM iron ore project in Brazil. Xinwen Mining Group will be responsible for the prospecting and preparation work before the start of the project and for negotiations on coordination of iron ore exploitation after the start of formal operation of the project.

Architect Frank Gehry has built a swirling stainless steel structure in Las Vegas. Mr Gehry, now 81, has built his career on shapes and angles all around the world: Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles; the Pritzker Pavilion in Chicago's Millennium Park; Seattle's Experience Music Project; the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain.

Invensys Operations Management has strengthened its commitment to clients in Louisiana and the Gulf Coast region by expanding its Baton Rouge facility.

SSI Technologies Inc., a Janesville designer and manufacturer of powder-metal, stainless-steel and iron-based components for the automotive and industrial markets, will receive USD 220,000 in Development Opportunity Zone tax credits from the Department of Commerce for an expansion project that's expected to create 40 jobs.

Titanium Corp. Inc. and Sustainable Development Technology Canada (SDTC) have signed a Contribution Agreement and an initial payment of USD 1.6 million against the first milestone has been advanced to Titanium.

Franconia Minerals Corp. has initiated a new core-drilling program at its Birch Lake copper-nickel-PGM (platinum group metals) project in the highly prospective Duluth Complex in NE Minnesota.

With the help of Lincoln Electric, Bo-Dyn Bobsled Project Inc. and Chassis Dynamics, the US men's four-man bobsled team brought home a gold medal from the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, BC, Canada.