Projects

This section provides the latest news updates on a variety of world-wide tenders, projects, expansions contracts and acquisitions for stainless steel and related products.

Architect uses stainless steel

Wolf D Prix, the architect of a new high school for the arts being built in downtown Los Angeles, USA, will be using stainless steel in his design.

Oil sands project nearly complete

Canadian Natural Resources Ltd has announced that the company is still targeting first synthetic crude oil production from its Horizon Oil Sands Project by the end of the year.

ATW builds titanium mini-mill

American Titanium Works (ATW) has announced that they will build a titanium mini-mill facility in Laurens County, South Carolina, USA.

Tiomin frustrated by delays

Canadian-based Tiomin Resources is blaming Kenyan bureaucracy for the latest delays in the implementation of the Kwale ilmenite/rutile/zircon mineral sands project.

USA: nuclear fuel repository

The US Department of Energy has awarded a contract to USA Repository Services LLC, a unit of URS Corp. that includes Areva and the Shaw Group, to manage the used nuclear fuel repository project at Yucca Mountain, Nevada.

RTI project delays

RTI International Metals is delaying its expansion projects by up to a year in light of the current economic uncertainties and the overall short-term softening in demand for titanium.

PSE completes expansion

Puget Sound Energy has finished a USD 44 million, 18 month expansion effort at the Pacific Northwest's largest natural gas storage reservoir.

USA: ethanol project

Lignol Energy Corp. has announced that it has entered into a cellulosic ethanol project development agreement with Suncor Energy Products Inc.

Canadian province reduces emissions

 The Canadian province of New Brunswick has announced that greenhouse-gas emissions will be reduced by 45,000tns annually as the result of a new project being supported by the New Brunswick Climate Action Fund.

Canada: offshore rigs

A Cape Breton company is going to build two onshore drilling rigs in Nova Scotia, Canada worth CAN 35 million.