Houston, Texas-based MRC Global Inc., the largest global distributor, based on sales, of pipe, valves and fittings (PVF) and related products and services to the energy and industrial sectors, reported Q2 2013 sales of $1.27 billion, down ...
The dust has settled. Following two years of very strong growth in lift truck sales, shipments leveled off in 2012. With growth at just a fraction of a percent, worldwide sales didn't match the 27% growth in 2011 or the 32% growth in 2010. ...
Tags: Processing Machinery
Huntsman Corporation has signed a definitive agreement to acquire the business of Oxid L.P., a privately-held manufacturer and marketer of specialty urethane polyols based in Houston, Texas. The financial terms of the agreement were not ...
Tags: Acquire Oxid, Chemicals, polyols
US-based supplier of plastic, glass and metal containers and closures Berlin Packaging has expanded its Dangerous Goods division in Houston, Texas. Occupying an area of 80,000ft2, customers in Gulf Coast states are provided considerable ...
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The American Institute of Architects (AIA) Academy of Architecture for Health (AAH) has selected the recipients of the AIA National Healthcare Design Awards program. The AIA Healthcare Awards program showcases the best of healthcare ...
Tags: Lights, Lighting, Construction
Windows 8.1 will be made available for RTM - release to manufacturing - during late August. The announcement was made by Windows chief marketing officer Tami Reller during a keynote at Microsoft's annual Worldwide Partner Conference (WPC) ...
Tags: Computer Products, software, Windows 8.1
Headworks International Inc. is moving its headquarters as of 8 July 2013. The new premises will be at 11000 Brittmoore Park Drive, Houston, Texas 77041 USA. Headworks International Inc. provides wastewater treatment processes and ...
Tags: Headworks International, screens, screenings handling equipment
Home furnishings retail giant Ikea has extended an electric vehicle charging station partnership with ECOtality, a clean electric transportation and storage technologies provider. Ikea is adding 24 Blink electric vehicle charging stations ...
Tags: Electric Vehicle, Electrical, Electronics
Atwood Oceanics, Inc. (NYSE:ATW) (the "Company") announced today that one ofits subsidiaries has entered into a turnkey construction contract with DaewooShipbuilding and Marine Engineering Co., Ltd. ("DSME") to construct a ...
Tags: Construction, Service
The top 200 companies enjoy more than 50 percent of the global industrial pump business. Another 5,000 companies average less than $4 million in sales each. According to the McIlvaine Company in Pumps: World Markets the concentration of the ...
Specialty insurer HCC Insurance Holdings has established a new ‘Construction Property Risks Division’ with an aim to boost its underwriting capability in builder's risk insurance. Francis P Tricamo, Sr has been appointed to ...
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Artificial turf is a surface of synthetic fibers made to look like natural grass. It is most often used in arenas for sports that were originally or are normally played on grass. However, it is now being used on residential lawns and ...
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David Chaney – who moved to Raleigh, North Carolina, in 1960 and later served as Dean of the North Carolina State University College of Textiles – headed the team of Research Triangle Park researchers who created the first ...
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Westlake Chemical Corporation announced that Mr. Michael J. Graff (57) and Mr. R. Bruce Northcutt (53) have been elected to the company's board of directors. Mr. Graff is Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of American Air Liquide ...
Tags: Westlake Chemical, BoD, Metallurgy, Mineral&Energy
Houston, Texas-based Kinder Morgan Energy Partners, L.P. will invest $106 million to purchase approximately 20 acres adjacent to its Pasadena, Texas terminal, build nine new tanks with a storage capacity of 1.2 million barrels at its Galena ...
Tags: Kinder Morgan, refined products