According to a forecast by the UK Timber Trade Federation, British softwood lumber imports in 2012 are going to be 3.4% lower than last year at 4.81m m³. As such, imports from Sweden will fall by 2% to 2.19m m³. A reduction of 13% ...
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Flowserve Corp is planning to hire more than 70 people at its Vernon, California, facility before the end of the year. Jim Quain, president of Flowserve’s Engineered Pump Operations, said the company is targeting forward-thinking ...
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Sulzer Pumps has launched the next generation of dewatering pumps, developed for harsh conditions in the construction and mining industries. The dewatering pump is available in two series, one for drainage (the XJ pump) and one for sludge ...
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Pfleiderer Grajewo is presently exploring two different scenarios for its Russian operations in Novgorod. The first option would see the company sell the particleboard producer Pfleiderer OOO and an MDF/HDF project being undertaken by ...
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During the International Woodworking Fair IWF in Atlanta the IMA Group received its first order for a laser-edging line from North America. An order was signed with the Canadian front-end manufacturer Schenck Architectural Imports, on 23 ...
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Sales generated by the German wood industry (including the furniture industry) rose by 2.8% in the first half-year 2012 to €16.458bn. This was main attributable to the contribution from the furniture industry (+4.5%). In the wood ...
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AES Arabia Ltd has secured a US$14 million contract to design, manufacture, construct, commission and start-up a dedicated seawater reverse osmosis plant in Saudi Arabia. The operation will produce up to 2, 752 GPM of fresh water for the ...
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Slack demand on the relevant European sales markets in the second quarter of 2012 caused German softwood lumber exports to fall by 12% against the same quarter of last year to a total of 1.339m m³. With the exception of the Czech ...
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Toray Industries Inc has received two separate orders to supply reverse osmosis (RO) membranes to seawater desalination plants in Al Zawra and Ghalilah in the United Arab Emirates (UAE). The Al Zawra plant is an 45 000 m3/d RO seawater ...
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Sweden's Nederman is expanding its industrial air filtration portfolio by acquiring the US group Environmental Filtration Technologies (EFT). Headquartered in Charlotte, North Carolina, Environmental Filtration Technologies includes the ...
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This study demonstrates the potential of sludge-derived materials as adsorbents of trace amounts of antibiotics. Sludge-derived adsorbents can retain a dozen or so pharmaceuticals simultaneously, with up to 300 mg of antibiotics adsorbed ...
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Pentair has brought its Fairbanks Morse and Pentair Nijhuis brands together to form Fairbanks Nijhuis. Offering engineered products and services to municipal and industrial pumping-system customers, Fairbanks Nijhuis will serve multiple ...
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Mygrant Glass will be a Silver Sponsor of this year's Auto Glass Week™, scheduled to be held next week, September 20-22, in Louisville, Ky. "Mygrant Glass is excited to be a Silver Sponsor of this year's event and we are looking ...
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Ciments de"l Afrique (CIMAF) and Polysius France have signed a contract for the construction of a cement grinding plant and a cement dispatch centre in Guinea. The order comprises the entire scope of activities, from plant planning, ...
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Buildings with glass façades may look swank and sophisticated, but they are far more vulnerable to fire, warn firefighters and experts, as fire broke out in a 13-storey commercial building on Friday. Firefighters, Who were a part of ...
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