Rajant Corporation, a leading provider of portable mobile wireless networking solutions, announced today that its global partner Mine Site Technologies (MST) has secured two new mining deployments in Australia using the Rajant BreadCrumb® wireless mesh solution. Recently announced as Rajant’s global partner for mining, MST is the leading mining solutions provider, specializing in the development [...]

Servigistics, the leading strategic service management solution provider, announced today that Japan-based Komatsu Ltd., one of the world’s largest manufacturers of construction and mining equipment, will implement Servigistics’ award-winning Service Parts Pricing solution globally to optimize pricing and to strengthen its service parts pricing strategy worldwide.
Servigistics Service Parts Pricing is a solution that supports manufacturers [...]

Motorola Inc. unveiled the most recent enhancements to its portfolio of voice and data solutions for the mining industry - its enhanced MOTOMESH Solo wireless broadband network solution and its Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA)-approved HT750 portable two-way radio.
“Motorola voice and data solutions deliver real-time, reliable, business-critical communications that help ensure the safety of [...]

Caterpillar Inc. is unveiling the next generation of mining trucks at MINExpo 2008 in Las Vegas, NV. Along with improved safety features, Tier 2 compliant engines and new integrated technologies in the existing Cat mining fleet, the company has developed electric drive mining trucks that will debut at the expo September 22-24, 2008.
“When our customers [...]

Stopol Auctions, L.L.C. - the leader in hosting and managing plastics industry auctions — will host and web cast an auction October 1, 2008, to sell plastics manufacturing equipment from continuing operations at Cadmold, Inc.’s Sarasota, Fla., plant.
Stopol Auctions will conduct a live auction at 10:05 a.m. (EDT) October 1 at Cadmold’s Sarasota facility and [...]

LINE-X Industrial Coatings Division (LICD), a strategic business unit of LINE-X Protective Coatings (LINE-X), is pleased to announce that it will be exhibiting at MINExpo INTERNATIONAL® 2008 in Las Vegas, Nev., September 22-24, 2008 (booth #02343). During the exposition, LICD will be launching their new mine-specific, flame retardant product XS-252.
Ideal for the mining and military [...]

Mechel OAO, one of the leading Russian mining and metals companies, announces that it has upgraded the machine tool equipment base at its Southern Urals Nickel Plant OAO subsidiary.
A new large lathe RT-117-5, valued at approximately RUR6.0 million ($240.0 thousand), has been installed in the Casting and Mechanical Workshop of Southern Urals Nickel Plant OAO. [...]

Universal Stainless & Alloy Products, Inc. reported that it has agreed with Local 9531 of the United Steelworkers to continue operations at the Company’s Bridgeville facility while negotiations of a mutually acceptable labor agreement continue. The previously announced continuance of the collective bargaining agreement covering the hourly employees at the facility expired on September 12.
The [...]

EQECAT, Inc., the leading authority on extreme-risk modeling, Saturday morning said, based on current storm information provided by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), initial post-landfall estimated insured onshore losses from Hurricane Ike could range from $8 billion to $18 billion, primarily in the Texas counties of Brazoria, Harris, Galveston, Chambers and Jefferson.
This estimate [...]

Rowan Companies, Inc. announced that it has entered into three-year contracts with EnCana for four new 2000-horsepower land rigs. Delivery of the first rig is scheduled for May 2009, with each additional rig to follow approximately every three months thereafter.
Two additional land rigs are currently under construction and just received three-year contracts, one with EnCana [...]