MachineTalker®, Inc., developer of smart wireless security networks, has introduced its remote, intelligent sensors into the industrial sensing and control market through an OEM agreement with Sense-Comm Technology, LLC. Sense-Comm has targeted the petroleum industry, power generation companies and water treatment facilities for initial implementations of sensor networks designed to enhance operational efficiency, environmental safety [...]

Joy Global Inc. announced that its Board of Directors declared a quarterly dividend in the amount of $0.1125 per share to be paid on September 22, 2006 to shareholders of record at the close of business on September 8, 2006.
Joy Global Inc. is a worldwide leader in manufacturing, servicing and distributing equipment for surface [...]

Metal-Tech slumped today after the speciality metal and metal-based chemicals firm said its Uzbek subsidiary is encountering significant disruption of its supply of molybdenum raw material.
Uzmetal Technology, jointly owned with two Uzbekistan government owned companies, blamed mineralogical problems of a government owned mine and a contractual dispute between Uzmetal and its molybdenum supplier.
The company [...]

GENERON® IGS, an affiliate of Innovative Gas Systems, has been awarded a contract to supply two (2) HPLC 7200LP Skidded Series Nitrogen Production Units to support Chicago Bridge & Iron’s (CB&I) global Engineering and Construction commitments. These systems were designed to produce 36000 SCFH with a minimum Nitrogen purity of 96 percent. These new Nitrogen [...]

Excel Maritime Carriers Ltd (NYSE: EXM), an owner and operator of dry bulk carriers and a provider of worldwide seaborne transportation services for dry bulk cargoes, announced today that after the close of the market on Thursday, July 27, 2006 it will release its results for the second quarter and six month period ended June [...]

aterpillar Inc., the world’s largest maker of earthmoving equipment, said second-quarter profit rose 38 percent as demand for mining trucks and power generators fueled sales.
Net income increased to $1.05 billion, or $1.52 a share, from $760 million, or $1.08, a year earlier. Sales gained 13 percent to $10.6 billion, the Peoria, Illinois-based company said today [...]

A Colorado mountainside, the high plains of Wyoming or the Dakota prairie may become the next proving ground for a gee-whiz technology to clean up coal-fired power plants.
Several utilities, including Xcel Energy, are looking at building a $1 billion demonstration plant to prove the technology — called Integrated Gasification Combined Cycle, or IGCC — will [...]

Three new magnetic filters have recently been installed at the processing shop of Vanadium Ore Mining and Processing Enterprise of Kachkanar (part of Evraz Group), which is part of the complex renovation program. The enterprise bought 15 new magnetic filters made by Rudgormash of Voronezh at the beginning of March. In April, the company’s technicians [...]

Bharat Earth Movers (BEML) has bagged orders valued at Rs 42 crore for supply of mining equipment and spares from Tunisia and Syria.
The orders have been bagged against stiff international competition from global players, according to a statement issued by BEML today.
“The machines, comprising 85 tonne rear dump trucks and motor graders, would be deployed [...]

South African company Group 4 Securicor (G4S) is fast becoming the mining industry’s service provider of choice for integrated security solutions on the African continent, the firm reports. In South Africa, G4S is one of the country’s leading providers ofsecurity solutions to all categories of mines, with equally substantial operations on mines in Angola, Ghana, [...]