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RSC Equipment Rental to Showcase New Integrated Services Group at MINExpo

September 11th, 2008
RSC Equipment Rental to Showcase New Integrated Services Group at MINExpo

RSC Equipment Rental, one of the largest equipment rental providers in North America, announced that it will host a case study to spotlight a leading international mining company and exhibit at MINExpo International 2008 September 22-24 in Las Vegas. Both events will showcase RSC’s people, services and equipment while highlighting innovative programs that set RSC [...]

Joy Global Inc. Expands Stock Buyback Program to $2 Billion

September 11th, 2008
Joy Global Inc. Expands Stock Buyback Program to $2 Billion

Joy Global Inc., a worldwide leader in high-productivity mining solutions, today announced that during its regularly scheduled quarterly meeting on September, 9, 2008, the Company’s Board of Directors authorized an increase and extension of its share repurchase program. The Board’s action increases the authorization from $1 billion to $2 billion and extends the expiration for [...]

MSA Secures $25 Million in Breathing Apparatus Contracts for U.S. Air Force

September 10th, 2008
MSA Secures $25 Million in Breathing Apparatus Contracts for U.S. Air Force

MSA announced that it has been awarded two separate contracts to supply the U.S. Air Force with a newly developed self-contained breathing apparatus (SCBA) system. The contracts, issued by the federal General Services Administration and valued at a combined $24.6 million, represent incremental awards above and beyond an initial $36 million Air Force SCBA contract, [...]

Global Manufacturing Leaders Gather in Michigan to Discuss Industry Challenges

September 9th, 2008
Global Manufacturing Leaders Gather in Michigan to Discuss Industry Challenges

Leading metalforming manufacturers from the United States, Asia, Latin America and Europe will hear from industry giants and discuss the top challenges facing the industry worldwide at the 16th International Congress of Sheet Metal Presswork Associations (ICOSPA) September 14-17 in Grand Rapids, MI.
The focus of the program is taken from today’s manufacturing headlines: the rising [...]

Wajax Receives Competition Bureau Approval and Completes Purchase of Weir Process Equipment Business

September 9th, 2008
Wajax Receives Competition Bureau Approval and Completes Purchase of Weir Process Equipment Business

Wajax Income Fund announced that it has received approval from the Competition Bureau to proceed with its previously announced agreement to acquire the assets of Weir Process Equipment, a division of Weir Canada Inc. for $25.4 million, subject to post-closing adjustments. The transaction closed today.
Wajax is a diversified income fund that has three core [...]

Kolene Awarded Additional Aerospace Orders

September 8th, 2008
Kolene Awarded Additional Aerospace Orders

Defying the area’s economic downturn, Kolene Corporation reported today it received more than $1.5 million in new equipment orders from aerospace companies. The orders include:
– Two automated systems for removing molybdenum disulfide lubricants from titanium fasteners used in military and commercial aircraft and other critical high performance applications. One system will be installed at Air [...]

NATCO Group Inc. Acquires Connor Sales, Inc.

September 8th, 2008
NATCO Group Inc. Acquires Connor Sales, Inc.

NATCO Group Inc. announced that, effective August 31, 2008, its subsidiary acquired Connor Sales Company, Inc., a provider of oil field equipment and services to customers in the Williston Basin and Bakken Oil Shale of North Dakota, for approximately $37 million in cash consideration, subject to certain adjustments.
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of NATCO, [...]

International crowd bids at Edmonton auction on Ritchie Bros.’ 50th anniversary

September 8th, 2008
International crowd bids at Edmonton auction on Ritchie Bros.’ 50th anniversary

More than 4,100 people from 21 countries registered to bid on CA$41 million (US$39 million) of construction, transportation, forestry, agricultural and other industrial equipment sold at an unreserved public auction in Alberta last week. Ritchie Bros. Auctioneers, the world’s largest industrial auctioneer, conducted the auction at its permanent auction site in Edmonton on September 3 [...]

Anglo Swiss Resources Begins Installation of New Gold Processing Equipment-Kenville Gold Mine

September 4th, 2008
Anglo Swiss Resources Begins Installation of New Gold Processing Equipment-Kenville Gold Mine

Anglo Swiss Resources Inc. report that it has taken delivery and initiated installation of mineral processing equipment for its 100% owned Kenville Gold Mine and Milling property located near the City of Nelson in South Eastern British Columbia.
The newly purchased crushing and milling equipment (the “Equipment”) consists of:
1) 2 ball mills with drives;
2) a classifier; [...]

Curtiss-Wright Acquires Parylene Coating Services

September 4th, 2008
Curtiss-Wright Acquires Parylene Coating Services

Curtiss-Wright Corporation announced that it has acquired certain assets and liabilities of Parylene Coating Services, Inc. (”PCS”) of Katy, TX for approximately $7.6 million in cash. PCS applies parylene coatings primarily for the medical device industry. The business will become part of Curtiss-Wright’s Metal Treatment segment.
“The acquisition of PCS fits our strategy of expanding Curtiss-Wright’s [...]