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Stopol Auctions to Host Auction at Cadmold Sarasota, Fla., Plant

September 19th, 2008
Stopol Auctions to Host Auction at Cadmold Sarasota, Fla., Plant

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 [...]

Axcess Micro-Wireless IDs Rolled out in West Virginia for Miner Safety

September 19th, 2008
Axcess Micro-Wireless IDs Rolled out in West Virginia for Miner Safety

Axcess International, Inc., a leading provider of Micro-Wireless business activity management solutions, today announced the rollout of its long range Micro-Wireless IDs across an initial 30 West Virginia mines to enable mine operators to comply with the new safety regulations outlined in The Miner Act of 2006. The Axcess miner tagging solution is embedded into [...]

Schnitzer Steel Industries Acquires Puerto Rico Metals Recycler

September 19th, 2008
Schnitzer Steel Industries Acquires Puerto Rico Metals Recycler

Schnitzer Steel Industries, Inc. announced that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Ponce Resources of Salinas, Puerto Rico. Ponce is engaged in the business of collecting, processing, and selling ferrous and nonferrous scrap metal and operates at four locations in the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico. The acquisition is expected to close during Schnitzer’s [...]

LINE-X Industrial Coatings to Launch New Flame Retardant Mining Products at 2008 MINExpo INTERNATIONAL

September 18th, 2008
LINE-X Industrial Coatings to Launch New Flame Retardant Mining Products at 2008 MINExpo INTERNATIONAL

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 [...]

Rio Tinto and GE Combine ‘Mine of the Future’ and ‘ecomagination’ Strategic Initiatives

September 18th, 2008
Rio Tinto and GE Combine ‘Mine of the Future’ and ‘ecomagination’ Strategic Initiatives

Rio Tinto and General Electric announced that they are working together on two key strategic technology projects, Rio Tinto’s ‘Mine of the Future™’ and GE’s ‘Ecomagination’”, to develop the most energy efficient and ecologically friendly solutions to support the future of mining.
Combining GE’s expertise in environmental technologies with Rio Tinto’s deep mining knowledge creates a [...]

HE-5 Resources, Corp. Announces Change in the Company

September 18th, 2008
HE-5 Resources, Corp. Announces Change in the Company

HE-5 Resources, Corp. announced that HE-5 Resources, Corp. has seen some drastic measures taking place within the mining organizations. There have been several offers made to HE-5 with respect to new partnerships and joint ventures.
Management stated, “At this time we have decided to restructure the company which seems to have attracted some interesting offers. The [...]

Todd Shipyards Corporation Announces Ratification of Labor Contract with Metal Trades Council

September 18th, 2008
Todd Shipyards Corporation Announces Ratification of Labor Contract with Metal Trades Council

Todd Shipyards Corporation announced that its wholly owned subsidiary, Todd Pacific Shipyards Corporation, has reached an agreement with the Puget Sound Metal Trades Council for a new five-year collective bargaining agreement. The Agreement was ratified by the employees of Todd by more than a 2-1 margin. Todd’s employees are represented by eleven local unions [...]

Alcoa Foundation Aids Victims of Hurricane Ike; Grant to American Red Cross Chapter in Louisiana

September 18th, 2008
Alcoa Foundation Aids Victims of Hurricane Ike; Grant to American Red Cross Chapter in Louisiana

Alcoa Foundation announced that it has awarded a $100,000 grant to the American Red Cross of Southwest Louisiana to aid victims of last week’s widespread flooding caused by Hurricane Ike. Alcoa employs approximately 200 people at its Lake Charles, Louisiana, anode plant.
The grants are a part of a longstanding commitment that Alcoa and Alcoa Foundation [...]

Timken Process Helps Customer Cut Cost and Reduce Waste

September 17th, 2008
Timken Process Helps Customer Cut Cost and Reduce Waste

The Timken Company is helping Oracle Packaging Co. reduce repair costs by providing a service that enables the damage-free removal and reuse of caster roll shells.
Oracle uses caster rolls and shells at its light-gauge converter foil production facility in Winston-Salem, N.C. Unexpected failures in a caster core, which houses the chilled water passages that keep [...]

Kerry Associates, Inc. Receives LOI for Exclusive Joint Venture on Behalf of W2 Energy, Inc.

September 17th, 2008
Kerry Associates, Inc. Receives LOI for Exclusive Joint Venture on Behalf of W2 Energy, Inc.

Kerry Associates announce that it has received a signed letter of intent on behalf of W2 Energy, Inc. from Aquarian Gold Corp. to become an exclusive Joint Venture Partner in Indonesia. The letter of intent would allow Aquarian Coal to become the exclusive Joint Venture Partner in Indonesia to use this technology to produce liquid [...]