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 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, 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 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 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. 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 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 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 [...]

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 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 [...]