The Timken Company announced today that it is providing industrial services to Sparrows Point, a fully integrated steel mill based in Baltimore.
As a full-service supplier to Sparrow’s Point, Timken performs bearing repair, chock repair, roll repair and other lifecycle services for the steel producer. Timken provides service on approximately 50 different bearing part numbers for [...]

TransMontaigne Partners L.P. announced that effective July 8, 2008, Charles L. Dunlap has been appointed to serve as a member of the Board of Directors and will also serve as a member of the Conflicts Committee of TransMontaigne GP L.L.C., the General Partner of the Partnership. The General Partner is responsible for managing the [...]

OAO Severstal, one of the world’s leading metals and mining companies, today announced that it has reached a binding agreement to purchase WCI Steel, a market leader in the production of value-added steel products based in Warren, Ohio.
According to the terms of the agreement, Severstal will acquire all outstanding equity of WCI for a total [...]

Workers found the bodies of two miners in the cabs of heavy machinery, three days after they were buried when a wall section collapsed in an open-pit coal mine.
The men appeared to have died instantly, said Bob Cornett, acting regional director for the federal Mine Safety and Health Administration. Their remains were found Friday beneath [...]

The Board of Directors of Petroleum & Resources Corporation voted today to extend its share repurchase program and has authorized the repurchase of up to 5% of the outstanding shares of the Corporation’s common stock over the next twelve months. Purchases will be made in the open market when the shares are trading at a [...]

California Polytechnic State University’s (Cal Poly) Engineering West will dedicate its new solar photovoltaic energy system on December 7 at 11 a.m.
The Cal Poly solar panel system, part of an extended California State pilot program, was installed in September 2006 at no cost to the university. The system, which is expected to generate 263,000 kilowatt [...]

With new ethanol plants going online monthly and increasing demand for the homegrown fuel additives, transportation companies are scurrying to provide the needed trains, trucks and storage tanks to keep up with the rapidly growing industry.
The fuel additive industry is growing from regional to national distribution, driven by a federal renewable fuels standard beginning in [...]

Agroup of Maryland grain farmers who have been trying to push ahead with plans to build the state’s first ethanol production plant can be forgiven for feeling as though they are pursuing an elusive objective.
“We thought we would be further along than we are at this time, but we are working at it,” Eastern Shore [...]