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Skanksa wins NY contract
August 2003
MARKET PROSPECTS
Pump Industry Analyst
FW will carry out the work through a partnership with Duro Felguera SA, a Spanish manufacturing and construction contractor. FW originally supplied the 350 MWe boilers between 1976 and 1979 as brown coal units and modified the systems between 1993 and 1996, allowing the boilers to fire up to 50% imported coal. As a result of the run-down of the local brown coal mine supplying the plant, this latest upgrade is designed to enable the boilers to fire 100% imported low-sulfur coal. Work on the first unit will start immediately and the entire project is scheduled to be completed in 2008.
VA TECH HYDRO WINS PORTUGUESE CONTRACT VA Tech Hydro has been awarded a 2.7 million contract by EDP (Electricidad de Portugal) Energia for the turbine modernization of the Belver IV in Portugal. The upgrade will involve an integral turbine modernization and repair - shafts, bearings, runner, blades, shaft sealing housing, generator, excitation system, water cooling system, oil and water piping, spare parts and new governor including engineering, workshop and site assembly and commissioning. Located on the river Tajo, the Belver IV is due to be commissioned in February 2004.
COATINGS AKZO NOBEL TO BUILD CHINESE COATINGS PLANT Akzo Nobel is strengthening its position in the Chinese coatings market by investing in a new factory for decorative coatings.
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The facility, which will produce water-based wall paints for the Chinese market, will be built on the company’s existing site in Suzhou near Shanghai. Construction work on the factory is scheduled to begin by the end of the year. The new facility is expected to be operational by the first quarter of 2005.
MINING UNDERGROUND COAL MINE DOWN UNDER BHP Billiton Mitsubishi Alliance (BMA) plans to develop a new punch longwall underground coal mine in Central Queensland, Australia. The A$102 million Broadmeadow Mine will have the capacity to produce up to 3.6 million tonnes of high quality coking coal per year. Development is scheduled to start in the third quarter of 2003, with longwall operations set for the second half of 2005. Located on BMA’s Goonyella open cut mine lease, Broadmeadow Mine will feature BMA’s first application of punch longwall mining, an underground technique using an existing open cut pit for longwall panel access.
With an annual capacity of 60 000 metric tons of PolyTHF and 80 000 metric tons of THF, the project will be the largest PolyTHF production facility worldwide. The new plant, scheduled to be completed in the fourth quarter of 2004, will supply the rapidly expanding spandex fibre market in China. By 2010, BASF is aiming to generate 20% of sales and earnings in the chemical business in Asia Pacific, with strong local production.
AMEC TO BUILD CHINA’S FIRST PAN/CARBON FIBRE PLANT AMEC has been awarded a US$25 million contract by China Worldbest Group to engineer and construct a polyacrylonitrile (PAN) and carbon fibre production plant in Bengbu, Anhui province, eastern China. Working with Applied Composite Engineering Ltd, AMEC will undertake the engineering, procurement, project management, construction supervision and commissioning of what will be the first combined polyacrylonitrile and carbon fibre plant to be built in China. AMEC has already started engineering design at its offices in Shanghai and the UK, with project completion scheduled for February 2005.
CHEMICALS WORLD’S LARGEST POLYTHF PLANT FOR SHANGHAI BASF has laid the cornerstone of its new integrated production facility for polytetrahydrofuran (PolyTHF) and tetrahydrofuran (THF) in the Shanghai Chemical Industrial Park in Caojing, Shanghai, China.
WATER & WASTEWATER EFFORTS MADE TO BOOST IRAQI WATER CAPACITY USAID, with Bechtel as the lead contractor, is working with the Iraqi water authority to increase water capacity in eastern Baghdad from 153 million gallons per day to 206 million gallons per day.
The Coalition Provisional Authority (CPA) has provided funding for stand-alone generating units for all 34 of Baghdad’s water treatment plants. Bechtel is assessing the units’ condition and the additional power needed. In Basrah, Bechtel has started installing emergency power generators for the main water treatment and pumping plants. Meanwhile, the company’s water specialist continues to visit power plants, identifying the priorities for power plants needing water treatment upgrades.
PENNVEST APPROVES US$85M FOR WATER PROJECTS Pennsylvania Infrastructure Investment Authority (PENNVEST) has approved US$76.3 million in low-interest loans and US$8.7 million in grants to fund 31 drinking water, wastewater and storm water projects across the State. The funding ranges from US$180 200 for the installation of drinking water distribution lines in Washington County to more than US$10 million to construct 36 miles of collection lines and force mains in Beaver County.
SKANKSA WINS NY CONTRACT Skanska is to expand and upgrade the 310 million gallons per day Newtown Creek Water Pollution Control Plant in New York City. Skanska’s work accounts for US$222 million of the US$493 million project. The project is one of the final phases of a major plant upgrade to fulfill federal requirements to provide secondary treatment of all sewage. Work will begin in August and is scheduled to be completed in January 2008.
MARKET PROSPECTS
Pump Industry Analyst
FW will carry out the work through a partnership with Duro Felguera SA, a Spanish manufacturing and construction contractor. FW originally supplied the 350 MWe boilers between 1976 and 1979 as brown coal units and modified the systems between 1993 and 1996, allowing the boilers to fire up to 50% imported coal. As a result of the run-down of the local brown coal mine supplying the plant, this latest upgrade is designed to enable the boilers to fire 100% imported low-sulfur coal. Work on the first unit will start immediately and the entire project is scheduled to be completed in 2008.
VA TECH HYDRO WINS PORTUGUESE CONTRACT VA Tech Hydro has been awarded a 2.7 million contract by EDP (Electricidad de Portugal) Energia for the turbine modernization of the Belver IV in Portugal. The upgrade will involve an integral turbine modernization and repair - shafts, bearings, runner, blades, shaft sealing housing, generator, excitation system, water cooling system, oil and water piping, spare parts and new governor including engineering, workshop and site assembly and commissioning. Located on the river Tajo, the Belver IV is due to be commissioned in February 2004.
COATINGS AKZO NOBEL TO BUILD CHINESE COATINGS PLANT Akzo Nobel is strengthening its position in the Chinese coatings market by investing in a new factory for decorative coatings.
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The facility, which will produce water-based wall paints for the Chinese market, will be built on the company’s existing site in Suzhou near Shanghai. Construction work on the factory is scheduled to begin by the end of the year. The new facility is expected to be operational by the first quarter of 2005.
MINING UNDERGROUND COAL MINE DOWN UNDER BHP Billiton Mitsubishi Alliance (BMA) plans to develop a new punch longwall underground coal mine in Central Queensland, Australia. The A$102 million Broadmeadow Mine will have the capacity to produce up to 3.6 million tonnes of high quality coking coal per year. Development is scheduled to start in the third quarter of 2003, with longwall operations set for the second half of 2005. Located on BMA’s Goonyella open cut mine lease, Broadmeadow Mine will feature BMA’s first application of punch longwall mining, an underground technique using an existing open cut pit for longwall panel access.
With an annual capacity of 60 000 metric tons of PolyTHF and 80 000 metric tons of THF, the project will be the largest PolyTHF production facility worldwide. The new plant, scheduled to be completed in the fourth quarter of 2004, will supply the rapidly expanding spandex fibre market in China. By 2010, BASF is aiming to generate 20% of sales and earnings in the chemical business in Asia Pacific, with strong local production.
AMEC TO BUILD CHINA’S FIRST PAN/CARBON FIBRE PLANT AMEC has been awarded a US$25 million contract by China Worldbest Group to engineer and construct a polyacrylonitrile (PAN) and carbon fibre production plant in Bengbu, Anhui province, eastern China. Working with Applied Composite Engineering Ltd, AMEC will undertake the engineering, procurement, project management, construction supervision and commissioning of what will be the first combined polyacrylonitrile and carbon fibre plant to be built in China. AMEC has already started engineering design at its offices in Shanghai and the UK, with project completion scheduled for February 2005.
CHEMICALS WORLD’S LARGEST POLYTHF PLANT FOR SHANGHAI BASF has laid the cornerstone of its new integrated production facility for polytetrahydrofuran (PolyTHF) and tetrahydrofuran (THF) in the Shanghai Chemical Industrial Park in Caojing, Shanghai, China.
WATER & WASTEWATER EFFORTS MADE TO BOOST IRAQI WATER CAPACITY USAID, with Bechtel as the lead contractor, is working with the Iraqi water authority to increase water capacity in eastern Baghdad from 153 million gallons per day to 206 million gallons per day.
The Coalition Provisional Authority (CPA) has provided funding for stand-alone generating units for all 34 of Baghdad’s water treatment plants. Bechtel is assessing the units’ condition and the additional power needed. In Basrah, Bechtel has started installing emergency power generators for the main water treatment and pumping plants. Meanwhile, the company’s water specialist continues to visit power plants, identifying the priorities for power plants needing water treatment upgrades.
PENNVEST APPROVES US$85M FOR WATER PROJECTS Pennsylvania Infrastructure Investment Authority (PENNVEST) has approved US$76.3 million in low-interest loans and US$8.7 million in grants to fund 31 drinking water, wastewater and storm water projects across the State. The funding ranges from US$180 200 for the installation of drinking water distribution lines in Washington County to more than US$10 million to construct 36 miles of collection lines and force mains in Beaver County.
SKANKSA WINS NY CONTRACT Skanska is to expand and upgrade the 310 million gallons per day Newtown Creek Water Pollution Control Plant in New York City. Skanska’s work accounts for US$222 million of the US$493 million project. The project is one of the final phases of a major plant upgrade to fulfill federal requirements to provide secondary treatment of all sewage. Work will begin in August and is scheduled to be completed in January 2008.