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Nigeria: Oil, Gas Risk Exposure Hits N11 Trillion - AllAfrica.com Mon 17 Nov 11:19pm Oil and gas- related risk exposure in the country stands at dollar 101.14 billion ( N11 trillion) the Group Managing Director of NNPC, Emir Abubakar Yar' Adua, has said. According to him, corresponding premium is at dollar 234million while about 33 per cent or ...... http://allafrica.com/stories/200811171426.html Potential in Malaysia's optics industry: Expert - Business Times Malaysia Mon 17 Nov 6:26pm DR ROBERT P. Breault, an expert on the science of optics or light, is convinced of Malaysia's potential in the sophisticated high-end technology. However, the country must prepare its workforce and address what is lacking at learning institutions ...... http://www.btimes.com.my/Current_News/BTIMES/articles/rup151a/Article/index_html Domestic consumers better off than industries - Hindu Sun 16 Nov 7:46pm Domestic consumers of electricity all over the State, especially in cities and towns, seem to be better off these days than what they were a month or two ago. Complaints from agriculturists, too, are less. But, the voices of industry and commerce ...... http://www.hindu.com/2008/11/17/stories/2008111754630500.htm Solar power 'concentrator' could revolutionize industry, Cleveland ... - Clevelan... Sun 16 Nov 8:33am GreenField Solar Corp. GreenField Solar Corp., a startup company in Cleveland, developed this unique solar generator that it views as the future of solar power. The lightweight equipment concentrates sunlight 900 times to produce 1,500 watts of power ...... http://blog.cleveland.com/business/2008/11/greenfield_solargreenfield_sol.html Mid-States Steel Corp. expands to increase production flow - Nevada Journal Fri 14 Nov 5:32pm On Thursday morning, employees at Mid-States Steel Corp., 2515 Industrial Park Rd., completed a yearlong project - by finalizing a 10-ton bridge crane - giving the plant its 13th bridge crane. "We're growing a little bit and we need to move more ...... http://www.zwire.com/site/tab3.cfm?newsid=20198487&BRD=2700&PAG=461&dept_id=554434&rfi=6 Alton Steel laying off 41 workers - Arlington Heights Daily Herald Fri 14 Nov 2:19pm ALTON -- Alton Steel Inc. has confirmed that it will lay off 41 union production workers Sunday because of the economic downturn and production slowdown in the steel industry. Word of the layoffs came Thursday -- the same day as U.S. Steel announced ...... http://www.dailyherald.com/story/?id=250660 Alton Steel laying off 41 workers - Quad-Cities Times Fri 14 Nov 12:39pm ALTON, Ill. - Alton Steel Inc. has confirmed that it will lay off 41 union production workers Sunday because of the economic downturn and production slowdown in the steel industry. Word of the layoffs came Thursday _ the same day as U.S. Steel ...... http://www.qctimes.com/articles/2008/11/14/ap-state-il/d94elppo0.txt Alton Steel laying off 41 workers - 13 WREX-TV Fri 14 Nov 10:44am ALTON, Ill. (AP) - Alton Steel Inc. has confirmed that it will lay off 41 union production workers Sunday because of the economic downturn and production slowdown in the steel industry. Word of the layoffs came Thursday - the same day as U.S. Steel ...... http://www.wrex.com/Global/story.asp?S=9348721 Timken shows off high-tech steel mill - Akron Beacon Journal Fri 14 Nov 5:44am CANTON: There was an apparent incongruity in Timken Co.'s timing Thursday of opening a dollar 60 million small steel-bar rolling mill that will count heavily on a slumping prime customer. It wasn't lost on company President and Chief Executive Officer Jim ...... http://www.ohio.com/news/top_stories/34446024.html High Growth Forecasted for the Welding Equipment and Supplies: The ... - PR Inside Thu 13 Nov 10:17am the extra space if one exists.) The true impact of welding on the metalworking industry can be gauged by the total value of the parts produced by welding; the amount of money saved by the use of welding over other metal fabrication processes like ...... http://www.pr-inside.com/high-growth-forecasted-for-the-welding-r914029.htm If you have a sheet steel manufacturing press release or some metal fabricator company news that you would like us to consider publishing, then please contact our fabrication news editor. MCI and steelonthenet.com gratefully acknowledge the contribution of the metal information team at Sheetmetalworld.com in providing some of the reports above. |