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Consumer Reports' Current Issue Lists Top-Scored Interior Paints

Consumer Reports' March issue features the biggest interior paint test ever of more than 50 paints. For the first time, Consumer Reports found nearly all top-scoring paints to be among the lowest in volatile organic ...

5 Feb 2010

Market Research Report on Spanish Construction Industry

Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/7f283a/the_future_of_cons) has announced the addition of the "The Future of Construction in Spain" report to their offering. "The Future...

5 Feb 2010

U.S. Housing and Urban Development Officials to Address Smart Growth Conference

U.S. Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Secretary Shaun Donovan and Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood will visit Seattle on Thursday, February 4, to address the 9th Annual New Partners for Smart Growth Conference. The...

4 Feb 2010

L+T Secures Ammonia Feedstock Conversion Projects from NFL

Larsen & Toubro (L&T) has secured two major orders valued at Rs. 2155 crores from National Fertilizers Limited (NFL) for Ammonia Feedstock Conversion Projects at Panipat (Haryana) and Bathinda (Punjab). The two p...

4 Feb 2010

Mythic Paint Partners with Land of Nod for New Color Palette

Mythic® Paint (Mythic), the high performance paint with zero volatile organic compounds (VOCs) and zero toxins is very proud to announce a new partnership with the leading children's furnishings store – The...

4 Feb 2010

KYOCERA's 2010 Cutting Tool Catalog Features More Than 4000 New Products

Kyocera Industrial Ceramics Corporation, Cutting Tool Division, today announced the introduction of a new and expanded 2010 cutting tool product catalog. The new cutting tool catalog features a full line of products ...

4 Feb 2010

Market Report on Worldwide Cement Industry

Reportlinker.com announces that a new market research report is available in its catalogue: World Cement Industry (http://www.reportlinker.com/p0174805/World-Cement-Industry.html) Global demand to rise 4.1% annually t...

4 Feb 2010

Caterpillar Releases New Control System for Cat C-Series Loaders

Caterpillar has developed a new control feature that allows each operator to run a Cat® C-Series Skid-Steer, Multi-Terrain or Compact-Track Loader safely, productively, and comfortably.

4 Feb 2010

Aker Solutions Awarded New Biomass Renewable Plant Project by RWE

Aker Solutions previously announced (Monday 1 February 2010 at 08:00 CET) that it has been awarded a power plant project in Europe. Aker Solutions confirms the contract, awarded by RWE, is to provide design, supply, inst...

4 Feb 2010

Balfour Announces Acquisition of Hotel Construction and Fit-Out Firms

Balfour Beatty, the international infrastructure group operating in construction services, professional services, support services and infrastructure investments, announces today that it has acquired Multibuild Hotels an...

4 Feb 2010

STRABAG to Construct Section of S7 Expressway Near Warsaw

STRABAG SE, Central and Eastern Europe’s largest construction group and the market leader in the transportation infrastructure segment in Poland, announces a further success. The General Directorate for National Ro...

4 Feb 2010

Larsen + Toubro Wins New Construction Contracts Worth Rs.1100 Crore

Larsen & Toubro’s (L&T) Buildings & Factories Operating Company - part of its Construction Division – has bagged new orders aggregating to Rs.1100 crore recently for the construction of residentia...

4 Feb 2010

French Polynesia Docks are Illuminated with Carmanah's EverGEN Solar LED Lighting

Docks and wharfs throughout French Polynesia are now being illuminated with EverGEN™ solar LED lighting from Carmanah Technologies (TSX:CMH). This unique installation is the result of a government initiative to inc...

4 Feb 2010

Sweco Signs Contract to Modernise St. Petersburg’s Wastewater Treatment Plant

Sweco (STO:STO:SWECA)(STO:SWECB) has been commissioned to modernise St. Petersburg’s northern wastewater treatment plant, a facility that will take care one fifth of the city’s water. Among other things, the ...

4 Feb 2010

Dessau Secures Contract to Build New Rail Track in Algeria

Dessau, one of the largest engineering-construction firms in Canada, today announced that it obtained a contract of $38.8 million in Algeria's rail sector. The firm will conduct the preliminary and final design for t...

4 Feb 2010