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Peab Wins Contract for Expansion of Gothenburg Networks for Heating, Cooling and Gas

Peab (STO:PEABB) is one of three contractors awarded a contract to implement an expansion of Gothenburg networks for district heating, cooling and gas. The contract also includes repair and maintenance work. The custo...

13 Jan 2010

Solitario Exploration Plans for New Development Activities in Bongará Zinc Project, Peru

Solitario Exploration & Royalty Corp. (“Solitario”) (NYSE Amex:XPL) (TSX:SLR) announced that significant new exploration and development activities are planned for 2010 on its high-grade Bongará zinc...

13 Jan 2010

Intergraph and Skire Partner to Offer Integrated Solution to EPC Companies

Leading enterprise engineering and capital project management software providers Intergraph® and Skire have formed a strategic partnership to enable engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) companies and owner...

13 Jan 2010

Tri-Tech Wins Contract for Wastewater Treatment Plant Construction Project in China

Tri-Tech Holding Inc. (Nasdaq: TRIT), a premier Chinese company that engineers, manages and monitors municipal sewer systems, natural waterways and other water resources, announced today that it has received a RMB11.5 mi...

13 Jan 2010

UOP Selected for DOE Award to Construct Biomass Demonstration Unit in Hawaii

UOP LLC, a Honeywell (NYSE: HON) company, announced today it has been selected for negotiation of a $25 million award from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) to build a demonstration unit in Hawaii to convert cell...

13 Jan 2010

Sino-Forest Purchases China-Based Engineered-Wood Products Manufacturer

Sino-Forest Corporation (TSX: TRE), a leading commercial forest plantation operator in China, announced the acquisition by one of its wholly-owned subsidiaries of HOMIX LIMITED ("HOMIX"), a company engaged in r...

13 Jan 2010

Research Report on Energy Service Company Market in US

Reportlinker.com announces that a new market research report is available in its catalogue: The U.S. Energy Service Company Market http://www.reportlinker.com/p0170917/The-US-Energy-Service-Company-Market.html Energy ...

13 Jan 2010

Zamagias Properties Redevelops Building in Bethany College, West Virginia

Zamagias Properties announced today it has begun the redevelopment of an existing building on the campus of Bethany College, returning it to its original use of student housing. Bethany, a small college of nati...

13 Jan 2010

Virginia-Based Dietze Construction Group Acquired by Suffolk Construction

Suffolk Construction Company, one of the nation’s largest private construction managers, announced today that it has acquired The Dietze Construction Group based in Ashburn, Virginia. The merging of these two promi...

13 Jan 2010

FHVE to Invest in Construction of Family Holiday Village in Elkhart County

Elkhart County, Indiana today announced $10 million in assistance through Recovery Zone Facility Bonds. This assistance will be used to fund the first of three holiday villages. The first holiday village site will be loc...

13 Jan 2010

Fortress Group Delivers 100,000 Metric Tons of Cement to Cameroon

Fortress Group, a global sourcing, commodities trading and investment company headquartered in Hong Kong, with operational presence in New York, Dubai, China and several African Countries has embarked on shipping 100,000...

13 Jan 2010

AK Steel Increases Spot Market Base Price for Carbon Steel Products, Effective Immediately

AK Steel (NYSE: AKS) said today that it will increase spot market base prices by $60 per ton, effective immediately with all new orders for its carbon steel products. AK Steel also said that it has also increase...

13 Jan 2010

China Infrastructure Construction Enters Deal with Institute of Building Materials for Technical Support

China Infrastructure Construction Corporation (OTC Bulletin Board: CHNC), one of the major U.S.- listed providers of ready-mix concrete in Beijing, today announced that it reached a three year agreement with the Institut...

13 Jan 2010

Saflex SilentGlas Technology Wins Product of the Year

Solutia Inc. (NYSE: SOA), the world leader in the production and sale of polyvinyl butyral (PVB) interlayers, today announced that the company's Saflex(R) SilentGlass Technology(TM) product was awarded first place, s...

12 Jan 2010

BASF Building Materials that Reduce Carbon Emissions go on Show in Dubai

Insulation materials for buildings, black pigments for reducing surface heat and concrete admixtures helping to lower CO2 emissions – these are just a few examples of the solutions that BASF will be exhibiting at the World Future Energy Summit in Abu Dhabi in the United Arab Emirates from January 18 to 21. With its cost-efficient concepts for sustainable building, BASF is showing that CO2 emissions can be substantially reduced in the construction and use of buildings and that the living comfort is improved as well.

12 Jan 2010