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    <pubDate>Thu, 09 Feb 2012 12:14:55 -0600</pubDate>
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      <title>North American Food &amp; Beverage Industry Ramps Up Plans to Build Grassroot Plants</title>
      <link>http://www.industrialinfo.com/showNews.jsp?newsitemID=194263</link>
      <description><![CDATA[<img src="http://www.industrialinfo.com/newscontent/images/newsattachment20120112btn.png" border="0" align="right" alt="Click to view Food & Beverage Grassroot Plant Construction" style="border: 1px solid #000; margin: 0px 10px 10px;" />SUGAR LAND--January 12, 2012--Researched by Industrial Info Resources (Sugar Land, Texas)--Food and beverage manufacturers and distributors are ramping up plans to build new manufacturing plants and distribution facilities across North America. Industrial Info has identified 130 grassroot <a href="http://www.industrialinfo.com/marketcoverage.jsp?pagerequest=marketcoverage10" target="_blank">Food & Beverage Industry</a> construction projects that are planned or under construction and are scheduled to be completed by the end of the 2012.  The investment values of the projects range from as low as $600,000 up to $160 million.<br><br>
The combined total investment value (TIV) of all projects is about $2.6 billion. Projects are being developed by companies including <a href="http://financialmarkets.industrialinfo.com/industrialinfo./quote?Symbol=adm" target="_blank">Archer Daniels Midland Company (NYSE:ADM)</a> (Decatur, Illinois), <a href="http://financialmarkets.industrialinfo.com/industrialinfo./quote?Symbol=gis" target="_blank">General Mills Incorporated (NYSE:GIS)</a> (Minneapolis, Minnesota), <a href="http://financialmarkets.industrialinfo.com/industrialinfo./quote?Symbol=syy" target="_blank">Sysco Corporation (NYSE:SYY)</a> (Houston, Texas), US Foods (Rosemont, Illinois), <a href="http://financialmarkets.industrialinfo.com/industrialinfo./quote?Symbol=bg" target="_blank">Bunge Limited (NYSE:BG)</a> (White Plains, New York) and many others.]]></description>
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      <title>Year Starts with Bang for Industrial Projects in Louisiana</title>
      <link>http://www.industrialinfo.com/showNews.jsp?newsitemID=194357</link>
      <description><![CDATA[SUGAR LAND--January 13, 2012--Researched by Industrial Info Resources (Sugar Land, Texas)--With the New Year's celebratory champagne toast still a fresh memory, <a href="http://www.industrialinfo.com/marketcoverage.jsp?pagerequest=marketcoverage12" target="_blank">industrial</a> firms have kicked off 2012 with a bang in western Louisiana. A trio of projects totaling $750 million has recently begun construction. <a href="http://financialmarkets.industrialinfo.com/industrialinfo./quote?Symbol=321%3A166587" target="_blank">Entergy Corporation (NYSE:ETR)</a> (New Orleans, Louisiana), Valero Refining, and Bunge all have major projects under way in the area. This is the tip of the iceberg, as Louisiana has more than $20 billion in planned industrial projects across 12 vertical industries that are scheduled to begin construction in 2012, according to Industrial Info's <a href="http://www.industrialinfo.com/prodserv/prodserv.jsp?pagerequest=dbproducts" target="_blank">North American Industrial Database</a>.<br><br>
Other companies featured: <a href="http://financialmarkets.industrialinfo.com/industrialinfo./quote?Symbol=321%3A149165" target="_blank">The Shaw Group Incorporated (NYSE:SHAW)</a>, <a href="http://financialmarkets.industrialinfo.com/industrialinfo./quote?Symbol=321%3A685352" target="_blank">Valero Energy (NYSE:VLO)</a>, <a href="http://financialmarkets.industrialinfo.com/industrialinfo./quote?Symbol=321%3A954062" target="_blank">Murphy Oil Corporation (NYSE:MUR)</a>, <a href="http://financialmarkets.industrialinfo.com/industrialinfo./quote?Symbol=bg" target="_blank">Bunge Limited (NYSE:BG)</a>]]></description>
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      <title>CONSOL Energy Approves $1.7 Billion in Planned Spending in 2012</title>
      <link>http://www.industrialinfo.com/showNews.jsp?newsitemID=194141</link>
      <description><![CDATA[SUGAR LAND--January 11, 2012--Researched by Industrial Info Resources (Sugar Land, Texas)--<a href="http://financialmarkets.industrialinfo.com/industrialinfo./quote?Symbol=cnx" target="_blank">CONSOL Energy Incorporated (NYSE:CNX)</a> (Canonsburg, Pennsylvania) announced yesterday that the company's board of directors has approved a 2012 capital budget of $1.7 billion, up from $1.4 billion in 2011.  The budget includes $755 million to be invested in <a href="http://www.industrialinfo.com/marketcoverage.jsp?pagerequest=marketcoverage08" target="_blank">coal mining</a> projects and $720 million in <a href="http://www.industrialinfo.com/marketcoverage.jsp?pagerequest=marketcoverage04" target="_blank">gas production</a> projects.]]></description>
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      <title>U.S. Rail Projects Worth $25 Billion Planned to Begin in 2012</title>
      <link>http://www.industrialinfo.com/showNews.jsp?newsitemID=194128</link>
      <description><![CDATA[SUGAR LAND--January 11, 2012--Researched by Industrial Info Resources (Sugar Land, Texas)--Industrial Info is tracking more than $25 billion in U.S. rail projects that are currently scheduled to begin construction in 2012. The <a href="http://www.industrialinfo.com/opd/opdwcdemo/index.jsp" target="_blank">West Coast region</a> will once again lead the way when it comes to planned rail projects. Just about every community in the state of California is involved in some way with a rail system, and more are planned each and every day, while projects in both Oregon and Washington are flourishing.]]></description>
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      <title>Developers Study Maryland for the Addition of More Than 4,600 Megawatts of Power Generation</title>
      <link>http://www.industrialinfo.com/showNews.jsp?newsitemID=194265</link>
      <description><![CDATA[SUGAR LAND--January 12, 2012--Researched by Industrial Info Resources (SugaLand, Texas)--Maryland developers are looking at the development of more than 4,600 megawatts (MW) of power generation to be added between 2013 and the end of 2017. More than 85% of this new generation will be from <a href="http://www.industrialinfo.com/prodserv/prodserv.jsp?pagerequest=renewables&tab=A" target="_blank">renewable</a> sources. <br><br>
Companies featured:  <a href="http://financialmarkets.industrialinfo.com/industrialinfo./quote?Symbol=nrg" target="_blank">NRG Energy (NYSE:NRG)</a>]]></description>
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