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    <pubDate>Sun, 27 May 2012 08:01:21 -0500</pubDate>
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      <title>Durable Goods Orders Rebound in April as Industrial Construction Starts Boom</title>
      <link>http://www.industrialinfo.com/showNews.jsp?newsitemID=220480</link>
      <description><![CDATA[SUGAR LAND--May 25, 2012--Researched by Industrial Info Resources (Sugar Land, Texas)--Since the beginning of 2012, all indications have pointed to a slowing of the economic recovery in the United States. Home sales and new construction in the residential arena has remained off kilter, the jobs recovery efforts initiated in 2011 have not borne the type of fruit that was predicted, and while industrial construction has been doing quite well this year, that may have more to do with the mild winter than anything else. March was a rough month for durable goods orders with the adjusted figures showing a decline of 3.7% for the month. However, those orders did make a modest recovery in April, increasing 0.2% as industrial construction starts came close to doubling once again.]]></description>
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      <title>RWE Bets on Fair Winds for Future Energy</title>
      <link>http://www.industrialinfo.com/showNews.jsp?newsitemID=220551</link>
      <description><![CDATA[GALWAY, IRELAND--May 25, 2012 --Written by Martin Lynch, European News Editor for Industrial Info (Galway, Ireland) German energy giant, RWE AG (OTC:RWEOY) (Essen, Germany), is pinning its future on wind and solar power as it attempts to recover from Germany's decision to ditch nuclear power last year. <br><br>
The company's new incumbent chief executive, Peter Terium, this week reinforced the company's pledge to renewable energy, by launching a €100 million ($126 million) offshore wind vessel that will be used to build the company's first German offshore windfarm.]]></description>
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      <title>Improved Geothermal Technologies Allow Development in New Areas</title>
      <link>http://www.industrialinfo.com/showNews.jsp?newsitemID=220411</link>
      <description><![CDATA[SUGAR LAND--May 25, 2012--Researched by Industrial Info Resources (Sugar Land, Texas)--The U.S. Bureau of Land Management (BLM) (Washington, D.C.) has leased 10 parcels of land in Nevada and Colorado to geothermal development companies to pursue renewable power projects. In the future, thousands of acres that are now undeveloped could produce thousands of megawatts of renewable geothermal power when these projects are constructed.]]></description>
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      <title>More Than $1.65 Billion in Industrial Manufacturing Projects to Wrap Up in U.S. Midwest This Year</title>
      <link>http://www.industrialinfo.com/showNews.jsp?newsitemID=220400</link>
      <description><![CDATA[SUGAR LAND--May 25, 2012--Researched by Industrial Info Resources (Sugar Land, Texas)--The <a href="http://www.industrialinfo.com/opd/opdmwdemo/index.jsp" target="_blank">Midwest region</A> of the United States has several <a href="http://www.industrialinfo.com/marketcoverage.jsp?pagerequest=marketcoverage12" target="_blank">Industrial Manufacturing Industry</a> projects that are planned to wrap up construction and begin operations by the end of the year. Industrial Info is currently tracking 85 Industrial Manufacturing projects with a total investment value of $1.65 billion that are planned to be completed by the end of the year in the Midwest.<BR><BR>
Companies featured:  <a href="http://financialmarkets.industrialinfo.com/industrialinfo./quote?Symbol=f" target="_blank">Ford Motor Company (NYSE:F)</A>]]></description>
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      <title>Pakistan Refinery Plans $1.5 Billion Expansion</title>
      <link>http://www.industrialinfo.com/showNews.jsp?newsitemID=220420</link>
      <description><![CDATA[DELHI, INDIA--May 25, 2012--Researched by Industrial Info Resources India (Delhi, India)--Pakistan's private-sector refinery major National Refinery Limited (KSE:PRL) (NRL) (Karachi, Pakistan) has planned a $1.5 billion expansion of its 62,000-barrel-per-day (BBL/d) Korangi refinery. Scheduled to begin by the end of this year, the $1.5 billion expansion program includes a revamp of the atmospheric distillation unit in the first lube oil plant from its current capacity of 12,000 BBL/d to 17,000 BBL/d, and capacity expansions of the crude distillation unit (CDU) and vacuum distillation unit (VDU) of the fuel plant to 53,000 BBL/d and 6,600 BBL/d, respectively.<br><br>
Other companies featured: <a href="http://financialmarkets.industrialinfo.com/industrialinfo./quote?Symbol=hon" target="_blank">Honeywell International's (NYSE:HON)</a>]]></description>
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      <title>Gunvor IBR Refinery in Belgium Resumes Operations</title>
      <link>http://www.industrialinfo.com/showNews.jsp?newsitemID=220490</link>
      <description><![CDATA[CORDOBA, ARGENTINA--May 25, 2012--Researched by Industrial Info Resources (Sugar Land, Texas)--Gunvor (Geneva, Switzerland) has completed the restart of its 110,000-barrel-per-day (BBL/d) IBR refinery in Antwerp, Belgium, which has been shut down due to poor market conditions and economics issues since January 9.]]></description>
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      <title>NEPC Completes Boiler Water Pressure Test for Ningdong Cogeneration Project</title>
      <link>http://www.industrialinfo.com/showNews.jsp?newsitemID=220383</link>
      <description><![CDATA[BEIJING--May 25, 2012--Researched by Industrial Info Resources (Sugar Land, Texas)--Ningxia Electric Power Construction Corporation (NEPC) (Yinchuan, Ningxia), which is a subsidiary of Power Construction Corporation of China (PCCC) (Beijing), successfully completed the boiler water pressure test for the first 330-megawatt (MW) combined heat and power unit of Ningxia Guodian Younglight Energy and Chemical Industry Group Company Limited's (Yinchuan, Ningxia) 660-MW Ningdong cogeneration project on May 18. This opens the way for the timely commissioning of the first unit in the next stage.]]></description>
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      <title>Jacobs Engineering Wins FEED Contract for Major Saudi Phosphate Mining Expansion</title>
      <link>http://www.industrialinfo.com/showNews.jsp?newsitemID=220382</link>
      <description><![CDATA[JOHANNESBURG--May 25, 2012--Written by Richard Finlayson, Senior International Editor for Industrial Info Resources (Sugar Land, Texas)--Saudi Arabian Mining Company (Ma'aden) (Riyadh, Saudi Arabia) could add 50% to its current annual production capacity of 3 million tons of diammonium phosphate (DAP), with its Umm Wu'al project that is being planned for the Sirhan-Turaif region in the north of the country. <a href="http://financialmarkets.industrialinfo.com/industrialinfo./quote?Symbol=jec" target="_blank">Jacobs Engineering Group Incorporated (NYSE:JEC)</a> (Pasadena, California) has been awarded a contract to provide a bankable feasibility study with front-end engineering and design (FEED) for the project.]]></description>
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      <title>ZTPC Completes Generator Stator Erection for 390-Megawatt Combined-Cycle Unit</title>
      <link>http://www.industrialinfo.com/showNews.jsp?newsitemID=220386</link>
      <description><![CDATA[BEIJING--May 25, 2012--Researched by Industrial Info Resources (Sugar Land, Texas)--Zhejiang Thermal Power Construction Company (ZTPC) (Hangzhou, Zhejiang), a subsidiary of China Energy Engineering Corporation (CEEC) (Beijing), successfully completed the generator stator erection for the first 390-megawatt (MW) combined-cycle unit of the gas-fired cogeneration expansion project at the Hangzhou Banshan power plant on May 22.]]></description>
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      <title>Race to Develop Australia's First Potash Project is On</title>
      <link>http://www.industrialinfo.com/showNews.jsp?newsitemID=220381</link>
      <description><![CDATA[PERTH, AUSTRALIA--May 25, 2012--Researched by Industrial Info Resources (Perth, Australia)--With Australia's long history as a major agricultural producer and exporter, it is surprising that the country's history as a producer of <a href="http://www.industrialinfo.com/marketcoverage.jsp?pagerequest=marketcoverage08_intl" target="_blank">potash</a>, the main use for which is as a fertilizer, is very limited. With the world's population growing rapidly, recently passing the 7 billion mark and expected to hit 8 billion by 2027, and the ever-decreasing availability of arable farmland, the long-term global demand for potash is set to rise. This has prompted Western Australian exploration company Potash West NL (ASX:PWN) (Perth, Australia) to join the race to develop Australia's first potash mine.]]></description>
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