Press Releases

Jiangsu Huadian Jurong Power Co. Ltd. has chosen Metso’s automation systems for its two greenfield 1000 MW power plant units located in Xiashu Town, Jurong City, Jiangsu Province, China. Scheduled to start up in the coming summer, the units are the first 1,000 MW units with ultra supercritical technology to be built by Jiangsu Huadian […]

The 100-megawatt solar thermal power plant, “Shams 1”, was officially launched in Abu Dhabi last week. Heart of the plant is a steam turbine which has been supplied by MAN Diesel & Turbo and will be used to drive a generator. The eco-friendly electricity this produces would be enough to serve roughly 57,000 German households. […]

Metso has been awarded its 5th repeated order from the CNIM group for the automation of another greenfield Waste to Energy plant in Great Blakenham (Suffolk,UK). Metso will supply an extensive Metso DNA automation system and safety system to the new plant. This order comes after similar ones for WtE plant in Turin (Italy), Tallin […]

Blythewood, SC – March 25, 2013 – Spirax Sarco, the leader in products and services for steam systems, is exciting to announce their latest training event: Steam Boiler Operator Training. This five-day course is being held on April 29 – May 3, 2013 at Spirax Sarco’s state-of-the-art training facility in Blythewood, South Carolina where participants […]

Livermore, CA, March 14, 2013 – MX Fire Solutions, a California-based fire protection contractor providing tailored solutions for various vertical markets, has been renamed to Minimax Fire Solutions, Inc. The name change emphasizes the company’s membership in the international Minimax Group, a global supplier of complete fire protection solutions headquartered in Bad Oldesloe, Germany. By […]

Wärtsilä Corporation, Company announcement, 15 March 2013 at 11.15 am EET Wärtsilä will set up a new fully-owned manufacturing facility in Brazil to meet the increasing market demand, particularly in the offshore market. Wärtsilä’s investment in the new facilities is approximately EUR 20 million. The manufacturing premises will be based on a multi-product factory concept […]

LAKE FOREST, CA—February 20, 2013—The advanced Model IR400 Point IR Combustible Gas Detector from General Monitors features an industry-leading three-second T90 response time to the presence of combustible hydrocarbon-based gases, which allows plant operators to respond quickly to gas leaks and avoid potential accidents. With its fast three-second response time, the Model IR400 Infrared Gas […]

ST LOUIS – Feb. 19, 2013 – Aclara Technologies LLC, a leading provider of intelligent infrastructure solutions and a member of the utility solutions group of ESCO Technologies Inc. (NYSE: ESE), today announced enhanced TWACS® (eTWACS™) at TechAdvantage 2013 in New Orleans. Aclara’s TWACS power-line communications technology is the leading advanced metering infrastructure (AMI) solution […]

KENNESAW, Ga. (February 15, 2013) — ENERCON has announced four executive promotions in its power group. Robert Bryan, formerly vice president is promoted to senior vice president. Jerry Curreri, formerly director, Southeast, Central States and West Coast operations has been promoted to vice president of the same region. Dave Studley, formerly director, Southeast, Central and […]

MADRID, SPAIN / CANONSBURG, PA, USA, February 5, 2013 – aqualia Industrial, the aqualia division for industrial water treatment, and Aquatech, a global leader in water & wastewater purification technologies for the industrial and infrastructure markets, have agreed to work on a collaborative basis for promoting business opportunities using aqualia Industrial’s biological treatment technologies for […]