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Major contract announcement for French company in Pakistan

Verlinde France, a division of leading French manufacturer Verlinde, has announced a major contract in Pakistan – a massive new order with Indus Toyota. As part of the deal, Verlinde has supplied Indus Toyota’s car plant in Karachi with one of its latest 80-tonne cranes.

“Working with Indus Toyota at this time is a positive step forward and is a good start to our presence in Pakistan and our expanding global operation,” said Thomas Descamps, managing director of Verlinde. “The Pakistan team has done a great job and we look forward to promoting not just the cranes we can supply, but the wide range of services we can offer this expanding marketplace.”

These wide-ranging services include Chain Hoist, which is new from Pakistan and is a product in which Verlinde has direct expertise. The company is also able to supply the same equipment (including the ATEX explosion proof range) that customers in Pakistan are familiar with, and the liaison office continues to have rapid access to genuine Morris brand name spares for cranes, ensuring continuity of service for those customers. Visit: www.verlinde.com

DavyMarkham secures golden £10m contract

Heavy engineering specialist DavyMarkham has secured a contract worth more than £10m to supply drum hoists to a Canadian gold producer. The Sheffield based company, which fabricates and supplies complex engineered components, has a strong track record in delivering drum hoists to mines across the globe and the contract will see the hoists operating at the Goldcorp Éléonore Project in northern Quebec.

DavyMarkham will supply two double-drum hoists between 2012 and 2014, one production hoist used to sink the shaft and a second service hoist which will service the mine’s main operations to extract Éléonore’s significant gold resources.

Gordon Scott, sales and marketing director at DavyMarkham, said: “The contract for Goldcorp Éléonore Project builds on our experience within the mining market, which is opening up more export opportunities within the Americas and other continents as explorations yield undiscovered mineral resources. Visit: www.davymarkham.com

Wärtsilä receives propulsion package orders for four new dredger vessels

Wärtsilä has been awarded a series of orders to supply propulsion solutions for dredger vessels to be built in China and the Netherlands. Since dredging applications are typically very demanding, the high reliability of the Wärtsilä solutions was a key element in the award of all three project orders.

Wärtsilä, the marine industry’s leading systems integrator, will provide the engines and fixed pitch propellers (FPP) to Van Oord, the Netherlandbased dredging and marine contractor with global operations. The equipment installation is for the ‘Artemis’, the second of two large self propelled cutter suction dredgers being built for the company at the IHC Dredgers shipyard in Kinderdijk, the Netherlands.

Two further orders have been received from Chinese companies. The Nantong Gangzha Shipping Manufacturing Co. Ltd shipyard has placed an order for two Wärtsilä 16V32 engines, propulsion equipment and systems for a hopper dredger currently under construction. The Tianjin Dredging Company (TDC), part of the state-owned CCCC Group, has placed a propulsion package order with Wärtsilä for two dredgers being built at yards in China. Visit: www.wartsila.com

CGGVeritas signs a fixed five-year marine charter agreement with BOURBON

BOURBON has announced the signing of a five-year marine charter agreement with CGGVeritas for six new seismic support and assistance vessels that will be delivered at the end of 2012. Following a tender procedure, BOURBON has decided to build these vessels at Grandweld Shipyards in Dubai. These vessels will be used to support the fleet of CGGVeritas seismic survey vessels operating all over the world, providing them with the requisite ancillary services including crew change, fuel delivery, storage, assistance and support during in-sea maintenance operations.

“We are delighted to have been chosen by CGGVeritas, which comes as further confirmation of BOURBON’s capacity to adapt to meet the needs of its clients,” announced Christian Lefèvre, CEO of BOURBON. “At the same time, this agreement emphasises BOURBON’s recognised expertise in the design and management of oil and gas marine services vessels.”

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Balfour Beatty Engineering Services awarded BSF contracts valued at £10.5m

Balfour Beatty Engineering Services (BBES), one of the UK’s largest mechanical and electrical building services businesses, has been awarded two schools contracts within the Oldham Building Schools for the Future (BSF) programme, valued at £10.5m.

BBES will design, supply and install mechanical and electrical services to the new-build Oldham Roman Catholic School and the partial rebuild and remodelling of North Chadderton School.

Services comprise CHP systems, natural and mechanical ventilation systems, domestic hot and cold water systems, above ground drainage systems, a fully interactive BMS system, modular wiring systems, fire alarm, security and access control systems.

Sustainable aspects to the project include rainwater harvesting systems and an interactive BMS system capable of lighting system zonal control. The schools are also fully energy metered via the BMS, which has the capability to convert consumption to cost and provide out of profile alarms for all systems metered. Visit: www.balfourbeatty.com

The tender from Frauenfeld-Wil-Bahn AG (FW) for five new low-floored multiple-unit trains – with a value of around CHF 31 million – has gone MAN Diesel & Turbo has signed a contract with STX, the South Korean engine manuto Stadler Rail. After analysing the future need facturer, for the construction of 4 × 12V28/33D for vehicles on the Frauenfeld-Wil-Bahn line, in STC diesel engines. The four-stroke units are summer 2009 the railway’s management decided bound for a Republic of Korea Navy vessel to purchase five new latest-generation multiple- currently under construction in Korea at Hanjin unit trains. Following various preparations, the Heavy Industry Co. Ltd. official tender went out in autumn 2010. The FW Under the project name LST-II, Hanjin is board of directors awarded Stadler the tender in constructing the landing ship tank (LST) vessel, January 2011. which has an approximate length of 127m. The

The new trains will have a first class compart- naval vessel features a CODAD (Combined Diement. With much of the carriage being low-floored, sel and Diesel) propulsion configuration with the disabled access is good and makes getting on and 4 × 12V28/33D STC diesel engines integrated off easier. The vehicles have air conditioning and with two twin-input/single-output gearboxes and three generous entry and multi-purpose areas, as two CP propellers. well as modern passenger information systems. Visit: www.mandieselturbo.com

Frauenfeld-Wil-Bahn buys five new Stadler vehicles MAN Diesel & Turbo lands The vehicle meets the particular require- Korean order for naval application ments of the FW line: it is able to negotiate tight curves and has an electromagnetic rail brake as well as a special crash front. The FW multipleunit train is part of the tailor-made segment of vehicles (custom and small-scale production) which is part of Stadler Rail’s core expertise. In the last few years, this segment has on average accounted for around 20% of orders. Visit: www.stadlerrail.com

Reflecting BOURBON’s constant quest for innovation, these 53-metre-long vessels will have hybrid propulsion consisting of two classic diesel engines to move at speed for transit work and two electric engines that are very precise and economical in terms of energy, for escort and support work for the seismic survey vessels. Visit: www.bourbon-online.com

Ruukki signs supplier contract with Caterpillar

Ruukki has signed a supplier contract with Caterpillar for delivery of Raex 400 wear-resistant special steel. Raex is used in the ADT truck’s main body structure. The contract with Caterpillar covers the delivery of Raex to their major European facilities for 2011.

The approval testing was performed at the CAT Peterlee production facility in the UK where the group’s Articulated Dump Truck (ADT) product for global supply is manufactured. The ADT truck’s main body structure is one of the most demanding applications for wear-resistant steel due to the continual impact and wear experienced. Visit: www.ruukki.com