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New contracts and orders in industry
AREVA wins significant nuclear fuel contract from Dominion
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REVA has won a $73 million nuclear fuel contract with the US utility Dominion for Unit 2 at its Millstone Power Station in Waterford (Connecticut). AREVA, which currently supplies fuel to Millstone 2, will provide fuel to the plant through 2035, when the operating license expires.In addition to the fuel fabrication, the scope of work also includes studies and engineering services. “The AREVA design has operated well in the Millstone Unit 2 core and helped us achieve our fuel performance goals,” said Kerry Basehore, director Nuclear Analysis and Fuel, Dominion. “With this contract, we will offer stability for Dominion in terms of pricing for decades into the future. This security of supply is invaluable to utility companies, and it was made possible through the reliability of our products,” said Markus Birkhofer, executive vice-president of AREVA’s fuel activities. Visit: www.areva.com
ProfilGruppen signs agreement with Volvo Cars
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rofilGruppen has signed a contract for deliveries to Volvo CarCorporations. The contract, starting in 2015, makes ProfilGruppen a new supplier of aluminium components to Volvo Cars. The volume of the contract is expected to comprise several thousand tons of aluminum profiles.
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Balfour Beatty awarded Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park Stadium Contract
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alfour Beatty, the international infrastructure group, has been awarded a £154 million contract to carry out the full transformation works to the London 2012 Olympic Stadium for its operator, E20 Stadium LLP, a joint venture between the London Legacy Development Corporation and Newham Council. This new contract encompasses the £41 million Stadium roof contract Balfour Beatty was awarded in the summer. Balfour Beatty will lead the transformation of the Stadium into an all-round multi-use venue, delivering a lasting sporting, cultural and commercial legacy in East London. The new venue will host five matches during the Rugby World Cup 2015 and will be the permanent home of West Ham United Football Club from 2016. Sustainable construction methods will include features of the existing facility being recycled
and incorporated into the new Stadium and the re-use of crushed demolition material, existing balustrades and sanitary ware. Once reconfigured the Stadium’s cable net roof, 84 metres wide at its deepest point, will be the largest cantilevered roof in the world covering every Stadium seat, improving acoustics and spectator experience. Works commence on site early in 2014 and are due for completion in the spring of 2016. Visit: www.balfourbeatty.com
Meyer Burger awarded major strategic contract
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eyer Burger Technology Ltd has successfully concluded an important strategic contract with a new customer. The contract includes delivery of high precision industrial slicing systems for about CHF 40 million. Meyer Burger signed an additional
Volvo Cars is one of Europe’s leading manufacturers of passenger cars and is part of the Chinese Geely Holding Group. “We are very proud of the confidence Volvo Cars has shown in ProfilGruppen by choosing us as supplier and future partner. Volvo Cars’ high demands on us as a supplier will contribute to our technical development. This contract will contribute
framework contract for diamond wire material from Group Member Diamond Materials Technology that has a potential value of about CHF 30 million in consumables during fiscal year 2014 (consumables to be called on an order-to-order basis). Both the systems (equipment) and the consumables (diamond wire) are being used for cutting and slicing applications in specialised non-PV technologies. Delivery of the system solutions is scheduled to begin in January 2014 and will be completed by the end of the first half of the year. The scheduled single-orders and corresponding deliveries from the framework agreement (diamond wire consumables) cover the entire fiscal year 2014. Visit: www.meyerburger.com positively to the growth of our core business and allows us to further expand our automated processing business, which we aim at,” says Anders Frisinger, CEO of ProfilGruppen. As part of the contract ProfilGruppen will invest about 15 MSEK in an automated machining cell. Visit: www.profilgruppen.se
