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Voith receives record order from South Africa

Between now and 2025 Voith will deliver a total of 4800 Scharfenberg couplers for 600 new passenger trains in South Africa. This is the largest single order for the delivery of Scharfenberg Couplers in the company’s history. The trains in question belong to the new model series X’Trapolis Mega from Alstom, which is also being built in South Africa.

The Voith couplers will be delivered over a period of 10 years starting in autumn 2014. Apart from 3000 semi-permanent couplers and 600 transitional couplers, the contract also includes 1200 automatic couplers type 10. This type stands out for its high strength and a wide horizontal and vertical gathering range. Since 2002 it has become the standard for highspeed trains, and it is also used in nearly all state railways in the world.

This order is an opportunity for Voith to further extend its location in South Africa and to localise its products. Visit: www.voith.com

Schuler press used to build ‘Soyuz’ rocket

Technip to extend subsea infrastructure on the North Sea Alvheim field

Technip has been awarded a contract by Marathon Oil Norge for the extension of subsea infrastructure on the Alvheim field, located on the Norwegian Continental Shelf. The scope of work includes installation engineering, procurement, fabrication, installation and tie-in of spools and protection covers as well as the installation of one manifold. The subsea operations will mainly be performed with divers at a water-depth of approximately 120 metres in this area.

Technip’s operating centre in Stavanger, Norway, will administrate and execute the project, which is scheduled to be completed in the first half of 2016. The offshore campaigns will take place in 2014, 2015 and 2016, and will utilise Technip’s state-of-the-art diving support vessel Skandi Arctic, capable of working efficiently through winter in both construction and diving mode.

Odd Strømsnes, managing director at Technip in Norway, explains: “This award confirms our leading position as contractor for diving operations in the North Sea. This project will be the second one awarded to Technip for the extension of the existing infrastructure on the Alvheim field, the first one having been executed in 2012 and 2013.” Visit: www.technip.com Schuler Waghäusel plant has produced one of its biggest-ever hydraulic lines for state-owned Russian company. The ‘Soyuz’ rockets built by TsSKB-Progress take astronauts and tourists to the International Space Station (ISS), supply them with oxygen, food and spare parts and fire satellites into space. The Russian state-owned company now plans to produce its launch vehicles on a Schuler press as of 2015.

The pre-acceptance for the hydraulic line with a press force of 2600 metric tons has already occurred, and is due to be delivered in the end of May. The triple-action press will be used, for example, to produce aluminum tank lids. These must be extremely robust in order to withstand the extreme loads – especially during takeoff.

“With bed dimensions of five by six metres, the line is one of the largest hydraulic presses we’ve ever built in Waghäusel,” says Dr Martin Habert, managing director of Schuler in Waghäusel. Carrier rockets are steadily increasing in size in order to transport ever-greater payloads into space. This has led to a growth in the size of components used to assemble the rockets – and the lines on which they are produced. Visit: www.schulergroup.com

Züblin awarded large building construction contract in Denmark

Züblin AS, a Danish subsidiary of the publicly listed European construction group STRABAG SE, has been awarded the contract to build the ‘Axeltorv, AT2’ project, a 14-storey multi-use building in Copenhagen city centre. The turnkey agreement with a contract value of about €103 million has already been signed. Leading the consortium of investors is Denmark’s largest public pension fund ATP.

“This is the second building construction contract of such magnitude for the STRABAG Group in Denmark after signing the contract for the ‘Bryghusprojektet’ just seven month earlier,” comments Thomas Birtel, CEO of STRABAG SE. The design by the Danish architects Lundgaard & Tranberg calls for a 42,000m2 combined office and retail building with public recreational areas, restaurants, cafés and multi sub-level parking facilities on one of Copenhagen’s most frequently visited spots just in front of the main entrance of the internationally-known Tivoli. The project is to be handed over to the client by the end of 2016. Visit: www.strabag.com

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BT helps connect the De Beers Group Volvo to deliver three

electric hybrid buses to Hamburger Hochbahn

FLSmidth receives third large order from Mongolian customer

FLSmidth has received orders worth approximately USD 43 million from the Mongolian company, Mongolyn Alt (MAK) Group, to supply engineering, procurement and site construction services for the Tsagaan Suvarga copper-molybdenum concentrator project. This greenfield plant, with a capacity of 40,000 tonnes per day of ore, will be located in the central part of the proven Oyu Tolgoi south

BT has won a significant new contract with The De Beers Group of Companies. The six-year agreement, worth US $37m, sees BT orchestrate a wide range of IT services across 70 De Beers Group sites, including exploration and mining locations across the world.

Established in 1888, De Beers is the world’s leading diamond company. Its diamond Gobi porphyry copper belt in southeast Mongolia. FLSmidth is currently supplying all the main process technology for the project under a separate, previously-awarded contract announced in 2011. MAK is the third largest company in Mongolia with diverse business activities, including coal and gold mining operations. This will be the group’s first copper concentrator. In February 2012, FLSmidth was awarded an order from MAK for supply of a greenfield cement plant.

“We are very happy to receive this third major order from MAK for their Tsagaan Suvarga copper-molybdenum concentrator project. It confirms our strategy of working closer with our customers, providing the support and services they need as a key to developing long-term partnerships,” says Peter Flanagan, president of the Mineral Processing Division. Visit: www.flsmidth.com

exploration, mining and marketing operations directly or indirectly employ more than 20,000 people globally.

De Beers and BT teams are bringing together a full range of BT Connect networking technologies including fibre, microwave and satellite. These will give De Beers staff, whether they are located in the frozen Northwest Territories of Canada, the Bushveld regions of southern Africa or the cities of Europe, Middle East and Asia, access to business applications and data storage as well as voice and conferencing services.

BT is also helping De Beers to tune its network to its business needs. BT Connect Accelerate allows De Beers to prioritise its critical business applications accessed across its global network to ensure a better and more productive user experience for all employees. Visit: www.btplc.com AN agreement has been signed on the delivery of three Volvo Electric hybrids to Hamburger Hochbahn AG. The plug-in technology enables fuel consumption and CO2 emissions to be reduced by up to 75% and total energy consumption to be reduced by 60%. The electric hybrids will enter into traffic in Hamburg towards the end of the year.

Hamburger Hochbahn AG has for years been a successful and important partner of science and manufacturers in the field of ‘innovative drive technologies’. The company has now entered into a development partnership with Volvo Bus Corporation for electric hybrid buses, and will operate three vehicles on regular service routes in the hanseatic city from the end of the year.

“The goal is clear: from 2020 we will only order buses with pollutant-free drives. That is ambitious and we have therefore decided to participate even more intensively in the development of innovative drives. In entering into this development partnership we will now move from being an observer to being the driving force in the field of battery bus technology as well,” said Hochbahn chairman Günter Elste. Visit: www.volvo.com

AREVA to supply solution to monitor nuclear reactor fluid systems

AREVA has signed an agreement with the American engineering firm NUCCORP Inc. to be the exclusive supplier of the Nuclear Grade Air Trap (NGAT™) technology to the nuclear industry. This device passively monitors and regulates accumulated air and gas in certain nuclear plants’ safety systems.

The accumulation of air and gas may compromise the proper operation of these systems essential for safety, such as the Emergency Core Cooling System. A one-of-a-kind solution, the NGAT continuously monitors the accumulation of fluids and automatically removes them before they can enter the key reactor piping. The system eliminates the need for periodic venting and ultrasonic testing inspections, which can increase cost and impair operational efficiency.

“Becoming the exclusive worldwide distributor of this innovative technology reinforces our leadership in nuclear plant safety-related systems,” said Philippe Samama, AREVA’s Installed Base Business Division executive vice-president. Visit: www.areva.com