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Alfa Laval wins SEK 95 million natural gas order in the US
Alfa Laval has won an order to supply air cooler systems to a US export terminal for natural gas liquids. The order, booked in the Energy & Process segment, has a value of approximately SEK 95 million and delivery is scheduled for 2015.
The Alfa Laval air cooler systems will be used to cool the main process streams at the export terminal where refrigerated natural gas liquids (ethane, propane and butane) are loaded onto tanker vessels.
“This large order relates to products from Niagara Blower Company, an acquisition we made last year. The order confirms our position as a strong and reliable supplier to the oil and gas industry,” says Lars Renström, president and CEO of the Alfa Laval Group. Visit: www.alfalaval.com
Balfour Beatty awarded UK ‘smart motorway’ scheme to upgrade M3
Balfour Beatty, the international infrastructure group, has announced the award of a £129 million scheme to upgrade a 13.4 mile stretch of the M3 through Hampshire and Surrey to a ‘smart motorway’. The upgrade, for the UK Government’s Highways Agency, will increase capacity, reduce congestion and shorten journey times for the 120,000 motorists who pass through this part of the network every day.
The M3 between Junction 2 (interchange with the M25) and Junction 4a (Fleet) will be upgraded to a four-lane motorway by converting the hard shoulder to a permanent running lane. Electronic signs, operated by a regional control centre, will be installed to manage the flow of traffic in response to driving conditions.
The main construction works are due to start this autumn with completion scheduled for spring 2017. Construction activity will include installing and refurbishing gantries, new static and variable signs, concrete safety barriers, drainage and surfacing works.
Balfour Beatty executive chairman Steve Marshall said: “The Highways Agency’s approach to using technology in this way reduces the costs of the road network, provides additional capacity and improves journey times.” Visit: www.balfourbeatty.com
Hitachi Rail to equip Class 37 locomotives with ETCS
Hitachi Rail Europe has signed a contract with the UK’s Network Rail to install the European train control system (ETCS) on two Class 37 locomotives.
The contract comes after the deployment of the Hitachi ETCS on a Class 97 locomotive, which tested interoperability with a separate supplier’s groundside system on the Cambrian Line infrastructure.
Work under the contract covers the design, vehicle modification and ETCS installation, as well as the testing and commissioning of Hitachi’s ETCS for West Coast Railways. The contract is expected to be completed by August 2015.
The locomotives will run on the Cambrian Line European Rail Traffic Management System in Wales.
Hitachi’s ETCS is a common signalling system that will allow the train services to cross frontiers and boundaries between different countries without the need to change signalling systems or locomotives.
The in-cab radio-based signalling system will also be implemented on the concurrent Intercity Express Programme Class 800/801 rolling stock for Great Western and East Coast Main Lines. Visit: www.hitachirail-eu.com
Rejlers wins a contract for continued rail expansion in Norway
Rejlers Norway has signed a framework agreement to be the project support for Jernbaneverket when the InterCity railway is expanding in Norway. Several of the company’s senior rail experts will work with the planning of the new routes. The expansion of the InterCity railway is one of the largest transport investments in Norway, under the National Transport Plan 2014–2023. The routes between Oslo and Hamar and also between Tønsberg and Seut via Fredrikstad should be completed by 2024. The expansion to Lillehammer, Oslo and Halden should be completed by 2030.
The Division Rail Consult in Rejlers Norway has won the framework agreement regarding project support for Jernbaneverket in cooperation with Dronninga Landscape AS, CF Møller Architects AS and Tom Stillesby. Services covered by the framework agreement include railway expertise, operations and maintenance, planning, architecture, landscape architecture and process management. Visit: www.rejlers.com
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DEUTZ to supply engines to TYM Altos Hornos de Mexico
BY forging a new alliance with the Korean tractor manufacturer Tong Yang Moolsan (TYM), DEUTZ AG has been able to secure a new partner for long-term collaboration in the agricultural machinery segment. TYM is the first tractor manufacturer in Asia to be supplied by DEUTZ. The Korean company recently took delivery of the new TCD 2.9 series engines, which have been specially developed for agricultural machinery. This cooperation will allow DEUTZ to strengthen its strategic position in Asia.
TYM is based in Seoul and specialises in the production of tractors and rice transplanters. At its factory in Busan, South Korea, Tong Yang Moolsan manufactures approximately 10,000 tractors a year with a power output of between 23 bhp and 100 bhp, which are distributed primarily in Asia and North America but also in the European market.
Starting in April 2014, tractors from the T604, T654 and T754 family will be fitted with the DEUTZ TCD 2.9 L4 engine, which has been specifically developed for use in agricultural machinery. One of the benefits of the water-cooled four-cylinder inline engine is its excellent cold starting ability even under extreme conditions. Visit: www.deutz.com Siemens Metals Technologies has won an order from Mexican steel producer Altos Hornos de Mexico, S.A.B. de C.V. (AHMSA) to supply a 150-ton, twin RH vacuum degassing plant with mechanical vacuum pumps for converter Steel Works # 2 in Monclova. It will be able to handle 50 charges per day, the equivalent of about two million metric tons of liquid steel per year. The new plant will allow AHMSA to produce steels with very low hydrogen content, required for applications in the oil and gas industries. The new RH plant is scheduled for commissioning in October 2015.
The main functions of RH degassing plants are the removal of hydrogen, forced decarburisation and the chemical heating of the liquid steel which is processed under vacuum conditions with the injection of oxygen.
For AHMSA’s twin RH plant in Monclova, in the state of Coahuila, Siemens will supply the vessel, mechanical vacuum pumps, the structural steel work and a combined vessel ladle lifting system (CVL). This solution requires little space, enabling vessels to be lifted in places inaccessible to cranes. The scope of supply from Siemens also includes the electrical and automation equipment for the RH plant. Visit: www.siemens.com
Aconsortium comprising STRABAG Sp. z o.o. and Heilit+Woerner Sp. z o.o, two subsidiaries of Austrian listed company STRABAG SE, has signed a contract for the construction of a stretch of the planned S7 expressway in the east of Kraków, called ‘Trasa Nowohucka’, which will run between Rybitwy and Igołomska.
Under the contract, which is worth PLN 529 million (around €130 million), the consortium agreed to perform the following tasks: construction and renovation of the traffic infrastructure with a total length of 18.6km, including the 4.5km-long expressway with two carriageways consisting of three lanes each; the national road 79 with a length of 1.6km; the construction of on- and off-ramps as well as six flyovers and five bridges. Furthermore, the tram lines will be modernised.
The new section ‘Trasa Nowohucka’ will traverse two districts of Kraków – Podgórze and Nowa Huta – and will form part of the expressway that is planned to link Gdańsk in the north and RabkaZdrój in the south of Poland. In three years’ time, the new section is intended to absorb traffic from national road 79 and funnel it to the A4 motorway between Katowice and Rzeszów. Visit: www.strabag.com
orders RH plant from Siemens
STRABAG signs Krakow expressway construction deal
Mycronic AB has received an order for an advanced mask writer for display applications. The machine is scheduled for delivery during the second half of the year 2015.
“Our customer is in need of a Prexision mask writer for the manufacturing of larger photomasks. These photomasks will in turn be used in the production of TFT-LCD flat screens,” says Magnus Råberg, Sr VP and general manager Pattern Generators at Mycronic AB. “With this order the customer gets access, during the second half of 2015, to our technology for the manufacturing of critical photomasks.”
Mycronic AB is a Swedish high-tech company engaged in the development, manufacture and marketing of production equipment to the electronics industry. The Mycronic headquarters are located in Täby, north of Stockholm and the group has subsidiaries in China, France, Germany Japan, Singapore, South Korea, Taiwan, the Netherlands, United Kingdom and the United States. Visit: www.mycronic.com
