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Did you know Trivia - Gulf Ethanol Corporation has completed the financing for its prototype bioprocessing unit and expects to take delivery on the equipment within thirty days.
The unit is designed to preprocess cellulosic biomass into a very fine powder that will enhance ethanol production. Vortex Ventures, a Houston-based equipment engineering and manufacturing firm, is in the final stages of assembly of the unit. Vortex Ventures owns the intellectual property related to materials separation used in the equipment and Gulf Ethanol is the exclusive distributor of these units as related to ethanol production.
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Thursday 29 May, 2008 08:00 PM |
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Did you know Trivia - MBO Russel Bedford, Nigeria, a firm of Chartered Accountants and Business Advisers, has disclosed that finishing touches are being put to the formal launch of Olesorbent (polymer)”, an invention by the company for the management of oil spill in the Oil and Gas industry in July.
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Thursday 29 May, 2008 10:50 AM |
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Did you know Trivia - Republicans and Democrats might spar with each other over the effectiveness of the surge in Iraq, whether or not to allocate more troops to Afghanistan and how to approach relations with Iran.
But politicians of every stripe and defense experts all agree that America's aerial superiority is the key to responding to emerging security threats.
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Thursday 29 May, 2008 08:49 AM |
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Did you know Trivia - Rolls-Royce has recently been undertaking significant organizational changes with the appointment of CEO Tom Purves from parent company BMW, the introduction of the new Drophead Coupe and most recently, the development of a smaller Rolls-Royce model codenamed the RR4 that has been slightly revealed in these design sketches.
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Thursday 29 May, 2008 06:48 AM |
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Did you know Trivia - NEW YORK & HEBEI, China- one of China’s largest paper milling manufacturers announced today that the Company is planning to build a new paper milling production facility in the second half of 2008 with annual production totaling 1.2 million tons.
The facility will occupy approximately 2 million square meters with its main products being corrugated paper, offset paper, writing paper and Diazo paper. Once the facility is operational, initial production is anticipated to be approximately 0.5 million tons. It is estimated that by 2010, annual production could reach approximately 1.2 million tons. It is expected that by 2010, sales will be between $800 million and $1.3 billion with net income in the range of $160 million to $230 million.
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Thursday 29 May, 2008 02:45 AM |
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Did you know Trivia - (UK) Precision engineering company Acro are celebrating the 8 millionth component to be made on one of their multi-spindle machines.
The machine is a Wickman multi-spindle automatic lathe that they have owned for the past seven years. Acro uses this technology for their high volume orders, due to its very fast cycle time and consistent quality of production.
"These machines are really 6 machines in one,” said Fred Pain, General Manager. “Being able to undertake a number of machining processes at the same time gives them a very fast cycle time and a low cost of production. For one customer we have been machining 800,000 stainless steel components each year. Multi-spindle technology is very much key to our high volume production strategy.”
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Wednesday 28 May, 2008 10:42 PM |
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Did you know Trivia - In the past it has been made clear to me how uninformed some computer consumers are about pricing of products they they need, love and will pay extraordinary amounts of money for in order to obtain. Gamers especially need to be weary of what they buy, why and how.
In this blog post I will talk about graphics cards and the reason they are priced differently even if they look the same and why some retailers get away with pricing them wrong (in other words expensively so) when they shouldn’t.
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Wednesday 28 May, 2008 12:26 PM |
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Did you know Trivia - Airbus is about to enter uncharted territory as it faces the downside of its sales surge a decade ago. Over the next 20 years, a quarter of the 6,000-plus airliners destined for the scrapheap will be Airbuses, and the company is in final throes of a project to ensure it is ready to manage its offspring's "end of life" in an organised and environmentally friendly manner.
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Wednesday 28 May, 2008 09:08 AM |
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Did you know Trivia - Boeing last Friday announced that Elizabeth Lund has been named vice president of Product Development for Boeing Commercial Airplanes.
Lund will be responsible for leading preliminary design of new and derivative airplanes and systems, and environmental performance strategy, the airplane maker said in a statement here, today.
Lund also will manage the overall research & development plan across Commercial Airplanes, and support the Product Strategy and Advanced Technology organizations within Commercial Airplanes and Phantom Works.
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Wednesday 28 May, 2008 05:38 AM |
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Did you know Trivia -Norwegian company Navico has chosen to make Auckland its international hub for research and development.
Navico, headquartered in Oslo's Lysaker, has made the North Shore division of its international business its largest innovation division, going on a global recruiting drive to employ 50 more staff in manufacturing
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Wednesday 28 May, 2008 01:35 AM |
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Did you know Trivia - Blue Ocean Homes Development & Konstantine Enterprise, Inc has completed the first of two very green, ultra-high efficient, solar powered, solar heated, non-wood constructed, concrete, steel and structurally fireproof homes. These homes are hundreds of times stronger then typically constructed mass produced homes. They are designed to last for hundreds of years while being able to withstand most if not all natural disasters. click the link to read more
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Saturday 24 May, 2008 09:48 AM |
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Did you know Trivia - On April 8, President Felipe Calderon dropped a political bomb on the Mexican political scene. The Senate received an executive initiative that would fundamentally change the structure and operations of the oil company, Petroleos Mexicanos (Pemex). Key operations of the state-owned enterprise would be taken over by private companies.
In the reform proposal, Calderon and his National Action Party (PAN) took care to avoid calling for modifying the Mexican Constitution. National ownership of petroleum is a touchstone of nationalist pride in Mexico since President Lazaro Cardenas expropriated private companies on March 18, 1938. At that time, citizens fed up with the arrogance and voracity of foreign oil companies supported the expropriation by donating everything from live chickens to family jewels to pay compensation and regain control of the resource. The Mexican Constitution is very clear about who owns Mexican oil: "The nation has direct dominion over all national resources of the continental platform ... (including) petroleum and all solid, liquid, or gaseous hydrocarbons ..." click this link to read more
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Saturday 24 May, 2008 12:33 AM |
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Did you know Trivia - Pune: To ensure quicker delivery of different auto parts to the plant, Volkswagen has decided to invite their auto component manufacturers to set up units in its land around the Chakan facility. This will help the company to save transportation costs and VW will be able to source the same quality of components procured and used in its vehicles sold in overseas markets.
Thomas Dahlem, director, manufacturing engineering, Volkswagen India, said that they were in the final process of selecting equipment manufacturers who would supply components to the Chakan plant. The selected companies will be allotted plots within the VW 230 hectare complex to set up facilities to manufacture components.
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Friday 23 May, 2008 06:32 PM |
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Did you know Trivia - DEBERT — A Canadian-United Kingdom television team is producing a television series for the Discovery Channel in this former military community.
Breaking Point Productions, a creation of Firefly Productions of the U.K. and DCF Media Packaging Corp. of Toronto, will film six one-hour shows in a former aircraft parts manufacturing plant in this community’s industrial park.
"They are leasing the property from (Colchester Regional Development Agency), but . . . it’s more about the benefits to the local community," said agency spokesman Alan Johnson.
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Friday 23 May, 2008 08:33 AM |
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Did you know Trivia - “Only at a women’s college can you have a trebuchet sling be a brassiere cup,” Sweet Briar assistant professor of engineering Scott Pierce observed, watching his students maneuver their medieval-era weapons into launch positions.
A C-cup, purple in color.
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Thursday 22 May, 2008 12:50 PM |
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Did you know Trivia - Is it a rocket? Is it a car? No, it's a push bike clad in aerodynamic fairing.
Malcolm Lamming, of Angmering, West Sussex, uses his unusual bike for his 64-mile round-trip into and out of work at Portsmouth each day. Mr Lamming, 42, an engineering manager, flies past becalmed traffic on the US-made Lightning F40, which he bought in Germany.
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Thursday 22 May, 2008 04:45 AM |
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Did you know Trivia - LONG BEACH, Calif. KaZaK Composites, Inc., a premier provider of high value-added composite engineering and design, today announced that they have developed and manufactured several new carbon epoxy wings for use on Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs). These new wings can reduce costs for the Navy and the Air Force as they are defining new missions for air-deployable disposable UAVs. KaZaK has used the pultrusion process to manufacture these wings, reducing costs.
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Thursday 22 May, 2008 12:44 AM |
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Did you know Trivia - THE success of the £35m Cutty Sark restoration project, which reaches a critical phase this year, will rest - quite literally - on the expertise of Tees Valley engineers.
Design and construction engineers at Cleveland Bridge, Darlington, and Consteel Technical Services at Saltburn, are working on plans to lift the clipper - once the fastest in the commercial fleet - 2.7m off its dry dock at Greenwich and rest the 138-year-old timbers on a Corus steel cradle. It will allow visitors to view the extraordinary hull design for the first time when the ship reopens to the public in 2010.
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Wednesday 21 May, 2008 08:42 PM |
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Did you know Trivia - DALLAS — Vought Aircraft Industries Inc. said Monday it will make wings and other parts for some Cessna business jets under a contract that could be worth more than $1 billion.
Vought said the deal covers design and production work for parts that will go on the Model 850 Cessna Citation Columbus jet.
The company said most of the engineering and tool-design work will be done in Dallas and production work will be handled in Nashville, Tenn. The general manager of the Nashville plant said it was the facility's first new full-wing contract in 20 years.
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Wednesday 21 May, 2008 08:42 PM |
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Did you know Trivia - Frost & Sullivan hosted its prestigious European Best Practices Awards Banquet last night, 15 May, 2008 in London, sponsored by Bosch Rexroth. Top performers from diverse fields ranging from automation, electronics, energy and power systems to aerospace, defence and environmental and building technologies were honoured at the event.
This much anticipated and highly competitive Awards Banquet recognised companies for innovative developments, outstanding performances and business achievements - in essence, for establishing best practice standards that competitors are striving to emulate.
Among Europe's industry leaders who were commended at the Banquet are SEW-EURODRIVE, ELUTIONS, DSM Engineering Plastics B.V., ChipSensors Ltd., Ansaldo Fuel Cells, MOBOTIX AG, KONGSBERG, Elan Software Systems, Ansaldo Energia, InduSoft, BAE Systems Hagglunds, Bioni CS GmbH, Imbera Electronics, Rockwell Automation and ABB Group.
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Wednesday 21 May, 2008 06:35 AM |
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Did you know Trivia - Two Belgian beer fans have launched a video game named Place to Pee, which allows players to slalom down ski slopes or kill aliens while relieving themselves at urinals.
Werner Dupont, a software developer, and Bart Geraets, an electrical engineer, got the idea while drinking Belgian trappist beers, they told Reuters Television at a local festival yesterday.
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