·       $9 Billion Fabric Filter System Market Will Expand From 4% to 8%/yr

·       Fabric Filter Newsletter Headlines – June 2014

·       GDP Update Headlines - June 2014

·       Oil & Gas Sales Leads Headlines - June 20, 2014

·       World Power Generation Project Headlines – Gas

$9 Billion Fabric Filter System Market Will Expand From 4% to 8%/yr

There are major variables which could boost the fabric filter system revenues increases to as much as 8 percent per year over the next ten years. This is real growth and, when inflation is added, current dollar growth could be as high as 12%/yr.   It all depends on coal-fired power plants.  This is the conclusion reached by McIlvaine in World Fabric Filter and Element Market.  (www.mcilvainecompany.com)

FABRIC FILTER WORLD MARKETS

($ Millions)

Coal-fired power plants account for the majority of stack exhaust gas.  One of the new 3000 MW Chinese coal complexes will exhaust 9 million cubic feet of air per minute (cfm).  This is the amount being exhausted by 300 asphalt plants or 50 large cement plants and it is the amount exhausted from 9,000 welding operations. There are thousands of coal-fired boilers in China.  They discharge 3 billion cfm.  U.S. coal-fired power plants exhaust 900 million cfm.

Nearly all this exhaust gas is cleaned with electrostatic precipitators.  Worldwide only 7 percent is cleaned by fabric filters.  However, it is very likely that many coal-fired power plants will be required to install fabric filters.  Both China and the U.S. have tightened limits on fine particulate.  It will be difficult to meet the new limits with electrostatic precipitators.  Fabric filters will more than meet the new limits.

The switch to fabric filters is potentially driven by the need to remove mercury and acid gases.  Activated carbon requirements to remove mercury are less if fabric filters are utilized.  Dry scrubbing using lime and sodium injection is accomplished best with fabric filters to capture the reaction products.

McIlvaine is assessing the purchasing trends for each country and adjusting long-range forecasts accordingly. 

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FABRIC FILTER NEWSLETTER HEADLINES

 JUNE 2014

• Webinar on May 1 Concludes that Hot Gas Filtration is a Great Solution for Old Power Plants But EPRI Says...Not So Fast

MARKETS

• Hot Gas Filter Market Has Potential to Grow By a Multiple Of 10
• U.S. Air Pollution Control Companies Can Adjust To the Shrinking Coal Market
• Air Filter Sales Will Exceed 2.5 Billion Dollars in the Americas Next Year
• Fuel Tech Acquires Two Air Pollution Control Technology Companies
• Foster Wheeler Closes Acquisition of Siemens Environmental Systems and Services
• Babcock and Wilcox  to Acquire MEGTEC
• Clarcor to Acquire the Filtration Business of Stanadyne 
• Donaldson Aggressively Focused on Additional Growth Opportunities
• Hamon Reports First Quarter Bookings Better than Previous First Quarters
• PGI’s First Quarter Results Include Fiberweb Operations

REGULATIONS

• Supreme Court Upholds EPA’s authority to regulate Smog from Coal-fired Power Plants

IRON AND STEEL

• Severstal Introduces Further Major Environmental Initiatives
• China Steel Commissions New 270-t Twin-ladle Furnace

PRODUCT NEWS

• Donaldson Torit Offers Ultra-Web Spunbond Pleated Bag Filter for the Most Problematic Dust
• Innovative Candle Elements Meet the Challenges in Hot Gas Filtration
• FilterSense Offers Dust Collector Pressure Transmitters

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GDP UPDATE HEADLINES

 JUNE 2014

TABLE OF CONTENTS

AMERICAS

• United States
• Columbia

ASIA

• China
• India
• Japan
• New Zealand

EUROPE / AFRICA / MIDDLE EAST

• Dubai
• Ireland
• Nigeria
• Russia

AMERICAS

United States

CEOs have slightly lower expectations for U.S. gross domestic product growth than they did last quarter, according to a new survey.

The Business Roundtable survey showed chief executives forecast GDP growth of 2.3% in 2014, down from last quarter's estimate of 2.4% for the year. (The remaining text is not included in this sample.)

Columbia 

Colombia’s economy grew at the fastest pace in more than two years in the first quarter, beating all analysts’ forecasts, after a surge in government spending ahead of President Manuel Santos’ re-election. Bond fell on expectations of higher interest rates.

Gross domestic product grew 6.4% from the year earlier, the national statistics agency said, compared with 4.9% in the previous three months. Growth was faster than forecast by all 27 analysts surveyed by Bloomberg. GDP grew 2.3% from the previous quarter. (The remaining text is not included in this sample.)

ASIA

China 

Nearly every story about China’s extraordinary growth over the past 30 years asserts two things as a given: 

a. China has grown about 10% a year for 30 years, and

b. China’s long-term growth record in unsurpassed in modern history. (The remaining text is not included in this sample.)

India 

After two consecutive years of sub-5% growth, the Indian economy is expected to recover and expand 5.2% in the first quarter of this financial year, according to a Dun & Bradstreet report. (The remaining text is not included in this sample.)

Japan 

The Japanese government raised its economic growth reading for the first quarter, saying that capital spending was sharply higher than initially thought.

Gross domestic product increased at an annualized rate of 6.7% in the January to March period from the previous quarter, the Cabinet Office said, revising its initial estimate of a 5.9% expansion. The result, adjusted for price changes, marked (The remaining text is not included in this sample.)

EUROPE / AFRICA / MIDDLE EAST

Dubai 

Dubai’s economy expanded 4.6% year on year in 2013, up from 4.1% in 2012 according to Dubai Statistics Centre (DSC).

The DSC report showed that the fastest growing sector in Dubai last year was once again hospitality, which recorded 13% growth, the third consecutive year of double-digit growth in this sector. (The remaining text is not included in this sample.)

Ireland 

GDP will grow by 2% this year and 2.4% next year on the back of rising exports and the first increase in consumer spending since the recession began, according to the EY Economic Eye. (The remaining text is not included in this sample.)

Nigeria 

The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) Governor, Mr. Godwin Emefiele, has said the recent rebasing of the country's gross domestic product (GDP) will support its quest to be among the top 20 nations by 2020. 

According to Emefiele, the exercise which placed the size of the Nigerian economy as first in Africa and 26th in the world would also afford the country a more positive sovereign rating by international rating agencies such as the Standard and Poor's, Fitch Ratings, (The remaining text is not included in this sample.)

Russia 

Russia's gross domestic product growth forecast of 0.5% for 2014 may be revised upwards in September due to the slowing pace of a decline in investment, Economy Minister Alexei Ulyukayev said.

"For now our official (forecast) for this year is 0.5%, but most likely we will revise it in September, most likely upwards," Ulyukayev told journalists. (The remaining text is not included in this sample.)

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OIL & GAS SALES LEADS HEADLINES

June 20, 2014

(Listed by most current date.)

• Coal to Liquids Is Likely to Be a Low Cost Alternative  (Article Dated: 6/20/2014)
• Cost Advantages for Chinese Coal to Chemicals Plants  (Article Dated: 6/20/2014)
• EQT Midstream Partners to Acquire Jupiter Gathering System from EQT Corp for $1.18 Bln  (Article Dated: 6/20/2014)
• Exterran Awarded Compression Station in Brazil  (Article Dated: 6/20/2014)
• Eisenmann Designs Fluidized Bed Incinerator for Reliable, Eco-friendly Sludge Treatment  (Article Dated: 6/20/2014)
• Synthetic Natural Gas (SNG) and Coal to Chemicals are Going to Be Very Big in China  (Article Dated: 6/20/2014)
• BP Statistical Review of World Energy 2014  (Report Dated: 6/19/2014)
• U.S. May Be Headed for Methanol Glut by 2018  (Article Dated: 6/19/2014)
• Maine’s Summit Natural Gas Launches Cumberland, Falmouth and Yarmouth Project  (Article Dated: 6/19/2014)
• Sundyne PPI Sealless Compressors Find New Uses in Offshore Applications  (Article Dated: 6/19/2014)
• ExxonMobil Chemical Company Begins Multi-Billion Dollar Expansion Project in Baytown, Texas  (Article Dated: 6/19/2014)
• Weir Oil & Gas and MTU Agree to Jointly Develop Power Systems for Fracking  (Article Dated: 6/19/2014)
• XEBEC Adsorption Launches Natural Gas Filter Line  (Article Dated: 6/17/2014)
• EPA Issues Permit for Construction of $325 Mln Texas Natural Gas Processing Plant  (Article Dated: 6/17/2014)
• Williams Restarts Units at Wyoming Natural Gas Plant after Blast  (Article Dated: 6/17/2014
• Italy's Saipem Wins 400 Mln Euro South Stream Contract  (Article Dated: 6/17/2014)
• GE Cites 'age of gas' for its Investment in Pipelines and Infrastructure  (Article Dated: 6/17/2014)
• Atmos Energy & ZeitEnergy Introduce CNG Business and Groundbreaking in North Texas  (Article Dated: 6/13/2014)
• Foster Wheeler Awarded Contract for Incinerator in Vietnam  (Article Dated: 6/13/2014)
• Hitachi Delivers Six Sets of Compressors for Petrobras Oil and Gas FPSO  (Article Dated: 6/13/2014)
• Magellan Midstream to Build Condensate Splitter in Corpus Christi  (Article Dated: 6/12/2014)
• Nuevo Midstream Expands Delaware Basin Processing, Gathering, Treating and Compression Services  (Article Dated: 6/12/2014)
• EMAS AMC Gets LOA from Noble Energy for Gunflint Project in GOM  (Article Dated: 6/12/2014)
• Bakken Shale Oil Production to Hit 1.7 Mln Bpd in 2020  (Article Dated: 6/12/2014)
• Statoil Discovers up to 75 Mln Barrels at Valemon Nord Prospect  (Article Dated: 6/12/2014)
• Linde to Construct Ethane Cracking Units for Shell  (Article Dated: 6/12/2014)
• Japan Launches First Fracking Operations  (Article Dated: 6/12/2014)
• Wärtsilä Pumping Solutions Chosen for New North Sea Oilfield FSU  (Article Dated: 6/12/2014)
• Study Says Global Demand for Industrial Valves Forecast to increase 5.4 Percent Through 2015  (Article Dated: 6/10/2014)
• Burma Awards Offshore Oil and Gas Deals to Foreign Firms  (Article Dated: 6/10/2014)
• Sir Ian Wood’s Review Sets Out Roadmap for Future of UK Offshore Oil and Gas  (Article Dated: 6/10/2014)
• Valvitalia Wins Orders for Shah Deniz II, South Stream  (Article Dated: 6/10/2014)
• Offshore Africa Oil and Gas Market Shows Growth to 2017 Driven by New Interests  (Article Dated: 6/10/2014)
• Offshore Asia Oil and Gas Market to 2017  (Article Dated: 6/9/2014)
• Valvestock Supplies Components for New Offshore Sembmarine North Sea Platform  (Article Dated: 6/9/2014)
• Yokogawa Wins Orders for Coal/Oil Co-processing Pilot Plant and Coal Tar Hydrogenation Plant  (Article Dated: 6/9/2014)
• Serinus Energy Signs Contract for Tunisia Drilling Campaign  (Article Dated: 6/9/2014)

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WORLD POWER GENERATION PROJECT HEADLINES

New power generation projects are tracked in two publications. Fossil and Nuclear Power Generation includes both market forecasts and project data. World Power Generation Projects has just the project data.

FUEL:  Gas

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