·        4 Lane Knowledge Bridge to the End User

·        Lots of New Developments in $11.2 Billion World Market for Fabric Filters and Bags

·        Headlines from Fabric Filter Newsletter - April 2013

·        Sales Leads for Oil and Gas

·        Headlines from GDP Update for May 2013

·        Headlines from Chemical Update for May 2013

·        Using McIlvaine Reports and Sales Leads as a Collaborating Tool for Disparate Geographies and Divisions

·        Many New Power Generation Projects in Asia

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Lots of New Developments in $11.2 Billion World Market for Fabric Filters and Bags

The market for bags will grow 6 percent this year to reach $2.9 billion in 2014. The market for fabric filter systems will grow 4.4 percent to reach $8.9 billion next year. These are the conclusions reached in World Fabric Filter and Element Market published by the McIlvaine Company. (www.mcilvainecompany.com)

Fabric Filters and Bags Market

$ Millions

The lower growth rate for systems is a function of the proportion of revenues in developing countries. The system revenues per cfm (unit of gas volume) are lower in these countries.  The bag revenues are positively impacted by the move to membrane laminates.  This media is more efficient, but is also more expensive.

There are a number of major changes in the industry in addition to the introduction of new materials.  A number of Chinese bag makers are now making a global presence. There is also movement within China to increase the purchase of fabric filters as opposed to precipitators in the power and certain other industries.

The industry is becoming internationalized on a continuing basis.  Within the last twelve months, Nederman purchased Mikropul, Pneumafil and Menardi.  CECO purchased Met-Pro.  Nederman has a European base and is strong in small fabric filters.  Mikropul was the inventor of the pulse jet filter and has worldwide presence in the process industries. CECO has acquired Flexkleen as part of the Met-Pro acquisition. This will supplement its activities through its Fisher Klosterman subsidiary. Donaldson continues to gain market share in Asia.

Media suppliers are very international. Roll goods are being manufactured by the larger media suppliers in several international locations. Many media suppliers have successful manufacturing operations in Asia.

New applications are expanding the market as well.  The need to remove mercury has resulted in combinations of activated carbon injection followed by fabric filters. This requirement is going to expand the revenues of filter suppliers in the U.S. over the next few years.  W. L. Gore has a unique solution to the mercury problem. The company has developed a medium which can be inserted after the scrubber. It collects and retains mercury.  The medium is not cleanable, but the amount of mercury in a typical application is only 2-100 lbs/yr. So the medium will have a life of several years.

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Headlines from Fabric Filter Newsletter - April 2013

MARKETS

• Huge Variable in Fabric Filter Market Depending on Power Regulations in U.S. and China
• 2000 Industrial Boilers Will Spend Between 4 and 12 Billion Dollars to Meet the New Industrial Boiler MACT Rule
• China is the Leading Purchaser of Air Pollution Control Equipment
• Race for World Dominance in Air, Water and Energy Will be Won by Companies Not Countries 
• Mergers Create New Leaders in the 340-Billion Dollar Air, Gas, Water, Fluids Treatment and Control Markets
• HOT TOPIC HOURS
• Inlet Air Pretreatment for Gas Turbines was the subject of the Hot Topic Hour on Thursday March 14, 2013
• Will Industrial Boiler Owners Spend 5 Billion Dollars or 12 Billion Dollars to Meet the New Industrial Boiler MACT...Hot Topic Hour March 21, 2013
• Babcock and Wilcox Awarded Environmental Equipment Contract for Iowa Power Plant
• MET Announces Contract Award from AMEC for MATS Project
• Foster Wheeler Awarded Contract for Biomass Circulating Fluidized Bed Steam Generator in South Korea

METALS

• ACTOM Air Pollution Control on Track with Emissions Control Contract for Xstrata’s Lion Ferrochrome Smelter Expansion Project
• Two Major Environmental Projects Underway at Rio Tinto RTFT Metallurgical Complex in Quebec
• Baghouse Installed at Evraz Claymont Steel
• Modernization of Vizag Steel’s Convertor Shop Includes Environmental Upgrade

COMPANY NEWS

• CECO Environmental Announces the Acquisition of Aarding Thermal Acoustics BV
• Nederman Acquires Industriventilation AS in Denmark and Optimizes Manufacturing Structure
• Met-Pro Corporation’s Environmental Air Solutions Business Unit Receives Orders Totaling More Than 2.3 Million Dollars
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PRODUCT NEWS

• Overbags Prevent Dust from Bridging Filter Pleats
• Dust Collector Pulse Timer Saves Energy
• Sly, Inc. Announces Updated Bag Installation Videos
• Importance of Capturing Pollutants at the Source Highlighted in New Brochure from United Air Specialists

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Sales Leads for Oil and Gas for last two weeks

Sales Lead Data Search by Titles
(Listed by most current date)
 

• Keyera Corp to Build Gas Gathering Pipeline, New Facilities for Simonette Gas Plant  (Investment Dated: 5/13/2013)
• Reef Subsea Secures $15 Mln Subsea Construction Contract (Contract Dated: 5/13/2013)
• Linde to Build Major Complex for Reliance in India  (Contract Dated: 5/13/2013)
• McDermott Awarded $900 Mln Contracts in the Arabian Gulf  (Contract Dated: 5/13/2013)
• Hyundai Awarded $1.89 Bln EPC Contract in Abu Dhabi  (Contract Dated: 5/13/2013)
• Pembina Institute Report Calls for Tough Emissions Regulation for Canada's Oil and Gas Industry  (Article Dated: 5/13/2013)
• Williams Partners and Shell Form Midstream JV for Marcellus, Utica  (Project Dated: 5/13/2013)
• LyondellBasell Unveils Plans for NGL Fractionation at Corpus Christi  (Project Dated: 5/13/2013)
• Tar Sands Pipelines Should Be Held To Different Standards, EPA Says  (Article Dated: 5/8/2013)
• New Technology Could Spur Development of U.S. Tar Sands  (Article Dated: 5/8/2013)
• Biochar May Reduce Impact of Alberta Oil Sands  (Article Dated: 5/8/2013)
• Alberta Government to Spend $200.7 Mln on Five Oil Sands Pilot Projects  (Article Dated: 5/8/2013)
• Alberta Oilsands to Acquire Interest in Eastern Zambia Rift Basins  (Article Dated: 5/8/2013)
• Water Will Receive Extra Emphasis at Annual Calgary Oil Sands Event  (Exhibition Dated: 5/8/2013)
• House Keystone XL Hearing Reveals Growing Depth of Disagreement   (Analysis Dated: 5/8/2013)
• Alberta May Tighten Oil Sand Regulations  (Article Dated: 5/8/2013)
• KBR Wins Fabrication Contract for First Canadian Alberta Oil Sands CO2 Capture and Storage Project  (Project Dated: 5/7/2013)
• Imperial Oil Announces Start-up at Kearl Oil Sands Project  (Project Dated: 5/7/2013)
• Sarnia Firm Wins Contract with Alberta Cold Lake Project  (Contract Dated: 5/7/2013)
• Alberta Oil Sands Plans Algar Lake Expansion  (Agreement Dated: 5/7/2013)
• Imperial Updates Oil Sand Projects  (Article Dated: 5/7/2013)
• Sunshine Oilsands Project Cost Adds $28 Mln Due to Changes, Inflation, Delays  (Project Dated: 5/7/2013)
• Alberta Seeks to Win Over Oil Sands Critics with New Technologies  (Article Dated: 5/7/2013)
• EPA Raises Oil Sands Emission Concerns  (Article Dated: 5/7/2013)
• Jacobs and Flint Energy Report New Oilsands Contracts Totaling almost $2 Bln  (Contract Dated: 5/7/2013)
• ExxonMobil Tar Sands Pegasus Pipeline Ruptures in Arkansas  (Article Dated: 5/6/2013)
• Invensys Completes First Phase of MAC Contract for Russian Yaysky Refinery  (Project Dated: 5/6/2013)
• KC Cottrell Inc. to Supply Electrostatic Precipitator System to Delek Refining  (Contract Dated: 5/6/2013)
• Brazil’s Petrobras Seeks Venezuela Refinery Talks after Maduro Election Victory  (Project Dated: 5/6/2013)
• Suncor Begins U1 Oil Sands Upgraders Planned Maintenance  (Project Dated: 5/6/2013)
• Aquatech Wins Produced Water Evaporator System Contract for Pengrowth's SAGD Facility  (Project Dated: 5/6/2013)
• Ruwais $10 Bln Refinery Upgrade

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GDP UPDATE

May 2013

TABLE OF CONTENTS

AMERICAS

• United States
• Mexico

ASIA

• India
• Taiwan

EUROPE / AFRICA / MIDDLE EAST

• Czech Republic
• France
• Latvia
• Lithuania
• Slovenia
• Spain

AMERICAS

United States

The recently released gross domestic product quarterly report shows a sluggish but improved economy. Markets responded with a day that saw little change in value.

The advance estimate of real GDP expanded at a seasonally-adjusted annualized rate of 2.5%, according to the U.S. Department of Commerce, falling short of analysts’ expectations of 3%, but much improved over the previous quarter’s 0.4% growth. GDP measures the nation's total output of goods and services. The Commerce Department will release an adjusted first quarter report on May 30.

BBVA Compass, a financial services firm, estimated a first quarter GDP growth of 2.3 or 2.4%. “We are more pessimistic than the majority of analysts,” Kim Fraser, an economist at BBVA Compass, said. “Personal consumption and employment were strong in January and February, but slowed dramatically in March. Employment was down drastically,” she said.

The increase in the first quarter was due to rises in personal consumption, business inventory, equipment and software, and housing investment, according to the Commerce Department’s report.

“Consumption was stronger than expected, and housing was a strong mover,” Fraser said.

Imports increased, which resulted in a lower GDP, but economists like Fraser see an upside to this. “Imports may be an encouraging sign,” she said, referencing the fact that they indicate an increase in consumer spending.

Another factor responsible for lower than expected GDP growth was a decrease in spending by local, state and federal governments.

Most of the effects of sequestration, the drastic across the board cuts to federal spending, have yet to be felt in the economy, but defense spending declined 11.5%, which kept the first quarter GDP growth from reaching 3%, according to BMO Capital Markets Senior Economist Sal Guatieri. “Federal defense spending carved 0.6 percentage points from growth,” he wrote in a report.

Both Fraser and Guatieri believe the sequestration cuts will have more of an effect in the second quarter. Despite this, Guatieri predicted, “While sequestration will slow GDP in Q2, we still expect growth to top 3% in the second half of the year amid improved household finances, pent-up demand for autos, and the long-running housing market recovery.”

Mexico

The outlook for economic growth and inflation in Latin America's second-largest economy this year has deteriorated among private-sector economists, according to a Bank of Mexico survey.

Analysts see the country's economy expanding 3.35% in 2013, according to the average estimate of the central bank's April survey, down from the 3.46% expected in the previous month's poll.

Mexico's annual inflation is seen rising 3.9% this year, up from the previous estimate of 3.75%. Thirty-three local and foreign banks and consultancy firms responded to the April survey.

The central bank's survey showed economists maintain a glum view of Mexico's growth as sluggish global demand, particularly in the U.S., is already affecting Mexico's export engine.

The government itself sees first-quarter GDP growth slowing to an annual rate of 1%, the lowest since the recession of 2009, with an economic recovery expected to happen in the second half of the year.

Price worries have recently increased in Mexico after 12-month inflation rose to 4.72% in the first half of April, the highest level in seven months. The central bank has said it is a temporary uptick caused by volatile agricultural prices.

Lower growth and higher inflation led Mexico's central bank to stand pat on rates in its last policy meeting in late April, keeping a neutral tone. The bank already cut the key overnight interest rate by 50 basis points to 4% in its March decision.

ASIA

India

Projecting a modest pick-up in economic activity in the coming months, Reserve Bank today pegged GDP (Gross Domestic Product) growth rate for the current fiscal year at 5.7%, significantly lower than the Finance Ministry's forecast of 6.1 to 6.7%.

"The Reserve Bank's baseline projection of GDP growth for 2013-14 is 5.7%. The bank's current assessment is that activity will remain subdued during the first half of this year with a modest pick-up in the second half, subject to appropriate conditions ensuing," RBI said in its annual monetary policy review for 2013-14.

India's economy grew by 5% in the last fiscal year, lowest in a decade, because of poor performance of manufacturing, agriculture and services sector.

The RBI's current fiscal year's growth estimate of 5.7% is much lower than the finance ministry's growth projection of 6.1-6.7% and Prime Minister's Economic Advisory Council's growth projection of 6.4% for 2013-14.

It is also lower than the World Bank's growth projection, which predicted the Indian economy to grow by 6.1% in 2013-14 on account of robust domestic demand, strong savings and investment rate.

Not happy with RBI's growth projection, Planning Commission Deputy Chairman Montek Singh Ahluwalia had described its outlook as 'pessimistic'.

"Reserve Bank is clearly more pessimistic than the government is. I think that the government forecast as of now is feasible. Critically what matters is, how effective we are in restoring the momentum of investment in the large projects", the Plan panel deputy chief said.

The Reserve Bank today cut the key interest rate by just 0.25% to 7.25% and kept the liquidity enhancing cash reserve requirement unchanged.

Further, the central bank said it expects inflation to hover broadly around the 5.5% mark in the current fiscal and will deploy "all instruments at command" to bring it down to 5%  by March next year.………………The remaining text is not included in this sample.

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CHEMICAL UPDATE

MAY 2013

TABLE OF CONTENTS

INDUSTRY NEWS

·        Asian Companies Emerging as Suppliers of Continent’s Fast Growth Chemical Industry

·        UK Researchers Devise PE Decomposition Additive

COMPANY NEWS

·        Mitsui & Celanese Enter Joint Venture to Produce Methanol in U.S.

·        Solvay, Ineos Reach Merger Agreement for PVC Businesses

·        Mitsubishi Buys Michigan-based Compounder Comtrex

·        Mitsubishi Chemical, JNC, and Japan Polychem to Transfer PP Businesses

·        Evonik and OPX Biotechnologies Signs Development Agreement for Bio-based Chemicals

·        Dow Chemical’s Venture Targets $1 Billion in Carbon Investments

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Many New Power Generation Projects in Asia

New power plant projects are tracked continuously and revised start-up summaries are published monthly. Here are plants starting up in 2014.

Startup Date / Fuel - Summary Chart

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