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· 4 Lane Knowledge Bridge to the End User
· GE Competing with Ecolab, Flowserve, Xylem and Pentair for Top Spot in Fluid Treatment Market
· GDP Update Headlines – May 2013
· Chemical Update Headlines – May 2013
· Oil & Gas Update Headlines - April 2013
· Water & Wastewater Treatment Chemicals World Market Update Headlines - March/April 2013
· Industrial Boiler Update Headlines - May 2013
· Municipal Wastewater Treatment Plants Update Headlines - May 15, 2013
· World Municipal Wastewater Project News Provided Monthly
· Check out Your Coverage in the Global Decision Orchard
· Collaboration is the Key to the Full utilization of the Digital Universe
4 Lane Knowledge Bridge to the End User
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GE Competing with Ecolab, Flowserve, Xylem and Pentair for Top Spot in Fluid Treatment Market
The Ecolab/Nalco and the Pentair/Tyco mergers underline the growing realization that the flow control and treatment market can be pursued in entirety. No one company has as much as two percent of this $330 billion market. Five companies with over a one percent market share are GE, Ecolab, Flowserve, Xylem and Pentair. These market shares are included in the McIlvaine report, Air/Gas/Water/Fluid Treatment and Control: World Markets. (www.mcilvainecompany.com) GE boosted its market presence with the acquisition of Dresser. It has a number of divisions which participate in many product and application segments.
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As shown in yellow it is a full participant in many areas. In others, it acts as an engineering, procurement and construction contractor and purchases equipment from others.
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GDP UPDATE HEADLINES
May 2013
TABLE OF CONTENTS
AMERICAS
United States
Mexico
ASIA
India
Taiwan
EUROPE / AFRICA / MIDDLE EAST
Czech Republic
France
Latvia
Lithuania
Slovenia
Spain
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.”
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.
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% …….. (Remaining text not included in this sample.)
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CHEMICAL UPDATE HEADLINES
MAY 2013
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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OIL & GAS LATEST PROJECTS
May 2013
Sales Leads for Oil & Gas
· TransCanada Moves Forward on West-East Oil Pipeline Plan (Project Dated: 5/22/2013)
· Foster Wheeler Awarded SNG Studies by Pecket Energy in Chile (Project Dated: 5/22/2013)
· Key Energy Hopes to Build Water Treatment Plant in Carlsbad, NM (Proposal Dated: 5/22/2013)
· EU Countries Showing Interest in Ukraine's Gas Transportation and Storage System (Article Dated: 5/17/2013)
· Ezra Wins Four New Contracts Totaling Nearly $120 Mln (Contract Dated: 5/17/2013)
· Daybreak Oil and Gas Launches Six Well Drilling Program to Develop California East Slopes Oil Project (Project Dated: 5/17/2013)
· Mott MacDonald Awarded Engineering Consultancy Contract for Al Khafji Field (Contract Dated: 5/17/2013)
· Pars Oil & Gas Signs Six Deals with Iranian Companies (Agreement Dated: 5/17/2013)
· Colorado Oil and Gas Companies Find Cleaning Toxic Liquid Waste an Expensive Process (Analysis Dated: 5/17/2013)
· Ecosphere Technologies, Inc. with Patented Ozonix Technology Selected as 2013 New Energy Pioneer (Article Dated: 5/17/2013)
· Key Energy Hopes to Build Water Treatment Plant in Carlsbad, NM (Article Dated: 5/17/2013)
· Mozambique and Tanzania Resurgence Reshapes Eastern Africa Oil Landscape (Article Dated: 5/16/2013)
· Both Critics and Supporters Unhappy with Obama Handling of Keystone Pipeline Review (Article Dated: 5/15/2013)
· ProSep Awarded $2 Mln Contract for Produced Water Treatment Solution (Contract Dated: 5/15/2013)
· Austin Startup Omni Water Solutions Raises $4 Million for Expansion (Article Dated: 5/15/2013)
· New Euclid, OH Pipe Plant Expects to Transform Coatings Industry (Article Dated: 5/15/2013)
· Colorado Fracking Database Questioned by Harvard Study (Analysis Dated: 5/15/2013)
· Chevron Announces Carnarvon Basin Natural Gas Discovery Offshore Australia (Article Dated: 5/15/2013)
· Repsol Makes Three Oil Discoveries in Alaska (Article Dated: 5/15/2013)
· Ridgeline Announces New PA Water Treatment Facility and Expansion of NM Facility (Project Dated: 5/15/2013)
· Mongolia and Genie Energy Sign Strategic Oil Shale Development Agreement (Agreement Dated: 5/14/2013)
· Plains All American Announces New Cactus Oil Pipeline in Texas (Project Dated: 5/14/2013)
· Shell Awards Jacobs Contract for Hong Kong Oil Project (Contract Dated: 5/14/2013)
· Atlas Pipeline to Buy Eagle Ford Shale Midstream Business for $1Bln (Agreement Dated: 5/14/2013)
· Iran Terminates CNPCs' South Pars Phase 11 Contract (Contract Dated: 5/14/2013)
· BP to Invest Nearly $540 Mln in South Africa, Mozambique (Investment Dated: 5/14/2013)
· LyondellBasell Unveils Plans for NGL Fractionation at Corpus Christi (Project Dated: 5/13/2013)
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WATER & WASTEWATER TREATMENT CHEMICALS
WORLD MARKET UPDATE HEADLINES
March/April 2013
CHEMICAL INDUSTRY NEWS
Justice Dept. OK’s Ecolab’s $2.3 Billion Champion Purchase
Ashland Abandons 2014 Targets amid Break-Up Speculation
Florida Fracking Bills Moving Through Legislature
Power Industry to Spend more than $22 Billion for Water Flow and Treatment Next Year
BASF Combines Water Solutions and Oilfield and Mining Solutions
Lonza Closes Irish Plant as Ridinger Presses Ahead With Cuts
EPA Notice Says Calif. Has Violated the Safe Drinking Water Act
New Blow to District as 375 Jobs Face The Axe
NEW PLANT CONSTRUCTION NEWS
inge has Big Contract for UF as Desal Pretreatment in Ghana
A New Industrial Wastewater Treatment System in Spain
New Wastewater Treatment Plant to Come On-Line in DeSoto County
Austin Startup Omni Water Solutions Raises $4 Million for Expansion
TECHNOLOGY/NEW PRODUCT NEWS
This Nanotech "Lily Pad" Could Obliterate Stormwater Pollution
Growing Opportunities for Treatment of Fracking Water
Innovative Product Meets Strict Standards to Deliver Effective Solutions in Environmentally Sensitive Water
Clean Tech Entrepreneurs Look to Cash in on Fracking Boom
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INDUSTRIAL BOILER UPDATE HEADLINES
May 2013
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Industrial Emissions Control Technology XI - August 5-7, 2013
Mead Westvaco’s Meets Emission Requirements with Upgrade of Scrubber to Rotabed™ Design
Resolute turns on Turbine and Green Power at Thunder Bay
Fuel Tech has Order for SCR for Boiler at Chemical Company
Biomass-fired Boilers Starting up in 2014-17
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MUNICIPAL WASTEWATER TREATMENT PLANTS
UPDATE HEADLINES
May 15, 2013
TABLE OF CONTENTS
ARIZONA
Cottonwood to Present Leading Edge Treatment Plant at Conference
ARKANSAS
Hope Needs New WWTP
CALIFORNIA
$100 Million Wastewater Project for Modesto
El Dorado Hills Pays $83,000 for Odor Control
CONNECTICUT
New Haven Requesting Bids for Wastewater Improvement Project
Canton Requesting Bids for Wastewater Equipment
FLORIDA
$12.6 Billion for Miami-Dade Wastewater Projects
GEORGIA
Putnam County Considering New Wastewater Treatment Plant
Warner Robins Wastewater Upgrade Underway
ILLINOIS
Savanna to Build New WWTP
Oglesby Opens Bids for Wastewater Treatment Plant Project
MARYLAND
St. Mary’s Wastewater Plant Retrofit $3 Million over Estimate
Salisbury Treatment Plant Gets $25 Million for Repairs
Calvert County Approves Chesapeake Beach Wastewater Plant Upgrade
MINNESOTA
Wykoff Wastewater Treatment Plant Moving Forward
Fountain Discusses Operational Challenges at WWTP
MISSOURI
Maryville Moves Forward with New WWTP
Liberty Moving Forward with Wastewater Project
MONTANA
Laurel WWTP Subject to DEQ Fines
NEBRASKA
Grand Island WWTP Project $1 Million over Estimate
NEW HAMPSHIRE
New Market begins Search for Engineering Firm for Wastewater Project
NEW YORK
Nassau County Considers WWTP Options
Sandy Funds to Upgrade Cooney Island WWTP
NORTH CAROLINA
ONWASA Breaks Ground on New Richlands WWTP
Bessemer City Spending on Wastewater Treatment System
$36 Million for Cedar Point WWTP
OHIO
Urbana Approves Wastewater Plant Contract
Salem Requesting Bids for WWTP Project
OREGON
Astoria WWTP Construction Project Begins
PENNSYLVANIA
Camp Hill Borough Fined for Sewage Discharges
SOUTH CAROLINA
Laurens County Reviews Bids for Wastewater Project
TEXAS
Weslaco Mull City Operation of Water, Wastewater Treatment Plants
VIRGINIA
Strasburg Reviews Bids for WWTP Project
WEST VIRGINIA
Lawsuit Pending Against Berkeley County Sewer District
BUSINESS NEWS
Biosolids Drying System Installed at WI Wastewater Plant
UV for Large Scale Wastewater Reuse Launched by Xylem
RECENT CHEMICAL BID REPORTS
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AFRICA
ASIA
Australia: Microvi Selects MWH to Promote Biotechnology Products in Asia Pacific
China: Phase I of Guantang Wastewater Treatment Plant to go On-line This Year
Latvia: Riga Completes US$11 Million Upgrade of Daugavgriva WWTP
UK: Severn Trent Rejects US$7.2 Billion Takeover Offer
MIDDLE EAST
Oman: Major Water Reuse Project Led by Haya Water Underway in Muscat
NORTH AND SOUTH AMERICA
Brazil: Saneago Requests Bids for US$27 Million Wastewater System Expansion in Goiânia
Brazil: First Sewage Treatment Plant in Cordeirópolis Gets Green Light on Funding
Peru: Construction Permits for US$373 Million Cerro Verde WWTP Issued
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Collaboration is the Key to the Full Utilization of the Digital Universe
The European Trade Fair Industry is built on a thousand year old tradition of annual or bi-annual gatherings to bring buyer and seller together. The advent of the printing press in 1440 started the evolution in mass communication. The telephone and telegraph some 400 years later created the next big step toward better buyer-seller communication.
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