Thousands of U.S. Water and Wastewater Plants Purchase Lime Based Products Each Year

Lime products soften water by removing carbonate and non-carbonate hardness.  This purifies the water for consumption, provides better tasting water and allows soap products to lather readily. Many of the 18,000 municipal drinking water facilities purchase lime.

Lime is used in municipal wastewater treatment to stabilize biosolids by killing pathogens, viruses and reducing vector attraction to produce high quality fertilizers for the agricultural industry. It also has other uses.

·       Reducing biosolids odors and improving handling through drying.

·       Ensuring pH and alkalinity are correct to optimize biological treatment operations.

·       Adjusting pH and alkalinity to optimize coagulation and flocculation settling processes.

·       Controlling nutrients like phosphorus as lime precipitates phosphorous to very low levels without biological treatment.

A sizable number of the 16,000 municipal wastewater treatment plants also use lime. A city may combine purchases and buy lime for multiple water and wastewater plants in an annual contract. Some contracts are as short as six months and some as long as five years.

McIlvaine Company tracks bids for the purpose of helping lime companies understand when lime will be ordered, the quantities which will be needed, and the prices which are likely to be paid. Since a plant typically orders lime for the same period as previously and in the same month, it is possible to create a useful plant-by-plant pattern and predict the next order timing and amount.

 

Facility

Location

Form

Volume

Contract Span/Price*/Low Bidder

Next Bid

Chattahoochee

Atlanta, GA

Calcium hydroxide 30%

3,000,.000 gal

3 years

1/17

Hemphill

Atlanta, GA

Calcium –hydroxide -30%

3,000,000 gal

3 years

1/17

R.M. Clayton

Atlanta, GA

Calcium –hydroxide -30%

2,000,000 gal

3 years

1/17

St. Charles

St Charles, MO

Hydrated Lime

2,750 tons

1 year

1/16

Aberdeen Water

Aberdeen, S.D.

Lime

2,000 tons

1 year/$130/ton  Pete Lien

1/16

Jackson

Jackson, MI

Lime

 

1 year/$124/ton

Western Lime

7/15

McMullen

Des Moines, IA

Lime

 

1 year/$152/ton

Miss. Lime

1/16

Fleur

Des Moines, IA

Lime

 

1 year/$124/ton

Linwood

1/16

Hannibal

Hannibal, MO

Lime

190 tons

1 year Miss. Lime stipulated

7/15

Mattoon

Mattoon, Il

Lime (pebble)

650 tons

6 months

5/15

Bucks County

Levittown, PA

Hydrated Lime

 

1 year/$180/ton

Carmeuse

5/15

 

* Could be for previous year

The pricing shown in the chart does not necessarily reflect the price paid in the current year. The prices vary greatly based on the location of the lime supplier and the availability of the product. Prices also vary by the particle size and treatment.

The details on the plants and projects are found at:

62EI North American Municipal Wastewater Treatment Facilities and People Database

67EI North American Public Water Plants and People

Analysis of the market is provided in a lime supplier market support system. For more information on this system contact:  editor@mcilvainecompany.com.

GDP UPDATE HEADLINES

March 2015

TABLE OF CONTENTS

AMERICAS

 

ASIA

EUROPE / AFRICA / MIDDLE EAST

AMERICAS

Brazil

Market forecasts for Brazil's economic growth and inflation worsened for an eighth straight week, according to a central bank survey.

The median forecast of about 100 economists in the weekly central bank survey projected Brazil's economy to shrink 0.5% this year, down from a contraction of 0.42% in the prior week's poll. Annual inflation is set to end 2015 at 7.33%, up from 7.27% in the prior survey.   (The remaining text is not included in this sample.)

ASIA

Japan

Japan’s economy pulled out of recession more slowly than expected last quarter, with soft spending by businesses and consumers underscoring the challenges facing Prime Minister Shinzo Abe as he tries to steer the nation to a robust recovery.

The worst is likely over for Japan in the near term, economists said recently, but Mr. Abe still faces a difficult balancing act as he tries to get prices and wages to rise at the same time. Growth last quarter was driven by exports, while sustainable expansion depends on instilling confidence in consumers who account for around 60% of the economy, and whose wages have been rising more slowly than prices for more than a year.

“I was surprised by how weak household spending was,” said Shotaro Kuga, an economist at Daiwa Institute of Research, said of the fourth quarter results. “The economy is recovering—it’s just the pace of the recovery is less than forecast.”   (The remaining text is not included in this sample.)

EUROPE / AFRICA / MIDDLE EAST

Russia

Russia’s economy minister said that the country’s gross domestic product is expected to shrink by 3% in 2015 with oil prices at $50 a barrel and an estimated capital outflow at $115 billion, Russian news agencies reported.

The government previously predicted the decrease in GDP at 0.8%. Inflation in 2015 is now forecast to stand at 12%, up from the previous estimate of 7.5%, Alexei Ulyukayev said, Russian news agencies reported.

The announcement comes a day after the Russian central bank unexpectedly lowered its key interest rate by two percentage points, sending the ruble lower. Russia was also recently downgraded to “junk” level, below investment-grade, by the credit rating company Standard & Poor’s amid the mounting violence in eastern Ukraine. .”   (The remaining text is not included in this sample.)

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OIL & GAS SALES LEADS HEADLINES

February 27, 2015

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(Listed by most current date)

Cheniere and EDP Sign 20-Year LNG Sale and Purchase Agreement

Revision Date:  2/27/2015

Bechtel Announces Curtis Island Plant to Fuel New Queensland Export Industry

Revision Date:  2/27/2015

GP Strategies Completes LNG Trailer Loading Facility for FortisBC

Revision Date:  2/27/2015

Exmar Selects Wison for FLNG Contract

Revision Date:  2/27/2015

Keppel Wins $705 Mln Contract to Perform 2nd FLNG Vessel Conversion

Revision Date:  2/26/2015

KBR, Daewoo Awarded Mozambique FLNG Contract

Revision Date:  2/26/2015

New Seabox Technology, SWIT Is Changing the Game in Water Injection

Revision Date:  2/17/2015

Slim's Carso Energy and Consortium Partners Wins Contract for Texas Pipeline

Revision Date:  2/17/2015

Williams Partners and Crestwood Midstream Partners Announce Commissioning of Bucking Horse Gas Processing Plant

Revision Date:  2/17/2015

Kværner to Deliver $261 Mln Johan Sverdrup Riser Platform Jacket

Revision Date:  2/16/2015

Det Norske Commits to Viper-Kobra Subsea Tieback Offshore Norway

Revision Date:  2/16/2015

Lucius Enters Production in the Ultra-deepwater GoM

Revision Date:  2/16/2015

CO2 Use Extends Range of EOR Applications for GoM Operators

Revision Date:  2/16/2015

Acteon Establishes Clarus Subsea Integrity

Revision Date:  2/16/2015

Norway Releases New Production License Award Offers

Revision Date:  2/13/2015

University of Houston to Lead Offshore Energy Research Center

Revision Date:  2/13/2015

Bilfinger Wins $151.8 Mln North Sea Maintenance Contract with Taqa, Apache

Revision Date:  2/13/2015

Enbridge Plans New $130 Mln GoM Pipeline to Connect Hess’ Stampede Development

Revision Date:  2/13/2015

Malaysia Embarks on Ambitious Downstream Transformation Program

Revision Date:  2/12/2015

Compact Separation Technology Enhances Subsea Boosting

Revision Date:  2/12/2015

Seabox Will Lead New JIP to Investigate Subsea Water Treatment for Reinjection

Revision Date:  2/12/2015

Technip Wins Subsea Contract for K2 GoM Field

Revision Date:  2/11/2015

Poland Raises Capacity of Its Gas Link from Germany to Reduce Dependence on Russia

Revision Date:  2/11/2015

Higher Volumes of Canadian Oil Flowing to U.S. Gulf Coast

Revision Date:  2/11/2015

Canada Postpones Three Amigos Summit over Tensions Concerning Keystone XL

Revision Date:  2/11/2015

Fugro Expands Services with High Resolution Subsea Laser Scanning

Revision Date:  2/11/2015

VBMS Completes Remote Platform Tieback for Wintershall Noordzee B.V.

Revision Date:  2/11/2015

Shell Awards Multi–Million Contract to Subsea 7 for GoM Installations

Revision Date:  2/11/2015

Slim's Carso Energy Consortium Wins U.S.-Mexico Gas Pipeline Contract

Revision Date:  2/11/2015

Equatorial Guinea, Taleveras to Build Giant Oil Storage Hub

Revision Date:  2/10/2015

Greyrock Energy, Nerd Gas Form GTL Partnership

Revision Date:  2/10/2015

Williams’ Transco Pipeline Delivers Record Volumes in Early January

Revision Date:  2/10/2015

ExxonMobil Begins Production at the Sakhalin-1 Arkutun-Dagi Field

Revision Date:  2/10/2015

GE and McDermott Launch New Oil and Gas Consulting JV

Revision Date:  2/10/2015

Fossil Bay Signs IP License with Weatherford Technology Holdings for Exhaust Gas Injection and Reservoir Pressurization Enhanced Oil Recovery

Revision Date:  2/10/2015

Azure Midstream to Acquire Marlin Midstream's General Partner and Azure to Contribute Legacy Gathering System to Marlin, to Form Midstream Partnership

Revision Date:  2/10/2015

Petronas Carigali Awards $14 Mln Contract to Uzma Engineering

Revision Date:  2/9/2015

White House Orders Steps to Curb Oil and Gas Methane Emissions

Revision Date:  2/9/2015

EPA Approves Magellan’s $400 Mln Corpus Christi Splitter Project

Revision Date:  2/9/2015

McDermott Completes Kepodang Platform Installation Offshore Indonesia

Revision Date:  2/9/2015

Joint Open Season Offers New England and Atlantic Canada New Natural Gas Supplies

Revision Date:  2/9/2015

BP Could Be Fined up to $13.7 Bln for Macondo Spill

Revision Date:  2/6/2015

Gazprom Neft Receives Two Arctic Shelf Exploration Licenses

Revision Date:  2/6/2015

Mexico Must Expand Infrastructure for Future Energy Demand

Revision Date:  2/6/2015

Shale Firm Cuadrilla Awarded UK Exploration Permits

Revision Date:  2/6/2015

Jereh Completes China’s First Shale Gas Liquefaction Plant

Revision Date:  2/6/2015

First Wood Group Mustang Norway-Designed Drilling Rig Delivered to COSL Drilling Europe

Revision Date:  2/6/2015

Keppel to Build One of World’s Largest Rigs for over $100 Mln

Revision Date:  2/6/2015

Tall Oak Midstream Announces Natural Gas Gathering and Processing System Serving OK’s STACK Play

Revision Date:  2/5/2015

MRC Global Awarded Five Year Supplier Agreement by MarkWest

Revision Date:  2/5/2015

Southwestern Energy Completes Acquisition of Southwest Marcellus and Utica Assets

Revision Date:  2/5/2015

Select Energy Services Launches Pecan Hill Water Solutions Facility

Revision Date:  2/5/2015

Egypt Signs Six New Petroleum Agreements with Minimum Investments of $485 Million

Revision Date:  2/5/2015

Eni Signs Agreement for South-West Melehia Block in Egypt

Revision Date:  2/5/2015

FMC Technologies Awarded $393 Mln Subsea Systems Contract for Eni's Project Offshore Angola

Revision Date:  2/5/2015

L&T Hydrocarbon Wins EPCI Order from ONGC for Vasai East Project

Revision Date:  2/4/2015

Pioneer Natural Resources Says Severe Winter Impacted Production and Drilling in West Texas

Revision Date:  2/4/2015

Qatar Kentz Awarded Four-year Call-off Contract by Qatar Shell for its Pearl Gas-to-liquids Facilities

Revision Date:  2/4/2015

Wood Group Secures Major $750 Mln BP EPC Contract

Revision Date:  2/4/2015

Orpic Logistics Awarded EPC Contract for $320 Mln Sohar Pipeline

Revision Date:  2/4/2015

FirstEnergy Working on New Shale Gas Transmission Projects and Evaluating Systems Upgrades

Revision Date:  2/4/2015

Swiber Wins $710 Mln EPCIC Contract in West Africa

Revision Date:  2/4/2015

Technip Awarded €100m Oil & Gas Terminal Project in India

Revision Date:  2/4/2015

Sinopec Starts 16-mln-bbl Crude Storage Base in Hainan Province

Revision Date:  2/3/2015

PBF to Acquire Tank Farm at Ohio Refinery for $150 Mln

Revision Date:  2/3/2015

Federal Court Case against Canadian Pacific May Have National Implications for Crude-by-rail

Revision Date:  2/3/2015

New Canada Safety Chief Urges Tougher Oil-by-rail Measures

Revision Date:  2/3/2015

FMC Technologies Awarded $268 Mln Subsea Contract for Chevron's Agbami Phase 3 Project

Revision Date:  2/3/2015

Breitling Energy Announces Drilling of New Wilcox Shale Project

Revision Date:  2/3/2015

Purestream Services Begins IGF Plus Water Treatment and Re-Use Project in Permian Basin

Revision Date:  2/3/2015

Alfa Laval Wins SEK 55 Mln for U.S. Natural Gas Order

Revision Date:  2/3/2015

Ranger Offshore Closes Diving Assets Acquisition from Technip USA

Revision Date:  2/3/2015

Hungary Prime Minister, Upset over South Stream Pipeline Set-back, Blames Brussels

Revision Date:  2/2/2015

Kinder Morgan Hopes to Resurrect Texas-to-California Freedom Pipeline

Revision Date:  2/2/2015

Kinder Morgan Subsidiary Adopts Two Alternative Routes for Northeast Energy Direct Project

Revision Date:  2/2/2015

Colombia to Invest $1.74 Bln to Expand Oil Pipeline Network

Revision Date:  2/2/2015

Saipem Could Lose $1.55 Bln in 2015 Revenue on South Stream

Revision Date:  2/2/2015

Shell Pipeline Leak Spills Thousands of Barrels into Niger Delta

Revision Date:  2/2/2015

Greece, Cyprus and Israel to Explain Mediterranean Pipeline Vision to EU

Revision Date:  2/2/2015

Burying Carbon as Climate Fix Widens Gap among Environmental Groups

Revision Date:  2/2/2015

India's ONGC, MRPL to Turn Mauritius into Petroleum Hub

Revision Date:  2/2/2015

TransCanada Pausing Work on Cacouna Export Terminal Due to Endangered Whales

Revision Date:  2/2/2015

China's Sinopec to Push Ahead with $10 Bln Coal-to-gas Plan

Revision Date:  2/2/2015

Ice Complicates Cleanup in Yellowstone's Rare Oil Spill

Revision Date:  1/30/2015

Alfa Laval Wins Canada SEK 115 Mln Compact Heat Exchangers Order

Revision Date:  1/30/2015

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World Municipal Wastewater Project News Headlines Provided Monthly

March 2015

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

ASIA

Australia:  Hunter Water Opens New Pipeline, Delivering Recycled Wastewater to Industrial Users

Vietnam:  First Phase of US$300 Million Binh Duong Wastewater Project Begins

 

EUROPE

Greece:  EC takes Greece to Court over Failure to Comply with Urban Wastewater Directive

Netherlands:  HoSt to Pilot Process for Producing Biogas from Sludge 

Sweden:  Stockholm to Upgrade Major WWTP with GE’s Advanced MBR Technology

UK:  Yorkshire Water Planning Solar Arrays to Provide Power for 2 Facilities

UK:  Food Waste Provides Power for Severn Trent’s Coleshill WWTP

UK:  Northumbrian Water Completes £9 Million Upgrade of Morpeth WWTP

UK:  Ovivo Sells UK Municipal Division to Senior Management Team

 

LATIN AMERICA

Brazil:  Private Sector Involvement in Water and Sewage Services is Expected to Grow

 

MIDDLE EAST

Iran:  Two Units of Iran’s Biggest Environmental Project Come on Stream

Kuwait:  Sulaibiya WWTP Upgraded with GE's Advanced Water Reuse Technology

SPECIAL REPORT:  Modi’s US$8 Billion Clean Ganga Campaign Offers Opportunities for Wastewater Treatment Market

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NORTH AMERICAN MUNICIPAL WASTEWATER TREATMENT PLANTS UPDATE HEADLINES

February 2015

ARIZONA

ARKANSAS

COLORADO

CONNECTICUT

FLORIDA

IDAHO

ILLINOIS

INDIANA

IOWA

KENTUCKY

LOUISIANA

MARYLAND

 

MASSACHUSETTS

MICHIGAN

MINNESOTA

MISSISSIPPI

MISSOURI

MONTANA

NEW JERSEY

NEW MEXICO

NEW YORK

NORTH CAROLINA

OHIO

PENNSYLVANIA

SOUTH CAROLINA

TENNESSEE

TEXAS

UTAH

VERMONT

VIRGINIA

WASHINGTON

WEST VIRGINIA

WISCONSIN

CANADA

BUSINESS

RECENT CHEMICAL BID REPORTS

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Pharmaceutical & Biotechnology Industry Update

February 2015

TABLE OF CONTENTS

UNITED STATES

Cambrex Announces Expansion of Large-Scale API Capacity

Juno Therapeutics Adds New Biomanufacturing Facility

Enteris BioPharma Launches Contract Manufacturing

Repligen Completes Expansion of U.S. Facility

Medical Murray Holds Ribbon Cutting at New N.C. Facility

Mega Medical Complex Opens in San Francisco’s Mission Bay

SAFC Expands Irvine Facility

Prosolia expands Capacity

Ash Stevens’ Riverview Facility Gains FDA Approval

Dalton Expands Capabilities

SGS Completes West Chester Facility Expansion

Hackensack UHN and Seton Hall University to Form School of Medicine

DPT Enhances Capabilities with New High-Speed Filling Center

L.S. Skaggs Pharmacy Institute, University of Utah

James L. Sorenson Molecular Biotechnology Building, Utah, US

Georgia Tech, Engineered Biosystems Building, Atlanta

Platinum Press to Open New Packaging Facility in NJ

LSNE Successfully Completes PAI

Hospira to Close Clayton, NC, Production Plant

REST OF WORLD

Delta-IBN Life Science and Diagnostics Lab Opens at Biopolis

FEI and National Center for Protein Sciences Beijing Launch Training & Research Facility

Aesica Continuing FDA Approval for Manufacture and Packaging Sites in Germany

SAFC Dry Powder Media Manufacturing Plant, Scotland, United Kingdom

G-CON Manufacturing Selected to Build ISO 5 POD for Instituto Butantan

National Center for Single-Cell Research Established in Sweden

Pirbright Institute’s Biocontainment Facility

U of Huddersfield Launches Genomics Research Center

Japan's Chugai Pharmaceutical to Invest

WH Partnership Completes Cancer Facility for TC BioPharm in Glasgow

ICON Establishes Innovation Hub in Ireland

Vetter Completes Construction Phase at Ravensburg

Joint Open Laboratory Established by Waters & ChP

Recipharm Completes Serialization Solution in China

Otsuka Establishes Australian Ops

Vetter Completes First Phase of Major Facility Expansion

New Labs in Sierra Leone Africa and Middle East

PPD Expands GMP Laboratory

Catalent Expands Services in Germany

Teva: More Biomanufacturing Space Needed

Roche Announces Investment on New Facility

SGS Completes Glasgow Expansion

Fareva Invests in Capacity

Translational Research Institute (TRI), Brisbane, Australia

Biotec Completes Clinical Supply Facility Expansion

Randox Announce Plans for New Science Park

Crown Expands Precos Site

AstraZeneca R&D Centre and Corporate Headquarters, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Piramal Approves Expansion for Manufacturing

Roche to Acquire French Biotechnology firm Trophos

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