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The Fabric Filter Newsletter, Precipitator Newsletter, webinars and case histories are all included in 44I Power Plant Air Quality Decisions (Power Plant Decisions Orchard).  The core information is on power plants but cement kilns, furnaces and other applications for particulate control are included.  The hot gas decision guide and another on dry scrubbers are unique tools as well.

PRECIP NEWSLETTER HEADLINES

May 2015

MARKETS

• Air Pollution Markets Shifting Toward Asia
• Power Plants Need to Think Outside the Box in Dealing with Obsolescence
• HCl Scrubbing and Rare Earth Recovery from Coal-Fired Power Plants and Gasifiers are the Perfect Marriage

COAL-FIRED BOILERS

• TPCIL Starts Commercial Operations of Krishnapatnam Power Plant
• Vattenfall Takes First Moorburg Coal-fired Power Plant Block Online
• Mitsubishi-Larsen & Tubro Joint Venture to Deliver Supercritical-pressure Coal-fired Boilers to Tanda Power Plant
• Marubeni, Alstom Win $1Billion Coal-fired Power Project in Thailand
• Alstom Vows to Bring State-of-Art Technology to Krabi Power Plant Bid
• We Energies Will Hold On to Upper Peninsula Coal-fired Power Plant
• Martin Drake Coal-fired Power Plant Resumes Operations after Fire last Year
• Orascom, IPIC to Build 3,000-MW Coal-fired Power Plant in Egypt
• Japan to Develop Coal-fired Power Plant in Sorong, West Papua, Indonesia
• NTPC Plans Expansion of Parawada Coal-fired Power Plant
• Long Queue to Construct 1320-MW Coal-fired Rampal Power Plant
• Alstom to Build Ultra-Supercritical Lignite-Fired Power Plant in Asia
• ABB Wins Power Plant Automation Order in South Africa
• Longannet Coal-fired Power Station to Close Next Year
• Beijing, China Closing Four Major Coal-fired Power Plants Next Year
• EthosEnergy to Modernize Three Units at Kozienice Power Station

COMPANY NEWS

• Fuel Tech Reports 2014 Fourth Quarter and Full Year Financial Results
• Order Bookings and Backlog for Hamon at New Historically High Level
• Clyde Bergemann Power Group Reports on Nova Scotia Air Pollution Control Project
• Fuel Tech Awarded Air Pollution Control Orders Totaling $4.8 Million

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OIL & GAS SALES LEADS HEADLINES

July 3, 2015

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(Listed by most current date)

PA DEP’s New Data Reveals Increase in Emissions from Natural Gas Drilling Operations as Activity Increases - Revision Date:  7/3/2015

Air Products and ACWA Holding Win Saudi Aramco Contract for World's Largest Industrial Gas Complex - Revision Date:  7/3/2015

Enable Midstream Completes Bradley Processing Plant

Revision Date:  7/3/2015

Enable Midstream Announces Completion of Bakken Crude Oil Gathering System

Revision Date:  7/3/2015

Technip Wins Subsea Contract on Triton FPSO

Revision Date:  7/2/2015

Erickson Inc Wins Mexico Pipeline Construction Contract

Revision Date:  7/2/2015

North Dakota Legislature OKs State-run Rail Safety Program

Revision Date:  7/2/2015

Alberta Lifts Levy on Carbon Output, Ups Target for Cuts

Revision Date:  7/2/2015

Scientists Say Tar Sands Development and Limiting Climate Change Are ‘Incompatible’

Revision Date:  6/30/2015

ExxonMobil Announces Kearl Expansion Project Starts Production Ahead of Schedule

Revision Date:  6/30/2015

Forecast Calls for 'muted' growth in Oilsands Production

Revision Date:  6/30/2015

Oil-Sands Megaproject Era Wanes as Suncor to Imperial Scale Down

Revision Date:  6/30/2015

Reducing Emissions should be the Goal as Canada Rethinks the Oil Sands Sector

Revision Date:  6/30/2015

ConocoPhillips Achieves First Steam at Surmont 2

Revision Date:  6/30/2015

Ewart: NDP must Move Carefully on Oilsands Upgrading

Revision Date:  6/30/2015

Southern Pacific Resource to “Hibernate” The STP-McKay Oilsands Project by July 31

Revision Date:  6/29/2015

Federal Regulator Urged to Suspend TransCanada Corp’s Energy East Pipeline

Revision Date:  6/29/2015

Shell Pushes Carmon Creek Oil Sands Project to 2019

Revision Date:  6/29/2015

Cash-strapped Oilsands Junior SilverWillow Returns 3 Leases to Province

Revision Date:  6/29/2015

Canadian Oil Sands Ltd Posts Loss

Revision Date:  6/29/2015

Canadian Natural Advances Planned Horizon Oil Sands Plant Maintenance to June

Revision Date:  6/29/2015

ExxonMobil Announces Cold Lake Project Expansion Starts Production on Schedule

Revision Date:  6/26/2015

Gibson Energy to Build 900,000 barrels of Crude Storage in Alberta

Revision Date:  6/26/2015

TransCanada Expects B.C. Regulatory Decisions on Two Pipeline Projects in Q2

Revision Date:  6/26/2015

Aecon Awarded $109 Mln Contract for Work on Alberta, Sturgeon Refinery Project

Revision Date:  6/26/2015

CNOOC's Nexen Schedules Work on Long Lake Oil Sands Upgrader

Revision Date:  6/25/2015

CNOOC Ltd's Canadian unit, Nexen Energy, said on April 23 it plans a 5-week maintenance shutdown of its 35,000 barrel per day Long Lake oil sands upgrader beginning on June 1.

Revision Date:  6/25/2015

Oil-sands Crude Could Come to California

Revision Date:  6/25/2015

MCW Energy-Utah’s Oil Sands Go Green

Revision Date:  6/25/2015

Fluor Secures EPFC Tank Farm Contract in Athabasca Oil Sands

Revision Date:  6/25/2015

Major Oilsands Producers Focusing on Costs

Revision Date:  6/25/2015

Egypt Signs $300 Mln Deal with UOP to Produce High-Octane Benzene

Revision Date:  6/18/2015

Mexichem Plans $800 Mln Investments in 2015, New Factories

Revision Date:  6/18/2015

Constructing a Facility Siting Plan and the Critical Safety Components

Revision Date:  6/18/2015

Shell Acquires Land for Proposed Appalachia Ethane Cracker

Revision Date:  6/18/2015

Staffing the 'Plastics Manufacturing Renaissance'

Revision Date:  6/18/2015

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INDUSTRIAL EMITTERS UPDATE HEADLINES

June 2015

AMERICAS

•           EPA Regulation Rolls Backs Air Pollution Exemptions for Industry

Chemicals

•           Evonik Starts Basic Engineering Work for New Precipitated Silica Production Plant in U.S.

•           Borealis and Agrifos to Set Up Ammonia Plant in Texas

•           PeroxyChem Breaks Ground On Hydrogen Peroxide Purification Plant in NY

Iron & Steel/ Metalworking

•           Dearborn Steel Plant to Pay $1.35M Fine to Settle Alleged Violations

Mining

•           K+S on Track to Begin Producing Potash from Legacy Mine Next Year

•           Long Canyon Gold Mine, Nevada, Starts Construction

Pulp and Paper

•           Fibria Invests $2.5 Billion in Três Lagoas Pulp Line, Brazil

Iron/ Steel/ Metalworking

•           Alcoa to get $259 million DOE Loan to Upgrade Tennessee Plant

•           Thyssenkrupp Opens Steering Components Plant in Mexico; See Strong Growth in NA

Other Industries

•           Duke Energy Faces Record Fine over Coal Ash Pollution

NWI Ready to Break Ground on New Center

ASIA

Chemical

•           AkzoNobel to build €30 million Performance Coatings Facility in Thailand

•           Selena Gets EBRD Loan to Expand Construction Chemical Business in Kazakhstan

•           Hexcel Launches Site for New Carbon Fiber Plant in France; Announces Capacity
Expansions at Weaving and Prepreg Facilities

Mining

•           Rio Tinto Finalizes Deal with Mongolia for $5.4bn Oyu Tolgoi Mine Expansion

EMEA

Chemical

•           Mexichem’s VESTOLIT Subsidiary to Increase Specialty PVC Capacity in German Plant

•           Evonik Doubles Methacrylic Anhydride Capacity in Germany

•           Sasol Performance Chemicals Expands Catalyst Carrier Production Capacity

•           Jacobs Awarded Four-Year EPCM Contract by Sadara

Mining

•           Amec Foster Wheeler Awarded New Çőpler Gold Mine Contract in Turkey

•           Norilsk Nickel Secures $1bn Credit from VTB for Bystrinsky Project in Siberia

•           South Africa Grants New Mining Right to Coal of Africa for Makhado Project

•           True Gold Restarts Burkina Faso Project Construction in Africa

•           Kenya Awards Two Coal Blocks, Plans Power Plant

Other Industries

•           AstraZeneca to build $285 million Biologics Plant in Sweden

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SEMICONDUCTOR INDUSTRY UPDATE

June 2015

TABLE OF CONTENTS

InVisage Expands with New Taiwan Factory

TI's Sugar Land, Texas Facility Awarded LEED^® Gold Certification

Samsung to put 10nm Chips into Mass Production by End of 2016

Transphorm and ON Semiconductor Start of Production of GaN Power Devices

CHEMICAL UPDATE

APRIL 2015

AMERICAS

BASF Continues to Evaluate Natural Gas-Based Investment on U.S. Gulf Coast

Prayon to Build Food Grade Sodium Hexametaphosphate (SHMP) Plant in Georgia

Yara and BASF to Build Ammonia Plant in Freeport, Texas

Praxair Gulf Coast Expansion to Serve Freeport, Texas, and Supply New Yara/ BASF Ammonia Project

GEO Opens New Polyaluminum Chloride Facility in Texas

Solvay to Expand Peroxides Production to Serve Growing North American Markets

EaglePicher Breaks Ground on Lithium Ion Center of Excellence

Airgas to Build New Air Separation Unit (ASU) in Tuscaloosa, AL

Linde starts up new air separation unit in Texas

LyondellBasell to Expand Production Capacity of Tri-ethylene Glycol in Texas Plant

ASIA

Chiye Organic Silicon Material (Shanghai) Invests US1.6 Million on Production Plant

Shin-Etsu to Expand Silicone Production in Thailand; Plans US Technical Center

Technip Awarded Contract for Qingdao 500 KTA Ethylbenzene Styrene Monomer Plant

AkzoNobel Performance Coatings Adds Capacity in Indonesia

Fluor Awarded Engineering Contract for New Chinese Polysilicon Plant

EUEA

Kuraray Boosts Production Capacity for Ethylene Vinyl Alcohol in Belgium

Styrolution Opens SBC Pilot Plant

PPG Plans Capacity Expansion for Precipitated Silica at Netherlands Site

Solvay Building Hydrogen Peroxide Grade Production Plant in Netherlands

A. Schulman to Establish Masterbatch Production Plant in Turkey

Technip Awarded Substantial Contract for New Fertilizer Unit in Slovak Republic

Air Liquide to Build, Own and Operate World’s Largest Oxygen Production Unit for Sasol in South Africa

Grupa Azoty Announces Historical $450m Investment in New PDH Plant in Poland

MERGERS/ ACQUISITIONS

Solvay to Acquire Alkoxylation Plant in the Netherlands

A. Schulman to Acquire Citadel

Germany's Evonik to Acquire Monarch Catalyst

Polypore Sells Energy Storage Segment for $2.2B to Asahi Kasei, Separations Media Segment to 3M for $1B

PULP MILLS UPDATE

May 2015

COMPANY NEWS

Eastman Cyphrex reinvents paper performance

Valmet Launches Calendering Technology for Board and Paper Machines

GE, Kemira Form Water Technology Alliance to Serve Pulp and Paper Sector

EXPANSIONS/ UPGRADES/ NEW PROJECTS

AMERICAS

Irving Pulp & Paper Invests over $640,000 in Saint John, NB Pulp Mill Modernization

Northern Pulp to Install Electrostatic Precipitator at Nova Scotia Mill

Andritz to Rebuild Paper Machine at Suzano Mill, Brazil

Russia’s Sveza Set to Start Construction of 1.2 Million-Tonne/Yr Kraft Pulp Mill in 2017

ASIA

China’s Vinda to Build Three Tissue PMs in 2015

China’s Hengan Starts up New 60,000-tonne/yr Tissue PM in Hunan Province

EUEA

Metsä Fibre to Build Next-Generation Bioproduct Mill in Äänekoski, Finland

Andritz to Supply Metsä Fibre's New Äänekoski Bioproduct Pulp Mill in Finland

BillerudKorsnäs Upgrades its 260,000-tonne/yr SC Fluting PM at Gruvön

Finland’s Kotkamills Upgrades PM 2 To Packaging Board

PMT Italia to Supply Film Size Press to Pehlivanoğlu Kağit's PM 1 in Turkey

UK's TRM Packaging Installs New £1 Million Pallet Press Line

Valmet Receives Order from Holmen for Softwood Line Rebuild at Iggesund Mill

Sappi to Invest in New Nanocellulose Pilot Plant in the Netherlands

Sappi Expands Alfeld Competence Centre with New Paper Lab

Eska Graphic Board Signs Contract for Construction of Reject Gasifier

Valmet to Rebuild Softwood Pulp Line at Iggesund Mill

Sofidel Starts New Wastewater Treatment Plant at Its Delicarta Tissue Mill in Italy

Mondi to Raise Pulp, Kraftliner Production at Swiecie mill in Poland

ACQUISITIONS/ DIVESTURES

OpenGate Capital to Sell Kotkamills to Finnish Private Equity Firm MB Funds

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WORLD POWER GENERATION PROJECT HEADLINES

Revision Date:  5/1/2015

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