TORONTO —ShawCor Ltd.’s pipecoating division, Bredero Shaw, has been awarded a US$60 million contract to provide pipeline coatings for the Zawtika Development Project operated by PTTEP International Ltd in southern Burma. The contract involves coating approximately 335 km of pipe with three-layer anticorrosion coating and concrete weight coating.

Based on recent analysis and reports, a leading manufacturing sector economist asserts the Chinese will stand to lose significant market share in the years to come, and will not have a cost advantage over U.S. manufacturing by the year 2016.

Electronic Components Can Now Be Purchased Reputable Electronic Components Distributors IndustrialSAVER Electronics Parts Buying Guide adds testers, assembler tools, supplies and components to its product lines Pasadena, California – The online industrial marketplace IndustrialSAVER, commonly referred to as I-SAVER by its users in the manufacturing community, introduced Wednesday morning its newly revised and more extensive Electronic Components Directory . The company reported in a press release published in an online California business blog the directory now includes additional offering for electronic parts and supplies, including hard-to-find and obsolete components to go along with its existing product line of batteries, LCD products, robotics, interconnects, electromechanical devices, semiconductors, wire & cable, ICs, passive components, opto & illumination products, power supplies, computer parts and other products for electronics applications. Carlos Price, spokesman for IndustrialSAVER.com, which recently published a buying guide for electrical equipment and accessories said the Electronic Components Manufacturers & Distributors on the site can be explored

Ecka Granules / SCM Metal Products, headquartered in Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, USA has announced that it will put a greater emphasis on its aluminium PM business. At its inaugural global R&D meeting between SCM/Ecka Granules, CEO Barton White introduced Dr.

VANCOUVER: What’s the hot, up and coming industry in BC? Cleantech, according to a KPMG report that says it has the potential to create thousands of new high paying jobs, attract significant new investment and generate billions of dollars in exports.

VANCOUVER: What’s the hot, up and coming industry in BC? Cleantech, according to a KPMG report that says it has the potential to create thousands of new high paying jobs, attract significant new investment and generate billions of dollars in exports

A significant increase in merger and acquisitions (M&A) volume and value in Q1 2011 signals a positive outlook for global industrial manufacturing (IM) deal activity. According to a new PwC report, the last quarter saw 36 deals above US$50..

Materials characterization company Malvern Instruments, Malvern, UK, has established Malvern Instruments Canada, a new direct entity that will support Malvern’s expanding customer base in Canada. The move reflects Malvern’s continuing drive to… [ Full Story ]

Sandvik Coromant is demonstrating its range of tooling for the milling, turning and hole-making of aerospace materials at the Paris Air Show 2011 to be held at the Le Bourget Airport, Paris, from June 20-26.The materials that can be processed include titanium alloys, HRSAs, aluminum and composites for making typical engine parts, such as turbine discs and casings, fan discs and casings, spools, shafts and blisks /impellors; frame parts, including fuselage landing-gear beams, wing boxes, wing pylon brackets, wing ribs, trailing edge carriages, flap/slat tracks and pylon thrust fittings.The recently introduced new geometries for T-Max P inserts, specifically designed for turning ISO S materials such as titanium alloys and HRSAs, will be a focus of Sandvik Coromant at the show.

April US manufacturing technology consumption totaled US$396.92 million according to AMT – The Association For Manufacturing Technology and AMTDA, the American Machine Tool Distributors’ Association.This total, as reported by companies participating in the USMTC program, was down 21.0% from March but up 74.9% when compared with the total of US$226.99 million reported for April 2010.With a year-to-date total of US$1,595.98 million, 2011 is up 105.3% compared with 2010.These numbers and all data in this report are based on the totals of actual data reported by companies participating in the USMTC program. “It is very encouraging to see year-to-date orders more than double last year’s pace particularly with the price of oil, unrest in the Middle East, and the disasters in Japan,” said Douglas K. Woods, President of AMT.