Wicks chooses combination machine from XYZ
June 10, 2011 – 8:00 am | No Comment

A combination machine from XYZ Machine Tools has enabled subcontractor Wicks Engineering to improve productivity at its facility in Leeds. Wicks specialises in prototype work as well as repair and maintenance projects that can demand a significant amount of reverse engineering. Wicks Engineering specialises in prototype and repair and maintenance The company’s work has included film props for movies including ‘Batman Begins’ and ‘The Da Vinci Code’

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Cenovus investing $3.5B/yr in oil development
June 6, 2011 – 11:23 am | No Comment
Cenovus investing $3.5B/yr in oil development

CALGARY: Cenovus Energy Inc. plans to accelerate oil project development over the next decade, investing an average of up to $3.5 billion a year as it seeks to increase production to about 500,000 barrels per day by the end of 2021. “Based on the strong performance delivered by our teams over the past year, we believe we can bring on substantially more oil production earlier than initially planned,” president and CEO Brian Ferguson said.

First impressions
June 6, 2011 – 11:22 am | No Comment
First impressions

Trying to become a leader in the vast North American market for product labels can be a sticky business at times, but that’s just how the Toronto-based Metro Label Group Inc. likes it

Progress Energy strikes $1.07B Montney partnership
June 2, 2011 – 11:18 am | No Comment

CALGARY —Progress Energy Resources Corp. has struck a binding deal worth nearly $1.1 billion to form a strategic partnership with the Malaysian national oil company to develop the Canadian company’s BC natural gas assets.

I5 comes alive
June 1, 2011 – 7:53 am | No Comment

MONROVIA, CA: AeroVironment, Inc. will be installing its high-power Level 3 electric vehicle (EV) fast charging stations along 150 miles of the I-5 corridor from the California state line to the Willamette Valley, in Oregon

$6.3-million investment for cool cleantech
May 31, 2011 – 11:48 am | No Comment
$6.3-million investment for cool cleantech

CALGARY —Cenovus Energy Inc. is investing $6.3 million in two Canadian companies to help fund innovations in energy and technology Vancouver-based Saltworks Technologies Inc. is receiving $2.5 million expand its method of converting salt water into fresh water

Amtech Drives appoints Charles Geraldi President
May 28, 2011 – 10:19 pm | No Comment

May 24, 2011 – Amtech Drives appointed Charles F. Geraldi the North American division’s new President. Geraldi is a 27 year veteran of the high tech automation industry and holds a BEEE from Stevens Institute of Technology along with a MBA from Iona College.

Husky Energy eyes tricky oilsands deposit
May 25, 2011 – 4:37 pm | No Comment

Calgary — Husky Energy Inc. sees huge oilsands potential in an Alberta geologic formation that is believed to contain huge amounts of bitumen, but is technologically tricky to exploit. “I think this is a story that’s going to develop quite a lot over the next year,” chief operating officer Robert Peabody said Wednesday of his company’s holdings in the Grosmont carbonates, southwest of the oilsands epicentre of Fort McMurray, Alta

Resourceful provinces big economic winners
May 25, 2011 – 11:37 am | No Comment
Resourceful provinces big economic winners

Energy prices will help to drive economic growth in Saskatchewan and Alberta. OTTAWA: If your business is located in a resource-rich province, hang on to your hat: high commodity prices mean boom times ahead. Not so much in manufacturing centres Ontario, and Quebec, however, where growth will be fair to poor

Machining At Mach 3
May 21, 2011 – 10:50 am | No Comment
Machining At Mach 3

Airbus invested in abrasive waterjet for machining CFRP components.

Invenergy acquires Quebec wind project from 3Ci
May 20, 2011 – 9:36 am | No Comment
Invenergy acquires Quebec wind project from 3Ci

CHICAGO —Invenergy Wind has acquired the Des Moulins wind energy project in Quebec, Canada from wind developer 3Ci.