Tool Certainty
June 22, 2011 – 7:07 am | No Comment

For GKN Aerospace to overcome tool-related variations on its largest milling machines, it had to confront error sources that go unnoticed in many shops.

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$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.

Canada needs to diversify energy markets outside US
May 19, 2011 – 2:09 pm | No Comment

CALGARY: A confluence of political and economic factors south of the border underscores the need for Canada to diversify its energy export markets, according to an Enbridge Inc.

Double digit growth for B.C. exports
May 19, 2011 – 9:01 am | No Comment
Double digit growth for B.C. exports

VANCOUVER— Western Canada will lead the country in export growth, according to a new forecast from Export Development Canada .

Ontario’s wind efforts worth billion in investments and jobs: CanWEA
May 18, 2011 – 9:01 am | No Comment

OTTAWA —Ontario’s 2,125 mega-watts of signed contracts for wind energy developments represent a multi billion-dollar economic opportunity for the province and a chance to create thousands of jobs, according to the Canadian Wind Energy Association (CanWEA). The study suggests that meeting the wind energy targets identified under the province’s Long Term Energy Plan (LTEP) would result in billions of dollars of private sector investment in the province. Investments would also create more than 80,000 person-years of employment between 2011 and 2018

Alberta wildfires disrupt energy production
May 17, 2011 – 10:12 am | No Comment
Alberta wildfires disrupt energy production

CALGARY: Wind-fuelled wild fires in Northern Alberta are causing disruptions to energy and forest product operations in the region. Cenovus Energy Inc