The Bouygues Construction Challenge – a corporate competition unique in its sector – was created 10 years ago to address the need to recruit recent graduates. The eleventh Bouygues Construction Challenge is clearly focused on the issues facing the group in 2007. Taking concessions as its theme – a fast-growing market – the Challenge will [...]
The construction of three stations and eight substations along Bungo/Baia railway line, which started in mid 2007 is already at the final stage, informed to ANGOP Luanda Railway (CFL) project director, Paulo Cuanza.
In an interview to ANGOP, the official said that of the three stations, two are new, namely Musseques and Viana, while the one [...]
Pascal Faidy, 50, is the new sales and marketing manager DuPont Fluoroproducts – Refrigerants for Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA). Pascal’s predecessor, Phil Bardsley, becomes sales and marketing manager EMEA for the Consumer and Industrial Finishes business at DuPont Fluoroproducts. A graduate in agronomic engineering, French-born Pascal Faidy joined DuPont’s agriculture business unit in [...]
SABIC Innovative Plastics is investing significantly to expand production of its Lexan* polycarbonate multi-wall and solid sheet products for the construction and industrial markets across Europe, Middle East and Africa. The company will add production lines in three locations – Vienna, Milan, and Bergen op Zoom – to meet growing demand for Lexan structural [...]
Propelled by soaring orders from power plants to luxury condominiums, Hyundai Engineering & Construction is expected to post record overseas orders this year.
The country’s third-largest builder by total assets secured $3.4 billion worth of overseas orders at the end of September this year. The figure has already surpassed the company’s yearly target.
“Thanks to many orders [...]
Debuting only last year, HI DESIGN, the 2nd annual business meetings forum for the hospitality interior design community which took place at the Intercontinental Berlin on 26- 28 April 2007, saw a 40% increase in the number of attending delegates.
“This leap in numbers has come as no surprise to us. HI DESIGN was borne out [...]
The long wait for the construction of the 250-megawatt power project at Bujagali is finally over. The government on Friday signed final documents instructing Bujagali Energy Ltd (BEL), the sponsors of the project and Salini Constructors, to start the implementation works “on or before June 1, 2007.”
“The relevant conditions have been fulfilled, hence the signing [...]
John Deere Power Systems (JDPS) and Liebherr have announced at the Bauma Construction Trade Fair that Liebherr service locations will be able to service John Deere-powered OEM Equipment. Liebherr service locations are an addition to the existing John Deere agricultural dealer and John Deere engine distributor networks and service points. This agreement could expand the [...]
Derba-MIDROC Cement PLC has hired MIDROC Construction Ethiopia PLC for 260 million Br to undertake the construction of 42Km of road at the factory site in Derba, West Shoa Zone of the Oromia Regional State.
The contract was signed on April 19, 2007, at the Derba-MIDROC offices on Jomo Kenyata Avenue by Haile Assegdie, executive director [...]
Construction was expected to begin this year on an oil pipeline from Myanmar’s deep-water port of Sittwe to south-western China, state media on Monday quoted a Chinese oil company as saying.
Executives from the state-owned oil giant Sinopec made the announcement Sunday but gave no date or timetable for the construction, the official Xinhua News Agency [...]
The Siemens Industrial Solutions and Services Group has received orders from Equinox Minerals Limited, Canada, for the supply of electrical equipment and systems for Open-Cast mine haulage trucks, Grinding Mills and “In-Pit” electrical reticulation, required for the development of its new Lumwana Copper Mine in Zambia. The order volume amounts to around 40 million euros [...]
At least 29 hospitals with hi-tech equipment are under construction across the country, funded to the tune of R1.2 billion this financial year, as part of government’s hospital revitalisation programme.
This was revealed by Acting Health Minister Jeff Radebe, Friday.
Speaking during his first public engagement as the Acting Minister of Health at the opening of the [...]