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This contract covers 15 refineries in Europe and Asia and 10 Chemical plants worldwide. The work supports a global Shell program aimed at improving their asset management and ensuring safe production.

FKI Logistex, a premier provider of automated, self-service sorting and conveying systems, and 3M, a trusted supplier of library solutions, will leverage their strengths to offer efficiency improvements to libraries. This alliance makes it possible for libraries to design a complete collection management system that fully meets their individual needs.

The company decided to invest over US$17 million in Greenwood, Indiana within the next two years. With this, a substantial amount of new jobs will be created. Groundbreaking for the new facility will take place in the first half of April 2006. The Endress+Hauser Flowtec company based in Reinach, Switzerland is responsible for flow measurement technology within the Endress+Hauser Group. The new expansion of its U.S. division will consist of 74,000 square feet for manufacturing, including a new state of the art calibration laboratory, and 16,000 square feet offices and training facilities.

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With initial pulp production capacity of one million tons per year (TPY) starting up in the second half of 2007, the Mucuri project will be one of the largest single-line pulp plants in the world. The multi-million dollar Invensys contract will cover automation for all of the major processes in the new plant – cooking and washing, fiber line, pulp drying, recovery boiler, causticizing, lime kiln, and evaporators. The Invensys systems will also interface with the plant’s turbo generator systems.