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14.02.2022 (348 Clicks)

Outokumpu increases the Share of low-carbon Energy with a new Wind Power Agreement

Outokumpu has signed a 10-year power supply agreement for renewable wind power with Swiss electricity producer Alpiq. The amount of contracted wind power energy corresponds to over 60% of Outokumpu’s electricity consumption at its production sites in Germany. According to the agreement, deliveries will begin in January 2023.

14.02.2022 (311 Clicks)

Pursuing Carbon Neutrality and Water Security in China

China has promised to become carbon neutral before 2060 and has coupled this ambitious target with stringent limitations on industrial water use by 2030. An international team of IIASA researchers and Chinese colleagues explored the effects of simultaneously pursuing these goals.

11.02.2022 (348 Clicks)

ABB to lead Power and Automation Engineering and Equipment Supply in New order from Ioneer at US Mine

11.02.2022 (320 Clicks)

Skanska completes Groundwork for Railway Station in Bergen, Norway

Skanska has signed a contract with Baneservice for the completion of groundwork in the Fløen railway station project in Bergen, Norway. The contract is worth NOK 384M, about SEK 400M, which will be included in the Nordic order bookings for the first quarter 2022.

10.02.2022 (316 Clicks)

Italian PM Draghi visits Webuild’s Terzo Valico dei Giovi Project, Part of Europe’s TEN-T Network

More than 5,000 people, 2,300 companies working round the clock on italy’s biggest sustainable mobility project with 30 tunnelling operations on 12 large work sites

Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi visited today the construction site of the Terzo Valico dei Giovi-Genoa Junction One Project, the biggest sustainable mobility project under development in Italy. It comprises 30 tunnelling operations on 12 work sites in the Piemonte and Liguria regions, involving more than 5,000 people and 2,300 small- and medium-sized businesses (directly and indirectly), nearly all of them Italian. The project is being built by a General Contractor led by Webuild for Rete Ferroviaria Italiana (FS Italiane Group) under the aegis of Extraordinary Commissioner Calogero Mauceri. It is 77% completed, thanks to a production system that is operating 24 hours a day, seven days a week. In addition to Mauceri and Webuild Chief Executive Pietro Salini, President Draghi was accompanied by Giovanni Toti, President of the Liguria region; Renato Franceschelli, the Prefect; Luigi Ferraris, Chief Executive of Ferrovie dello Stato; Vera Fiorani, Chief Executive of Rete Ferroviaria Italiana; and Andrea Nardinocchi, Chief Executive of Italferr.

With a combined length of 53 kilometres, the new high-speed/high-capacity railway will connect Genoa and Milan in less than an hour of travel, and strengthen Italy’s connections with Europe. It will bring high-speed trains to the port of the Ligurian city, from where more than 100 trains could depart for Rotterdam every day. The railway is part of the Rhine-Alpine corridor of the Trans-European Transport Network (TEN-T), one of the 16 TEN-T projects in which Webuild is involved in Italy.

The route is extremely complex, 70% of it being through tunnels. Crossing one of the most complex geologies in the world, it has brought about greater attention to measures needed to guarantee safety for workers at every stage of production. Along the entire route, a number of tunnelling methods have been deployed in light of the terrain’s different characteristics. Strict sustainability criteria have been imposed, from reducing the impact of work sites on the environment, to the reuse of excavated materials, to the protection of water sources. Once it becomes operational, the project will allow for a 33% reduction in travel times between Genoa and Milan, a 29% reduction in energy consumption, and 55% reduction in CO2 emissions as it encourages a transfer away from road travel.

The project has also been a big laboratory for innovation, guaranteeing the safety of workers and professional training. It has been included in the Scuola dei Mestieri (Trades School), an initiative launched nationally by Webuild to train specialised workers for the construction sector to support the infrastructure development plans of the government through the PNRR (National Recovery and Resilience Plan).

Webuild is a global leader in the construction of infrastructure for sustainable mobility with a track record of more than 13,600 kilometres of metro and rail lines, and 2,400 kilometres of tunnels. In Genoa, it was responsible for the construction in record time of the Genova-San Giorgio Bridge, an iconic work of great innovation. In Italy, the Group is involved in some of the most important projects to modernise the country’s transport system, including sections of the high-speed railways between Naples and Bari, and Verona and Padua. It is working on the railway along the Palermo-Catania-Messina route, a new section of the Ionian State Road, and new metro lines in Rome, Milan and Naples.

Source: Webuild

                     

10.02.2022 (559 Clicks)

Thyssenkrupp Mining Technologies provides innovative and sustainable Filter Technology for Alumina Plant in Kazakhstan

10.02.2022 (269 Clicks)

Sika expands in Africa and extends Sites in Tanzania and Ivory Coast

Sika has moved into a new site in the East African country of Tanzania and is now locally producing mortars in addition to concrete admixtures. The site also offers space for further growth in operations.

09.02.2022 (309 Clicks)

Anglo American starts up new Aquila metallurgical Coal Mine

Anglo American plc announces today that its new Aquila mine has achieved its first longwall shear of steelmaking metallurgical coal on schedule and on budget, marking the project’s final stages of construction and commissioning.

08.02.2022 (271 Clicks)

Key Features improve Capability of horizontal Screen in static Applications

Superior Industries, Inc., a US-based manufacturer and global supplier of bulk material processing and handling systems, reports about several key features that improve performance of its popular Guardian® Horizontal Screen in stationary or static settings.

08.02.2022 (320 Clicks)

Cimic's UGL awarded Utilities Contract with Snowy Hydro

Cimic Group’s UGL has been named as the Principal Contractor by Snowy Hydro Limited for the construction of a 660MW power generation plant at the Hunter Power Project in Kurri Kurri, New South Wales. The contract will generate revenue to UGL of $185 million over two years.