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Combined effort to replace wire rope assemblies

Houston Structures Inc, a member of the Oregon-based Ulven Companies, has successfully completed a contract from US Army Corps of Engineers to provide tainter gate wire rope assembly replacements for ten dams in Oklahoma and one in Kansas. The $2.96 million contract, awarded through the Corps of Engineers’ Tulsa

District, was fully funded through American Recovery and Reinvest- ment Act. 776 cable assemblies, around 55,000 feet of stainless steel wire rope and nearly 1,550 sockets were produced on the Ulven Companies’ contract to fulfill the needs of the rehabilitated tainter gates, Ulven officials reported.

Smart grid solutions for PECO

PECO, the Pennsylvania- based electric and gas distribution company, has selected Telvent to provide smart grid solutions to upgrade PECO’s electrical network, reduce power losses and operational costs, and improve power quality and reliability. PECO started the smart grid project in May 2011 and expects it to be completed in 2013. Telvent’s advanced distribution management system (ADMS) will be implemented by PECO to monitor and control its

electric network using one integrated system, giving access to real-time information to control load management, fault analysis and network optimization. PECO will also leverage Telvent’s OASyS dynamic network of applications (DNA) supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) system to immediately pinpoint potential trouble spots within the network, increasing customer satisfaction by addressing issues, such as service outages, more quickly and efficiently.

NPE to move to Florida for 2012

NPE is a triennial international plastics exposition produced by SPI: The Plastics Industry Trade Association. NPE2012 is anticipated to be the largest plastics industry event in 2012, and is scheduled to take place from 1st – 5th April. The trade show portion will include 2,000 companies exhibiting on 93,000m 2 and is expected to be visited by industry professionals from 120 countries. Co-located events will include SPE ANTEC® 2012, the

world’s largest plastics technical conference; SPI’s Business of Plastics Conference; and the second annual International Plastics Design Competition. The economic and logistical advantages of the new NPE venue in Orlando, Florida will enable exhibitors to have larger booths and operate more equipment than in 2009. More details can be found on the website www.npe.org

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