Tom ShepstoneShepstone Management Company, Inc. … … Natural Gas NOW readers pass along a lot of stuff every week about natural gas, fractivist antics, emissions, renewables, and other news relating to energy. As usual, emphasis is added. FERC Blows Away DEC FERC is firing on Andrew Cuomo’s DEC with the big guns now. It just rejected
Read More...April 5, 2019 Updated 4/5/2019 Email Print Ocean Cleanup The Ocean Cleanup uses high density polyethylene pipe and a polyester skirt in an attempt to collect floating plastic debris in the Pacific Ocean. Designers of a floating system to collect plastic marine debris from the Pacific Ocean are pointing to two reasons why the system
Read More...April 5, 2019 Updated 4/5/2019 Email Print Michael A. Marcotte Guillermo Quijano Fals, general manager Latin America, Techmer de Mexico S. de R.L. de C.V., and John R. Manuck, Chairman and CEO, Techmer PM, Mexico City — Techmer PM plans to add a second work shift at its year-old compounding plant in Querétaro, Mexico, and
Read More...April 5, 2019 Updated 4/5/2019 Email Print Megan Tzanoukakis Megan Tzanoukakis, right, is vice president of supply chain for Sussex IM Inc. Megan Tzanoukakis has been around the plastics industry her whole life — even before she started working. Her father, Keith Everson, has worked at Sussex IM Inc. for almost 40 years. He started
Read More...April 5, 2019 Updated 4/5/2019 Email Print Teamvantage Mold LLC Teamvantage Mold LLC has injection molding and mold making. Prior to being the general manager at injection molder Teamvantage Molding LLC of Forest Lake, Minn., Kelly Stichter has held a variety of titles, including project engineer, quality manager, operations manager, vice president of engineering and
Read More...April 5, 2019 Updated 4/5/2019 Email Print Julie Showers Showers Julie Showers may be a licensed cosmetologist, but she was one of Minneapolis-based Diversified Plastics Inc.’s first employees when she applied for a job as a press operator. She learned the skills and was part of the team of 13 that was there from the
Read More...April 5, 2019 Updated 4/5/2019 Email Print Julie Wancket Wancket As plant manager of the Huntley, Ill., location of Rohrer Corp., Julie Wancket focuses on the people and a culture of safety, positivity, respect, continuous learning and believing in all people. “From there,” she said, “the numbers will come.” The guidance she gives her team
Read More...April 5, 2019 Updated 4/5/2019 Email Print Denine Wilson Wilson Starting in 1997 as a press operator, Denine Wilson worked her way through various roles at custom injection molder Imperial Plastics Inc. before becoming senior project engineer and team lead for the company’s Lakeville, Minn., location. She has stepped in as interim engineering manager in
Read More...April 5, 2019 Updated 4/5/2019 Email Print Chelsea Building Products Hector Santiago, a set-up technician for extrusion lines with Chelsea Building Products does a visual check of the parts. After 44 years of manufacturing at one site, Oakmont, Pa.-based Chelsea Building Products Inc. has opened its second production facility in a renovated 126,000-square-foot plant in
Read More...April 5, 2019 Updated 4/5/2019 Email Print Plastics News Europe Leoni AG Leoni manufactures high-temperature automotive cable and wiring based on a range materials, including thermoplastic elastomers, silicone rubber, PVC and thermoplastic polyurethanes. Nuremberg, Germany — German automotive cables specialist Leoni AG is planning to lay off up to 2,000 workers in a bid to
Read More...April 5, 2019 Updated 4/5/2019 Email Print Michael A. Marcotte Fernando Rosas, commercial director at DAK America’s Unit during Plastimagen 2019. Mexico City — Materials maker Alpek SAB de CV is responding to customer requests for more use of recycled PET. “There’s a lot of pressure to increase recycled content,” Fernando Rosas said April 4
Read More...Saipem has been awarded new contracts in offshore drilling in Norway and Middle East totaling over $200 million on April 5. One contract was signed with the German company Wintershall for the drilling of two wells plus two optional ones in continuity with previous engagements for operations offshore Norway. The contract will be executed by
Read More...A.P. Moller-Maersk AS spun off its oil and gas drilling unit and listed it separately on the Copenhagen stock exchange on April 4, where it was traded slightly below the book value it had in Maersk’s own accounts. The demerger is a part of the Danish shipping group’s 2016 plan to refocus its efforts into
Read More...The international rig count for March 2019 was 1,039, up 12 from the 1,027 counted in February 2019, and up 67 from the 972 counted in March 2018, according to Baker Hughes, a GE company (NYSE:BHGE). The international offshore rig count for March 2019 was 247, down 3 from the 250 counted in February 2019, and up 62 from the 185 counted
Read More...Roger CaiazzaIndependent Researcher and Publisher,Pragmatic Environmentalist of New York … ConEd and Cuomo’s PSC say some combination of solar, other renewables and heat pumps can substitute for the gas Cuomo keeps stopping at the border. Dumb idea. New York’s proposed Community and Climate Protection Act has a goal for “the state of New York to reduce greenhouse
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