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Rubate To Make Appearance At Subcon 2009 Metal-processor Rubate will exhibit on stand N118 at Subcon 2009, which will take place at the NEC Birmingham from 9-11 June. Rubate's products include excavator buckets, containers, components for agricultural equipment and stainless-steel chimneys. Rubate's metal-processing business evolved from its original activities in plumbing and construction and now accounts for 65 per cent of turnover, with export a high priority. The company has customers in Sweden, Norway, Germany and Belgium. When Rubate was set up it focused on installing external and internal water supplies, sewerage, ventilation and heating systems. In 1997 it opened its first plumbing store, with additional stores following. In 2003 Rubate started building and reconstructing roads and in order to support its plumbing and construction facilities it set up a metal-processing facility. At first the main activity was sheet-metal working, producing stainless-steel chimn...

ITC Timber highlight new GoodWood products including decking, finger jointed flooring and wide board flooring. Maximise your living space with GoodWood Decking (Available in all states EXCEPT NSW and QLD). To complement the GoodWood range of appearance products, ITC is pleased to announce the availability of a new sustainable decking product manufactured from AFS certified re-growth hardwood. The beautiful, natural timber lends itself to creating the best atmosphere for relaxing and entertaining outside. GoodWood Finger Jointed Flooring. ITC Timber is delighted to announce the introduction of finger jointed floor boards which are available in easy to install set lengths of 4.2 m, 4.8 m and 5.4 m, ideal for the tradesman or home renovator. Unique in the Australian marketplace, the boards, made from sustainable GoodWood Victorian Ash, are produced on the multi million dollar finger jointing line at ITC Timber's Heyfield operations in Victoria. GoodWood Flooring - wide boards no...

SGS is due to host Project Risk Symposium 2009 on 17 June at the Gibson Hall in Bishopsgate, London. The event will focus solely on the issue of project risk and experts will share their views on how diverse risks can be managed effectively during the recession. The industry experts will cover financial, political, legal, technical, operational, environmental and social risks. Milena Stoyanova, head of financial services at SGS, said: 'In this economic environment, we are seeing customers demand more and more transparency and greater understanding of the risks involved before entering into large-scale infrastructure, energy, mining, oil-and-gas or agricultural projects, whether it is from the investor or the sponsor side. 'Assessing the diverse nature of risk today goes far beyond a traditional financial assessment of the project. 'Investors and sponsors want to understand and prepare for everything from market and political to technical and environmental risk - and ev...

The Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) has announced that the CIRED electricity conference and exhibition will take place on 8-11 June at the Prague Congress Centre. CIRED is an international event and is organised alternately by the IET and the Association des Ingenieurs sortis de L'Institut d'Electricite Montefiore (AIM). 1,072 abstracts from more than 50 countries were submitted for consideration for CIRED 2009, and some 700 papers will be presented over three days, through formal presentations, roundtable discussions, special reports and poster presentations. The CIRED conference provides delegates with an opportunity to learn, discuss and exchange experience about the major structural, technical, managerial and regulatory changes affecting the industry. A technical exhibition associated with the conference will also take place. Exhibiting companies from more than 50 organisations, including Siemens, ABB, GE Energy, Kema and Dutch Power, across 53 countries ...

The 2009 edition of ABB's Drives & Motors catalog is now available for end-users, system integrators and original equipment manufacturers (OEMs). The 48-page catalogue is free and provides technical details of ABB's range of low-voltage AC drives from 0.18-2,800kW and motors from 0.06 to 710kW. It also presents ABB's range of DC and medium-voltage AC drives. Easy-to-use tables give ordering data, dimensions, options and electrical details for most products, together with prices for 2009. New products for 2009 include an IP66-rated ABB general machinery drive. From 0.37-7.5kW the drive is suitable for screws, mixers, pumps, fans and conveyors in places where the machinery is exposed to dust, moisture and high-pressure washing such as the food and drinks sector. The ABB standard drive range and the ABB industrial drive range have also seen their power range boosted and are now available up to 160kW. Supporting software includes integration and programming tools, star...