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• Learn about the World Turbines & Turbine Generator Sets Market

  - 2008-09-18

  Reportlinker.com announces that a new market research report related to the Machine tools - Equipment industry is available in its catalogue. World Turbines & Turbine Generator Sets Market http://www.reportlinker.com/p092543/World-Turbines--Turbine-Generator-Sets-Market.html This report analyzes the worldwide markets for Turbines & Turbine Generator Sets in Megawatts....

  Tags: Alstom, GE Energy, General Electric Co., Mitsubishi Corp., REpower, Siemens AG, Vestas Wind Systems A/S

• Ex-Alstom manager arrested in graft probe: Swiss authorities

  - 2008-08-22

  GENEVA AFP — Police arrested a former manager of French engineering group Alstom in a corruption and money-laundering probe, Swiss prosecutors said Friday. Judicial police are investigating allegations of dishonest management practices, corruption and money-laundering "against a former high-level compliance manager of Alstom," the public prosecutor's office said in...

  Tags: Agence France-Presse, Alstom, prosecutor

• Alberta government's carbon capture and storage (CCS) initiative will accelerate emissions reduction says TransAlta CEO

  - 2008-07-08

  Steve Snyder, TransAlta Corporation's (TSX: TA) (NYSE: TAC), President and CEO, today applauded the Alberta government's commitment to provide $2 billion in funding for the development of Carbon Capture and Storage CCS technology, saying CCS is vital if Canada is to achieve its goal of reducing carbon emissions by 20...

  Tags: Alstom, TransAlta Corp.

• Alstom infrastructure boom boosts annual profits by half

  - 2008-05-07

  PARIS AFP — French engineering giant Alstom reported a 56-percent rise in net profit for its last financial year on Wednesday and said orders had reached record high levels because of strong global demand for infrastructure. The group, which sells turbines for power stations and the TGV high-speed train...

  Tags: Agence France-Presse, Alstom, FINANCE, financial, SALES

• Prosecutors probe Alstom for contract corruption

  - 2008-05-06

  PARIS AFP — French prosecutors suspect engineering giant Alstom, builder of power stations and high-speed trains, of bribing foreign officials to win contracts, a judicial source said Tuesday. Prosecutors started an investigation on November 7 into suspected "corruption of foreign public agents" and "abusive use of assets," the source...

  Tags: Agence France-Presse, Alstom, FINANCE, prosecutor

• Contract awarded for Trinidad and Tobago railway

  - 2008-05-01

  TRINITRAIN, a French consortium of Alstom, Bouygues Construction and RATP Developpment has won a contract to design, build, operate and maintain a 105km passenger railway network on the island of Trinidad. The network will initially consist of a 50km north-south line from the capital Port of Spain to San...

  Tags: Alstom, Bouygues Construction

• Alstom to Build Electrabel's GT26-Based Combined-Cycle Plant in France, an Industrial Info News Alert

  - 2008-04-22

  Researched by Industrial Info Resources (Sugar Land, Texas) -- Alstom will build a $500 million combined-cycle power plant for power utility Electrabel, a subsidiary of the Suez Group (PINKSHEETS:SZEZY). The 420-megawatt MW, GT26-based plant, which is scheduled for start-up in 2010, will be Suez's first combined-cycle plant. It will be...

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• TransAlta signs agreement with technology partner Alstom to develop carbon capture and storage project in Alberta, Canada

  - 2008-04-03

  In a major step toward advancing knowledge for the capture of coal-related greenhouse gas emissions, TransAlta Corporation (TSX: TA) (NYSE: TAC) and Alstom (EURONEXT: ALO), a global leader in power generation technology, today announced the signing of an agreement to work together to develop a large scale CO2 capture and...

  Tags: agreement, Alstom, storage

• TransAlta signs agreement with technology partner Alstom to develop carbon capture and storage project in Alberta, Canada.

  - 2008-04-03

  CALGARY, ALBERTA, Apr 3, 2008 Marketwire via COMTEX -- In a major step toward advancing knowledge for the capture of coal-related greenhouse gas emissions, TransAlta Corporation (TSX:TA) (NYSE:TAC) and Alstom (EURONEXT:ALO), a global leader in powe CALGARY, ALBERTA, Apr 3, 2008 Marketwire via COMTEX -- In...

  Tags: Alstom, storage

• JOINT VENTURES AND ALLIANCES

  - 2008-04-01

  Alstom Partners with EPRI and We Energies on CO2 Capture Project France-based Alstom (www.alstom. com), along with the U.S.-based Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI; www.epri.com) and We Energies (www. wisconsinenergy.com), have launched the first pilot project that uses chilled ammonia to capture carbon dioxide from coal-fired power plants. Alstom designed,...

  Tags: Alstom, Regenesis Bioremediation Products, URS Corp., We Energies