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- CalPERS Pushes Ecology, Diversity
- The footprint of concerned institutional investors trying to do the right thing just gets larger. CalPERS, the California state pension fund wielding assets of $240 billion, has expanded its guidelines for companies in its portfolio to include minimizing climate risks and advocating more diversity among employees and...
- Blog posts 2008-04-28
- Get More Plants in Your Office
- Funny enough, NASA has piles of research on how plants are amazingly capable of pulling all sorts of pollutants from indoor airspaces. It's also been shown that pristine office environments make employees more productive. So get more plants in your office -- they'll lend vibrancy to your space and help...
- Blog posts 2007-06-06
- Recession 'Victory' Gardens
- With First Lady Michelle Obama's own digging as an inspiration, the World War II-era trend of growing 'victory gardens' has now made a comeback in the U.S. Bill Whitaker reports from Pasadena, Calif.
- Videos 2009-04-09
- E.ON and Siemens plan CCS plant
- E.ON Kraftwerke is partnering with Siemens to develop a pilot carbon capture and storage CCS facility at E.ON’s coal-fired power plant in Grosskrotzenburg, Germany. The technology will be employed at Unit 5 of its Staudinger plant, which has a capacity of 510MW. The pilot facility is expected to...
- Articles 2009-02-19
- NRG and eSolar to build New Mexico solar thermal plant
- New Jersey-based NRG Energy and California-based eSolar plan to build a 92MW solar thermal plant in New Mexico. Electricity generated at the facility will be supplied to El Paso Electric under a power purchase agreement. The announcement is the first since NRG invested USD10m in eSolar in return for...
- Articles 2009-06-14
- Bemis Co. Inc. Q2 2009 Earnings Call Transcript
- Question-and-Answer SessionOperator Operator Instructions. We will take our first question from Ghansham Punjabi. Ghansham Punjabi - Wachovia Capital Markets, Llc Hey Henry, could you elaborate little bit on the European flexible packaging business. What was the delta there relative to expectations, was it volumes, was it cost take out...
- Earnings calls 2009-07-28
- Progress Energy, Inc. Q2 2009 Earnings Call Transcript
- Question-and-Answer SessionOperator Thank you. The question-and-answer session will be conducted electronically. Operator instructions We will take our first question from Michael Worm with BMO brokerage. Please go ahead. Michael Worm - BMO Capital Markets Good morning everyone. Bill Johnson Good morning Michael. Michael Worm - BMO Capital Markets Just...
- Earnings calls 2009-08-04
- Hormel Foods Corporation F3Q09 (Qtr End 07/26/09) Earnings Call Transcript
- Question-and-Answer Session Operator Thank you, madam. Operator Instructions Your first question comes from Farha Aslam - Stephens Inc. Farha Aslam - Stephens Inc. Going forward, Jeff, with the Mexican JV in grocery products, how much top line do you think that’s going to reduce next year? Jeffrey M. Ettinger...
- Earnings calls 2009-08-20
- Brussels to pore over Magna deal
- The European Commission is to scrutinise German backing for the takeover of General Motors' European operations amid concern that planned job cuts could be influenced by political factors, hitting plants in the UK and Belgium disproportionately hard.Signalling that she would take a tough line on the issue, Neelie Kroes,...
- External links 2009-09-14
- Haynes International F1Q09 (Qtr End 12/31/08) Earnings Call Transcript
- Question-and-Answer SessionOperator Thank you. Ladies and gentlemen we'll now be conducting the question-and-answer session. Operator instructions. Our first question is coming from Mark Parr, of Keybanc Capital. Please state your question. Mark Parr - Keybanc Capital Markets Hey, thanks a lot. Hey good morning everybody. Mark Comerford Good morning...
- Earnings calls 2009-02-10
- LB Foster Company Q4 2008 Earnings Call Transcript
- Question-and-Answer SessionOperator Thank you, sir. Operator Instructions Our first question will come from the line of Liam Burke of Janney Montgomery Scott. Liam Burke - Janney Montgomery Scott Thank you. Dave, Stan, how are you this morning? Stan Hasselbusch Doing good, Liam. How...
- Earnings calls 2009-01-30
- Aging, Technology And Productivity
- The possibly negative productivity counterpart of an aging workforce at times of fast technical change is often seen as an important policy issue. We use Finnish plant data constructed by linking various registers of firms, plants and individuals to test whether plants employing an older labor force have suffered productivity...
- White papers 2005-09-13
- The Impact Of Trade On Plant Scale, Production-Run Length And Diversification
- We develop a model of trade in differentiated products with multi-product plants. The model predicts that plants in a smaller and less competitive market have shorter production runs and tend to be smaller and less productive than those in a larger market. Bilateral tariff reductions lead to a decline in...
- White papers 2005-06-01
- Invitation To Tour Plant
- Use this template to invite the people to visit your business/industry plant.
- Tools & templates 2008-01-01
- Shutdown Project Management
- Shutdown/Turnaround project scheduling is, in many ways, the epitome of the project scheduling paradigm and, like everything else in the project management industry, it too has evolved in recent history. Shutdown/Turnaround projects are quite different. In every major manufacturing plant, there is some maintenance which can be accomplished while the...
- White papers 2009-01-01
- Starting A Business In Plant Rentals
- If you love plants and know quite a bit about them you're almost ready to set up your own plant rental business. You don't necessarily have to know everything about every plant but you should have some extended knowledge about indoor houseplants. To learn more go to the library and...
- White papers 2005-11-15
- TXU Q2 2006 Earnings Conference Call Transcript (TXU)
- Question-and-Answer SessionOperator [Operation Instructions]. Your first question comes from Paul Paterson. Tim Hogan Hello Paul, Paul? Paul Paterson Can you hear me? Tim Hogan We can hear you. Paul Paterson Okay, thanks for your update -- your Q information...
- Earnings calls 2006-08-01
- Cascade Corp. Q3 2008 Earnings Call Transcript
- Question-and-Answer SessionOperator Operator Instructions Your first question comes from Arnold Ursaner – CJS Securities. Arnold Ursaner – CJS Securities You're clearly looking at an unprecedented decline in order trends and bookings and industry data, but I'm surprised at the magnitude of the possibly down 30% in sales for 2010....
- Earnings calls 2008-12-04
- Eaton Corporation Q4 2008 Earnings Call Transcript
- Question-and-Answer Session William Hartman Operator Instructions Your first question comes from Robert Cornell – Barclays Capital. Robert Cornell – Barclays Capital Maybe Sandy and Bill you can give me more color in to the plant closing and then the plant opening, I mean how you see...
- Earnings calls 2009-01-26
- Largest U.S. Biomass Plant to be Built Near Austin, Texas
- The largest ever U.S. biomass power plant (100 megawatts) is to be built near Austin, Texas. Austin's city council approved a 20-year, $2.3 billion plan to purchase power from a proposed plant fueled entirely by wood waste and to be built and managed by Nacogdoches Power, LLC. The plant will...
- Blog posts 2008-09-19
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