International Business News - Plant http://www.ibtimes.com All articles are copyrighted by IBTimes.com 400 100 http://www.ibtimes.com/ http://www.ibtimes.com/images/top_logo_ibt2_3.gif A federal jury in Oxford has convicted James Draper on charges he pocketed thousands of dollars intended to buy equipment at a failed Mississippi beef plant. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080724/salesman-found-guilty-in-miss-beef-plant-case.htm Thu, 24 Jul 2008 07:53:30 EDT Hynix Semiconductor Inc., the world's second-largest memory chip manufacturer, said Thursday it will close its only U.S. factory amid changes in production standards and steep price declines buffeting the industry. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080724/south-koreas-hynix-to-close-us-chip-plant.htm Thu, 24 Jul 2008 01:56:05 EDT Hynix Semiconductor Inc., the world's second-largest memory chip manufacturer, said Thursday it will close its only U.S. factory amid changes in production standards and steep price declines buffeting the industry. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080723/skoreas-hynix-to-close-us-chip-plant.htm Wed, 23 Jul 2008 23:26:55 EDT A proposal to build the nation's first commercial ethanol production plant using yard trimmings, paper, wheat straws and other green wastes was approved Wednesday by Los Angeles County officials. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080723/la-county-approves-ethanol-plant.htm Wed, 23 Jul 2008 21:14:48 EDT Minnesota-based Pentair Inc. says it will close its Sheboygan plant by June and eliminate about 350 jobs. Pentair makes commercial and residential water-filtration units. It said Tuesday it also will close a Sheboygan Falls distribution center. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080723/pentair-to-close-plant-in-wisconsin-350-jobs-lost.htm Wed, 23 Jul 2008 11:06:07 EDT The 100 people who met here were equally passionate but evenly split in their opinions of a proposed coal-fired, $1.25 billion power plant on the banks of the Great Pee Dee River. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080723/s-c-residents-question-regulators-about-mercury.htm Wed, 23 Jul 2008 10:39:19 EDT The state's top economic development official expressed support for using western Maryland's untapped coal and natural gas reserves to generate electricity and serve an energy technology research park in Garrett County. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080723/coal-and-gas-could-power-maryland-energy-complex.htm Wed, 23 Jul 2008 10:32:06 EDT BP PLC on Tuesday settled the four lawsuits that remained in the latest civil trial resulting from the deadly 2005 explosion at its refinery near Houston. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080722/suits-in-civil-trial-from-bp-plant-blast-settled.htm Tue, 22 Jul 2008 16:48:01 EDT Hino Motors Manufacturing said Tuesday its employees' jobs are safe, even though the parts plant in Marion will slow its output to mirror a slide in sales of trucks and SUVs. The company says its employees will get reduced pay to work fewer hours. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080722/hino-motors-no-plan-for-layoffs-at-arkansas-plant.htm Tue, 22 Jul 2008 13:58:56 EDT VeraSun Energy Corp. says it's starting up its ethanol plant in Hankinson, in southeastern North Dakota, because business conditions have improved. The plant, built in 2006, can produce 110 million gallons of ethanol a year. It employs about 50 people just off Interstate 29. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080722/verasun-north-dakota-ethanol-plant-starting-up.htm Tue, 22 Jul 2008 13:28:16 EDT A decision on whether to approve a much-criticized plea deal that settles criminal conduct related to a deadly explosion at a BP PLC plant won't come until October at the earliest, a federal judge said Wednesday. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080716/judges-decision-on-bp-plea-deal-still-months-away.htm Wed, 16 Jul 2008 15:45:24 EDT The Hino Motors Manufacturing plant in Marion will remain open with a reduced work force, even though the Toyota truck plant it supplies is to shut down for three months, economic officials said Wednesday. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080716/official-hino-motors-plant-to-stay-open-in-ark.htm Wed, 16 Jul 2008 14:23:53 EDT The New York Power Authority is halting plans for a clean-coal facility at its Huntley plant in western New York. NYPA officials say the electricity produced by the plant would be too expensive because of the technology involved. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080716/nypa-halts-plans-for-western-ny-clean-coal-plant.htm Wed, 16 Jul 2008 14:16:15 EDT European Union regulators asked Italy on Wednesday to stop work on a new coal-fired power plant in Sardinia that may be getting unfair state subsidies. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080716/eu-to-italy-stop-coal-power-plant-work.htm Wed, 16 Jul 2008 09:55:46 EDT Newly released surveillance videos provide a glimpse of a shooting at a western Kentucky plastics plant that left five people and the gunman dead last month. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080716/videos-provide-glimpse-of-ky-plant-shooting.htm Wed, 16 Jul 2008 00:26:27 EDT Newly released surveillance videos provide a glimpse of a shooting at a western Kentucky plastics plant that left five people and the gunman dead last month. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080715/surveillance-videos-show-ky-plant-shooting.htm Tue, 15 Jul 2008 22:26:22 EDT Central Florida's largest power provider, Progress Energy Inc., won approval Tuesday from a state regulatory agency to build two new nuclear power plants. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080715/utility-wins-ok-to-build-2-new-fla-nuclear-plants.htm Tue, 15 Jul 2008 17:05:45 EDT Engineering and construction company URS Corp. said Friday a team it is leading was picked as preferred bidder for a contract to decommission a British nuclear power plant. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080711/urs-led-group-makes-lead-bid-for-nuclear-plant-job.htm Fri, 11 Jul 2008 11:51:16 EDT Appliance maker Whirlpool Corp. said Thursday it will close two plants as it streamlines manufacturing. The Benton Harbor, Mich.-based company said it will close its plant in Oxford, Miss., which makes built-in ovens and cook-tops, and transfer units produced to Cleveland, Tenn. About 750 jobs will be lost at the Oxford plant and the company will add 500 jobs to the Tennessee facility. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080710/whirlpool-says-it-will-close-2-plants.htm Thu, 10 Jul 2008 15:17:33 EDT Hundreds of supporters and opponents packed a Westminster College auditorium for the first public glimpse of a proposed second nuclear reactor at AmerenUE's Callaway plant. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080710/hundreds-meet-on-second-mo-county-nuclear-reactor.htm Thu, 10 Jul 2008 13:23:26 EDT