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 Chrysler Group LLC still plans to shutter eight North American plants according to its initial schedule, Chief Executive Sergio Marchionne said on Thursday, as he dismissed recent reports that a Detroit-area plant would get a reprieve. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/221583-chrysler-fiat-chief-executive-sergio-marchionne-listens.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20091001/chrysler-ceo-no-reprieve-ons-plant-closings.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20091001/chrysler-ceo-no-reprieve-ons-plant-closings.htm Thu, 01 Oct 2009 15:40:01 EDT Future Power PA Inc said Monday it would seek funds from the U.S. Department of Energy for its proposed 270-megawatt Good Spring clean coal plant in Pennsylvania. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20090914/future-power-seeks-doe-funds-pa-clean-coal-plant.htm Mon, 14 Sep 2009 16:40:14 EDT Calpine Corp shut the 724-megawatt Pastoria natural gas-fired power station in California for planned reasons by Sunday afternoon, the California Independent System Operator said in a report. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/220334-.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20090914/calpine-shuts-california-pastoria-natgas-plant.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20090914/calpine-shuts-california-pastoria-natgas-plant.htm Mon, 14 Sep 2009 09:31:52 EDT California solar company Solyndra Inc said on Friday that it started construction on its second solar panel manufacturing plant, putting into action the first loan guarantee awarded under a long-delayed U.S. program for advanced clean energy. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20090904/solyndra-starts-2nd-solar-panel-plant-construction.htm Fri, 04 Sep 2009 17:24:54 EDT A unit of GreenHunter Energy Inc said on Thursday it signed a 20-year power sales deal for its biomass power plant in California, enabling the company to complete construction. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20090903/green-hunter-biomass-plant-power-sales-deal.htm Thu, 03 Sep 2009 16:17:43 EDT China, India, the United States and Germany are looking to replace old coal-fired energy plants, helping make up for slack overall global demand, Hitachi Power Europe's business development manager said. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20090901/china-india-us-germany-lift-coal-plant-demand.htm Tue, 01 Sep 2009 14:15:39 EDT New York City's new Croton water treatment plant will cost more than twice the original estimate of $992 million and it will not be finished on time, the city comptroller said on Tuesday. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20090901/cost-nyc-water-plant-doubles-comptroller.htm Tue, 01 Sep 2009 13:43:53 EDT Soft drink bottler PepsiAmericas Inc said it plans to invest roughly $150 million by 2011 in a plant it opened on Tuesday in southern Romania, the company's second-largest facility in Europe. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/219531-.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20090901/pepsi-americas-spend-150-mln-on-romanian-plant.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20090901/pepsi-americas-spend-150-mln-on-romanian-plant.htm Tue, 01 Sep 2009 10:11:40 EDT Whirlpool Corp (WHR.N) said on Monday that it would take $51 million of charges in connection with the closing of its Evansville, Indiana, facility. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20090831/whirlpool-take-51-mln-charge-on-plant-closing.htm Mon, 31 Aug 2009 10:47:38 EDT Environmentalists campaigning against climate change said on Monday they would attempt to shut down German utility E.ON's power station at Ratcliffe in central England in a mass action planned for October. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20090831/green-protesters-target-eon-ratcliffe-plant.htm Mon, 31 Aug 2009 08:51:31 EDT U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates will visit a Lockheed Martin Corp production plant for the F-35 fighter aircraft, the Pentagon's costliest arms purchase program, and an L-3 aircraft facility, highlighting their importance to the U.S. Defense Department, a Pentagon spokesman said on Thursday. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/219300-.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20090827/gates-tour-lockheed-f35-fighter-plant.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20090827/gates-tour-lockheed-f35-fighter-plant.htm Thu, 27 Aug 2009 17:22:33 EDT A worker from iPhone Plant in China committed suicide after an iPhone prototype went missing, a report confirmed by Apple. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20090721/death-apple-plant-workers-linking-missing-iphone-prototype.htm Tue, 21 Jul 2009 18:14:30 EDT