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Archive for January 2007
CP Railway 4Q Earnings Rise on Strength in Sulfur…
January 30, 2007 by Walter Schneider.
Canadian Pacific Railway 4Q Earnings Rise on Strength in Sulfur, Fertilizer Freight VolumesJanuary 30, 2007 - 10:02 a.m.
….The railroad cited particular strength in sulfur and fertilizer revenue, which gained 19 percent to 122 million Canadian dollars ($104.7 million) from 102 million Canadian dollars during the same period a year earlier. Revenue from its intermodal business, which involves transferring freight among different types of transportation, such as loading shipping containers on rail cars for final delivery, improved 11 percent to 324 million Canadian dollars ($278 million) from 312.6 million Canadian dollars….(Full Story)
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NAOSC holds open house in Bruderheim
January 26, 2007 by Walter Schneider.
North American Oil Sands Corporation holds open house in Bruderheim, in relation to its proposed tar-sands bitumen upgrader near Bruderheim (Full Story)
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Ford investigative team solves automotive ‘mysteries’
January 20, 2007 by Walter Schneider.
Reliable Plant Magazine - Tulsa, OK, USA,
Central Lab chemist Tom Munie discovered that the solder on the motherboards and other circuitry within these computers had been attacked by sulfur, ….
“We were seeing a lot of new computers in one particular area of the design center that were malfunctioning – sometimes within the first 30 days,” says Ford commodity analyst Cyndi Morrell.
In fact, these computers weren’t just experiencing software problems, their motherboards were corroding. Morrell turned to Ford’s Central Lab to find out why.
Central Lab chemist Tom Munie discovered that the solder on the motherboards and other circuitry within these computers had been attacked by sulfur, causing severe, premature corrosion. After some investigation, Munie pinpointed that the modeling clay, used in abundance near where these computers were stationed in the design center, contained high levels of sulfur…. (Full Story)
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Note by folc.ca: During a 2006 tour of the Shantz sulphur processing plant, Shantz personnel pointed out that they experienced a high rate of failures of circuit boards in computers and cell phones at the Shantz sulphur facility. –WHS
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