A couple of nice turbine blade manufacture photos I found:
Bohn Aluminum & Brass, 1947 …item three.. Alcoa Cuts International Aluminum Forecast on China Slowdown — Aluminum will typical ,212 a ton subsequent year (Thursday, 11 October 2012) …
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“We do see a slight slowdown in some regions in end- markets, and the principal driver for this is China,” Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Klaus Kleinfeld mentioned on a conference contact with analysts. Chinese demand may possibly pick up at the end of the fourth quarter due to the fact of stimulus spending, he stated.
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…..item 1)…. Habor Aluminum … www.harboraluminum.com/ …
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…..item two)…. Reuters … www.reuters.com … Press Release
Hydro and Orkla to form the world’s major aluminium solutions provider
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Mon Oct 15, 2012 1:00am EDT
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Norsk Hydro ASA and Orkla ASA have agreed to combine their respective profiles, creating systems and tubing business, creating the world’s top aluminium solutions provider. The new combined business, to be named Sapa, will be a 50/50 joint venture owned by Hydro and Orkla.
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…..item 3)…. HELLENIC SHIPPING NEWS – Worldwide … www.hellenicshippingnews.com …
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Alcoa Cuts Global Aluminum Forecast on China Slowdown
Thursday, 11 October 2012 | 00:00
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Alcoa Inc. (AA), the largest U.S. aluminum producer, reduce its forecast for worldwide consumption of the metal by 1 percentage point on slowing Chinese demand, assisting to trigger a decline in Asian stocks for a third day.
Demand will climb by six percent this year, New York-primarily based Alcoa mentioned yesterday in its third-quarter earnings statement. That is much less than the company’s July prediction for a 7 percent enhance in usage.
“We do see a slight slowdown in some regions in finish- markets, and the major driver for this is China,” Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Klaus Kleinfeld stated on a conference contact with analysts. Chinese demand may possibly pick up at the finish of the fourth quarter simply because of stimulus spending, he said.
The forecast revision by Alcoa, generally the very first organization on the Dow Jones Industrial Typical to report earnings, comes a day after the International Monetary Fund and Rio Tinto Group, the world’s third-largest mining firm, trimmed their growth outlook estimates for China. Aluminum rates in London touched a 34-month low in August as international supply exceeded demand.
“The international economy is clearly slowing,” Lloyd O’Carroll, a Richmond, Virginia-primarily based analyst for Davenport & Co., said yesterday in an interview. “That’s what the IMF stated today and so I believe what Alcoa is doing is constant with that.”
— Shares Drop
Alcoa traded at 7.02 euros as of 9:38 a.m. in Frankfurt. That’s equivalent to .03, a 1.1 % decline from yesterday’s closing value in New York. The MSCI Asia Pacific Index (MXAP) slipped .9 percent at 4:42 p.m. in Tokyo, although Aluminum Corp. of China Ltd., the nation’s greatest producer of the metal, dropped as considerably as 2.1 percent in Hong Kong.
Demand from heavy-truck and trailer manufacturing will fall this year, Alcoa stated. It now sees Chinese truck and trailer output slumping as considerably as 21 percent, compared with a decline of as much as eight percent projected 3 months ago. Chinese can and packaging growth may possibly be eight %, down from Alcoa’s July forecast of as significantly as 20 %.
The IMF yesterday cut its global growth forecast and lowered its projected expansion for China, the world’s greatest aluminum user, by .2 percentage point annually, to 7.eight percent this year and 8.two % in 2013. London-primarily based Rio, which has pulled back from projects as sluggish worldwide growth lowered demand for metals, yesterday lowered its estimates for China’s development to below 8 %.
— Net Loss
Alcoa reported a third-quarter net loss of three million, or 13 cents a share, compared with net revenue of two million, or 15 cents, a year earlier as sales dropped 9.2 %. Excluding fees related to environmental remediation and the settlement of a lawsuit brought by Aluminium Bahrain BSC (ALBH), Alcoa had per-share profit of three cents. The typical of 18 estimates compiled by Bloomberg was for break-even earnings per share.
“We are clearly seeing the impact of a Chinese slowdown globally and it is indicated in Alcoa’s numbers,” said Nader Naeimi, Sydney-based head of dynamic asset allocation at AMP Capital Investors Ltd., which manages practically billion.
Alcoa reiterated that demand will increase this year in the global aerospace, auto, packaging and construction industries.
The firm mentioned it improved productivity across all four enterprise units. Its rolled merchandise company posted the highest ever following-tax operating revenue and the engineered items and options segment had a record margin on earnings prior to interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization.
Total sales fell to .83 billion from .42 billion, beating the .56 billion average of 10 estimates.
— Civil Suit
Alcoa settled a 4-year racketeering lawsuit brought by Aluminium Bahrain, the state-owned smelter known as Alba, both businesses mentioned yesterday. Alba’s 2008 civil suit alleged that Alcoa bribed officials in Bahrain to charge more for alumina. Alba stated it paid million a lot more than it should have.
Alcoa will spend Alba million in two cash installments and agree to a lengthy-term sales agreement, with out admitting liability. Alba said the settlement has a total worth of 7 million.
Alcoa, Rio Tinto, Norway’s Norsk Hydro ASA (NHY) and closely held Zeeland Aluminum have reduce 1.21 million metric tons of production capacity because mid-2011, according data compiled by Bloomberg.
Aluminum for delivery in three months on the London Metal Exchange averaged ,950 a ton in the third quarter, 20 percent much less than a year earlier. It traded at ,024 a ton as of 8:47 a.m. local time.
Rates under ,000 could drive much more production cuts, Ken Hoffman, a Bloomberg Industries analyst, mentioned last week.
— Decoupled Value
Alcoa’s Kleinfeld mentioned that the organization predicts worldwide demand will exceed supply by 262,000 tons this year.
The aluminum price is “decoupled” from the provide and demand “fundamentals” of the marketplace, and rather is getting influenced by investor concerns about the European debt crisis and the slowdown in China, he mentioned on the contact.
“The macro variables are at the moment dominating the pricing predicament,” he stated. “But it can reverse extremely, really rapidly.”
Aluminum will typical ,212 a ton subsequent year, according to the median of 22 analyst estimates compiled by Bloomberg. The metal traded at far more than ,300 in 2008 prior to the economic crash, and reached a 2011 intraday high of ,803 a ton.
Alcoa is organized into 4 segments: alumina, which mines bauxite and processes it into the precursor to aluminum major metals, which smelts aluminum flat-rolled goods, which makes sheets utilized in beverage cans as nicely as airplane wings and vehicle components and engineered items and solutions, which produces aerospace fasteners, turbine blades and truck wheels.
— Supply: Bloomberg
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Best of the Planet Tower 90-2
Image by Duke Energy
Duke Power, Wanzek Construction and Siemens employees assemble beneath Tower 90 at Duke Energy’s Prime of the Planet Windpower Project close to Casper, Wyoming. One particular of the wind turbine blades atop Tower 90 was inspected by President Barack Obama on April 27, 2010 at the Siemens manufacturing facility in Ft. Madison, Iowa. The 44 Siemens wind turbines and 66 Common Electric turbines at Best of the Planet are capable of generating 200 megawatts of electricity – sufficient to energy about 60,000 properties. PacifiCorp is buying all of the output from Leading of the World below a 20-year energy buy agreement.
Rotor Parameter Measurement Centre
Image by tj.blackwell
One particular of these devices is planted at the end of every single GEC compressor in the turbine hall. I believe it relates to the transducer gear which converted some of the test cell’s 3000rpm speed into electrical energy by indicates of a dynamo at the end of every single unit’s fan blade shaft. It was manufactured by the Defence Investigation Agency, a branch of the UK Ministry of Defence headquartered at Farnborough.