1881- the Bornrif Lighthouse on Ameland Island in the Netherlands begins operation.
First Cobalt acquired the refinery in 2017 and wants to position it as a toll milling operation, processing cobalt hydroxide from global producers. The company said they have the only permitted... read more →
The U.S. Army has added $21 million to its contract for JCB High Mobility Engineer Excavators (HMEE), the company said in a press release. Although no specific number of machines... read more →
The withdrawal of services began at various worksites on May 6. Darryl Stewart, executive director of the Ontario Sheet Metal Contractors Association (OSMCA), said there were rotating strikes at a... read more →
Following a “very intense” endeavour requiring a series of drafts and revisions by the erosion subcommittee which wrote it, the standard reached the semi-approved stage last October. After its own... read more →
Plans to start work on a replacement for the Pattullo Bridge that connects Surrey to New Westminster, B.C. took a step forward May 2 as the province’s ministers of Environment... read more →
The vertical farm will create training and research opportunities in a variety of fields including waste management, clean energy, sustainable building design, water conservation, and urban agriculture, among others, indicates... read more →
Noront Resources, the leading mine developer in the James Bay mineral belt, selected the northeastern Ontario city to be the home of its $1-billion ferrochrome production facility. Noront has chosen the... read more →
Crushing materials for use on job sites, namely road building projects, has become a more attractive venture in recent years with the evolution of mobile, track mounted crushers. High-powered operation,... read more →
While the use of 3D printing to build whole structures in much of the civilian commercial construction industry has been limited to one-off specialty projects, the military has found practical... read more →