The Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA) will begin conducting pre-assessment conferencing in January 2012 to help reduce a backlog of violations before the Federal Mine Safety and Health Review Commission. Read More
Author: International Dredging Review
Assistant Secretary of Labor for Mine Safety and Health Joseph A. (Joe) Main has been involved in mining and mine safety since he began working in coal mines in 1967. He is a native of Greene County Pennsylvania which leads the state in coal production. From the outset of his career he has been an advocate for miners safety and health. He was nominated by President Barack Obama as Assistant Secretary of Labor for Mine Safety and Health (MSHA) and confirmed by the Senate on October 21 2009. Read More
On December 8 the U.S. House of Representatives passed the Farm Dust Regulation Prevention Act H.R. 1633 a bill to protect producers of resource-based products including aggregates as well as farmers and ranchers from increased regulation of a naturally occurring substance. The bill passed with a vote of 258 to 150 with 33 Democrats joining all Republicans in favor. Read More
On November 10 2011 DSC Dredge LLC and Supreme Dredge & Processing LLC form a new company Supreme-DSC Dredge LLC a Louisiana-based corporation with its major manufacturing component in Stoneboro Pennsylvania. The company allows the two companies to combine forces to complement each others product lines and build clamshell dredges for aggregate mining. Read More
Letter and reply regarding design of new Weeks dredge and the Eagle 1 in 1981. Read More
LeTourneau Technologies a Cameron company. Thats how switchboard operators are answering the phone at LeTourneau for now as its integration into Cameron International (formerly known as Cooper Cameron Corporation) became complete in the fourth quarter of 2011. The sign on the building outside said only Cameron the operator said. The employees have been receiving internal communications on the integration which has been covered by financial and business publications but the company has not yet issued a press release on the final naming. For now LeTourneau is keeping its own Web site with a special banner link to a Web site called www.CameronAcquiresLeTourneauDrilling.com Read More
In 2008 Bosch Rexroth began the legal integration of its then-latest purchase the Swedish company Hgglunds Drives. Bosch Rexroth a subsidiary within the German Robert Bosch GmbH is one of the world-leading suppliers within drive and control technology. The Drive and Control Company develops produces and sells Bosch Rexroth components and systems in more than 80 countries. Read More
In reporting a net loss of $6.2 million for the three months ending September 30 2011 compared to net income of $7.1 million for the same three months a year earlier Orion Marine Group Inc. again blamed continued funding inaction by the federal government as dredging projects slowed in a climate of funding uncertainty. The same causes had led to a second-quarter loss of $3.2 million for Orion as it shed about 300 people from its workforce. Read More
Rio de la Plata the mammoth sea-like estuary whose shores are home to Argentine capital Buenos Aires and the Uruguayan capital Montevideo is fed by two main tributaries: the Paran River which runs northward through Argentina and eventually becomes its border with Paraguay; and the Uruguay River which curves to the northeast creating borders between Uruguay Argentina and Brazil. Its no humble ambition: to make the Rio de la Plata river system become to South America what the Mississippi is to North America. But first the countries that border it must move past a decade of political stalemate and get on with the dredging. Read More
Short news items from Latin America. Read More
