USA and Canada

Harry Winston Diamond Corporation announced its first quarter Fiscal 2013 results today for the quarter ending 30 April 2012. 

Consolidated sales increased 34 percent to $192.5 million for the first quarter compared to $143.9 million for the comparable quarter of the prior year. Operating profit was $18.7 million compared to $4.7 million in the comparable quarter of last year.

Johnson Controls today participated in a signing ceremony in Tianjin, China to announce a planned $200 million automotive battery plant, pending final approval.

The state-of-the-art facility will supply automakers and the aftermarket in China with high quality maintenance-free lead-acid starter batteries and advanced batteries for start-stop vehicles.

Tremendous savings can be made on the cost of energy when customers band together to bid down the price, says Jeffrey D. Hiatt, and there are other ways to save, too.

In today’s economic climate, it’s vital to reduce expenses without impacting operations or service. In this regard, business owners in states where deregulation exists have an ace up their sleeve in the form of ‘reverse energy auctions’.

Alan Swaby looks at a Chilean coal project that is going to create a greater level of energy security while increasing the economic activity of a region that has long been stagnated.

Achieving energy independence has become a top priority for the country, said Ukraine President Viktor Yanukovych during a meeting in Washington, DC.

The meeting of the working group on energy security was co-chaired by the Ukrainian Energy and Coal Industry Minister Yuriy Boyko and Special Envoy of the United States Secretary of State for Eurasian Energy, Richard Morningstar. 

LeMay - America’s Car Museum (ACM), opened Saturday in Tacoma, Washington, celebrating America’s love affair with the automobile.

An eclectic mix of people gathered at the debut of the Pacific Northwest’s newest attraction, including Washington Lt. Governor Brad Owen, GM Vice President of Design Ed Welburn, Tonight Show host Jay Leno, jewelry magnate Nicola Bulgari, and hundreds of car enthusiasts.

Canada's building trade unions and the Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers (CAPP) today announced a joint agreement to advance the long-term competitiveness of the oil sands industry, with particular focus on developing a stronger skilled trades workforce.

Mexico’s leading infrastructure and construction firm Empresas ICA (Ingenieros Civiles Asociados) has acquired 51 percent of the Peruvian mining construction firm San Martin.

The decision to acquire a majority stake in San Martin Contratistas Generales, Peru's largest construction services company for the mining industry, is part of ICA’s international strategy to move toward deeper involvement in the dynamic mining sector, said chief operating officer Alonso Quintana.

Taseko Mines is now engaged in the third phase of modernisation at Canada’s second largest open pit copper-molybdenum mine.

Golden Dawn Minerals has acquired from Mineworks Ventures a 130 tonne-per-day permitted processing facility and adjacent tailings pond located on the Boundary Falls property in British Columbia, Canada.

Golden Dawn believes that mines on this and adjacent properties, collectively called the Greenwood Precious Metal Project currently held under an option agreement with Mineworks, have potential for further development.