Sandvik AB has bought UDR Group from Major Drilling Group International Inc., Canada, for about $34 million. Australian-based UDR Group is a manufacturer of surface mineral drill rigs.
Terex Corp.'s board of directors recently authorized a two-for-one split of the company's common stock. The company anticipates that the additional shares resulting from the split will be issued on or about July 14.
Despite gains by states and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in recent years to help small water systems strengthen their capacity to meet federal drinking water regulations, more effort and resources are needed, concludes an internal agency report.
Preferred Pump & Equipment recently acquired Waterways Distribution in Chico, Calif. Waterways, founded by Jim Love, sells line-shaft turbine pumps, motors, controls and all associated supplies for the irrigation industry.
China recently blew up the protective cofferdam that was used as a temporary structure while the Three Gorges Dam, the largest hydroelectric dam in the world, was being built.
More than 500 registered on-site bidders, along with 27 on-line bidders, gathered to bid for one of New England's largest water well drilling outfits May 10 in North Smithfield, R.I.
Dallas, Texas-based Water, Earth Solutions & Technologies Inc. is a service-oriented, highly diversified, environmental consulting and services company that offers services in six major categories, including drilling services and site assessments.
As tensions escalate in the Darfur region, the Adventist Development and Relief Agency continues to provide aid to desperate internally displaced persons in Darfur, Sudan. Projects include provision of emergency food aid, access to clean water, health care and improved sanitation. To combat the effects of dehydration, ADRA has implemented a large water well drilling project of 21 new wells throughout western Darfur ...
NASA engineers, who are used to making a difference in the lives of astronauts in space, recently had the chance to improve the lives of villagers in Iraq by using NASA technology to help install and test a water purification system in the northern village of Kendala.
For the first time, scientists have pulled up prehistoric geologic records from the frigid vault of the Arctic Ocean. A sediment core, more than 1,400 feet long, reveals that that glaciers formed in the Arctic Ocean about 14 million years earlier than geologists thought.
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