WASHINGTON, DC — The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced up to $3 million for high-performance computing, modeling, and simulation projects to improve manufacturing processes.
ST. MARTIN, LA—Forum Energy Technologies is spending $19 million to build an assembly plant here to make drilling equipment for oil and gas. The plant will employ 125.
RICHMOND, VA—Rolls-Royce is considering building a new factory here to manufacture turbine blades. The 90,000 square-foot-foot plant would employ up 140 workers.
YOUNGSTOWN, OH—Exterran Energy Solutions, a manufacturer of equipment for the oil and gas industry, is building a $13.2 million assembly plant here. The facility is expected to hire 100 people later this year.
PORTSMOUTH, NH—Westinghouse’s nuclear components manufacturing facility in Newington, NH, is expanding and is hosting a job fair Tuesday, Jan. 31, from noon to 7 p.m. at the Holiday Inn on the Portsmouth traffic circle. Westinghouse is seeking qualified candidates for positions in the following areas: Quality inspection and engineering, fabrication, industrial hygiene, maintenance scheduling and production planning.
A Siemens gas turbine is 36 feet long and weighs 280 tons—and yet its parts are machined to tolerances of a few thousandths of an inch. ASSEMBLY magazine's editor-in-chief goes behind the scenes to see how this engineering marvel is made.