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Methanex Increases Operating Capacity in New Zealand, Canada and Chile 0

VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA — (Marketwired) — 10/07/13 — Methanex Corporation (TSX: MX) (NASDAQ: MEOH) has reached a number of key milestones with respect to its near-term capacity growth objectives in New Zealand, Canada and Chile.On October 4, 2013, the company successfully produced its first methanol from the newly restarted 0.5 million tonne plant in Waitara Valley, New Zealand. In September, Methanex also restarted an idle distillation unit which will debottleneck methanol production c

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GelTech Announces Appointment of Mr. Neil Reger to Its Board of Directors 0

JUPITER, FL — (Marketwired) — 10/04/13 — GelTech Solutions, Inc. (OTCBB: GLTC) (OTCQB: GLTC), creators of FireIce, a revolutionary water enhancing fire suppressant that has the potential to change current firefighting techniques, announces the Board of Directors has appointed Mr. Neil Reger as GelTech-s newest board member.The Board selected Mr. Reger due to his proven track record, spanning over 45 years. His career began at the Internal Revenue Service (IRS). He then became Tax Director fo

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Top Industrial Market News Stories for Last Week of September 2013, an Industrial Info News Alert 0

SUGAR LAND, TX — (Marketwired) — 10/04/13 — Researched by Industrial Info Resources (Sugar Land, Texas) — Here are Industrial Info-s most-read stories from the past week. Browse other breaking industrial news stories at .Over the past 18 months, Enbridge Incorporated has put together a new central design team for North America. This team is now in charge of standardizing the designs for pump stations across all new Enbridge facilities, which is a new strategy for Enbridge-s future developm

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Chuck Magro to Succeed Mike Wilson as Agrium-s CEO January 1, 2014 0

CALGARY, ALBERTA — (Marketwired) — 10/02/13 — Agrium Inc. (TSX: AGU) (NYSE: AGU) announced today that its Board of Directors has appointed Agrium-s Chief Operating Officer, Chuck Magro to succeed Mike Wilson as CEO upon his retirement, which will be effective December 31, 2013. Mr. Magro will join the Agrium Board of Directors immediately."The Board is pleased that its succession planning process has led to the selection of such a strong leader and internal candidate as Chuck to replac

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BASF Commences Tender Offer to Verenium-s Shareholders 0

Offer Period From October 2 to October 31, 2013 Cash Offer of US$4.00 per Share

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Agrium Completes Acquisition of Viterra Retail Assets 0

CALGARY, ALBERTA — (Marketwired) — 10/01/13 — ALL AMOUNTS ARE STATED IN CANADIAN DOLLARS ("C$") UNLESS OTHERWISE INDICATEDAgrium Inc. (TSX: AGU)(NYSE: AGU) announced today that it has successfully completed the acquisition of Viterra Inc-s Canadian retail assets. The total consideration for the retail assets in Canada and Australia is approximately C$300-million, which includes estimated net working capital of C$300-million."Viterra-s assets are an excellent strategic fit for

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Invensys Strengthens KBR-s Refinery-Wide Optimization Solutions 0

HOUSTON, TX — (Marketwired) — 10/01/13 — , a leading supplier of state-of-the-art industrial software, systems and control equipment to the world-s major industries, has signed a multi-year, multi-million dollar contract with to supply its PRO/II® simulation software.Under the terms of a corporate licensing agreement, Invensys will provide to help KBR accurately model its process technology, used in both the designs KBR provides to its customers and the technology it licenses to the h

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Miller Energy Resources, Inc. Completes Public Offering of Its Series D Preferred Stock 0

KNOXVILLE, TN — (Marketwired) — 10/01/13 — (NYSE: MILL) (the "Company") announced today that, on September 30, 2013, it officially completed and closed its previously announced underwritten public offering of its 10.5% Series D Fixed Rate/Floating Rate Cumulative Redeemable Preferred Stock (liquidation preference $25.00 per share) (the "Series D Preferred Stock"). The Company issued 1,000,000 shares, raising gross proceeds of $25 million. MLV & Co. LLC and Maxim Grou

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GelTech to Exhibit at the 2013 ICUEE EXPO in Louisville 0

JUPITER, FL — (Marketwired) — 09/30/13 — GelTech Solutions, Inc. (OTCBB: GLTC) (OTCQB: GLTC), creators of FireIce, a revolutionary water enhancing fire suppressant that has the potential to change current firefighting techniques, announced today that the Company will be exhibiting at the 2013 International Construction and Utility Equipment Exposition (ICUEE) to be held October 1 – 3 in Louisville, Kentucky.ICUEE, which is held every other year, is the largest tradeshow for the utilities ind

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Intergraph(R) Webinar on October 10th to Demonstrate OrthoGen Full Integration With CADWorx(R) Plant Professional for Generating Orthographic Drawings 0

HOUSTON, TX — (Marketwired) — 09/26/13 — Intergraph will host a webinar on October 10, 2013 at 10:00 a.m. CT that will feature OrthoGen, the industry-standard program used to generate orthographic drawings for large and mega-sized projects executed in PDS® and SmartPlant®, now fully integrated with CADWorx® Plant Professional. Combined with ISOGEN, Intergraph-s OrthoGen for CADWorx now provides complete drawing automation for the production of all project drawing deliverables for

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