Sound Global says it has won 18 projects from a group of urban-rural waste water treatment plants in Changsha County, Hunan province, China, totalling RMB275 million ($53.5 million) in investments.
The projects include the investment, building, operation and transfer of 16 urban-rural waste water treatment plants (with a total capacity of 29,400 tonnes per day) with a concession period of 30 years.
Chasen Holdings, the relocation specialist for sophisticated machinery and equipment, says its Shanghai unit has successfully clinched two relocation projects in China. The projects, which involve the relocation of TFT LCD plants, have a combined value of RMB58.45 million ($11.37 million).
The first project, worth RMB8.45 million, involves the turnkey relocation of a 3rd-generation LCD factory from Kunshan in Jiangsu to Changsha in Hunan. Services rendered by Chasen Hi-Tech will include packing and moving out from the Kunshan plant, transporting the equipment to and moving them into the Changsha plant. The project will be conducted from January to March 2011.
Pteris Global says it has been awarded a baggage handling system project for Chennai International Airport, India. The project is scheduled to complete in June 2011.
The company also says it has received the Letter of Award for the Changsha Huanghua International Airport baggage handling system project announced on March 9.
The aggregate contract value for these two projects is $28 million.
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Pteris Global, the provider of airport logistics systems, has been named as the successful bidder by Hunan Airport Group to design, supply and install a complete Baggage Handling System for Changsha Huanghua International Airport, China. The project is scheduled to start in April 2010 and is expected to be completed in May 2011. The company says it is currently negotiating the terms of the contract.
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A new Chinese hospital has sparked off a massive debate after its bosses decided to display more than 500 men’s underwear on its walls as a promotional tactic.
The Changsha Boda Hospital in Changsha, capital of Hunan province, is situated on Shaoshanbei Road, and it specializes in urological diseases, reports the China Daily.
The hospital, which opened [...]
Hundreds of residents near a Chinese chemical plant have been found to have high levels of a dangerous metal in their bodies, after a series of leaks.
Thirty-three of them were admitted to hospitals in Hunan province over the weekend with cadmium poisoning, the official Xinhua news agency reported.
Production at the Changsha Xianghe plant in Liuyang stopped earlier this year, shortly before two people died.
Cadmium can damage the liver, kidneys, lungs, nervous system and brain.
Compounds containing the highly toxic metal, which is used in batteries, are also carcinogenic.
Officials suspended
Medical tests were carried out on nearly 3,000 residents of Zhentou township over the weekend following a protest on Thursday, involving about 1,000 people.
CADMIUM
Xinhua said people had been seeking a government investigation of the plant since 2007, but that the local authorities had failed to act.
They had complained deadly pollutants were frequently being discharged illegally into water that irrigated their fields, it added.
The plant, which produced zinc sulphate, was eventually shut down in April.
But two people who lived nearby died in May and June. Autopsies found high levels of cadmium in their bodies, causing widespread panic among their neighbours.
Following last week’s protest, the plant was closed "forever", its director detained and two officials from the municipal environmental protection bureau were suspended, Xinhua said.
The authorities would also compensate villagers for tainted farm produce and livestock which had to be destroyed, it added.</p
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