PEORIA, Ill. and OAK CREEK, Wis., May 20, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Caterpillar Inc. (NYSE: CAT) and Bucyrus International, Inc. (NASDAQ: BUCY) received notification from the United States Department of Justice (DOJ) that it has closed its investigation into Caterpillar's planned . The DOJ action, in addition to the expiration of the Hart-Scott-Rodino Act waiting period, concludes the antitrust review process in the United States. The clearance by the DOJ will allow the acquisition, valued at approximately $8.6 billion (including net debt), to proceed as soon as all other conditions to closing have been satisfied. The transaction is expected to close in mid-2011. We were very pleased to hear this positive news from the Department of Justice about this strategic acquisi...
... imperative to expand its leadership in the mining equipment industry, and positions Caterpillar to c... the design and manufacture of high productivity mining equipment for the surface and underground m...
Total economic output in the Inland Empire dropped 2.8 percent in 2009 - according to the latest report by the Commerce Department's Bureau of Economic Analysis. Construction and mining were among the hardest hit industries, declining in gross domestic product by 19 and 24 percent, respectively, in 2009 as opposed to the previous year.
Data mining involves extraction of information from historical data sets. Basic statistical paradigms have somewhat restricted its use by quality practitioners to baseline types of studies. Extracting that knowledge involves specially designed tools and techniques that are the essence of data mining. By linking the Six Sigma community to a company's IT function, which captures these large data sets, and to a line of business that makes use of them, all parties can reap the benefits. Because data mining offers ample opportunities to achieve improved product and service quality improvements, cycle-time reduction and cost of quality savings, it might seem puzzling that data mining has received scant attention from the Six Sigma Black Belt (BB) community. Data mining activities can be categ...
It's the worst thing you've ever seen in your life," [David Cooper] says as he steps back from a screen that displays photo after photo of what he calls "mountaintop removal," a coal-mining practice common in many parts of Appalachia including Virginia, West Virginia, Kentucky and Tennessee. "It looks like the moon, doesn't it? "These mountains aren't going to grow back years from now," Cooper said. "They're still" going to be flat a million years from now." Because coal must be washed as part of the mining process, there is a waste product called slurry, a sludge-like product that is left to sit in "sludge lakes," Cooper says. More than 650 such lakes, holding billions of gallons of "black goo," dot the Appalachian landscape, he explains.
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