Konecranes (www.konecranes.com) has been awarded a contract to supply all of the cranes for TPCO America Corporation's new seamless steel pipe manufacturing facility near Gregory, Texas. The turnkey order includes 24 cranes for the melt shop, rolling mill and finishing mill.

Typically, a plant shutdown and turnaround are scheduled and planned and then executed as quickly and efficiently as possible. That is not the case at St. Marys Paper (www.stmarys-paper.com) in Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario.