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JUL 2013

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suppliers news McLanahan Expands into India ($1.3 billion) and the company will have close to 2,000 employees, with more than 400 based in the United States. "Taggart is a highly complementary business for Forge Group. It has an excellent reputation in the U.S. coal and clean coal technology markets, and we are committed to growing the business in the United States and globally," said David Simpson, managing director, Forge Group. "We have been working with the Taggart team for some time on this transaction and we are delighted that the existing Taggart team will remain in place to drive the business' growth. Through Forge Group's expanding global presence, Taggart will have multiple growth channels. It is our intention to build on the team and capitalize on a recovering U.S. economy." McLanahan officials sign the agreement with NAWA Engineers. Seated (L to R): G.N. Raju and George Sidney; Standing (L to R): Ron Thakurta, Bruce Daskivich, Sean McLanahan, Laurie McMahon and Jay Nartatez. To access the growing markets in the world's second-most populous nation, McLanahan Corp. company officials have announced the formation of an overseas joint venture with Indian company NAWA Engineers and Consultants Private Ltd. creating McLanahan NAWA Engineers Private Ltd. McLanahan will provide intellectual property and NAWA will provide sales, manufacturing and procurement. McLanahan NAWA Engineers Private Ltd. will also be available to accommodate consumers in neighboring Pakistan, Nepal, Burma, Bangladesh, Bhutan and Afghanistan, as well as Sri Lanka. McLanahan's interest will be represented by Prabudha "Ron" Thakurta, who will serve as director, spending significant amounts of time in India while engaging customers for all processing needs. McLanahan's partner, NAWA Engineers, is a third-generation family-owned business based in Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, India. NAWA has a staff of 260 with two offices and three manufacturing facilities in and around Hyderabad. The company serves the aggregate industry with core products including crushers, vibrating screens and screw classifiers. The joint venture will allow the company to further expand into the South Asian market. Envirogen Awarded Patent for Water Treatment Envirogen Technologies received a U.S. Patent for "Methods for Treatment of Perchlorate Contaminated Water," for enhanced automated operation of its high-efficiency fluidized bed bioreactor (FBR) systems. This patent award is another example of Envirogen's continuing leadership in water treatment technology, explained Michael M. Stark, president and CEO of Envirogen Technologies. "We have been able to extend the performance and the applicability of this sustainable biological treatment technology to new industries and new applications—all the while maintaining its ability to achieve very high levels of contaminant removal and low longterm costs," Stark said. "Today we are treating nitrate, perchlorate, selenium, organics and specialty compounds like NDMA, hexavalent chromium, RDX, HMX and more. We are going to continue the advance of this technology in the market." Envirogen's FBR is a fixed-film bioreactor in which biological media is suspended, or fluidized, within the reactor vessel by the upward flow of water through the system. The suspended media provides a large surface area for microbial growth and allows a biomass density several times greater than that of other bioreactor designs under similar loading conditions. Microorganisms in the reactor completely destroy influent perchlorate and other targeted contaminants under anoxic conditions, without generating hazardous waste by-products. Forge Acquires Taggart Global Taggart Global, an engineering firm based in Pittsburgh that specializes in prep plant construction, announced it was acquired by Forge Group, an EPCM firm based in Perth, Australia, for $43 million plus a further $25 million of potential earn-out payments. Founded in 1993, Taggart has some of the world's leading blue chip resources and utility companies as customers with long-term contracts and relationships spanning many years. The company employs 600 people. Taggart has a respectable order book of $465 million with a strong pipeline of new tendering opportunities. Around $400 million of which is made up of longer term asset management recurring revenue. The business is expected to contribute $350 million of revenue to Forge Group in FY2014. Upon completion of the transaction, the combined Forge Group order book will be A$1.4 billion 56 www.coalage.com Envirogen's FBR is a fixed-film bioreactor. July 2013

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