Arkansas is on a roll for foreign investment, with India's Man Industries now bringing a US$100-million, 300-employee plant to the Port of Little Rock. It's the third major foreign firm in less than a year to announce a large-scale expansion at the port on the Arkansas River ... as this week's SiteNet Dispatch explains. Traveling the Arkansas Pipeline: Man Industries will manufacture helical submerged arc welded pipes (pictured above) in Little Rock for the petroleum industry. The company is currently shipping its large, weighty products to the U.S. market from Man's plants in India. This week's edition of the SiteNet Dispatch brings readers new and exclusive stories from the March 2008 Site Selection, including: The European Union: "Europe's New Look Intrigues U.S. Investors" Southeast Asia: "South-South Showpiece" Special Advertising Section: The Maritime Industries THE SITENET DISPATCH IS SPONSORED BY: Kentucky Cabinet for Economic Development and New Jersey Commerce.

Heavy Expansions into the EU's Expansion: Schaeffler Group opened this $97-million rolling bearing plant in Debrecen, Hungary, in September of last year. Hungary, the Czech Republic and Poland have been major beneficiaries of the European Union's expansion, together pulling in some $4 billion in investment from 2004 to 2007. There's more expansion news online in global project coverage from London-based partner Oxford Intelligence. This week's installment includes: "Bank of Ireland Opens Sydney Office" "Hitachi Chemical Expands in Singapore" "MAN to Expand Plant in Denmark" "Mitsubishi to Expand Engine Output in China" "Lazard Establishes Hong Kong Office" Where in the World? What, you may well ask, is that humongous thing pictured here, and why is it sitting in the middle of that building? That, dear readers, is "the world's biggest banjo." Can you name the city that's home to this decidedly unconventional piece of storefront signage? A Prolific Forecaster Looks Back - and Ahead: Site Selection Publisher McKinley Conway has published a new book, his 44th, Forecasting for Fame, Fortune and Frustration. Click here for a glimpse into Forecasting, which spotlights not only the future, but the past and the present as well. Copacetic clicking, Jack Lyne Site Selection Executive Editor of Interactive Publishing

Upcoming Conferences and Expositions of Note Read more on the expanded events calendar at SiteNet.com. April 28 - 30, 2008 Milken Institute Global Conference Beverly Hilton, Los Angeles, CA April 29 - May 1, 2008 CDFA's Annual Development Finance Summit Hyatt Regency St. Louis, MO May 5 - 7, 2008 National Brownfields Conference Cobo Center, Detroit, MI May 12, 2008 SHSTP Services Outsourcing Forum Urban Construction Cultural Building, Hangzhou, China May 14 - 16, 2008 Opportunities in Transportation Infrastructure 2008 Almas Temple, Washington, DC May 18 - 21, 2008 NAI Global ICSC Spring Convention Caesars Palace, Las Vegas, NV May 19 - 22, 2008 Shared Services Week 2008 Melia Sitges, Barcelona, Spain June 8 - 10, 2008 IEDC's Building Cutting-Edge Public-Private Partnerships Westin Charlotte, NC June 12 - 13, 2008 World Forum for Direct Investment London, United Kingdom June 12 - 15, 2008 Real Estate Eurasia Tuyap Exhibition Center, Istanbul, Turkey June 16, 2008 The FT ULI Sustainable Cities Awards & Conference East Wintergarden, London, United Kingdom June 25 - 27, 2008 Cityscape China Shanghai New International Expo Centre, Shanghai, China July 9 - 11, 2008 C40 World Ports Climate Conference Rotterdam, Netherlands July 17 - 18, 2008 FDI in America Forum Zacatecas, Mexico Saxony-Anhalt - Further Investment In The Centre Of European Flat Glass Industry Scheuten-Group (Venlo/Netherlands) will build a 190 million euro flat glass production plant in Saxony-Anhalt, adding 260 employees. Production of the f-glass GmbH plant starts at the end of 2009. With factories and subsidiaries in Europe, Korea and the U.S., Scheuten will produce about 220,000 tons of flat glass per year in Saxony-Anhalt. Furthermore, a fabrication of heat protection glass and solar glass coatings is planned. "Our market is the entire European market," says Herbert Köhler, Managing Director of f-glass GmbH. "We decided to invest in Saxony-Anhalt because everything is just fine there - from the supply of resources up to the logistic connection." Saxony-Anhalt strengthens its position as a centre of the flat glass industry with sites in Wolfen (Guardian), Haldensleben and Osterweddingen (Euroglas). Saxony-Anhalt will supply about one-third of Germany's flat glass production and about 10 percent of Europe's. www.invest-in-saxony-anhalt.com paid advertisment CONDUCT LOCATION RESEARCH ON ANY U.S. STATE OR COMMUNITY DevelopmentAlliance.com has always offered detailed state, county, metropolitan and micropolitan statistical data for companies seeking new business locations in the U.S. ... The Web site enables comparisons of critical data sets from every U.S. county and gives corporate site selectors the ability to select up to five communities at once for a side-by-side comparison. Now you can also find important international data through our International Guide. This is a free service of Conway Data, Site Selection magazine, SiteNet.com and the International Economic Development Council. Just log on to DevelopmentAlliance.com and find out what thousands of other site selectors have already discovered: DevelopmentAlliance.com is the place to go when conducting Internet-based research on possible business locations. FREE LOCATION ASSISTANCE is just a click away! NEWSLETTER SUBSCRIPTION INFORMATION SIGN UP FOR SITENET DISPATCH Did a friend forward you this e-mail? Sign up for your own free e-mail newsletter by visiting http://www.sitenet.com MISSING ISSUES? Please add SiteNet Dispatch [dispatch@sitenet.com] to your address book to prevent your email system from filtering our newsletters as spam. Look at our online archive to find what you missed, http://www.sitenet.com/dispatch/archive.cfm FEEDBACK Please send comments about content to Adam Bruns or suggestions for how to improve this newsletter to Shannon Landin. MAGAZINE CUSTOMER SERVICE For magazine subscription concerns such as back issues, address changes, and account status information, please visit our customer service department at http://www.siteselection.com/response Would you prefer to read this newsletter in your web browser? Click here. The SiteNet Dispatch is best viewed at a screen resolution of 800 x 600 or larger. The SiteNet Dispatch is a free service of SiteNet (http://www.sitenet.com), the Internet's premier source of corporate real estate and economic development information. Copyright 2008, Conway Data, Inc. All Rights Reserved. You are subscribed as: eeee To change the format in which you receive this email, update your contact information or cancel your subscription, please click here.