September 10, 2009

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As U.S. elected officials reconvened this week in Washington to consider, among other things, a transportation bill, our “Snapshot From the Field” travels to the Southeastern Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials’ annual conference in Biloxi, Miss., to find out "What's Moving and What's Not."

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This week's SiteNet Dispatch also features fresh reporting and valuable insights from the just-published September issue of Site Selection:

Speaking of Washington largess, energy-storage and electric vehicle firms are gearing up to build high-tech plants across the country, thanks to $2.4 billion in DOE grants awarded earlier this summer. Check out our map showing where Energy Innovations are blooming, and learn why some leaders have "Great Expectations."

In a new SITE Visit, two companies looking for a manufacturing renaissance locate their projects on properties in Indiana and Michigan formerly occupied by Visteon, and one documents its site selection process via blog, in "Watch This Space."

A Site Selection Investment Profile explores why companies large and small find Nebraska to be a haven of calm in a sea of unrest, in "A Bridge to Certainty."

100 containers from A for Aken to B for Baltimore

How does a 250-metre-long coating, embossing and printing machine for producing PVC flooring get from Köthen in Saxony-Anhalt to America? That is the question employees at Sondermaschinenbau Köthen GmbH (www.smbk.de) recently faced. The company delivered such a system to Armstrong, one of the world's largest producers of PVC flooring, in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. In total, 100 shipments survived a container ship journey on the Aken-Hamburg to Baltimore route and on to Lancaster.

The value of this machine is about US$20 million, or €14 million. Saxony-Anhalt has a large stake in the success of this order, having provided a guarantee for SMBK's partner company Kleinwerfers Kunststoffanlagen (KKA), which was also involved. A commitment to quality, good assembly conditions in Weißandt-Gölzau and efforts by the company and the state resulted in the Köthen-based company outdoing well-known competing companies for this business.

www.invest-in-saxony-anhalt.com

Editor's Note

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IPA World News

There's more expansion news online in global project coverage from London-based partner Oxford Intelligence. This week's installment includes:
- "Sandvik to Open New Site in UK"
- "Telstra Opens Data Centre in UK"
- "Nestle Announces New Bouillon Factory in China"
- "Suzuki Plans New Plant in India"
- "Volkswagen to Expand in India"

Upcoming Industry Events

Upcoming Conferences & Expositions of Note
Read about and link to these conferences and many more listed in the events calendar at SiteNet.com.
- September 19 - 23 IAMC Fall 2009 Professional Forum - Minneapolis-St. Paul
- September 21 - 25, 2009 24th European Photovoltaic Solar Energy Conference
- September 21 - 23, 2009 2009 World Stem Cell Summit
- October 4 - 7, 2009 2009 IEDC Annual Conference
- October 6 - 7, 2009 Transport Intelligence Global Distribution Strategies 2009
- October 7 - 9, 2009 IFMA's World Workplace 2009 Convention & Expo
- October 16 - 17, 2009 CCIM & IREM Success Series 2009: Real Estate Professionals
- October 20 - 22, 2009 Planning Down: Economic Life Within Ecological Limits

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