http://www.weirminerals.com/RSS/NewsHeadlines.aspx/ Sample description for the Weir News Headlines RSS (can be changed in RSS/NewsHeadlines.aspx) en-gb Weir Minerals Linatex, a business unit within The Weir Group PLC, announces the release of two new products and one new product enhancement. These product launches provide Weir Minerals Linatex with a new competitive advantage not enjoyed by other hose manufacturers. /news/weir_mineral_news/2011/new_linatex_hose_options.aspx 12/12/2011 00:00:00 /news/weir_mineral_news/2011/new_linatex_hose_options.aspx Weir Minerals Africa has received its largest ever pump order since its merger with the CH Warman pump group in 2008. Kenmare Resources placed the multimillion rand order for the supply of 32 pumps for its Moma Titanium Minerals Mine in northern Mozambique. /news/weir_mineral_news/2011/weir_minerals_africa_secures_l.aspx 01/11/2011 00:00:00 /news/weir_mineral_news/2011/weir_minerals_africa_secures_l.aspx WEIR MINERALS LAUNCHES FIRST SERVICE CENTRE IN GERMANY — a new supply & servicing base in Essen, Germany, to support its growing customer base across Central Europe. /news/weir_mineral_news/2011/weir_minerals_launches_first_s.aspx 01/09/2011 00:00:00 /news/weir_mineral_news/2011/weir_minerals_launches_first_s.aspx Weir Minerals Netherlands secured the second largest order in the history of the company for 12 GEHO® piston diaphragm pumps, type TZPM 2000, for Samarco Mineracao pipeline in Brazil. The pipeline transports iron ore slurry over a distance of some 400 km from Germano in the state of Minas Gerais to port in Punto Ubu at the coast. /news/weir_mineral_news/2011/geho_pumps_power_brasilian_pip.aspx 23/08/2011 00:00:00 /news/weir_mineral_news/2011/geho_pumps_power_brasilian_pip.aspx Weir Continues to Expand Its Chinese Operations The Weir Group PLC, a global engineering solutions provider to the mining, oil & gas and power markets, announces today that the Weir Minerals Taicang facility has been officially opened. The Taicang facility will operate as a center to assemble and test the smaller range of GEHO® types ZPM and TZPM piston diaphragm pumps, as well as bare shaft GEHO® type ZD well dewatering pumps. /news/weir_mineral_news/2011/weir_minerals_taicang_facility.aspx 19/07/2011 00:00:00 /news/weir_mineral_news/2011/weir_minerals_taicang_facility.aspx The WARMAN® WBH® pump offers new design and manufacturing features to help ensure longer pump life, superior performance. /news/weir_mineral_news/2011/warman_wbh_launched.aspx 12/07/2011 00:00:00 /news/weir_mineral_news/2011/warman_wbh_launched.aspx The Weir Group PLC ("Weir") and J F Comer Inc. ("Comer") jointly announce the settlement of a long-running contested legal dispute between the parties in the Federal Court of Canada concerning Weir's intellectual property rights in that country. The settlement has immediate effect. At one time Comer was an official distributor in Canada for certain slurry pumps and parts now owned by Weir and branded as Hazleton®, Ash Pump®, Galigher® or Warman®, but this relationship ended some years ago. Under the present settlement Comer has agreed to ensure that any products, parts, retrofit or kit components which they may sell are not sourced from replica manufacturers who illegally make use of the intellectual property of Weir in any manner. Comer has agreed not to import such products into Canada from specific replica manufacturers which are located in China. Further, the settlement stipulates that the parties will follow agreed arrangements to dispose of current held inventory and consignment inventory of Comer. /news/weir_mineral_news/2010/settlement_of_legal_dispute.aspx 23/09/2010 00:00:00 /news/weir_mineral_news/2010/settlement_of_legal_dispute.aspx Linatex will be a key member of the Weir Minerals portfolio, marketed as Linatex® rubber products, and will be a valuable addition to an already formidable Weir Minerals product line serving our keys markets of mining, dewatering, energy, oil and gas, transportation, milling, processing, general industrial and water/waste management. /news/weir_mineral_news/2010/weir_linatex_acquisition_final.aspx 20/09/2010 00:00:00 /news/weir_mineral_news/2010/weir_linatex_acquisition_final.aspx The Weir Group PLC ("Weir") has agreed to acquire the Linatex group of companies ("Linatex"), a global provider of wear-resistant products to the mining and sand & aggregates industries, based in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. /news/weir_mineral_news/2010/weir_to_buy_linatex.aspx 15/06/2010 00:00:00 /news/weir_mineral_news/2010/weir_to_buy_linatex.aspx The Weir Group PLC ("Weir") and KHD Humboldt Wedag International AG ("KHD"), announce that Weir Minerals, has been appointed as KHD's exclusive worldwide agent and recommended service provider for high pressure grinding rolls (HPGRs) for minerals processing applications. Weir Minerals sales and service representatives will begin representing this portfolio extension to their clients in the mining sector immediately /news/weir_mineral_news/2010/weir_minerals_and_khd_announce.aspx 19/05/2010 00:00:00 /news/weir_mineral_news/2010/weir_minerals_and_khd_announce.aspx The Weir Group PLC ("Weir") announces the settlement of a long-running legal dispute against two Chinese manufacturing companies - Shijiazhuang Pump Industry Group Co., Ltd. ("SPGC") and Shijiazhuang Kingda Pump Industry Group Co., Ltd. ("Kingda"). Additionally, Weir has received a formal Arbitral Award on the matter against the two manufacturers which issued from the China International Economic and Trade Arbitration Commission ("CIETAC"), a Chinese arbitration tribunal of international standing, on 29 March 2010. /news/weir_mineral_news/2010/weir-kingda_legal_settlement.aspx 20/04/2010 00:00:00 /news/weir_mineral_news/2010/weir-kingda_legal_settlement.aspx The Weir Minerals Division, a division of the Glasgow-based Weir Group PLC, today announced the expansion of their www.weirminerals.com website to include information on the mining slurry equipment supplier’s solutions in English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, Russian, and Chinese. /news/weir_minerals/2009/weir_minerals_web_site_in_6_la.aspx 23/06/2009 00:00:00 /news/weir_minerals/2009/weir_minerals_web_site_in_6_la.aspx There may appear to be a lot of similarities among the requirements within the mining industry internationally. However, established standards in the market place may well be different. This does not imply that a particular market might be inferior or superior; it simply means that differences exist in the manner in which the same functions are undertaken. /news/weir_minerals/2009/weir_minerals_stays_ahead_of_t.aspx 01/06/2009 00:00:00 /news/weir_minerals/2009/weir_minerals_stays_ahead_of_t.aspx Hazleton® specialty slurry pumps, a product brand of the Weir Minerals Division of the Glasgow-based Weir Group PLC, has been successful in providing the petroleum industry with a long term solution for gas scrubbing on Fluid Catalytic Cracking Units (FCCU). /news/weir_minerals/2009/hazleton_refineries_release.aspx 05/05/2009 00:00:00 /news/weir_minerals/2009/hazleton_refineries_release.aspx Weir Minerals Netherlands is pleased to present their new GEHO positive displacement pump technology - the GEHO APEXS pump - at the ACHEMA exhibition in Frankfurt, Germany. /news/weir_minerals_news/2009/weir_minerals_netherlands_unve.aspx 07/04/2009 00:00:00 /news/weir_minerals_news/2009/weir_minerals_netherlands_unve.aspx A first in France and Europe. Weir Minerals, specialist in pumps for loaded liquids, has just installed a pumping system designed to meet the worrying problem of beach erosion on the Aquitaine coast. /news/weir_minerals_news/2008/beach_erosion_in_capbreton.aspx 12/09/2008 00:00:00 /news/weir_minerals_news/2008/beach_erosion_in_capbreton.aspx Weir Minerals Netherlands supplied its 1000th GEHO® piston diaphragm pump, a significant milestone in for the company. The 1000th GEHO® pump has been installed at the Coral Bay Nickel plant in the Philippines and officially inaugurated during a festive weekend in June, attended by representatives from the Coral Bay Nickel Corporation and JGC Corporation. /news/weir_minerals_news/2008/geho_inaugurates_1000th_pumpo.aspx 14/07/2008 00:00:00 /news/weir_minerals_news/2008/geho_inaugurates_1000th_pumpo.aspx The Ambatovy laterite-nickel project on Madagascar will consist of the largest nickel pressure acid leach plant in the world. SNC Lavalin awarded the contract to Weir Minerals Netherlands for the supply of ten (10) sophisticated Geho triplex Heatbarrier pumps. This significant contract confirms that the Geho positive displacement pump technology is the standard in today's mineral processing technology. /news/weir_mineral_news/2007/geho_heatbarrier_pumps.aspx 22/10/2007 00:00:00 /news/weir_mineral_news/2007/geho_heatbarrier_pumps.aspx Weir Minerals Netherlands has been awarded an order to supply two Geho piston diaphragm pumps at Moa Nickel S.A. in Cuba over its competitor which has an installed base of 10 pumps since many years at this particular plant. This project award reconfirms that a thorough understanding of the application, resulting in an optimum pump selection and project approach is key to success of the Geho PD (positive displacement) product line. /news/weir_mineral_news/2007/geho_pumps_in_cuba.aspx 06/06/2007 00:00:00 /news/weir_mineral_news/2007/geho_pumps_in_cuba.aspx Warman heavy duty gravel pump solves sand and gravel handling problems, increasing production by 66% and pump life by over 70% at Carpat Agregate, Romania. /news/weir_mineral_news/2007/warman_increases_throughput.aspx 23/05/2007 00:00:00 /news/weir_mineral_news/2007/warman_increases_throughput.aspx