All Seasons Property Co has outlined a five-year plan to renovate All Seasons Place and the Conrad Bangkok Hotel with an estimated budget of 1 billion baht. The first phase of renovation will start with the eight-year-old luxury development’s residential zone, expected to be completed by mid-2012, said managing director Frankie Bao. The developer will […]
Continue ReadingLarsen & Toubro (L&T) has bagged three international orders totalling $889 million for hydrocarbon projects, the $11.7-billion engineering conglomerate said on Sunday. “Pipeline for hydrocarbon projects is largely good. Energy sector has picked up in the Gulf and we are bidding for a number of tenders in UAE, Qatar, Oman, and Saudi Arabia,” Krishnamurthi Venkataramanan, […]
Continue ReadingDow Chemical Company will more than triple capacity for its “Enlight” polyolefin encapsulant films used in photovoltaic modules, with the construction of two plants including one in Thailand in 2012. The Thai plant will be located in Map Ta Phut, Rayong. Introduced in 2010, the films help improve the reliability and performance of finished photovoltaic […]
Continue ReadingThe Nation (Thailand) The facility, which will be the largest of its kind in Thailand, is expected to be operational in 2013. While declining to disclose the investment cost of the plant, the company said yesterday that it would have an annual recycling capacity of about 30,000 tonnes. “We have already started the construction of […]
Continue ReadingThe Highways Department will propose to the new government the construction of five motorways at a cost of Bt180 billion. The department’s director-general Veera Ruengsooksriwong said yesterday that the new inter-provincial motorways would cover a distance of 700 kilometres. Initially the target completion date was 2017, but given the heavy investment required, that target has […]
Continue ReadingSCHOTT Solar to supply 67,000 solar modules to Thailand SCHOTT Solar AG announced that it received a large order from Thailand. The company will be delivering 67,000 photovoltaic modules for two solar power plants that Phoenix Solar Singapore has been building just north of Bangkok since June. The two sites will achieve peak output of […]
Continue ReadingBEML has announced that the company has launched its products in Thailand by appointing Paragon Machinery as its distributor for Thailand. With this business association, Paragon Company will market the range of BEML products like dump trucks, excavators, loaders, motor graders, dozers, etc all over Thailand and neighboring Nations like Myanamar, Lagos, Cambodia, etc. The […]
Continue ReadingAccording to C9 Hotelworks “Phuket Hotel Market Update Mid-Year Edition 2011” which will be released next Tuesday August 9th, Hong Kong based Marco Polo Hotels and InterContinental have signed new properties on the island. The 294 room Marco Polo Resort Phuket will open in Q1 2014. Located on the east coast’s Koh Siray near to […]
Continue ReadingMai-BS (Thailand) has signed an agreement with DuSai Hotel & Resorts Ltd to develop a 5-star category Eco-Resort in the naturally beautiful part of north-eastern Bangladesh. It will be the first true Eco-boutique resort development in the country featuring 78 rooms and suites and a four-bedroom presidential villa with its own private lap pool. Construction […]
Continue ReadingDemand is high for solar energy in Thailand, where a pioneering project is afoot in the western province of Kanchanaburi. Finishing touches are being put on the first large-scale direct-steam-generation-based parabolic trough power plant in Asia. The sun shines brightly as about 10 workers clean the troughs before the final reflective layers are fastened to […]
Continue Reading