Industrials

Welding isn't just for aircraft carriers anymore.

Alcoa Inc. has opened a $90 million plant to make aluminum-lithium alloys for use in planes, expanding the company's involvement in the aircraft industry.

The oil industry's lead trade group released new standards on Thursday for testing and classifying crude shipped by rail after prior shipments were misclassified, including a train that derailed in Canada and killed 47 people.

Business orders for long-lasting manufactured goods fell by a record amount in August, dragged lower by a plunge in demand for commercial aircraft.

Nepal's government has endorsed plans for Indian company GMR to build the Himalayan nation's largest hydro power plant in a small step toward easing chronic power shortages, officials said Friday.

A judge on Wednesday gave Big River Steel more time to respond to a federal lawsuit filed by a rival company that hopes to stop the $1.3 billion project from moving forward in northeast Arkansas.

In what has become a painful exercise across Appalachia, Patriot Coal is again telling hundreds of West Virginia mine workers that they could lose their jobs.

A new fight has emerged over efforts to shift New England from oil and coal to lower cost natural gas.

A company that wants to develop an iron ore mine in northwestern Wisconsin might limit the project to only one county instead of two, a company spokesman said Thursday.

Chevron Phillips Chemical is selling its high-performance engineering polymer business for $220 million.

U.S. environmental regulators are investigating a Kansas chemical manufacturing company over allegations it unlawfully disposed of fluids down a well in violation of federal safe drinking water laws, search warrants unsealed Wednesday show.

The Obama administration has rejected a request by a low-cost air carrier to begin flying immediately between the U.S. and Europe in a case that has significant labor and trade policy implications.

An Australian mining company has offered to purchase a controlling share of Tintina Resources Inc., the company that proposes a copper mine in central Montana.

It's the corporate equivalent of high-stakes poker.

An explosion at a BP refinery in Whiting, Indiana, has rattled nearby homes.

Georgia Power says its construction budget for a nuclear plant near the South Carolina line remains steady but costs could change in the future.

The government reports on business orders for durable goods in July.

A Canadian company is moving forward with plans for a new rare-earth metals mine at the end of Kendrick Bay on Prince of Wales Island, sending a team to drill and spending millions sampling rock and studying the area.

Deep in the hilly grasslands of remote Inner Mongolia, twin smoke stacks rise more than 200 feet into the sky, their steam and sulfur billowing over herds of sheep and cattle.

Xerox Corp. plans to lay off 121 people at its Webster plant in western New York.