Day: August 18, 2022

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Nomination de Cody Patrick au poste de responsable des ventes directes OEM pour Nikkiso Clean Energy and Industrial Gases Group

TEMECULA, Californie, 17 août 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Clean Energy & Industrial Gases Group (le « Groupe ») de Nikkiso Cryogenic Industries, qui fait partie du groupe de sociétés Nikkiso Co., Ltd (Japon), a le plaisir d’annoncer que Cody Patrick a été nommé responsable des ventes directes OEM pour Nikkiso ACD, qui fait partie de l’unité des pompes cryogéniques du Groupe.

Cody est diplômé du programme de distribution industrielle du Texas A&M College of Engineering. La combinaison de sa formation et de son expérience avec les pompes cryogéniques pour le marché des gaz industriels lui confère toutes les capacités nécessaires pour contribuer à la croissance du marché américain. Il gérera et développera des stratégies et opportunités commerciales, tout en participant au développement de programmes de formation et d’éducation pour les clients du Groupe. Cody sera basé à Houston et rendra compte à Ian Guthrie, responsable de la division commerciale de l’unité des pompes cryogéniques du Groupe.

« Étant donné l’enthousiasme de Cody et sa compréhension du marché des pompes cryogéniques, nous sommes ravis qu’il rejoigne le Groupe », a déclaré Daryl Lamy, président-directeur général de l’unité Pompes du Groupe. « Nous sommes impatients de recevoir son soutien pour développer davantage les opportunités sur ce marché. »

Avec cette nomination, Nikkiso poursuit son engagement : avoir une présence à la fois locale et mondiale pour ses clients.

À PROPOS DE CRYOGENIC INDUSTRIES
Cryogenic Industries, Inc. (aujourd’hui membre de Nikkiso Co., Ltd.) et ses entreprises membres fabriquent et entretiennent des équipements de traitement du gaz cryogénique (pompes, turbodétendeurs, échangeurs thermiques, etc.), et des usines de traitement pour les gaz industriels, la liquéfaction du gaz naturel (GNL), la liquéfaction de l’hydrogène (LH2) et le cycle organique de Rankine pour la récupération de la chaleur perdue. Fondée il y a plus de 50 ans, Cryogenic Industries est la société-mère d’ACD, de Nikkiso Cryo, de Nikkiso Integrated Cryogenic Solutions, de Cosmodyne et de Cryoquip, et d’un groupe administré en commun comptant une vingtaine d’entités opérationnelles.

Pour tout complément d’information, veuillez consulter les sites www.nikkisoCEIG.com et www.nikkiso.com.

Contact auprès des médias :
Anna Quigley
+1.951.383.3314
aquigley@cryoind.com

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East African Regional Bloc Begins Deployment of Troops to DRC

Burundi this week became the first country to send troops to the Democratic Republic of the Congo as part of an East African regional force that aims to end decades of unrest in the eastern DRC. But few details have been released about the deployment and some security experts worry that Burundi, like other DRC neighbors, has its own security agenda.

Burundi is the first of six East African regional forces, or EAC, to deploy troops in the DRC.

Great Lakes Region security analyst Dismas Nkunda said the deployment of EAC troops is possible with the deployment of Burundi troops.

“It’s a welcome idea because we had a suspicion that most countries in the region had an interest in DRC, such as Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi, and therefore, we had thought the only countries maybe would have deployed without conflict of interest would have been Tanzania, South Sudan and Kenya,” he said. “But now that Burundi has done it, it certainly means that eventually, a peacekeeping operation by the EAC is going to happen.”

The East African integration bloc agreed in June to send thousands of troops to help quell the violence in the region after the emergence of the rebel group M23.

On Wednesday, suspected M23 rebels killed civilians and destroyed a hydropower plant under construction in North Kivu’s Virunga National Park.

It’s unclear what kind of structures the EAC regional force led by Kenya will be putting together to achieve its goal of defeating the rebel groups like M23 and other militia formations in the country.

According to a report released by the Burundi Human Rights Initiative, late last year, Burundi secretly sent hundreds of troops into the DRC to fight a weakened armed group called Red Tabara, which carried out attacks inside Burundi.

Imbonerakure, the Burundi ruling party’s youth wing, is accused of widespread atrocities against political opponents and the Burundi masses.

Carina Tertsakian, with the Burundi Human Rights Initiative, expresses concern that the regional mission does not seem to have a clear mandate.

“The main purpose of the unofficial Burundi military operation in DRC was to go after that rebel group,” she said. “Now, in the context of the regional force, it’s not clear what’s going to happen, not only in Burundi. There are other countries that are supposed to be sending troops. So, will each of these forces be allowed to just do what it wants and hunt down their particular opponents? In Burundi, this will be Red Tabara, in which case it would be in practice a continuation of what they have already been doing for the past eight months.”

The Kinshasa government has expressed displeasure with the neighboring country’s alleged involvement in the armed conflict in Ituri, North and South Kivu provinces.

Congo has a formal agreement with Uganda to allow troops to fight alongside its military against the armed group, the Allied Democratic Forces.

Speaking at the Southern African Development Community summit this week in Kinshasa, DRC President Felix Tshisekedi thanked the regional community for its support of Rwanda.

Kinshasa does not want Rwanda to take part in the deployment for its support of M23, a claim denied by Kigali.

Tertsakian said Burundi is also partly to blame for the violence in eastern DRC.

“So, there’s been these kinds of tacit agreements, de-facto agreements on the part of Congolese to allow Burundians to go in there and effectively do what they want there,” she said. “[The] worry there is that compared, for example to Kenya or Tanzania, Burundi is a direct party to the conflict there.”

Security analyst Nkunda said he anticipates Rwanda will take part in the operation despite Kinshasa’s rejection.

“If now Burundi can, given that it has Red Tabara in DR Congo, am certainly sure even with M23 and the FDLR genocide whom Rwanda claims are in DRC, then even Rwanda can be able to deploy, and I think it’s the question of time,” he said.

Experts are worried that rights violations can occur as some of the forces pursue the rebel groups, and there is fear there might be no accountability in addressing abuses.

Source: Voice of America

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Rebel Leader Erdimi Returns to Chad After Decade in Exile

Exiled Chadian rebel leader Timan Erdimi has returned to the country after a decade in exile in Qatar for talks aiming to pave the way for democratic elections. But boycotts by rebel and opposition groups remain major hurdles.

Erdimi, now 67, returned Thursday, ahead of Saturday’s anticipated landmark talk in N’Djamena, Chad’s capital. Erdimi, who heads the Union of Resistance Forces — widely known as UFR — is accused of leading an armed group that attempted to twice overthrow the Chadian government, in 2008 and 2019.

Comprising at least 40 rebel groups, Erdimi’s UFR signed a peace agreement on August 8 in Doha for talks that would pave the way for elections after 18 months of military rule in Chad.

But two of the biggest rebel groups are boycotting the negotiations forum. Agence France-Presse has reported that the two groups — Front for Change and Concord in Chad — triggered the 2021 offensive in northeastern Chad that killed longtime leader Idriss Deby Itno. The groups claim the forum is politically biased.

The upcoming talks also are expected to bring together 1,400 delegates from the military government, civil society opposition parties, and trade unions.

According to General Mahamat Idriss Deby, president of Chad’s transitional military council, the talks provide a chance for reconciliation in the fractured country.

The junta’s 18-month window for transition to democracy expires in October — a deadline that France, the African Union and other stakeholders have urged the president to uphold.

Source: Voice of America

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Zelenskyy Calls for UN to Secure Ukraine Nuclear Plant

Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy called Thursday for the United Nations to ensure the security of Europe’s biggest nuclear power plant, the Zaporizhzhia facility, controlled by Russian forces and operated by Ukrainian technicians.

Zelenskyy, writing on the Telegram messaging app, said that “the deliberate terror” by Russia in attacking the power plant “can have global catastrophic consequences for the whole world.

“Therefore, the U.N. must ensure the security of this strategic object, its demilitarization and complete liberation from Russian troops,” Zelenskyy said after meeting in the western Ukraine city of Lviv with U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.

For his part, Guterres called for the site to be “demilitarized,” with the withdrawal of military equipment and personnel.

“Common sense must prevail to avoid any actions that might endanger the physical integrity, safety or security of the nuclear plant,” Guterres said. “The facility must not be used as part of any military operation. Instead, agreement is urgently needed to reestablish Zaporizhhia as purely civilian infrastructure and to ensure the safety of the area.

“We must tell it like it is – any potential damage to Zaporizhzhia is suicide,” he said.

Guterres said the U.N. has the logistics and security capacity to support any mission the International Atomic Energy Agency undertakes to secure the plant, provided both Russia and Ukraine agree.

Lt. Gen. Igor Kirillov, commander of the Russian military’s radiological, chemical and biological protection forces, claimed that Ukrainian troops are planning to strike the plant Friday during Guterres’ visit to a port in Odesa in order to accuse Russia of nuclear terrorism. Both Ukraine and Russia have denied targeting the facility.

Kirillov said an emergency at the plant could see “a discharge of radioactive substances into the atmosphere and spread them hundreds of kilometers away.”

Zelenskyy, Guterres and Erdogan also discussed efforts to end the war and ongoing shipments of Ukrainian grains brokered by the U.N. and Turkey that Russia for months had blocked from being shipped across the Black Sea to other countries, including African nations facing famine. About 560,000 tons of grain have been shipped so far, the U.N. says.

Guterres is visiting Istanbul on Saturday to see the Joint Coordination Center that is monitoring the export system, including inspections of inbound and outbound ships demanded by Russia.

The center said it expects inspections teams to conduct checks Thursday on four ships that departed Ukraine earlier this week.

Those include the Osprey S, which is carrying corn to Turkey, the Ramus and its cargo of wheat bound for Turkey, the Brave Commander carrying wheat to Djibouti and the Bonita carrying corn to South Korea.

Four other ships are set to be inspected on their way to Ukraine. Russia has sought to ensure that inbound vessels are not bringing weapons for Ukrainian forces.

Three more ships departed Ukraine’s Black Sea ports on Wednesday. The coordination center said the Sara, carrying 8,000 metric tons of corn, and the Efe, carrying 7,250 tons of sunflower oil, left the Odesa port and were bound for Turkey.

The Petrel S, loaded with 18,500 metric tons of sunflower meal, left the Chornomorsk port and was headed to Amsterdam, the coordination center said.

Since exports began August 1, 24 vessels have left Ukraine.

Meanwhile, fighting raged on, with Ukrainian officials saying that at least 11 people were killed and 40 wounded in Russian barrage of missile strikes on Ukraine’s Kharkiv region on Wednesday night and Thursday morning. Russia claimed that it struck a base for foreign mercenaries there, killing 90.

Source: Voice Of America