Taiwanese LED manufacturer Laster Tech has set its sights on the automotive lighting market as LED technology matures in this particular field. The company has settled most production order for 2014 and have recently announced the increase ...
The Austrian steelmaker voestalpine Group said yesterday, October 28, that it is opening a new cold rolling plant for the production of high quality strip steel in Kematen an der Ybbs in Lower Austria. With an investment of €113 ...
Tags: Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy, Cold Strip Plant
Hubei Province-based Chinese steelmaker Wuhan Iron and Steel (Group) Corp. (WISCO) has announced the financial results for the first three quarters of the current year of its listed subsidiary Wuhan Iron and Steel Co. Ltd. Accordingly, in ...
Tags: Iron, Steel, Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy
Russian MMK Group announced that its crude steel production totaled 2.874 million tons in the third quarter of this year, decreasing by 7% from a quarter ago. Meanwhile, the company's finished steel output in the third quarter totaled 2.64 ...
Tags: steel, Construction, Crude Steel
Volvo has introduced an Optimized Series of regional haul tractors, which the company says offer improved fuel efficiency and payload. The series includes eight models intended for regional tanker, bulk haul, refrigerated, dry van or ...
Tags: Transportation, Auto Parts
US-based Loxo Oncology has announced that its lead clinical program is a potent and selective inhibitor of the Trk family of receptor tyrosine kinases. Loxo Oncology acquired rights to this program from Array Biopharma, which had pursued ...
Tags: Loxo Oncology, Medicine
Anti-tobacco campaigners in India have started persuading the government to make it mandatory for using plain packaging for cigarettes, similar to that of Australia. The move is expected to reduce the number of smokers in the country and ...
Tags: Anti-Tobacco, Cigarettes
British drug maker GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) has received positive opinion from the European Medicines Agency (EMA's) Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use (CHMP) for additional indication for Synflorix, a pediatric pneumococcal ...
Tags: drug, Pneumonia Indication
EndoChoice, a US-based medical device company, has obtained 510(k) approval from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for its Fuse gastroscope, which has two cameras and has a 245 degrees field of view. The new gastroscope joins the ...
Tags: Endochoice, Fuse Gastroscope
Ortho Kinematics, a healthcare diagnostic company, has announced the launch of an online portal that provides spine surgeons with a simple way to access the company’s flagship diagnostic product, the VMA (Vertebral Motion Analysis). ...
Tags: Ortho Kinematics, Web Portal
VIDA Diagnostics, a provider of quantitative imaging and informatics services, has announced the release of Apollo 2.0 at the 2013 American College of Chest Physicians Conference. The software advance signifies the next generation product ...
Tags: VIDA Diagnostics, Chest Physicians
US-based Boston Scientific has obtained CE Mark approval for its Lotus valve system, a transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) device designed to treat patients with severe aortic stenosis who are at high risk with surgical valve ...
Tags: Lotus Valve System, Health, Medicine
The Netherlands-based Royal Philips and medical device company Infraredx have announced a non-exclusive resale agreement for Infraredx's TVC imaging system. Under the terms of the agreement, Philips will sell Infraredx's TVC imaging ...
The Yukon, one of Canada's northern territories, hopes Chinese investors will invest in its rich but underdeveloped mining sector, a local official said. Murray Arsenault, the Yukon Territory's deputy economic development minister, told ...
Tags: Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy, zinc, copper, silver, tungsten, molybdenum
Ethicon Endo-Surgery, a subsidiary of Johnson & Johnson, has obtained 510(k) approval from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for the HARMONIC ACE+ 7 Shears with Advanced Hemostasis (HARMONIC ACE +7). HARMONIC ACE+ 7 is an ...