Just a month after Dutch electronics giant Philips said it would separate its healthcare and lighting businesses, German industrial conglomerate Siemens has announced a similar strategy. Siemens CEO Joe Kaeser announced Thursday that ...
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Hospira continues to struggle with serious problems related to its GemStar Infusion System and its accessories. The latest bad news came Wednesday, when the FDA designated a recall of the GemStar Power Supply, 3VDC, as Class I. The ...
China will become the world's second-largest medical technology market with a value of $55 billion by 2020, The Boston Consulting Group said in a report released on Wednesday. The medtech market, including instruments and equipment, ...
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GE Lighting is making a play for the smart home market after it hosted a panel discussion on the Internet of Things and launched a quirky television commercial for its new smart lamp in the United States. Contrary to recent rumours that ...
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Nick Holonyak Jr created the first practical, visible spectrum LED Earlier this week, Lighting reported that the 2014 Nobel Prize for Physics had been awarded for the invention of blue LEDs. While the three scientists responsible for the ...
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Alliance Tire Group (ATG) has named James (Jim) Clark president of Alliance Tire Americas Inc. Clark will take the helm at Alliance’s headquarters in Wakefield, Mass., on Oct. 15. "Jim’s combination of management experience ...
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NEW YORK (AP) — General Electric’s net income rose 13 percent in the second quarter on strong performance from its aviation and oil and gas divisions. The company said orders, especially those in developing countries, were ...
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From GE Healthcare carbon dioxide detectors with potentially incorrect values to Medtronic’s recall of a cerebrospinal fluid draining and monitoring device, July saw plenty of news when it came to serious medical device errors. And ...
(New York, N.Y.) The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced today that an additional treatment technology will be added to the existing treatment plant at the Dewey Loeffel Landfill Superfund site in Nassau, Rensselaer County, New ...
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Michelman has appointed Jeff Rodgers the company’s new CFO. Rodgers has assumed responsibility for Michelman’s global financial management. According to Mr. Steve Shifman, President and CEO at Michelman, “Our Company is ...
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Japanese automaker Nissan Motor in collaboration with the Portland General Electric (PGE) will start testing its prototype electric commercial vehicle - the Nissan e-NV200 in Portland. The companies will conduct a six-week trial to ...
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General Electric Co. will pay $7.95 million to settle part of a federal lawsuit filed in 2009 by several Saratoga County municipal agencies that shut down or moved their water supplies when the company began dredging PCBs from the Hudson ...
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Efficient Power Conversion Corp (EPC) of El Segundo, CA, USA, which makes enhancement-mode gallium nitride on silicon (eGaN) power field-effect transistors (FETs) for power management applications, says that Dr John Glaser has joined its ...
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China and the United States signed a package of agreements on energy efficiency projects here on Wednesday, a move expected to deepen energy cooperation between the world's two largest economies. The deals include a program of distributed ...
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LED epitaxial wafer and chip maker Epistar has obtained orders for high-voltage (HV) LED chips from Philips Lumileds Lighting, Osram and General Electric, with shipments to begin in second-quarter 2014, according to the Chinese-language ...
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