The scent of diesel, rusting anchors and fish slurry hung in the humid air of the harbor. I was in Puntarenas on the western shore of Costa Rica, waiting to leave on a scuba-diving trip to Cocos Island – often called an "underwater ...
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DBV Technologies, creator of Viaskin, has entered into a collaboration agreement with BioNet-Asia and the University of Geneva (UNIGE) to work on a whooping cough (pertussis) booster vaccine. The clinical proof of concept product ...
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The CEO of Retail Energy Business of GAS NATURAL FENOSA, Daniel López Jordà, and the Vice-President of Governmental and Institutional Relations for SEAT and the Volkswagen Group in Spain, Ramón Paredes, have signed a ...
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Swedish automobile manufacturer Volvo Car Group is set to introduce its new Volvo S60 and V60 Polestar for sale on four continents around the world in 2014. Initially, S60 and V60 Polestar will be introduced in Canada, the Netherlands, ...
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The high-performance Volvo V60 Polestar wagon has been revealed and is confirmed to join its updated S60 Polestar sedan sibling in limited markets from 2014. Volvo says the S60/V60 Polestar duo – based on the recently released 2014 ...
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The OEKO-TEX Secretariat was established 20 years ago in Switzerland and for this reason, this year's meeting of the OEKO-TEX General Managers on November 14th and 15th took place in Lucerne - at the heart of Europe and Switzerland. With ...
Semiconductor laser manufacturer II-VI Laser Enterprise GmbH has shipped from its Zurich, Switzerland headquarters its 200 millionth vertical-cavity surface-emitting laser (VCSEL) since 2008, consolidating its position as the leading volume ...
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Switzerland’s multi-line insurance provider Zurich Insurance Group is set to dispose of its remaining 9.4% stake in New China Life Insurance (NCI) for $943m (£584.7m), to diversify its Asian operations. Zurich plans to ...
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Elevance Renewable Sciences, Inc. recently introduced Renewicals, a breakthrough category of novel products, building blocks and ingredients. Elevance announced the new product category during Ecochem 2013, held Nov. 19-21 in Basel, ...
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The first Rieter Com4 yarn seminar in India was held on September 20, 2013, at the TWIC-IKFA Convention Centre in Tirupur, India. The event took place in parallel with SS Textile Media Pvt. Ltd’s Yarnex and TexIndia 2013 exhibitions ...
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Foster Wheeler AG (NASDAQ:FWLT) today announced that a subsidiary of its Global Engineering and Construction Group has been awarded a contract by Axion Energy Argentina S.A. (“Axion”), a subsidiary of Bridas Corporation, to ...
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The scientist credited with inventing the World Wide Web spoke out Friday against what he called a "growing tide of surveillance and censorship," warning that it is threatening the future of democracy. Tim Berners-Lee, who launched the ...
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EV Group (EVG) of St Florian, Austria, a supplier of wafer bonding and lithography equipment for MEMS (microelectromechanical systems), nanotechnology and semiconductor applications, has introduced the EVG PHABLE exposure system, which is ...
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Dubai Investments (DI), the largest investment company listed on the Dubai Financial Market (DFM), on Monday announced the launch of the first-of-its-kind, coloured solar glass, which is capable of generating energy on its own. The launch ...
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On November 13, India authority announced deciding to continue five-year antidumping (AD) duties on vitamin A palmitates (HS Code 283621) from China and Switzerland, effective on announcement, imposing the antidumping duty rate of USD ...
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