TAL Dai-ichi Life Australia, a unit directly owned by the Dai-ichi Life Insurance Company, and its subsidiaries, has agreed to purchase 100% ownership of NFS Group (National Financial Solutions and its subsidiaries), for an undisclosed sum. ...
Tags: NFS Group, Life Insurance
AutomationDirect has supported competitive robotics at the local, regional and national levels for many years. This year, in addition to sponsoring the annual Georgia Robotics Invitational Tournament and Showcase (GRITS) competition, ...
France-based biopharmaceutical firms Stallergenes and DBV Technologies have entered into a research and development agreement for the treatment of birch allergy. Stallergenes is specialized in the manufacturing of immunotherapy medicines ...
US-based Health Systems International has completed the acquisition of The Reclaim Group (TRG) effective October 15, 2013. The agreement marks the ninth tuck-in acquisition Health Systems International has completed in a five year period, ...
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Multi-material food packaging manufacturer Linpac Packaging has welcomed the European Food Safety Authority’s (EFSA) decision to give an official positive opinion regarding the super-cleaning process used in its factories in Spain, ...
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GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) and Danish biotechnology firm Genmab have filed a supplemental Biologics License Application (sBLA) to the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for the use of its leukaemia drug Arzerra (ofatumumab) in combination ...
Tags: GlaxoSmithKline, CLL Patients
Brewing giant HEINEKEN is set to roll out its new draught beer lifestyle appliance - THE SUB - in 2014, starting with France and Italy. THE SUB is a draught beer lifestyle appliance, which was created in collaboration with HEINEKEN, ...
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New Zealand-based Lewis Road Creamery has introduced a new line of organic Jersey milks, which is free of palm kernel expeller and permeate. Lewis Road Creamery Organic Jersey Milk is available in four flavors, including Non-Homogenised, ...
Australian flat steel producer BlueScope has announced that it has agreed to acquire from Australia-based Arrium Limited its OneSteel sheet and coil processing and distribution businesses in Sydney, Brisbane, Adelaide and Perth. BlueScope ...
Tags: Onesteel Sheet, Coil, Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy
Surefire Medical, a developer of infusion systems for the interventional radiology and interventional oncology markets, has introduced Surefire Infusion System mT, designed to treat vessels as small as 2–3.5mm in interventional ...
US-based Ekahau announced that Flagler Hospital in St. Augustine, Florida deployed its proximity-based geo-messaging solution (RFID-over-Wi-Fi) to improve coordination of patient care and communications between nurses and physicians in the ...
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China's dominant refiner Sinopec, or China Petroleum & Chemical Corp, expects to spend Yuan 30 billion ($4.9 billion) annually over the next few years to upgrade its refineries to produce cleaner oil products, the company said Thursday. ...
Tags: Fuel, Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy
Foundation Medicine, molecular information company, has announced that results from a 24-month, multi-institution collaboration demonstrating the analytic validation of its cancer genomic profiling assay, FoundationOne, were published in ...
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ARPA-E deputy director Cheryl Martin has announced $27m in funding from the US Department of Energy's (DOE) Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) for 14 projects aimed at developing next-generation power conversion devices that ...
Tags: Electrical, Electronics
c Gonal-f RFF Redi-ject is a disposable pre-filled drug injector pen intended for the subcutaneous injection of a liquid formulation of Gonal-f RFF (revised formulation female). The fertility pen has been redesigned to incorporate the ...
Tags: Fertility Pen, EMD Serono