The UK is now reporting the lowest rates of MRSA in its NHS hospitals since 2001. However, despite UK hospitals leading the way in the global fight against Healthcare Associated Infections (HCAI), the costs to the country are still ...
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MAHLE Powertrain is opening a new North American headquarters in Plymouth, Michigan later this year as part of a $16m North American expansion that will create new jobs and accelerate a variety of advanced engine-development programs. ...
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An increase in eastbound long-haul grain and petcoke cargoes from the US Gulf Coast has triggered a rebound in Handysize and Supramax freight rates in this key loading area this week. Also, inquiries in the region remains spearheaded by ...
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Infinera Corp of Sunnyvale, CA, USA, a vertically integrated manufacturer of digital optical transport networking systems incorporating its own indium phosphide-based photonic integrated circuits (PICs), says that its portfolio of dense ...
A group of Texas Tech University researchers led by professors Hongxing Jiang and Jingyu Lin has developed hexagonal boron nitride semiconductor as a possible low-cost alternative to helium gas detectors in neutron detection ('Realization ...
Raytheon Company of Waltham, MA, USA has given the US Army a look into the future of missile defense technology, as the firm provided its comprehensive vision for the next generation of air and missile defense radar. The information was ...
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Anokiwave Inc of San Diego, CA, USA, which provides highly integrated silicon core chips and III-V front-end integrated circuits for millimeter-wave (mmW) markets and active electronically scanned array (AESA)-based terminals, has added to ...
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Advantech Wireless Inc of Montreal, Canada (which manufactures satellite, RF equipment and microwave systems) says that in the last fiscal quarter it has delivered several hundred units of its gallium nitride (GaN)-based solid-state power ...
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For second-quarter 2016, NeoPhotonics Corp of San Jose, CA, USA (a vertically integrated designer and manufacturer of hybrid photonic integrated optoelectronic modules and subsystems for high-speed communications networks) has reported ...
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Atlas Copco’s purchase of Italian manufacturer Varisco has enhanced its position in the pumps business and dewatering applications. We discover what Varisco brings to the group and how the Portable Energy division intends to move ...
For fiscal third-quarter 2016 (to 30 June), Emcore Corp of Alhambra, CA, USA – which provides indium phosphide (InP)-based optical chips, components, subsystems and systems for the broadband and specialty fiber-optics markets – ...
Some of you may be old enough to remember “The Amazing Kreskin”, a frequent guest with Johnny Carson on “The Tonight Show”. I met Kreskin at a trade show, where he attracted a huge, standing room only crowd to his ...
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US based packaging distributor Mac Papers has acquired Higdon Paper & Packaging, further strengthening its business in Alabama and expanding its products line-up. Higdon Paper & Packaging is a paper and print, packaging, facilities ...
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At the 18th International Conference on Crystal Growth and Epitaxy (ICCGE-18) in Nagoya, Japan (7-12 August), analytical and imaging instrument maker Nanophoton Corp of Osaka, Japan has introduced the RAMANdrive wafer analyzer for a wide ...
POET Technologies Inc of San Jose, CA, USA — which has developed the proprietary planar optoelectronic technology (POET) platform for monolithic fabrication of integrated III-V-based electronic and optical devices on a single ...
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