The US Food and Drug Administration(FDA)is set to initiate a five-year project to create a public database of the gene sequences of 100,000 bacteria,as a part of its effort to rapidly identify the source of contamination and bring foodborne ...
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ULIS to triple IR sensor capacity 11 Jul 2012 Investment of €20 million and move to 200mm wafers as the firm marks its tenth anniversary. ULIS 200mm CMOS wafer ULIS,the France-based manufacturer of uncooled infrared sensors for ...
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Amalfi ships 100 millionth CMOS power amplifier;opens Asia office in Shanghai Amalfi Semiconductor of Los Gatos,CA,USA,a fabless semiconductor firm specializing in highly integrated CMOS silicon RF and mixed-signal integrated ...
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XsunX Inc of Aliso Viejo,CA,USA,which is developing hybrid copper indium gallium(di)selenide thin-film(CIGS)photovoltaic(TFPV)cell technologies and'CIGSolar'manufacturing processes,is expanding its technology development and marketing ...
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The Hershey Company,a Pennsylvania-based manufacturer of chocolate and sugar confectionery products,is planning to set up a new facility in Asia and focus on its five core brands-Hershey's,Reese's,Hershey's Kisses,Jolly Rancher and Ice ...
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Carr's Flour Mills plans to invest £17m to build a wheat mill in Kirkcaldy,Scotland,as a part of its plan to strengthen its flour business. The mill will be located near the company's old flour mill in Kirkcaldy.According to Carr's ...
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For its fiscal fourth-quarter 2012(to end-April),fiber-optic communications component and subsystem maker Finisar Corp of Sunnyvale,CA,USA has reported revenue of$239.9m,up 1.3%on$236.9m a year ago but down 1.3%on$243m last quarter. ...
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Plastic components manufacturer Top Plastics Poland has announced plans to move production from its plant in Bielsko-Bia? A to a larger facility in Tychy, both in Poland. The new factory will have a total space of some 2, 800m2, and it was ...
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ClydeUnion Pumps has relocated its Canadian operations to a new facility in Burlington, Ontario, almost doubling its manufacturing footprint. The 70 000 sq ft ClydeUnion Pumps facility will produce single and multi-stage centrifugal pumps ...
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Deposition equipment maker Aixtron SE of Herzogenrath,Germany says that in fourth-quarter 2011 it received an order for an AIX 2600G3 IC MOCVD reactor in 12x4"-wafer configuration from existing customer Jenoptik Diode Lab GmbH,which ...
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11 May 2012 Edwards opens'Center for Excellence'in Hillsboro for customer service&training Vacuum and exhaust-abatement equipment maker Edwards Ltd of Crawley,UK has opened a new'Center for Excellence'vacuum and abatement support facility ...
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GE Aviation(an operating unit of GE)has expanded its location in Pompano Beach,FL,USA,which was established in 1965 and whose 40 staff design and manufacture special application electronic power subsystems for military and ...
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GE is supplying zero liquid discharge (ZLD) wastewater recycling technology for the POSCO Cold Rolling Mill Steel Plant in Maharashtra, India. This will be the world’s first steel mill to use ZLD and electrodialysis reversal (EDR) for ...
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4SIGHT Supply Chain Group, a leading supply chain engineering, consulting, and software/technology implementation firm, announced that it has successfully implemented a series of distribution operations improvement and engineering services ...
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Ingram Micro reported an operating loss for its Australian division of around $10 million in the first quarter, although the result was an improvement on the previous year. In releasing its first quarter sales results, Ingram Micro said ...
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