Epiwafer foundry and substrate maker IQE plc of Cardiff, Wales, UK says that CEO & president Dr Drew Nelson has joined a high-level industry group to advise the European Commission (EC) on the implementation of key enabling technologies ...
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The deal is part of the Risk Sharing Finance Facility (RSFF) initiative run by the EIB and the European Commission to promote R&D in the European Union. The funds will be available from 2013 to 2014 as loans to finance the R&D in areas like ...
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Xylem Inc. has signed a $158 million (€120 million) financing agreement with the European Investment Bank to fund innovative and aspirational research and development (R&D) projects across Europe. The deal underscores the EIB’s ...
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Railway Gazette The Inter-American Development Bank announced on December 5 that it had approved a USD 200 million loan to fund construction of Quito's first metro line,due to be completed in 2016. The mass transit system is expected to ...
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The Commission should ensure that EU state aid rules take account of steel industry needs, keep an eye on threatened plants and deliver its promised action plan to help the sector as soon as possible, Parliament in a resolution voted on ...
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The steel industry is essential for growth and prosperity in Europe. It is in the interest of the whole European Union and its manufacturing sectors to have a competitive steel industry and to secure supply through domestic production. ...
The EU's long-term lending arm,the European Investment Bank(EIB),has granted€50 million($65 million)to support a new 120 MW hydropower plant and long-distance transmission line in Zambia,with the aim of supplying power to southern ...
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Handsome in South Manchester, UK, has received £250,000 from The North West Fund for Biomedical, managed by SPARK Impact. Handsome will use the capital to complete product development and clinical trial studies as well as achieve ...
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Outotec will invest the funds between 2012 and 2015 in research activities focusing on the development of sustainable technologies that enable Outotec's customers to maximise the recovery of minerals and minimise environmental impacts,while ...
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South African CIGS spin-off PTIP orders €7m of equipment from partner Singulus Singulus Technolgies AG of Kahl am Main, Germany, which makes production equipment for the Optical Disc and Solar sectors, says that Photovoltaic ...
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The financing package of IDE Technologies’ Sorek desalination plant has been shortlisted to receive Global Water Intelligence’s 2011 Water Deal of the Year award. This prize is given annually by the water industry to any ...
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