05/01/2005 KIRKINTILLOCH, Scotland-A new water filtration technology developed by start-up Filter Clear, based on a two-decades-old invention, promises to help the food and beverage industry naturally filter out parasites from water-based products.
05/01/2005 FOSTER CITY, CA-An established DNA sequence-based technology developed by Applied Biosystems Corp. (www.appliedbiosystems.com) is now being touted for helping pharmaceutical makers meet recent FDA aseptic processing requirements for the manufacture of sterile drug and biological products.
05/01/2005 ANN ARBOR, MI-Robotics use in manufacturing is on the rise in international industry as a whole, and specifically in most contamination-control environments except semiconductor, with a trend toward multiple-control robotics invading the cleanroom of the future.
05/01/2005 BILLERICA, MA-Slow growth in the semiconductor industry, combined with rising research and development costs, may make the recent Mykrolis Crop./Entegris Inc./ Extraction Systems merger more the norm than the exception for contamination-contro9l companies.
05/01/2005 MURRAY HILL, N.J.-An ultraviolet-based technology developed by Intervent-a food safety business of BOC Group (www.boc.com)-has been approved by the U.S. Department of Agriculture's (www.usda.gov) Food Safety Inspection Service (FSIS) as a solution for inactivating listeria organisms found in food processing steps.
05/01/2005 CARLSBAD, Calif.-In a move to meet a growing need for upgraded lab facilities for its advanced R&D development, Palomar Technologies www.palomartechnologies.com) has moved to a 39,000-square-foot facility here that will serve as its international headquarters.
05/01/2005 Microelectronics manufacturers have become much more sophisticated in their knowledge and understanding of airborne molecular contamination (AMC) and its effects in the cleanroom.
05/01/2005 Recent scientific breakthroughs in nanotechnology are anticipated to provide the most significant disruptive technologies since the Internet.
04/29/2005 (April 29, 2005) Aurora, Ill. — The U.S. Navy's Calibration department, Naval Sea Systems Command (NAVSEA), had to replace an old CMM machine to advance their Metrology R&D department due to the rapid advancement of weapon technology. With this recent advancement, its needed measurement technology must also advance to enable correct determination of new system effectiveness.
04/29/2005 (April 29, 2005) Jersey City, N.J. — Cookson Electronics Assembly Materials Group and Speedline Technologies are collaborating on the development of a comprehensive "Lead-free Implementation Checklist" to assist electronic assemblers in gearing up for the lead-free transition. The list provides important details that should be confirmed for assembly equipment, materials, shop-floor segregation, training of personnel, process validation, process refinement, and yield enhancement.
