04/07/2005 ELYRIA, Ohio--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 6, 2005--Invacare Corporation announces the signing of an exclusive agreement with Microban International, Ltd., allowing the company to introduce Microban antimicrobial technology into its standard products line, starting with bath safety products.
04/07/2005 (April 7, 2005) Migdal Ha'emek, Israel — Camtek Ltd. expects to report revenues between $8.5 and $9 million for the first quarter of 2005, anticipating stronger performance for the rest of the year. The second quarter is already expected to show a recovery with revenues between $16 and $18 million, according to the company, who will report first-quarter results in May.
04/07/2005 HADERA, Israel, April 6, 2005 (PRIMEZONE) -- Malers Automation and Control Ltd. ("Malers") announced that the Company, through new partnerships in Eastern Europe, will generate sales in excess of $2 million dollars.
04/07/2005 SAN DIEGO, April 6, 2005 (PRIMEZONE) -- BioMed Realty Trust, Inc. announced it has acquired two properties in the Boston area, and a third in Pennsylvania for a combined value of approximately $44.5 million, representing the company's initial entry into the Massachusetts life science market and an expansion in Pennsylvania.
04/07/2005 Market analysts sometimes get a bad rap – for being overly optimistic, overemphasizing a trend or being just plain wrong. But when the data gathering's done and the modeling completed, it's still as much an art as a science. Small Times' David Forman turned the tables on four analysts, putting them in the position of answering rather than asking the questions.
04/06/2005 Georgy K. Vinogradov, Masaharu Takeda, FOI Corp., Kanagawa, Japan
Highly selective SiO2 etching plasma processes increasingly are required in manufacturing of ultralarge scale integrated circuits, where deep etching of silicon oxide (oxide) layers involves fluorocarbon deposition. Such processes....MORE
04/06/2005 CHELMSFORD, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 5, 2005--ESA Biosciences, Inc., a subsidiary of Magellan Biosciences, Inc., announces its acquisition of Richard Scientific, a national distributor of specialty liquid chromatography products for analytical, micro-analytical, LC/MS and preparative applications.
04/06/2005 FLANDERS, NJ -- (MARKET WIRE) -- 04/05/2005 -- Rudolph Technologies, Inc., a leading provider of process control equipment for thin film measurement and macrodefect inspection during integrated circuit (IC) manufacturing, introduces the latest version of YieldView -- the yield management component of its WaferView Team for macrodefect inspection.
04/06/2005 (April 6, 2005) Chandler, Ariz. and Hong Kong — Amkor Technology and ASAT Holdings Limited have entered into a cross-licensing agreement, under which ASAT will provide Amkor with a license for its thin array plastic package (TAPP) semiconductor package technology, and Amkor will provide ASAT with a license for its flip chip semiconductor package technology. The multi-year agreement also covers licenses for intellectual property rights and the transfer of associated packaging technologies.
04/06/2005 April 6, 2005 - Japan's Elpida Memory Inc. plans to move the assembly and testing stages of memory chip production to two firms in Taiwan as early as fiscal 2007 in an effort to cut costs, the Nihon Keizai Shimbun reported.
04/05/2005 PALM SPRINGS, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 4, 2005--Knock-Out Technologies, Ltd.'s Big Six Germicidal Plus product has passed a Virucidal Efficacy Test conducted by Microbiotest, Inc., a leading independent laboratory based in Sterling, Virginia., demonstrating conclusive results in completely eradicating the Avian Influenza (Bird Flu) virus with 100 percent efficacy.
04/05/2005 FOSTER CITY, Calif. & CHICAGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 5, 2005--Applied Biosystems, an Applera Corporation business, today announced that its MicroSeq Microbial Identification System supports customers in meeting U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) requirements for aseptic processing for the manufacture of sterile drug and biological products under current Good Manufacturing Practice (cGMP) regulations (21 CFR parts 210 and 211).
04/05/2005 (April 5, 2005) Nashua, N.H. — Advanced Packaging Magazine, along with sister publications Connector Specifier and SMT Magazines, announce the appointment of Jay Regan to group publisher.
04/05/2005 (April 5, 2005) Palo Alto, Calif. — Innovation's slow rate in the recovering telecom market is holding back the rapid expansion of the micro-electromechanical systems (MEMS)-based components market. Although MEMS technology is important, time-based value engineering in a potentially high-demand industry compels vendors to adopt different strategies to stay active in a price-sensitive market.
04/05/2005 PALO ALTO, CA -- (MARKET WIRE) -- 04/05/2005 -- Nanosys announced today that it was issued U.S. Patent No. 6,872,645 (the '645 patent) by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.
04/05/2005 WASHINGTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 5, 2005--HP today announced that the U.S. Department of Energy's new state-of-the art research supercomputer has completed a two-year acceptance process by the agency's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL).
04/05/2005 April 5, 2005 - Worldwide microchip sales of $18.1 billion in February were 2% below the revised January sales of $18.4 billion but 15.8% higher than February 2004 sales of $15.6 billion, the Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA) reported today. SIA noted that February is normally one of the weaker months for microchip sales.
