01/17/2008 January 16, 2008 -- /PRNewswire/ -- ALLENTOWN, PA -- Akrion, Inc. ("Akrion"), a supplier of semiconductor surface preparation equipment, announced today that its GAMA system has been qualified for an advanced solar cleaning application.
01/17/2008 Jan. 17, 2008 - A "huge" oversupply of solar panels planned for production in 2008 will sink capacity utilization rates to 0.46 (vs. 1.0 as a balance of capacity/output), and levels won't get much above 0.5 until sometime after 2010, until polysilicon suppliers can realize planned expansion efforts, according to a report from the Information Network.
01/17/2008 January 14, 2008 -- /PRNewswire/ -- LEHIGH VALLEY, PA -- Air Products today announced it has signed an agreement with Signet Solar Inc. to supply turnkey installation of gas delivery systems and services
and related gas needs for a new, thin-film photovoltaic module production facility in Mochau, Germany.
01/17/2008 January 14,2008 -- PRNewswire -- SANTA FE, NM -- SCHOTT AG of Mainz, Germany and Governor Bill Richardson today announced that SCHOTT Solar, Inc. a wholly owned subsidiary of SCHOTT AG, will
construct a new solar energy technology production facility in the Mesa del Sol region of Albuquerque, NM.
01/17/2008 January 15, 2008 -- /DANBURY, CT/ -- ATMI, Inc. today announced it has acquired LevTech, Inc., a market-leading provider of disposable mixing technologies to the biotechnology and pharmaceutical industries, in a $27 million cash transaction.
01/17/2008 January 11, 2008 -- /RACINE, WI/ -- Racine Federated Inc. designed a cleanroom in its manufacturing plant where air quality, temperature and humidity are highly regulated in order to protect sensitive technologies from contaminates.
01/17/2008 The Netherlands-based Xpress Precision Engineering BV has released the Gannen-XM, a tool optimized for true 3D measurements on micro components and MEMS. The tool features low stiffness and replacement costs, and small tips.
01/16/2008 EV Group, a supplier of manufacturing equipment for the advanced packaging/3D interconnect, MEMS, SOI (silicon-on-insulator), nanotechnology, compound semiconductor and silicon-based power devices markets, says it has received a multi-million-Euro order from a leading European plastic electronics manufacturer for the high-volume production of flexible displays.
01/16/2008 nCoat Inc. has established a partnership with North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University in Greensboro, N.C., for characterization and development of nanotechnology based materials and industrial coatings.
01/16/2008 ; Tessera Technologies Inc. has announced that it has licensed its OptiML wafer-level camera (WLC) technology and SHELLCASE wafer-level chip scale packaging (WLCSP) solutions to Nemotek S.A. The combination of these consumer optics technologies enables Nemotek to offer a full range of cost-efficient camera solutions from wafer-level packaging of image sensors and wafer-level lenses to fully-integrated camera modules.
01/16/2008 ; SUSS MicroTec has shipped and successfully installed several microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) production tools at Freescale Semiconductor. The equipment included a new DSM200 Series front-to-back alignment verification system, the latest generation SUSS MA200 compact mask aligner as well as a SUSS ABC200 series wafer bond cluster system for use in MEMS sensor applications.
01/15/2008 Jan. 15, 2008 - Applied Materials says it is reducing its global workforce by about 7% (1000 workers) through a combination of job elimination and attrition, primarily affecting its semiconductor equipment and services/support businesses.
01/15/2008 January 3, 2008 -- /PRNewswire/ -- ROSWELL, GA -- For the second year in a row, a survey of safety professionals has found that noncompliance with personal protective equipment (PPE) protocols continues to be an issue in the workplace.
01/15/2008 January 5, 2008 -- /PRWEB/ -- SALT LAKE CITY,UT -- Idaho Technology, Inc. (ITI), a molecular biology instrumentation and reagents business in Salt Lake City, UT is proud to announce clearance from the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for marketing of two new biothreat detection kits, the JBAIDS Plague and JBAIDS Tularemia Detection Kits.
01/15/2008 January 7, 2008 -- /PRNewswire/ -- WALTHAM, MA -- Inverness Medical Innovations today announced that its previously announced acquisition of Panbio Ltd has been successfully completed.
01/15/2008 January 9, 2008 -- /PRNewswire/ -- TRIANGLE PARK, NC -- Quintiles Transnational Corp. today announced the expansion and consolidation of its Global Central Laboratories and Clinical Development Services (CDS) units in Beijing to accommodate their growing business in China.
01/15/2008 January 10, 2008 -- /Bosch/ GOA, INDIA -- Bosch Packaging Technology, the packaging machinery division of the leading global supplier of technology and services Bosch, inaugurated its new state of the art manufacturing facility in Verna Industrial Estate Goa, India early in December.
01/15/2008 January 1, 2008 -- /PRNewswire/ -- PHILADELPHIA -- PRWT Services, Inc., a minority-owned business enterprise, today announced that it has, through its wholly-owned subsidiary, Cherokee Pharmaceuticals LLC, acquired the Cherokee chemical manufacturing plant in Riverside, PA from Merck & Co., Inc. of Whitehouse Station, NJ.
The Netherlands-based Xpress Precision Engineering BV has released the Gannen-XM, a tool optimized for true 3D measurements on micro components and MEMS. The tool features low stiffness and replacement costs, and small tips.