01/15/2008 January 2, 2008 -- /PRNewswire/ -- LEHIGH VALLEY, PA -- Air Products today said it has completed the previously announced sale of its high purity process chemicals (HPPC) business for approximately $75 million to KMG Chemicals, a producer and distributor of mature specialty chemicals for carefully focused global markets.
01/15/2008 January 2, 2008 -- /PRNewswire/ -- CLEVELAND, OH -- PolyOne Corporation, a leading global provider of specialized polymer materials, services and solutions, announced today it has completed its previously announced acquisition of GLS Corporation, the leading North American provider of specialty thermoplastic elastomer compounds (TPEs) for consumer and medical applications.
01/15/2008 January 3, 2008 -- /PRNewswire/ -- HONG KONG -- China Technology Development Group Corporation, a provider of clean and renewable energy products and solutions focusing on solar energy business in China, today announced that it held a ribbon cutting ceremony to showcase the first SnO2 production line at China Merchants Zhangzhou Development Zone on December 28, 2007.
01/15/2008 December 29, 2007 -- /FDA News/ -- FDA is warning consumers not to eat raw oysters harvested from West Karako Bay, a section of Growing Area 3 in Louisiana.
01/15/2008 January 1, 2008 -- / PRWEB / -- BURNSVILLE, MN -- Gerbig Engineering, a company specializing in the design, build, installation and certification of cleanrooms, is announcing a new feature for its cleanroom construction.
01/15/2008 ; Verigy has announced that Princeton Technology Corp. (PTC), a fabless IC design company in Taiwan's consumer IC market, has selected the Verigy V93000 pin scale test solution as its next-generation SOC testing platform.
01/15/2008 ; Engineers at MIT are developing a tiny sensor that could be used to detect minute quantities of hazardous gases — including toxic industrial chemicals and chemical warfare agents — much more quickly than current devices, says the MIT news office. The researchers have taken the common techniques of gas chromatography and mass spectrometry and shrunk the sensors to fit in a device the size of a computer mouse.
01/15/2008 Freescale's new advanced MEMS 200-mm (8-inch) production line addresses growing demand for sensors in the price-sensitive automotive, industrial, medical and consumer markets.
01/15/2008 KWJ Engineering Inc., a Newark, Calif., manufacturer of MEMS and nanotechnology based gas sensing instruments., has acquired Eco Sensors Inc. of Santa Fe, N.M.
01/15/2008 MEMSIC Inc. has announced that the underwriters of its initial public offering have exercised their overallotment option to purchase an additional 823,000 shares of common stock at the initial public offering price of $10 per share, less underwriting discounts and commissions.
01/15/2008 The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has issued its first reference standards for nanoscale particles targeted for the biomedical research community -- literally "gold standards" for labs studying the biological effects of nanoparticles.
01/14/2008 Jan. 14, 2008 - Freescale Semiconductor has established a new 200mm MEMS line at its Oak Hill fab in Austin, TX, complementing an existing 150mm MEMS line in Japan.
01/14/2008 ; Freescale Semiconductor has established an advanced microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) 200-mm (8-in.) production line to address growing sensors market demand. The newly added line at Freescale's Oak Hill Fab in Austin, TX, complements the company's existing 150-mm (6-in.) MEMS capacity in Sendai, Japan.
01/14/2008 ; SUSS MicroTec Lithography GmbH now holds the globally recognized ISO 9001 certification for having established a high level process- and system-oriented quality management (QM) based on ISO9001 quality standards. SUSS MicroTec Lithography says that it is commited to providing consistent high-quality development, production, and service processes at both German manufacturing sites in Garching and Vaihingen/Enz.
01/13/2008 Engineers at MIT are developing a tiny sensor that could be used to detect minute quantities of hazardous gases, including toxic industrial chemicals and chemical warfare agents, much more quickly than current devices.
01/13/2008 December 19, 2007 -- /PRWEB/ -- PHOENIX, AZ -- Valutek, a leading solutions provider of supplies for cleanrooms and controlled environments, has announced an historic 5-year partnership with SUMCO Phoenix Corp., an international manufacturer of silicon wafers for the global semiconductor industry.
01/13/2008 December 18, 2007 -- ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, IL -- The Institute of Environmental Sciences and Technology (IEST) announces three scholarship offerings for full-time students in the educational programs of science or engineering. The deadline for applications is January 15, 2008.
01/13/2008 December 18, 2007 -- SITTARD/LEIDEN, THE NETHERLANDS -- DSM Biologics, a business unit of DSM Pharmaceutical Products and Dutch biotechnology company Crucell N.V. today announced a PER.C6(R) license agreement with biopharmaceutical company Medarex, Inc.
01/13/2008 December 19, 2007 -- WARRINGTON, PA -- Tiger Optics LLC, a leading manufacturer of laser-based trace gas analyzers, today announced that eight National Laboratories around the world are using the company's continuous-wave cavity ring-down spectroscopy-based gas analyzers for research and as a transfer standard.
01/13/2008 December 20, 2007 -- /PRNewswire/ -- ALLENTOWN, PA -- Akrion, Inc., a supplier of semiconductor surface preparation equipment, recently shipped another Velocity(TM) single-wafer cleaning system to a major IC device manufacturer in Asia.
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has issued its first reference standards for nanoscale particles targeted for the biomedical research community -- literally "gold standards" for labs studying the biological effects of nanoparticles.