01/13/2008 December 20, 2007 -- /PRWEB/ -- COLUMBUS, OH -- METTLER TOLEDO is pleased to announce the addition of in-house weight calibration to its current product and service offering.
01/13/2008 December 21, 2007 -- ANGIER, NC -- AM2 PAT, Inc., Angier, NC, is initiating a nationwide recall of one lot of Pre-Filled Heparin Lock Flush Solution USP (5 mL in 12 mL Syringes), Lot #070926H.
01/13/2008 December 12, 2007 -- /PRWEB/ -- GARDNER, MA -- New England Peptide, LLC (NEP), has opened a new production instrumentation laboratory at its Massachusetts facility.
01/13/2008 December 14, 2007 -- /PRNewswire/ -- MONTREAL, QUEBEC, CANADA -- Haemacure Corp., a Montreal-based specialty bio-therapeutics company, announces the start of construction of its manufacturing facility, the production of laboratory samples of fibrin sealant, the hiring of two senior scientists, and shares purchases by insiders.
01/11/2008 Jan. 11, 2008 - IBM and Central Glass have agreed to jointly explore use of fluoromaterials (materials that contain fluorine atoms) in developing photoresist materials for future semiconductors.
01/11/2008 Thermal absorption and transfer coatings used in solar energy production is a new market segment for nCoat. The company is supplying its nanotechnology coatings for use in a concentrated solar thermal power system.
01/11/2008 Technitrol Inc. has agreed to acquire the capital stock of Sonion A/S, a producer of microacoustic transducers and micromechanical components for manufacturers of hearing instruments, advanced acoustic devices, medical devices and mobile communication devices in addition to MEMS microphone technology.
01/11/2008 ; Renesas Technology Corp. has announced plans to expand its back-end process plant in Malaysia to further strengthen the company's analog and discrete semiconductor business. In addition, Renesas has established a new analog and discrete semiconductor design company in Malaysia to increase its design resources.
01/11/2008 ; Electro Scientific Industries Inc. has announced that Winbond Electronics Corp. has adopted ultraviolet (UV) laser link processing to enable its move to 70 nm advanced DRAM production. In addition to purchasing a Model 9850UV dual beam semiconductor link-processing system, Winbond is planning to upgrade several of its existing ESI Model 9830 infrared (IR) laser memory repair tools to UV Model 9835HDE laser systems.
01/11/2008 ; ZESTRON America has announced the addition of Cesar Gazcon as Mexico sales manager. In his role, Gazcon will be responsible for growing ZESTRON's product and service business while expanding the current customer base in Mexico.
01/11/2008 ; With the increasing popularity of DVB (digital video broadcasting) triggering huge demand for chips, Sigma Designs, the US-based, large-sized supplier of IC (integrated circuit) design, has already placed a sizable order for FC-CSP (flip-chip chip-scale-package) substrates with Taiwan`s Kinsus Interconnect Technology Corp in 2008, according to industry sources, said Taiwan Economic News.
01/11/2008 Three-axis acceleration sensors made by MEMS device manufacturer STMicroelectronics are enabling motion control in the new Air Mouse and Music Remote from Gyration.
01/10/2008 Nanophase Technologies' new patent for a novel surface treatment promises to overcome problems with the use of nanoparticles in product formulations.
01/10/2008 Jan. 10, 2008 - Coming off a year in which it significantly changed its focus and carved out multiple businesses, Nanometrics is starting the new year where it left off.
01/10/2008 ; Camtek Ltd. has announced that it has sold two Falcon wafer inspection systems to Samsung Electronics Co. The two systems were installed at Samsung's test facility in Korea during the fourth quarter of 2007, following a competitive evaluation.
01/10/2008 ; STATS ChipPAC Ltd. has announced it has achieved a milestone of over 25 million units manufactured for its package-in-package (PiP) solutions. PiP is a three dimensional (3D) package technology in which separately assembled and tested packages and bare chips are stacked together in a single chip scale package for exceptional integration flexibility and functional density in a smaller form factor.
01/10/2008 Altair Nanotechnologies Inc. has completed the manufacture of battery packs to be used in a 2-megawatt energy storage system purchased by AES Corp.
01/10/2008 Carbon Nanoprobes Inc., a company specializing in devices that serve the nanotechnology and biotechnology industries, has closed an A-round of investment capital and has hired more managers.
01/09/2008 Jan. 9, 2008 - Matsushita Electric Industrial (aka Panasonic) says it will invest about ¥95B (US ~$869M) to boost capacity for chips used in digital home electronics with a new plant in the central Japanese city of Tonami, Toyama Prefecture, according to local reports.
01/09/2008 Jan. 9, 2008 - Chartered Semiconductor may be poised to take away business with Japanese foundry customers from top Taiwan foundries TSMC and UMC, thanks to its ties to the IBM Common Platform alliance and Toshiba, a key partner in the group's next-gen chip development, speculates a report by the Taiwan Economic News.
