11/25/2007 November 14, 2007 -- /PRNewswire/ -- CLEVELAND, OH -- PolyOne Corp. announced today that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire GLS Corp. (GLS), the leading North American provider of specialty thermoplastic elastomer compounds (TPE) for consumer and medical applications.
11/25/2007 November 7, 2007 -- SAN DIEGO, CA -- PURE Bioscience today announced it has received EPA registration of expanded bacterial and viral efficacy claims for its silver dihydrogen citrate (SDC)-based disinfectant (Axen30(TM)).
11/25/2007 November 7, 2007 -- /PRWEB/ -- OSLO, NORWAY -- On October 15th, CAMO hosted the second of a total of seven seminars on spectroscopy and sensory around Europe.
11/25/2007 November 8, 2007 -- /PRWEB/ -- BURNSVILLE, MN -- Gerbig Engineering, a company specializing in the design, build, installation, and certification of cleanrooms, is announcing its recent expansion into another facility.
11/25/2007 November 8, 2007 -- /PRNewswire/ -- WILMINGTON, MA -- MKS Instruments, Inc. announced that it has acquired privately held Yield Dynamics, a provider of yield management technology based in Sunnyvale, CA.
11/25/2007 November 9, 2007 -- LUDWIGSHAFEN, GERMANY -- After a construction period of around 15 months, the Electronic Materials Center Europe at BASF's Ludwigshafen site is now complete.
11/25/2007 November 13, 2007 -- /PRNewswire/ -- MOORESVILLE, NC -- Anpath Group, Inc. reported today that its wholly owned subsidiary, EnviroSystems, Inc. (ESI) announced the selection of its disinfectant EnviroTru(TM) for use by the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (Metro).
11/25/2007 November 14, 2007 -- /PRNewswire/ -- REHOVOT, ISRAEL -- Nova Measuring Instruments Ltd. announced earlier this week the opening of a new development and demonstration center in Taiwan, to serve its customers in Taiwan, Korea, China, and Singapore.
11/25/2007 November 6, 2007 -- /PRNewswire/ -- WEST CHESTER, PA -- VWR International, LLC today announced that it has acquired Omnilabo International B.V., a Netherlands-based laboratory supply distributor.
11/25/2007 November 6, 2007 -- /FDA Digest/ -- BACONTON, GA -- The Hartz Mountain Corp. is voluntarily recalling one specific lot of Hartz Vitamin Care for Cats due to concerns that one or more bottles within the lot may have been potentially contaminated with Salmonella.
11/25/2007 November 7, 2007 -- LOS ANGELES, CA -- At Death Valley for Mission #3 of the Extreme Pipetting Expedition, ARTEL found that pipettes under-deliver by up to 35 percent in dry and hot environments.
11/25/2007 November 6, 2007 -- /PRNewswire/ -- GENEVA, SWITZERLAND -- STMicroelectronics laid the first stone at the site of its future chip packaging and test facility in Longgang, Guangdong Province, China yesterday.
11/23/2007 Philadelphia's Central High became the first high school in the nation to open deep "inner space exploration" to students with the arrival of FEI's new Phenom table top scanning electron microscope. The instrument is designed to change how science is taught and attract students to scientific careers.
11/21/2007 November 21, 2007 - Backend equipment orders are looking flat to down in 4Q07, and frontend equipment bookings are looking more likely to be unstable for the next half-year, according to a recent analyst report.
11/21/2007 November 21, 2007 - Nippon Polypenco Ltd., a subsidiary of Mitsubishi Plastics Inc., is shipping a durable material for retaining rings used in the CMP process of semiconductor manufacturing, notes the Nikkei Business Daily.
11/21/2007 SEMI today reported that worldwide semiconductor manufacturing equipment billings reached $11.13 B in 3Q07. The billings figure is one percent greater than 2Q07 and about one percent greater than the same quarter a year ago.
11/21/2007 ; SUSS MicroTec has received significant multiple orders for its lithography production equipment from the ASE Group, a provider of independent semiconductor manufacturing services in assembly and test.
11/21/2007 Nanophase Technologies, developer of nanomaterials and nanoengineered products, announced a $1.44 million order from one of its significant market partners in the polishing market. The order increases current order rates for the Q4 2007 and provides an annual order for 2008 with quarterly quantities.
11/21/2007 Microfluidics' latest Microfluidizer processor, the M-110EH-30, now incorporates both diamond and ceramic interaction chambers. Designed to produce small batches of nano-suspensions and nano-emulsions, it can generate shear rates that Microfluidics says are orders of magnitude greater than other fluid processing or mixing equipment.
11/20/2007 November 20, 2007 - M+W Zander says it has received an order from Solsonica SpA, a spinoff from backend semiconductor manufacturing services provider EEMS SpA, to partially retrofit an existing semiconductor manufacturing facility into a PV cell manufacturing plant.
Microfluidics' latest Microfluidizer processor, the M-110EH-30, now incorporates both diamond and ceramic interaction chambers. Designed to produce small batches of nano-suspensions and nano-emulsions, it can generate shear rates that Microfluidics says are orders of magnitude greater than other fluid processing or mixing equipment.