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09/21/2007  Newport Corporation has named Robert J. Phillippy, to succeed Robert G. Deuster as CEO, following the announcement of Deuster's retirement, effective October 5, 2007. Currently Newport's president and chief operating officer, Phillippy will also serve on the company's Board of Directors. Kenneth F. Potashner, member of the Board since 1998, has been appointed non-executive chairman of the Board.

09/21/2007  Results of a multi-hospital study, presented at the 47th Annual Interscience Conference on Antimicrobial Agents & Chemotherapy (September 17 – 20, 2007), demonstrated that a nanotechnology-based medical device is responsible for reducing surgical site infection rates by more than 50% and for significantly shortening hospital stays when compared with traditional narcotic pain care.

09/21/2007  Test Advantage announced it has been ranked at 3110 on the Inc. 5,000 list of the fastest-growing private companies in the country. An extension of Inc. magazine's annual Inc. 500 list, the Inc. 5,000, catches businesses that are too big to grow at the pace required to make the Inc. 500, as well as a host of smaller firms.

09/21/2007  September 21, 2007 - Taiwan-based packaging houses are ramping up orders for wire bonders to meet demand from networking, consumer, and PC segments, according to a Digitimes report citing "industry and company sources."

09/21/2007  September 21, 2007 - Electroglas Inc. has agreed to have Flextronics International Inc. manufacture its full line of probers at a site in Malu, China, in an effort to reduce cost and lead-times for global customers.

09/21/2007  ChipSensors Ltd. has unveiled a chip whose surface can sense parameters such as temperature, humidity, certain gases, and pathogens. The fabless startup, which is working on commercialization, says its technology overcomes traditional obstacles in sensor manufacturing.

09/21/2007  CVD Equipment Corp., designer and manufacturer of standard and custom equipment used in the development, design, and manufacture of advanced electronic components, nanomaterials, and coatings, has priced its previously announced public offering of 1,200,000 shares of common stock at $4.75 per share. The shares are expected to be delivered on September 25, 2007.

09/21/2007  September 21, 2007 - FormFactor Inc. says it is expanding its wafer probe card manufacturing operations in Singapore, with a new 300,000 sq. ft facility in the city-state's eastern Tampines district.

09/21/2007  September 21, 2007 - Takumi Technology Corp. and Singapore foundry Chartered Semiconductor Manufacturing Ltd. are working to validate Takumi's DFM optimization software for Chartered's implementation of the 65nm process developed by the Common Platform Alliance (IBM, Chartered, Samsung, et al).

09/21/2007  Carl Zeiss MicroImaging's new PALM MicroBeam IV is designed to cleanly extract even the smallest biomaterials from heterogeneous masses. Its Laser Microdissection and Pressure Catapulting (LMPC) process facilitates manipulation of even living cells.

09/20/2007  September 17, 2007 -- BILLERICA, MA -- Millipore Corporation today unveiled its new brand initiative and visual identity. Millipore also announced a $500,000 research gift made through the Millipore Foundation to the Harvard Stem Cell Institute (HSCI).

09/20/2007  September 20, 2007 - After sliding to an eight-month low in July, semiconductor equipment orders slid even further in August to their lowest levels in a year and a half, and the B:B demand indicator is even more sluggish, according to data from SEMI.

09/20/2007  NanoLogix Inc., a nano-biotechnology company, says it has achieved a historical event with the first onsite generation of electricity using hydrogen gas produced from its bioreactor prototype facility at Welch Foods Inc. The demo used a 5.5 kW generator converted to run on hydrogen. NanoLogix says the generator ran flawlessly on hydrogen gas produced by its hydrogen bioreactor system and powered multiple strings of 100- watt light bulbs.

09/20/2007  September 17, 2007 -- LEHIGH VALLEY, PA -- Effective October 1, Air Products will increase the price of certain high-purity process chemicals in North America.

09/20/2007  September 17, 2007 -- /FDA News/ -- B. Braun Medical Inc., Bethlehem, PA, announced on July 30, 2007 a voluntary nationwide recall of Normal Saline Flush syringes with lot numbers ending in "SFR" due to an increase in customer complaints for particulate matter in the saline.

09/20/2007  September 17, 2007 -- SAN DIEGO, CA -- PURE Bioscience today announced it has developed a new antimicrobial product based on its patented silver dihydrogen citrate (SDC) molecule that provides the first 24-hour residual protection against norovirus.

09/20/2007  September 20, 2007 - Toshiba Corp. is selling its initial headquarters in Tokyo's Ginza district for 161 billion yen (US ~$1.4 billion), in order to support its investment in new chip business with Sony, according to Japanese media reports.

09/20/2007  Oxford Instruments and NIL Technology have collaborated to develop etch processes for nanoimprint lithography (NIL), a high-throughput method for fabricating structures as small as 10 nm.

09/20/2007  September 20, 2007 - Israeli foundry Tower Semiconductor says it has signed a "multimillion-dollar/month" deal with an unidentified first-tier US IDM to manufacture devices using 0.13-micron processes in the foundry's Fab 2 200mm facility, which it is currently upgrading.

09/20/2007  CoorsTek, Inc., a global technical ceramics manufacturer, received the Colorado Top Company Award for excellence in financial performance, manufacturing, and community involvement. Presented in a ceremony at the 20th Annual Top Company competition, the award was received by John K. Coors, president, CEO, and Chairman of CoorsTek, Inc.