The Engineer
July 2004 Online
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Pulling out of Britain
30 Jul 2004
American Electric Power today pulled out of the UK with the sale of two coal-fired power plants and related commodities contracts to Scottish and Southern Energy for $456 million.
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Monitoring machinery forces
30 Jul 2004
The Force/Torque Division of PCB Piezotronics has released a dynamic strain sensor that measures dynamic and quasi-static stress on stationary and moving machinery.
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Meeting nitrogen needs
30 Jul 2004
BOC has received a contract to build an on-site generator to meet steel manufacturer TAGAL's increased demand for nitrogen at its $180 million steel manufacturing facility in China.
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Green light for BioFoam
30 Jul 2004
CryoLife, a US human tissue processing and bio-surgical device company, is set to receive funding to develop BioFoam, a protein hydrogel adhesive that can treat gunshot and mortar wounds.
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Nanotechnology uncertainty
29 Jul 2004
Nanotechnology offers many potential benefits, but its development must be guided by appropriate safety assessments and regulation to minimise any possible risks to people and the environment, according to a new report.
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Relay race
29 Jul 2004
Omron and Bitron Industrie of Italy are to create an automotive relay joint venture. The outfit, called Omron Bitron Automotive Components, will be located in Alatri, Italy and start operations in October this year.
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Alternative to wirewound resistors
29 Jul 2004
Vishay has released a new series of thin film precision single in-line resistors with resistance tolerance down to +/-0.01% over a range of 50 kilohms to 10 megohms.
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Tackling methane emissions
29 Jul 2004
The UK today joined the Methane to Markets Partnership, a US-led alliance that seeks to cut global methane gas emissions.
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Pace of manufacturing recovery eases
29 Jul 2004
The CBI's Quarterly Industrial Trends survey has found that manufacturing recovery has slowed with growth in orders almost halting and output growth slipping back.
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Matrics bought for $230 million
29 Jul 2004
Symbol Technologies, a wireless information services company, has reached an agreement to acquire Matrics, a designer and manufacturer of EPC-compliant RFID systems, for $230 million.
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Closing the loop
29 Jul 2004
Engineers have developed a new data-driven, closed-loop control technology that could significantly improve the manufacture of printed circuit boards.
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$30.8 million for pulsed power
29 Jul 2004
Curtiss-Wright Corporation has been awarded $30.8 million for the design, development, build and test of a compact pulsed power supply in support of the US Army's Electromagnetic Gun program.
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Great and small
28 Jul 2004
When Henry Ford drove his car out of his coal shed in 1896, no one-could have imagined the impact that the horseless carriage would make on the world so many years later.
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Code green
28 Jul 2004
John Prescott, Deputy Prime Minister, said yesterday that a new drive to cut greenhouse gas emissions would be at the heart of an industry Code for Sustainable Buildings.
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Changing lanes
28 Jul 2004
Infrared cameras that automatically count people in cars could soon be a feature on the UK's motorways, making it easier to enforce priority lanes for car sharing.
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Bombardier awarded $320 million rapid transit contract
28 Jul 2004
Bombardier Transportation has been awarded $320 million for its part in the construction and operation of a fully automated 18.5 kilometre rapid transit system in Yong-In, South Korea.
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Software checker finds bugs
22 Jul 2004
NASA scientists are developing a software 'checker program' to find 'bugs' in spacecraft computer code more quickly and accurately to improve space mission safety.
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Can you trust electronic documents?
23 Jul 2004
A new ISO technical report on electronic storage has a huge potential for use in situations where the trustworthiness of electronic information may need to be demonstrated.
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Go green or stop altogether
23 Jul 2004
Around 2500 UK workers making non-recyclable parts for the car industry face unemployment if the SMEs for which they work do not clean up their act to comply with new environmental laws.
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Lighting up time
25 Jul 2004
A research team at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute has created a new type of reflector that has dramatically improved the luminance of LEDs (light-emitting diodes).
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Fig rolls sold
26 Jul 2004
Groupe Danone is to sell its Jacob's Bakery biscuit business in the United Kingdom and its Irish Biscuits outfit in Ireland to United Biscuits.
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Pigments get dispersed
26 Jul 2004
Johnson Matthey is to sell its Pigments & Dispersions business for £27.0 million in cash to a subsidiary of Rockwood Specialties Group, a specialty chemicals and advanced materials company. Pigments & Dispersions is part of Johnson Matthey's Colours & Coatings Division. It manufactures and sells specialist inorganic pigments to the surface coatings and plastics industries, and has factories in Kidsgrove in Stoke-on-Trent, in Sudbury in Suffolk and in Melbourne, Australia.
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Electronics you can wear
27 Jul 2004
German clothing manufacturer Rosner has co-developed a jacket with Infineon Technologies that features built-in functions for Bluetooth mobile telephony and an MP3 player.
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Accelerating drug discovery
27 Jul 2004
A newly developed 'nanocalorimeter' will enable researchers to measure the level and nature of chemical activity of pharmaceutical prototypes with unparalleled accuracy and speed.
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Ireland lags behind
27 Jul 2004
An independent report commissioned by the Irish Higher Education Authority has found that Ireland is still lagging behind other European countries in terms of research.
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Siemens awarded Saudi power contracts
20 Jul 2004
Siemens has received orders worth approximately 120 million Euros to build a gas turbine power plant in Riyadh and supply three gas turbines to existing power plants in Bisha and Asir.
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Flexibility and convenience
20 Jul 2004
Parvus Corporation has unveiled the PC104+DEV, an open-frame development platform designed to simplify software and hardware development of embedded computer systems.
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ACC helps beat the jam
20 Jul 2004
Traffic backups could be avoided if just 20% of cars were equipped with adaptive cruise control according to new research from the US.
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Spanish simplify software searching
20 Jul 2004
Finding open source software on the Internet can often seem like searching for a needle in a haystack. But with the development of a new search engine called AMOS, finding code has just become easier.
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Commercial aviation set for $5.4 trillion expansion
20 Jul 2004
Boeing announced today at the Farnborough Airshow that it anticipates a $5.4 trillion market for new commercial airplanes and aviation services during the next 20 years.
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Airbus gets billions of orders
20 Jul 2004
Etihad Airways has placed an order worth over $7 billion for 24 Airbus passenger aircraft while Turkish Airlines is to purchase of 36 Airbus single aisle and wide body aircraft in a deal that could be worth in excess of $3 billion.
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CAN do
20 Jul 2004
National Instruments has recently expanded its Controller Area Network (CAN) product line with two new boards.
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Cobham subsidiary awarded $100 million
20 Jul 2004
Flight Refuelling, part of the UK's Cobham Aerospace, has been awarded $100 million by the US Special Operations Command to supply Hercules MC-130H Aerial Refuelling Systems.
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Ultraviolet detection
20 Jul 2004
By depositing thin films of silicon nanoparticles on silicon substrates, researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign have fabricated a photodetector sensitive to ultraviolet light. Such silicon-based ultraviolet sensors could prove very handy in military, security and commercial applications.
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PCB contamination
21 Jul 2004
Researchers at Harvard School of Public Health in the US have identified caulking and sealing materials as an unrecognised and possibly widespread source of PCB contamination.
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UWB wireless technology lifts the barrier
21 Jul 2004
Cambridge Consultants has demonstrated a wireless tagging technology based on 'ultra-wide band' communications that has the potential to give commuters an invisible license to travel.
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$400 million for Trent 500
21 Jul 2004
Rolls-Royce has won an order worth $400 million to supply Trent 500 engines to eight Airbus A340-500 and -600 aircraft on order from Abu Dhabi's Etihad Airways.
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Working down the mine
21 Jul 2004
Fluor Corporation has been awarded a contract worth more than $700 million to provide engineering services on a project to process marginal ore at the world's largest operating copper mine in northern Chile.
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Battery power
21 Jul 2004
US-based Electro Energy has won a $731,000 contract from the US Department of Energy to develop and evaluate a Ni-MH battery for utility applications.
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Natural gas
21 Jul 2004
Canadian oil and gas giant EnCana Corporation is to sell conventional natural gas assets producing approximately 7,250 barrels of oil equivalent per day to a Calgary-based oil and gas producer for approximately $219 million.
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RFID to tag waste
21 Jul 2004
Japanese waste management company Kureha Environmental Engineering is to begin tests to examine the effectiveness of using RFID tags to track medical waste materials as they are moved for disposal.
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Negative refraction goes acoustic
21 Jul 2004
Two separate groups, one in China and the other in Canada have reached the same conclusion - that it is possible to observe negative refraction with sound waves.
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New device streamlines infant exam
21 Jul 2004
US researchers have pioneered a magnetic-resonance compatible incubator that will allow radiologists to safely and efficiently obtain quality diagnostic images of sick infants.
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Clearing up cellphone conversations
22 Jul 2004
Background noise that interferes with cellphone conversations could be a thing of the past thanks to a dual microphone system developed at the University of Toronto.
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Microsoft and Apple get sued
22 Jul 2004
BTG and Teleshuttle are taking Microsoft and Apple to court for infringing a patent that describes how web-enabled software can be remotely updated.
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Taking the tram
22 Jul 2004
Montpellier's transport authority, TAM, has chosen Alstom to supply it with 24 Citadis trams worth 58 million Euros.
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Money for power
22 Jul 2004
ABB has won contracts worth a total of $181 million to upgrade Algeria's power grid and to construct a compressor station along the Yamal-Europe natural gas pipeline.
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Paper board and tube probe
6 Jul 2004
The European Commission has started a detailed investigation into the planned joint venture between US packaging company Sonoco Products and Finnish fibre-based materials firm Ahlstrom.
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Ferromagnetic detection
6 Jul 2004
QinetiQ scientists have developed a new ferromagnetic detection system that will protect MRI suites and provide a new level of safety for patients, medical staff and equipment.
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Probing for improved images
6 Jul 2004
Researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison have developed a technology that can increase the chance for an accurate clinical diagnosis of breast cancer.
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Fishkiller fined
6 Jul 2004
Water utilities company Thames Water Utilities was fined £50,000 on July 2 for polluting a five-mile stretch of the River Thame killing an estimated 15,000 fish.
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Toyota and Shell launch green initiative
6 Jul 2004
Toyota and Shell Gas & Power today launched a trial of Shell Gas to Liquids (GTL) Fuel in a fleet of Toyota Avensis cars equipped with D-CAT emission reduction technology.
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Slippery software
7 Jul 2004
Customers will not tolerate a product with poor quality, regardless of the definition of quality. Or will they? Dave Wilson reports.
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Fingerprint matching
7 Jul 2004
Computerised systems that automatically match fingerprints have become so sophisticated that the best of them are accurate more than 99% of the time, according to a new US study.
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European carriers place $1.2 billion 7E7 order
7 Jul 2004
Boeing today confirmed announcements that Italy's Blue Panorama and First Choice Airways of the United Kingdom have selected the 7E7 Dreamliner to replace their existing fleets.
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OK to aid Alstom
7 Jul 2004
The European Commission has approved the French Government's aid package for engineering giant Alstom - but it's subject to strict conditions.
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Trent 900 completes successful blade-off test
7 Jul 2004
Rolls-Royce's Trent 900 engine, being developed for the A380, has successfully completed a fan-blade containment test, one of the critical safety demonstrations ahead of certification by airworthiness authorities.
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Selling power
7 Jul 2004
Marconi Corporation is to sell its Lorain, OH-based Outside Plant and Power systems business to Emerson Electric for $375 million to reduce company debt.
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Stiffened by constant strain
8 Jul 2004
Shrink any compound to the nanaoscale and its electronic properties change radically. But can the same be said about the materials crystal structure? Scientists in the US are investigating.
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Cutting construction costs
8 Jul 2004
A new tool to help save the construction industry £100 million a year, and reduce the amount of waste material it produces, was announced by UK Construction Minister, Nigel Griffiths, today.
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Revolutionary steel
8 Jul 2004
Scientists at the University of Virginia have announced the discovery of a non-magnetic amorphous material that is three times stronger than conventional steel and has superior anti-corrosion properties.
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Nuclear power moves east
8 Jul 2004
According to the latest report from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), twenty-two of the last 31 nuclear power plants (NPPs) connected to the world's energy grid have been built in Asia.
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Software piracy
8 Jul 2004
A major study has found that 36% of software in use worldwide was pirated in 2003, representing a loss of nearly $29 billion to the software industry.
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Tetra Laval fined 90,000 Euros
8 Jul 2004
Tetra Laval has been fined 90,000 Euros by the European Commission for providing incorrect or misleading information when requesting EC approval for its acquisition of French company Sidel.
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Replacing signal isolation transformers
8 Jul 2004
Vishay Intertechnology has announced the release of a new series of single and dual-channel 10-MBd optocouplers packaged in a reinforced-insulation construction.
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Communicating quickly with vision
8 Jul 2004
Pleora Technologies has unveiled a beta version of high-speed PC communications software that allows imaging data to be streamed in real time between PCs connected by standard Gigabit Ethernet links.
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Cisco Systems buys Parc Technologies
8 Jul 2004
Cisco Systems is to acquire privately held Parc Technologies, the UK developer of traffic engineering (TE) software that enables ISPs to optimise the routing of network traffic.
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DuPont sticks to its defence
9 Jul 2004
DuPont is facing administrative action from the US Environmental Protection Agency for allegedly exposing workers and members of the public to PFOA, a chemical used in the manufacture of Teflon.
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Project successful in burying gas
9 Jul 2004
A new approach that is one of the first to successfully store carbon dioxide underground may have huge implications for global warming and the oil industry, says a University of Alberta researcher.
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Next-generation sunscreens
9 Jul 2004
With £51,000 of funding from Nstar, UK-startup DNAcare Systems is developing a new type of sunscreen that can protect the DNA of the skin from overexposure to the sun.
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Spotting the cracks
12 Jul 2004
An Australian company - Structural Monitoring Systems - has developed a novel structural health monitoring system for aircraft that provides real-time monitoring of crack initiation and propagation.
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Microscopy moves to 4D
12 Jul 2004
Material scientists from Denmark have developed an X-ray microscope that can follow the changes that take place in a metal during the process of recrystallization in three spatial dimensions and one time dimension.
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China losing manufacturing jobs
12 Jul 2004
According to a new US study released last week, China is actually losing more manufacturing jobs than the United States!
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Copper could control MRSA contamination
12 Jul 2004
A new study by scientists at the University of Southampton suggests that MRSA contamination can be reduced by using copper alloys for surfaces in healthcare facilities.
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Making moves in Hong Kong
12 Jul 2004
Balfour Beatty has signed a memorandum of understanding with Jardine Matheson and Skanska with a view to acquiring Skanska's 50% interest in Gammon, the Hong Kong-based construction company.
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Battery power
12 Jul 2004
Texas Instruments has developed a synchronous, switch-mode battery charge integrated circuit with internal power FETs capable of supplying up to 2A of charge current.
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Electroencephalogram on a cube
13 Jul 2004
A miniature one cubic centimetre 3-dimensional stacked system-in-a-cube (SiC) is to be used as the heart of a wearable, wireless electroencephalogram (EEG).
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Testing time for thin films
13 Jul 2004
The challenge of determining whether thin films - some no thicker than a single molecule - are strong enough for a growing number of important technology jobs just got easier and quicker.
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Testing time for thin films
13 Jul 2004
The challenge of determining whether thin films - some no thicker than a single molecule - are strong enough for a growing number of important technology jobs just got easier and quicker.
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Circuit breakers go to China
13 Jul 2004
Fuji Electric and Schneider Electric have formed a $6 million joint venture to manufacture low voltage circuit breakers at a new industrial facility in Dalian, China.
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Automotive aftermarket
13 Jul 2004
Dana Corporation is to sell its automotive aftermarket business to The Cypress Group for approximately $1.1 billion in cash.
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Targeting aerospace
13 Jul 2004
Aerospace and defence manufacturer Esterline Corporation is to acquire Leach Holding for approximately $145 million in cash.
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Wideband video amps
14 Jul 2004
National Semiconductor has launched what it claims are the world’s fastest amplifiers for professional and wideband video applications.
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Detecting the date
14 Jul 2004
Omron's F210 CF date verification vision sensor monitors printed date or lot codes for readability so that packages with unreadable, incomplete or missing codes can be rejected.
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Computer brains
14 Jul 2004
A team of computer scientists and mathematicians at Palo Alto, CA-based Artificial Development are developing software to simulate the human brain's cortex and peripheral systems.
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DD development time reduced
14 Jul 2004
The HART Communication Foundation (HCF) has released a new Development Environment that could reduce the time it takes to write and test a typical HART Device Description by as much as 30-40%.
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Crystals make it clearer
14 Jul 2004
The Crystal Consortium has won a £75,000 SPUR award to develop a piezoelectric crystal which will help to produce significantly clearer pictures of babies in the womb.
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Remords posthume
14 Jul 2004
A huge advancement in science has been made this week with the invention of a new method to send messages from beyond the grave! Paul Wilson digs out the dirt on the new development.
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Selling coil coatings
14 Jul 2004
Akzo Nobel is to acquire the Altana Group's Rhenacoat coil coatings business in France giving it a dedicated coil coatings manufacturing facility in France, Europe's largest coil market.
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Mice and rats
14 Jul 2004
Agilent has introduced a Multiple Affinity Removal Column for mouse serum, which it claims is the industry's first to remove the three most highly abundant proteins in that serum.
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Plastics selection tool
15 Jul 2004
A partnership between Granta Design and IDES has produced a new software tool aimed at designers who need to select a polymer for a specific application.
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ExxonMobil plans $7 billion GTL plant
15 Jul 2004
The government of the State of Qatar and ExxonMobil Qatar have entered into a $7 billion agreement to create the world's largest single, fully integrated Gas-to-Liquid (GTL) project.
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Establishing power for China
15 Jul 2004
Alstom and Beijing Beizhong Steam Turbine Generator Company have signed an agreement to develop a long-term business relationship in the 600 MW class steam turbine and generator market.
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Bayer fined $66 million
15 Jul 2004
Bayer has reached an agreement with the US Department of Justice to pay a $66 million fine relating to charges of alleged price fixing by its rubber chemicals business.
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Signals detected in a single electron
15 Jul 2004
IBM scientists have achieved a breakthrough in nanoscale magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) by directly detecting the faint magnetic signal from a single electron buried inside a solid sample.
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Top security
16 Jul 2004
Infineon Technologies is developing two new security controllers intended to make electronic identity cards and passports of the future even more secure and versatile.
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Eliminating hospital hazards
16 Jul 2004
Technology developed to ensure clean air for astronauts onboard space stations is now being used in hospitals to capture and destroy airborne fungi, bacteria, spores and viruses.
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Rolls-Royce awarded Brazilian contract
16 Jul 2004
Rolls-Royce has recently received a contract worth $83 million from Petrobras Netherlands to supply two RB211 power generation modules for an offshore oil and gas production platform in Brazil.
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Elementary bulk metallic glass
16 Jul 2004
By squeezing Zirconium with roughly the same pressure needed to make diamonds, scientists in the USA have made a pure glass that may prove nearly as valuable as diamonds.
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'Smart bridge' debuts in New Mexico
18 Jul 2004
Embedded within the concrete beams of the new Interstate 10 bridge over University Avenue in Las Cruces, NM are fibre-optic sensors that will allow engineers to continually monitor the safety of the bridge.
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Nox reduction in the UK
19 Jul 2004
GE Energy has been awarded one of the first contracts in the European Union (EU) to help meet the lowered NOx emission limits recently set by the EU Large Combustion Plant Directive for 2008.
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Billions over the counter
19 Jul 2004
Bayer is to acquire Roche Consumer Health in a 2.380 billion Euro deal, making the company one of the top three over-the-counter consumer health companies worldwide.
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Extreme protection
19 Jul 2004
'Enviroseal' cold end seals from Watlow are designed to block oil and other contaminants from infiltrating RTD sensors.
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MPEG video chip market grows
19 Jul 2004
The MPEG video IC market grew 48% in unit volume and 36% in revenues in 2003, according to a new report from In-Stat/MDR. Increases in shipments of DVD players and set top boxes were responsible for much of the unit growth.
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A heart in winter
19 Jul 2004
A US clinical study is just getting under way to evaluate a new type of cryogenic catheter co-developed by the National Institute of Standards and Technology.
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ABB wins $25 million power equipment order
19 Jul 2004
ABB has recently won a $25 million contract to deliver 500 kV gas-insulated switchgear (GIS) to China, the latest in a series of orders designed to improve power supply.
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White light waveguides
19 Jul 2004
UK-based Mesophotonics, the start-up spin-out from the University of Southampton, has released two-dimensional planar waveguides optimised for white light continuum generation.
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Emirates expands 777 fleet
19 Jul 2004
Boeing and Emirates today said the Dubai-based airline will order up to 13 Boeing 777-300ER (Extended Range) aeroplanes valued at $2.96 billion dollars.
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Good day for Goodrich
19 Jul 2004
Goodrich has been chosen by Rolls-Royce and BAE Systems to provide LiftFan clutch friction materials and ice detection systems for the Joint Strike Fighter aircraft.
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Ultra low ratio tolerance
19 Jul 2004
Vishay Intertechnology recently announced the release of the PR series high-precision thin film resistor arrays in 1206, 0805, and 0603 case sizes with a profile of 0.4mm. Vishay says it is the only manufacturer to offer 0.01% ratio tolerance as a standard product feature in such low-profile arrays.
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Selling tools
19 Jul 2004
Pentair has signed an agreement to sell its tools division to Black and Decker for approximately $775 million as it concentrates on its water systems technology businesses.
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Down the pipe
2 Jul 2004
The UK-based Heywood Williams Group is to sell off US based Bristolpipe Corporation to a subsidiary of Houston, Texas-based Westlake Chemical Corporation for $33.0 million.
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Clocking on
2 Jul 2004
STMicroelectronics has announced three new Serial Real-Time Clocks (RTCs) for use in a range of applications from camcorders to electronic door locks.
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Ethernet data acquisition
2 Jul 2004
IOtech has introduced three new Ethernet-based data acquisition devices to its family of portable data acquisition products.
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Seeing, not believing
2 Jul 2004
Researchers at Dartmouth College, New Hampshire have created an algorithm that can spot when a digital image has been tampered with.
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Spending review must safeguard skills
2 Jul 2004
The government's commitment to supporting skills and innovation must be safeguarded as a key priority for the forthcoming government spending review, according to EEF, the UK manufacturers' organisation.
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High voltage sales
2 Jul 2004
Schneider Electric has sold its 40% ownership in the electric power transmission and distribution systems giant VA TECH Transmission & Distribution back to the company it started the joint venture with.
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Microsoft attacked by the Russians
5 Jul 2004
On Thursday last week, systems based around IIS 5.0 (Internet Information Services), a component of Microsoft's Windows 2000 Server, were targeted by malicious code known as 'Download.Ject.'
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CBI report environmentally unfriendly
5 Jul 2004
A report by the Confederation of British Industry criticises the UK Environment Agency and the Department of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs for heavy-handed enforcement of environmental regulation.
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Communicating with cash
5 Jul 2004
Tektronix is to acquire the Richardson, TX-based specialist communications software provider Inet Technologies for $325 million.
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Cracked rail detector
5 Jul 2004
Researchers in the University of Warwick's Department of Physics have developed a novel non-contact method of using ultrasound to detect and measure cracks and flaws in rail track.
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Dunlop Standard sold
5 Jul 2004
Doughty Hanson, one of the largest independent private equity firms in Europe, has sold Dunlop Standard Aerospace for $1.45 billion to Meggitt and Carlyle.
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Fluid power
5 Jul 2004
IMI is to buy Fluid Automation Systems, a Swiss company specialising in miniature solenoid valve solutions for medical, printing, semiconductor and beverage machinery markets, for £20 million.
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Public enemy number one
5 Jul 2004
The Electronic Frontier Foundation has identified ten companies whose 'crimes', it claims have made them 'enemies' of the public domain.
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DuPont acquires BioSentry
1 Jul 2004
DuPont has acquired the animal health business assets of BioSentry, a biosecurity company providing animal health prevention programs, for an undisclosed fee.
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Boeing sells Commercial Electronics unit
1 Jul 2004
BAE Systems North America has reached an agreement to acquire Boeing's Commercial Electronics unit, a developer and producer of avionics products and systems for commercial aircraft.
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Rolls-Royce to supply gas turbine
1 Jul 2004
Rolls-Royce has recently won a contract to supply one RB211 6562 mechanical drive package to Fluor-AMEC for the Enfield development project, an offshore oil field in West Australia.
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Finland places £79 million tank order
1 Jul 2004
The Finnish Defence Forces (FDF) have awarded Patria Hägglunds a £79 million order for the delivery of a further 45 CV9030 infantry fighting vehicles.
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Ceradyne acquires ESK for $136 million
1 Jul 2004
Ceradyne has today signed an agreement to acquire ESK Ceramics, a German-based industrial technical ceramic manufacturer, for approximately $136 million.
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Searing heat in little package
1 Jul 2004
Engineers have created a miniature hotplate that can reach temperatures above 1100 degrees C (2012 degrees F), self-contained within a "laboratory" no bigger than a child's shoe.
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New twist on fibre optics
2 Jul 2004
By twisting fibre optic strands into helical shapes, researchers in the US have created unique structures that can precisely filter, polarise or scatter light.
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Modelling cuts fuel-tank development time
2 Jul 2004
A new process for modelling fuel tanks is delivering greater design accuracy and saving automotive supplier VITEC up to 40% in product development time.
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Boeing chooses NGS team
2 Jul 2004
Boeing has selected a Hamilton Sundstrand-led team to provide the Nitrogen Generation System (NGS) for the 7E7 Dreamliner passenger aircraft. Two divisions of Cobham, FR-HiTEMP and Carleton Life Support Systems, complete the team.
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Microwaving diseased hearts goodbye
2 Jul 2004
The Australian National Health and Medical Research Council has awarded researchers at the University of Technology in Sydney $161,500 to help commercialise a microwave cardiac ablation system.
