Daily Archives: 21, October 2014

Arkema finalized the first stage of its acrylics assets acquisition project in Taixing, China

Arkema has finalized the first stage of its acrylics assets acquisition project in Taixing, China, and now has access to a modern and competitive 160,000 t/year acrylic acid production capacity in Asia for the sum of US$ 240 million. This … Read the full press release

Le CEA a développé un test de diagnostic rapide du virus Ebola dont la phase d’industrialisation démarre avec le concours de Vedalab

Le CEA a développé un test de diagnostic rapide du virus Ebola dont la phase d’industrialisation démarre avec le concours de Vedalab , leader européen du diagnostic rapide. Ce test vient de faire l’objet d’une validation technique au Laboratoire de … Read the full press release

Arkema, le CEA et Arjowiggins Creative Papers créent la première initiative européenne pour favoriser l’innovation collaborative dans le domaine de l’électronique imprimée

Arkema, acteur majeur de la chimie mondiale, le CEA, organisme public de recherche dans l’énergie et l’innovation technologique, et Arjowiggins Creative Papers, leader mondial du papier technique, créent la première initiative européenne pour favoriser l’innovation collaborative dans le domaine de … Read the full press release

University of Leicester clinical neuropsychologist develops dynamic new assessment for helping victims of trauma to the brain

University of Leicester clinical neuropsychologist develops assessment to help sufferers of damage to the brain A video showing Dr Burgess discussing SPANS is available to download and embed at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WKvWfocqDJc An image of the SPANS equipment available to download at: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/89ld40dyypmnpgl/AABliTZ0LnEQxOaxayzfEoFXa?dl=0 New … Read the full press release

NERC signs new £23m contract with the University of Leicester to fund the National Centre for Earth Observation for further five years

NERC invests £23m in Earth observation, supporting science and innovation, big data and space technology at the University of Leicester Leicester, UK, 21-10-2014 — /EuropaWire/ — NERC is to fund the National Centre for Earth Observation (NCEO) for a further five … Read the full press release

Alstom, Bombardier Transport and AREVA TA consortium to suply 12 new MF01 metro sets to STIF and RATP for the Paris metro network

PARIS, 21-10-2014 — /EuropaWire/ — Alstom, working as part of a consortium with Bombardier Transport and AREVA TA, will be supplying STIF[1] (the Ile-de-France Transport Authority) and RATP[2] (the Paris-based public transport operator) with 12 new MF01[3] metro sets for … Read the full press release

Alstom signed framework agreement with the Strasbourg Transport Company for the supply of 50 Citadis trams

PARIS, 21-10-2014 — /EuropaWire/ — Alstom has signed a framework agreement with the Communauté des Transports Strasbourgeois (CTS, the Strasbourg Transport Company) for the supply of 50 Citadis trams. The first part of the agreement concerns an order for 12 … Read the full press release

Alstom: Tenants’ and residents’ association Positive Partington Partnership visited Carrington Power Station to know more about how the power station on their doorstep develops

Carrington, England, 21-10-2014 — /EuropaWire/ — Eight members of community group Positive Partington visited Carrington Power Station to get a better idea about how the power station on their doorstep was developing. The guests were given an overview of what … Read the full press release

Arriva Nederland and VDL Bus & Coach sign EUR 67 million delivery and maintenance contract for 164 new buses

Sunderland, England, 21-10-2014 — /EuropaWire/ — Arriva Nederland and VDL Bus & Coach have signed a delivery and maintenance contract for 164 new buses worth a total value of more than 67 million Euros. The new environmentally friendly buses will form … Read the full press release

Rabobank report: Brazil to increase fed beef production by approximately 2.5 million tonnes per annum by 2023

Utrecht, Netherlands, 21-10-2014 — /EuropaWire/ — In response to rising global beef demand, Brazil is set to step up the rapid intensification of its beef production sector over the next ten years, enabling the industry to expand into higher-value export markets. … Read the full press release

The Metrology Laboratory of CLH appointed “Collaborating Laboratory” by the Spanish Centre of Metrology (CEM) becoming its only reference laboratory for metrology activities in the field of oil products

The Metrology Laboratory of the CLH Group appointed “collaborating laboratory” by the Spanish Centre of Metrology (CEM), under the Ministry of Industry, Energy and Tourism The Company has signed a collaboration agreement to appoint CLH’s laboratory as the reference centre … Read the full press release

QIAGEN N.V. announces new capabilities for its Ingenuity® Variant Analysis™ and CLC Cancer Research Workbench solution

Translational research in cancer and other diseases will benefit from new capabilities being presented at the American Society of Human Genetics annual meeting Volume of 250,000-plus DNA samples linked to Ingenuity® Knowledge Base greatly exceeds any comparable database – providing … Read the full press release