Strasbourg, France / Brussels, Belgium, 16-12-2013 — /EuropaWire/ — Parliament passed three separate resolutions on Thursday, asking for an immediate end to the practice of organ harvesting from prisoners of conscience in China; calling on the Sri Lankan government to implement the … Read the full press release
Paris, France, 16-12-2013 — /EuropaWire/ — Yves Le Portz, third President of the European Investment Bank (from 1970 until 1984), passed away in Paris at the age of 93. Born in 1920, a high civil servant after World War II, Yves le … Read the full press release
International technology Group ANDRITZ has launched a new series of decanter centrifuges for the environment industry, achieving up to 40% less power consumption, while maintaining throughput and efficiency. Graz, Austria, 13-12-2013 — /EuropaWire/ — This innovative new series was developed in the … Read the full press release
Blagnac, France, 10-12-2013 — /EuropaWire/ — One month after Haiyan, one of the strongest typhoons ever recorded, struck the Philippines, thousands of people are still left homeless and without food or water. Since the disaster happened in early November this year, Airbus’ … Read the full press release
Restructuring plan presented to EADS European Works Council Concentration of sites across Group’s four “home countries” and consolidation of legal entities Reduction of 5,800 positions at future “Airbus Defence and Space” Division and Corporate functions Toulouse, France / Leiden, Netherlands, 10-12-2013 … Read the full press release
Barkeryd, Sweden, 09-12-2013 — /EuropaWire/ — Alstom Grid has successfully delivered the 420 kV electrical substation in Barkeryd, Sweden, after two and a half years of construction. The switchyard, situated in the municipality of Nässjö, southern Sweden, will be connected to Svenska … Read the full press release
Nantes, France, 09-12-2013 — /EuropaWire/ — Alstom announces the signature of an exclusive partnership agreement with STX France[1], during a meeting of the Region Pays de la Loire strategic committee on marine energies that was held today in Nantes. This agreement covers … Read the full press release
Posted in Business, Energy, Gas & Oil, Environment, France, Infrastructure & Utilities
Tagged Alstom, Alstom’s Haliade™ 150-6MW, exclusive partnership agreement, Jérôme Pécresse, Loire-Atlantique and Vendée, maritime construction, offshore wind turbine, Pays de la Loire Region, Saint-Nazaire, STX France, transition parts
Evry, France, 02-12-2013 — /EuropaWire/ — The 1,812th flight of a Soyuz launch vehicle was performed on Tuesday, 26 November 2013 from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at 00:53 Moscow time (21:53 Paris time on Monday, 25 November 2013). Arianespace and its … Read the full press release
Solution will optimize productivity, improve workflow and offer immediate access to all hospital files, from anywhere HYDMedia will allow the hospital to centralize its documents, whatever their type, source and format. The system will give the hospital better control over … Read the full press release
Posted in Belgium, Business, Electronics & Machinery, France, Healthcare, Science, Technology
Tagged Agfa HealthCare, Agfa HealthCare France, Cahors, CH Jean Rougier, document management, healthcare document system, Hospital, HYDMedia electronic archiving and healthcare document system, Ingrid Merckx, Marc De Fré
Brussels, Belgium, 29-11-2013 — /EuropaWire/ — The European Commission has approved under the EU Merger Regulation the proposed acquisition of Invensys of the UK by Schneider Electric of France. Both companies supply, in particular, automation and control systems. The Commission concluded that … Read the full press release
Le CEA-Liten en collaboration avec Symbio FCell, le spécialiste français des systèmes de piles à hydrogène pour la mobilité durable, ont développé une nouvelle génération de plaques bipolaires, élément indispensable au fonctionnement des piles à combustible. Elles sont destinées aux … Read the full press release
Posted in Education, France, Science, Technology
Tagged CEA, mobilité durable, piles à combustible à hydrogène, plaques bipolaires, Symbio FCell
Washington, DC, United States, 26-11-2013 — /EuropaWire/ — Alstom’s Dr. Lawrence Jones, Vice President for Utility Innovations & Infrastructure Resilience has been reappointed by the United States Department of Commerce’s National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) to serve another three-year term on … Read the full press release
Saint-Cloud, France, 26-11-2013 — /EuropaWire/ — Dassault Aviation’s next-generation Falcon 5X has performed its first simulated flight, completing an important milestone in the development program. The “flight” was performed November 13 on the Falcon Simulation Bench at the company’s design office in … Read the full press release
Saint-Cloud, France, 26-11-2013 — /EuropaWire/ — Dassault Aviation is preparing to deliver its new Falcon 2000S business jet into the important Indian market, following certification by the Indian airworthiness authorities. The 2000S was certified on November 1st, continuing a process that began … Read the full press release
Charenton-le-Pont, France, 25-11-2013 — /EuropaWire/ — Essilor today received the 2013 Employee Shareholding Top Prize which recognizes the Group’s activities to promote a strong employee share ownership and place its employee shareholders at the heart of the company’s governance. This award was presented in Paris, … Read the full press release
Posted in Awards, France, Healthcare, Management, Pharma & Biotech
Tagged 2013 Employee Shareholding Top Prize, Awards, Charenton-le-Pont, employee share ownership, employee shareholders, Essilor, Federation of Associations of Employee Shareholders, Hubert Sagnières, ophthalmic optics, Valoptec Association
Paris, France, 25-11-2013 — /EuropaWire/ — The L’Oréal group, the historic market leader in the Travel Retail beauty segment, announced today that it is creating a Group Travel Retail Division. The new division will include the L’Oréal Luxe brands, as well as brands … Read the full press release
Posted in Apparel, Fashion & Beauty, Business, France, Retail, Travel
Tagged Active Cosmetics, airlines, airports, Barbara Lavernos, Beauty, cosmetics, cruises, downtown duty-free shops, ferries, Group Travel Retail Division, Jean-Paul Agon, L’Oréal, Mrs Laura LOVASIK, Nicolas Hieronimus, The Body Shop, travel retail
GENCI has just been awarded the prize for the ‘Best Application of Big Data in HPC’, for the use of its Curie supercomputer in the first ever simulation of the evolving structure of the entire observable Universe, carried out by … Read the full press release
Posted in Awards, France, Internet & Online, Marketing, Science, Technology
Tagged Aurélie Negro, Best Application of Big Data in HPC, Colorado, Curie supercomputer, Dark Energy Universe Simulation, Denver, entire observable Universe, GENCI, Grand Equipement National de Calcul Intensif, HPCwire awards, HPCwire Readers' Choice Award, Laëtitia Baudin, Observatoire de Paris
The bullx supercomputer deployed at the ROMEO HPC Center of the University of Reims Champagne-Ardenne is now fully operational. Powered by NVIDIA Tesla K20X GPU accelerators, it is the most powerful GPU-accelerated cluster in France and also one of the greenest supercomputers … Read the full press release
Posted in Awards, Energy, Gas & Oil, Environment, France, Internet & Online, Science, Technology
Tagged Arnaud RENARD, Aurélie Negro, Bull, bullx supercomputer, Champagne-Ardenne Region, Denver, energy-efficient supercomputers, GENCI, GPU-accelerated cluster, Green500 list, Marie-Odette VICTOR, Michael Krajecki, Michel Guillemet, NVIDIA Tesla K20X GPU accelerators, ROMEO HPC Center, Romeo supercomputer, SC Conference, Stéphane Requena, University of Reims Champagne-Ardenne
Paris, France, 21-11-2013 — /EuropaWire/ — Sanofi (EURONEXT: SAN and NYSE: SNY) announced today the decision to halt all clinical trials and cancel plans for regulatory filings with its investigational JAK2 inhibitor, fedratinib (SAR302503). Following a thorough risk-benefit analysis, including consultation with the U.S. … Read the full press release
Paris, France, 21-11-2013 — /EuropaWire/ — CSC- IT Center for Science is deploying a highly energy-efficient supercomputer. The system is built by Bull and co-funded by the European PRACE project. It will be installed in CSC’s datacenter in Kajaani. CSC will use … Read the full press release
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