Amsterdam (ots/PRNewswire) - Avantium, a leading technology company servicing the oil, chemicals and pharmaceutical industries, announces the three-year extension of the strategic research collaboration with BP, one of the world's largest energy companies. Avantium provides innovative, high value-added R&D services and tools to the energy, chemicals and pharmaceutical industries, and has a long standing ...
Utrecht, The Netherlands (ots/PRNewswire) - - World's Third Largest Coffee Buyer Will Source 20,000 Tons of UTZ-Certified Coffee in 2008 Sara Lee wants its coffee to taste as good to those who farm it as it does to those who drink it. As part of its commitment to corporate social responsibility, the producer of coffee flagship brands such as Douwe Egberts, Merrild, Maison du Café and Marcilla announced ...
Winterthur/Switzerland (ots) - SpineLab AG, a privately held company, specialized in developing a dynamic stabilization system for the spine, announced today the strategic partnership with Precimed Group, a leading technology-driven supplier to the orthopaedic industry. Under this agreement, Precimed co-develops the minimally invasive instrument set and will exclusively handle production and logistics for ...
Rousset, France and Pittsburgh (ots/PRNewswire) - - Extends Established Working Relationship to Enhance Linux-based Application Development Atmel(R) Corporation (Nasdaq: ATML) and TimeSys(R) announced today a free Linux(R) Board Support Package (BSP) for Atmel's ARM9-based AT91SAM9 Microcontrollers. Supporting the entire range of SAM9 products, this BSP ...
Rousset, France and Pittsburgh (ots/PRNewswire) - - Extends Established Working Relationship to Enhance Linux-based Application Development Atmel(R) Corporation (Nasdaq: ATML) and TimeSys(R) announced today a free Linux(R) Board Support Package (BSP) for Atmel's ARM9-based AT91SAM9 Microcontrollers. Supporting the entire range of SAM9 products, this BSP ...
- Note: A Picture can be downloaded free of charge under: http://www.presseportal.ch/de/pm/100001998 - Zurich (ots) - Bidders have opened their wallets with generosity and enthusiasm to support the Singapore Airlines A380 First Flight Charity Auction. With almost all seats now sold, the total committed to charities from sold packages so far is ...
Baar (ots) - Manas Petroleum Corp. (OTC.BB: MNAP) has signed a MOU with a Mongolian company, Shunkhlai Energy, regarding petroleum exploration in block XXIII. Manas Petroleum has a right to purchase a 90% interest in the Mongolian company, which has won a bidding round for the block XXIII. Block ...
Geneva, Switzerland and Dalian, China (ots) - Selected by the World Economic Forum as one of the top 500 mould-breaking companies New Champions, WISeKey is present at the Inaugural Annual Meeting of the New Champions in Dalian China and announces today that new WISeKey Affiliates are now in the process of being established in Argentina, Benelux, Brazil, Chile, ...
Thalwil, Switzerland, and Munich, Germany (ots) - u-blox, the leading Swiss provider of GPS receiver technology, has improved its groundbreaking GPS dead reckoning system by integrating a gyroscope sensor from Epson Toyocom, a leader in the design and manufacture of crystal-based electronic products, into the reference design for the product. The reference ...
RUEIL- MALMAISON, France, August 30 (ots/PRNewswire) - - Founding of the Geogreen Company by Three Major Players in the Field IFP, Géostock and BRGM are announcing the creation of a joint company, Geogreen, specializing in engineering services for the transport and geological storage of CO2. These three leading French players are pooling their skills in order to position the company in the world market for the geological storage of CO2 and thereby contribute to ...
Vancouver, Canada (ots/PRNewswire) - - Trading Symbol TSX-V - ESO - Frankfurt - E2G ESO Uranium Corporation (TSX-V: ESO), the Company, is pleased to announce that a second contract has been signed with Cyr Drilling International Ltd of Winnipeg. This will enable the start, in the next two weeks, of a ...
Zurich (ots) - Airbus and Singapore Airlines have agreed to a delivery timetable for the first ever A380 aircraft. The aircraft is planned for handover by Airbus to Singapore Airlines on Monday, 15th October 2007 at a ceremony in Toulouse. It will be configured with 471 seats in three classes: Economy, Business and the new Singapore Airlines Suites: a class ...
IEC International Electrotechnical Commission
Geneva (ots) - The leading experts in the field of Ultra High Voltage or UHV are to begin defining the technical and safety specifications for this promising new technology that is set to help deliver the world's increased electrical energy demands. Ultra High Voltage could offer a solution to the need for more electricity in a space-restricted world. Countries active in this technology include Brazil, Canada, China, ...
Paris (ots/PRNewswire) - Valeo announced today that it has created a joint venture for the production of alternators and starter motors with N.K. Minda Group, a leading manufacturer of automotive systems in India. The new company, called Valeo Minda Electrical Systems India Private Limited, will be 66.7% owned ...
Grid stability thanks to solidarity Laufenburg (ots) - The situation in Europe is presently characterised by rising electricity consumption and a growing shortage of available grid capacity. In order to ensure a secure and reliable electricity supply in the future, Swiss operators of transmission and distribution grids aim to create the organisational and technical ...
Effective immediately, e-banking clients of Raiffeisen Schweiz can now receive and pay their bills electronically. The third-largest banking group in Switzerland, with more than 400 banks, has joined the PayNet network for electronic bills. Under the "e-bill" menu item, all private customers can register in the e-banking system of their Raiffeisen bank for the free ...
Abbotsford, British Columbia (ots/PRNewswire) - ICS COPPER SYSTEMS LTD. (ICX:TSX.V) is pleased to announce that it has entered into two agreements with A & Cladava to develop a total of three exploration mining properties in the DRC. The first agreement, dated 20th May 2007, is a joint venture agreement ...
Paris (ots/PRNewswire) - Valeo announced today that its Security Systems Branch has created a 50/50 joint venture with A.K. Minda Group, a leading manufacturer of automotive security systems in India. Located in Pune near Mumbai, the new company, Valeo Minda Security Systems, will develop, produce and sell Valeo Security Systems products including locksets, steering column locks, latches, strikers, handles, engine ...
Bethesda, Maryland, and Roskilde, Denmark (ots/PRNewswire) - Micromet, Inc. (Nasdaq: MITI) and Nycomed today announced an agreement under which the two companies will collaborate on the development of anti-GM-CSF antibodies that may be useful for the treatment of inflammatory and autoimmune diseases. The lead ...
Oss and Eindhoven, The Netherlands (ots/PRNewswire) - N.V. Organon, the human health care business unit of Akzo Nobel, and Royal Philips Electronics announced today that they will join forces in the development of new drugs and therapies for mental disorders and cancer. With the help of biomarkers (specific molecules or cells which can be measured as an indicator of ...
Zurich (ots) - Whale watching is a growing trend. Millions of people put to sea in order to observe free-swimming whales and dolphins, with their numbers increasing each year. Although there is not yet a quality label for whale watching, a uniform evaluation of selected tour operators is now available thanks to a pilot project initiated by OceanCare, together with Kontiki Saga, Glur Reisen and Scandinavian Airlines. ...
Berlin (ots) - ProBioGen and Minapharm jointly announced today that they have entered into two separate agreements to develop two therapeutic proteins, one exclusively for Minapharm and another second generation biopharmaceutical product for co-promotion. In the first agreement, ProBioGen will apply its proven cell generation process for biopharmaceutical cell ...
Toronto, Canada (ots/PRNewswire) - - Vasogen to Host Conference Call Today at 9:00 a.m. (ET) Vasogen Inc. (NASDAQ:VSGND; TSX:VAS) today announced a collaboration with Grupo Ferrer Internacional, S.A. ("Ferrer"), a leading European pharmaceutical and medical devices company, to commercialize Vasogen's Celacade(TM) technology for the treatment of chronic ...
Tokyo (ots/PRNewswire) - - Leading Company to Mass Produce Lithium-ion Batteries for the Global Automotive Community Nissan Motor Co., Ltd., NEC Corporation, and its subsidiary, NEC TOKIN Corporation, have signed an agreement to establish a joint-venture company - Automotive Energy Supply Corporation (AESC) - to focus on lithium-ion battery business for wide-scale automotive application by 2009. Nissan ...
Amsterdam, The Netherlands (ots/PRNewswire) - - Belgium's BASE Leverages Gemalto Highly Secure M-Payment Solution Gemalto (Euronext NL0000400653 GTO), a world leader in digital security, today announces it is providing Belgian mobile operator BASE with a comprehensive solution which allows its subscribers to perform secure payment by just sending an SMS. ...
Geneva/Malaga (ots) - WISeKey represented by its founder and Chairman Carlos Moreira has join the Malaga Valley e-27 Club, one of the initiatives of higher vision and ambition of the IT sector in Spain. More than 40 Presidents of multinational and technology companies have decided, under the presidency of Javier Cremades, of Cremades & Calvo-Sotelo, to promote ...
Vancouver, Canada (ots/PRNewswire) - VRB Power Systems Inc. (TSX-V: VRB) announces that the VRB-ESS(TM) being sold to Tapbury Management Limited ("Tapbury") for Phase II of the Sorne Hill Wind Farm in County Donegal, Ireland ("Sorne Hill") has been increased in size from a 1.5MW x 8hr system to a 2MW x 6hr ...
Shanghai, China, and Chicago (ots/PRNewswire) - CITIC East China (Group) Corp., Ltd. and Calyon Financial Hong Kong Ltd. today announced the signing of a joint venture agreement, forming a new futures brokerage entity established under the Closer Economic Partnership Arrangement (referred as CEPA). If all ...
Thalwil, Switzerland (ots) - u-blox AG, the leading Swiss provider of GPS receiver technology, today announced the inclusion of its LEA-4S GPS module in the G300 GPS phone made by Longcheer, a leading Chinese designer of handheld devices. The new phone combines a high performance GPS engine, VGA camera, MP3/MP4 music player, GSM phone and WAP Internet browser in ...
Laufenburg (ots) - On March 6, 2007, Switzerland signed an agreement with Italy regarding the mutual recognition of electricity from renewable sources. This event wraps up an important stage in the development of electricity exchange arrangements with foreign countries based on swissgrid's system for registering and issuing certificates of origin for Swiss ...