Hopes were high for Pittcon this year. After all, the conference was returning to Chicago, Illinois following a two-year stint in Orlando, Florida. Although not as temperate as Florida, in 2004, Chicago had hosted a Pittcon attended by over 25,000, the highest attendance in past six years. Preliminary numbers as of February 28 show a […]
This month, the EPA published the “Framework for Metals Risk Assessment,” which examines the special attributes and behaviors of metals and metal compounds from the perspective of their effects on human health and the environment, and recommends strategies for future research by EPA risk assessors. As concentrations of environmental metals varies around the country, the […]
In February, the Chinese government admitted that the country did not achieve its emission reduction goals in 2006. As part of a long-range plan to lower chemical oxygen demand (COD) and sulfur dioxide emissions by 10% from 2006 to 2010, the goal for 2006 was to lower COD and sulfur dioxide emissions by 2%. But, […]
Cambridge, UK 1/29/07, Maynard, MA 1/29/07 and Columbus, OH 1/29/07—BioWisdom, a developer of software for business information analysis in the healthcare industry, and OmniViz, a company that specializes in software for data visualization, have announced that they will unite under the BioWisdom name. Gordon Baxter, CEO of BioWisdom, said that “this transaction is an important […]
R&D activities in India have been booming: while the country only spent $2.9 billion on R&D in 2001, by 2004, this figure reached $24 billion. R&D spending is expected to reach $27.5 billion by 2010, and swell to $119 billion—2.7% of India’s estimated GDP—by 2020. There are currently 130 domestic firms and 220 multinational companies […]
Company Announcements Ingersoll Rand Security Technologies agreed to jointly market and sell HiEnergy Technologies’ SIEGMA explosives detection and confirmation system. RAE Systems integrated its chemical and radiation product lines into MDI Security Systems’ ONE Unified Technology platform. Thermo Fisher Scientific’s Santa Fe, New Mexico radiation detection equipment manufacturing facility will cease operations in March, according […]
Santa Clara, CA 2/1/07—Intevac has acquired the assets and certain liabilities of Raman spectroscopy company DeltaNu for an undisclosed amount. Intevac is a developer of low light imaging sensors, cameras and systems and a supplier of magnetic media supporting equipment. Based in Laramie, Wyoming, DeltaNu’s products include handheld and benchtop Raman spectroscopy instruments and Raman […]
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced regulations last week that will lower airborne pollutants over the next 25 years. Most significantly for oil refineries, the rules require that benzene levels be cut. On average, benzene made up roughly 1% of US gas in 2004. This proportion will be brought down to an average of 0.62% […]
Washington, DC 2/9/07—Thermo Fisher Scientific has filed a petition of approval with the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to sell its centrifugal vacuum evaporators assets to Riverlake Partners and MVC Capital. Thermo Fisher Scientific is required to divest the business within five months as a condition of the FTC’s approval of the merger of Thermo […]
The fiscal 2007 federal budget was finally signed into law by President Bush on February 15. The law makes permanent most of the funding amounts in the continuing resolution passed by Congress in December 2006 that essentially froze agency and program budgets at fiscal 2006 levels. However, Congress did provide funding increases for selected programs […]
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