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July
2005
Superconductor Technologies
Inc. Appoints Lynn J. Davis to Board
Santa Barbara, Calif., July
29: Superconductor Technologies Inc. (NASDAQ:SCON)
("STI"), a leading provider of high performance infrastructure products for
wireless voice and data applications, today announced it has appointed to its
board of directors Lynn J. Davis, 58. With the addition of Mr. Davis, STI's
Board is now comprised of seven members.
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World-Record Magnet to Pull in
Scientific Breakthroughs
Tallahassee, Fla:
July 28, at 9:30 a.m., the The National High Magnetic Field Laboratory,
will host a commissioning ceremony to bring online a new, world-record magnet
that is expected to yield important discoveries in the fields of chemical and
biomedical research. Among those scheduled to speak at the ceremony are Florida
State University President T.K. Wetherell; Greg Boebinger, director of the
National High Magnetic Field Laboratory; Win Phillips, vice president for
research at the University of Florida; and representatives from the National
Science Foundation. Also invited to attend are representatives from the U.S.
Department of Energy and the National Institutes of Health, as well as members
of the Tallahassee City Commission and Leon County Commission.
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American Superconductor
Appoints Terry Winter to Post of Chief Operating Officer
Westborough, Mass., July 28:
American Superconductor Corporation (NASDAQ:AMSC),
a leading electricity solutions company, today announced that Terry Winter,
currently executive vice president of Advanced Grid Solutions, has been
appointed by the Board of Directors to the position of chief operating officer,
effective immediately. In his newly appointed position, Mr. Winter will have
primary responsibility for overseeing the day-to-day management of the Company's
AMSC Wires, SuperMachines and Power Electronic Systems business units; general
managers for each of these units will report to him.
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Varian, Inc. Reports Third Quarter Results
Palo ALto, Calif., July
27: Varian, Inc. (Nasdaq:
VARI) today reported third quarter 2005 non-GAAP (pro forma) earnings from
continuing operations of $12.9 million, or $0.38 pro forma diluted earnings per
share, compared to $11.7 million, or $0.33 pro forma diluted earnings per share,
in the third quarter of fiscal year 2004. On a GAAP basis, earnings from
continuing operations in the third quarter of fiscal year 2005 were $10.5
million, or $0.31 diluted earnings per share, compared to $11.0 million, or
$0.31 diluted earnings per share, in the third quarter of fiscal year 2004.
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Intermagnetics' Chairman & CEO
To Increase Personal Holdings By More Than 30,000 Shares, CFO By More Than
15,000 Shares
Latham, NY, July 27:
Intermagnetics General Corporation (Nasdaq:
IMGC), today
announced that Chairman and CEO Glenn H. Epstein plans to increase his direct
ownership of Intermagnetics' common stock by 31,500 shares through retention of
shares that have vested from the company's performance-based restricted stock
program. Executive Vice President and CFO Michael K. Burke plans to increase his
direct ownership by 15,750 shares.
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Intermagnetics Reports Record
Revenues, Earnings
Latham, NY, July 27:
Intermagnetics General Corporation (Nasdaq:
IMGC), today reported that fourth-quarter normalized net income increased to
$8.1 million, or $0.29 per diluted share-excluding acquisition and
integration-related expenses and certain other non-cash items. Reported net
income for the quarter ended May 29, 2005, was $3.4 million, or $0.12 per
diluted share. Fourth-quarter net sales were $78.1 million, compared with $52.4
million in the fiscal 2004 fourth quarter, excluding discontinued operations
from the divested Polycold subsidiary.
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Energy Bill Transmission Grid
Improvements Experts Available to Provide Analysis
Westborough, Mass, Jul 27: The Energy Bill is expected to be ready for
President Bush's review and approval within the next few days.An important
feature of the bill addresses the stability and modernization of the United
States transmission grid including mandatory reliability standards, and repeal
of the Public Utility Holding Company Act of 1935.
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New Varian Premium Shielded Magnets Allow NMR to Move
Into More Routine Application Laboratories
Palo Alto,
Calif., July 26 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Varian, Inc. (Nasdaq:
VARI) today debuted its first premium shielded vertical high-resolution
superconducting magnets designed to reduce stray magnetic fields by up to
fivefold (in volume), allowing researchers to save valuable space in
pharmaceutical and academic laboratories and making nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR)
more accessible for routine applications. The 500 MHz and 600 MHz premium
shielded magnets are integrated with the company's new Varian NMR System and are
compatible with its suite of cold and room temperature NMR probes.
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HYPRES
recognized for excellence in Aerospace and Defense Digital Communications from
Frost & Sullivan
Elmsford, NY,
July 25: HYPRES, Inc., a leading developer of Superconductor MicroElectronics (SME)
technology, received Frost & Sullivan's 2005 Excellence in Research of the Year
Award in the field of aerospace & defense digital communications. The award,
presented to HYPRES during Frost & Sullivan's annual Excellence in Emerging
Technologies awards ceremony in Boston this July, was in recognition of the
company's development of the industry's first all-digital receiver.
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Oxford Instruments Offer
Superconducting Magnets Directly Through New NMR Magnets Direct
Oxford, July 18:
Oxford Instruments (LONDON
OXIG) has announced the launch of a new program for direct sales of its
award winning NMR magnet systems at the EUROMAR conference in Veldhoven,
Netherlands. For the first time, the NMR Magnets Direct program will allow
customers to benefit from buying a wide range of affordable, world-class
superconducting magnets directly from Oxford Instruments.
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VSM MedTech Awarded Contract to
Provide Fetal MEG System to University of Tübingen
Vancouver, British Columbia, July 13: VSM MedTech Ltd. (TSX:VSM),
a leading supplier of magnetoencephalography (MEG) systems for noninvasive
imaging of brain function, today announced that it has been awarded a contract
to provide a 151-channel fetal MEG (fMEG) investigational device to the
Eberhard-Karls University of Tübingen. The fMEG system, which will be housed at
the Women's Clinic of the University's Gynecology Department, is expected to be
installed in the second quarter of 2006 and will be the first fMEG system
installed in Europe.
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Superconductor Technologies
Inc. Announces Preliminary Second Quarter Revenues of $8.5 Million
Santa Barbara, Calif., July
7: Superconductor Technologies Inc. (NASDAQ:SCON)
("STI"), a leading provider of high performance infrastructure products for
wireless voice and data applications, today announced its preliminary revenue
for the second quarter of 2005, which ended July 2.
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Kavli Institute Delft and Philips demonstrate integration of semiconductor and
superconductor electronics on the nanoscale
Delft, Eindhoven, the Netherlands,
July 7: In the July 8 issue of Science, scientists from the Kavli Institute of
Nanoscience Delft and Philips present the first superconducting transistors
based on semiconductor nanowires. These nanoscale superconductor/semiconductor
devices enable the fabrication of new nanoscale superconducting electronic
circuits and at the same time they provide new opportunities for the study of
fundamental quantum transport phenomena.
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Commissioner Potočnik
visits Cadarache, future site of ITER
Brussels, July 3:
European Commissioner for
Science and Research, Janez Potočnik visited this Sunday the site in France that
was earlier this week chosen to host the international fusion research facility
ITER. In the company of representatives of the French government and the
European fusion research community, he saluted the co-operation among all
European players in fusion that had made it possible to achieve this positive
outcome.
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China Builds Experimental
Fusion Reactor
Beijing, Jul 1: China is building a small
fusion reactor to experiment in the production of clean energy, said the Xinhua
news agency quoting a leading Chinese scientist on Friday. EAST
(Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak) is the name of the project,
scheduled for completion by the end of the year at a cost of nearly 25 million
US dollars. more>>
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