July 2007
AMSC Sets First-Quarter Reporting Date for August
9, 2007
Westborough, MA, 26 July 2007:
American Superconductor
Corporation (NASDAQ:
AMSC) , a leading energy
technologies company, announced today it will release its first-quarter fiscal
2007 financial results prior to the market opening on Thursday, August 9, 2007.
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Nexans Shows Strong growth in
first half-year 2007 results
Paris, 25 July, 2007: The Board of Directors of
Nexans chaired by
Gérard Hauser, met on July 24, 2007 and reviewed the Group's consolidated
financial statements for the 2007 first half-year.
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Frost + Sullivan Recognises
Paramed Medical System's Achievement in Identifying New Markets and Developing
Novel Products to Capture Their Potential
London, UK, 25 July 2007: Based on
its recent analysis of the European MRI Market, Frost & Sullivan has recognised
Paramed Medical Systems with the 2007 European Frost & Sullivan Award for
Entrepreneurial Company for its pioneering spirit in exploring new markets and
developing products to capitalise on the opportunities they present.
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Visualase, Inc. Announces
Successful Completion of First Six Clinical Procedures with Its Image-Guided
Thermal Therapy System for Treatment of Brain Metastases
Houston, TX, 25 July 2007:
Visualase, Inc. with its research partner
BioTex, Inc. and the “Assistance Publique - Hôpitaux
de Paris” healthcare network have enrolled and
completed treatment of the first six patients in a pilot, phase I study, with
the objective to demonstrate the safety of the Visualase®
magnetic resonance (MR) guided laser thermal ablation technique for the
minimally invasive treatment of brain metastasis.
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Varian, Inc. Reports
Third Quarter 2007 Results
Palo Alto, CA, 25 July 2007:
Varian, Inc. (Nasdaq:
VARI) today reported that revenues for the third
quarter of fiscal year 2007 increased 8.3% from the third quarter of fiscal
year 2006. The increase was driven by solid growth in sales of Scientific
Instruments products for industrial applications. Demand was strong within
Europe, Asia Pacific and Latin America, and while still soft, North America
showed sequential improvement. Revenues were $227.1 million in the third
quarter of fiscal year 2007, compared to $209.7 million in the third quarter
of fiscal year 2006.
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Aberdeen takes delivery of
new £1.5m MRI scanner
Aberdeen, UK, 24 July 2007: A leap forward in brain and cancer
research will be put in motion today when a 7-tonne, state-of-the-art magnet
for a new extremely powerful MRI scanner is delivered to the
University of Aberdeen’s Radiology
Department.
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AMSC Receives New $70 Million
Order from China's Sinovel Wind
Westborough, MA, 24 July 2007:
American Superconductor
Corporation (NASDAQ:
AMSC), a leading energy
technologies company, today announced that it has received a follow-on $70
million order for wind turbine electrical systems from Beijing-based Sinovel
Wind Corporation Limited. The order calls for AMSC's wholly-owned
subsidiary, AMSC Windtec, to ship the customized electrical systems to
Sinovel in 2008 for use in Sinovel's 1.5 megawatt (MW) wind energy systems.
AMSC Windtec turbine electrical systems provide reliable, high-performance
wind turbine operation by controlling power flows, regulating voltage and
controlling the pitch of wind turbine blades to maximize efficiency.
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AMSC Announces Pricing of
Public Offering of Common Stock
Westborough, MA, 20 July 2007:
American Superconductor
Corporation (NASDAQ:
AMSC) today announced the
pricing of an underwritten public offering of 4,700,000 shares of its common
stock at a price to the public of $21.25 per share, before underwriting
discounts and commissions. AMSC also granted the underwriters a 30-day
option to purchase up to an additional 705,000 shares of common stock. All
of the shares are being offered by AMSC. The offering is expected to close
on or about July 25, 2007, subject to customary closing conditions.
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European Superconductivity
News Forum
Jülich, Germany, 20 July 2007:
The IEEE Council on Superconductivity (CSC) and the European Society for
Applied Superconductivity (ESAS) are developing a new joint project: the
“European Superconductivity News Forum.”
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Worldwide awards for Air
Liquide Electronics
Paris, 19 July 2007: Cryogenics supplier
Air Liquide is present at the
Semicon West trade show dedicated to semiconductors at San Francisco (USA)
from July 17-20, 2007. This trade show brings together all customers and
suppliers in the semiconductors field.
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SCI Engineered Materials Adds
Process Development Engineer
Columbus, OH, 18 July 2007: Superconductive Components, Inc. (OTC
Bulletin Board: SCCI), dba SCI Engineered Materials, a manufacturer of high
quality sputtering targets for select markets in the physical vapor
deposition industry, today announced that Kyle Fischbach has joined the
company’s Technology group as a Process Development Engineer.
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Varian, Inc. Announces Live Public Webcast of Third Quarter, Fiscal Year 2007
Results
Palo Alto, CA, 218 July 2007:
Varian, Inc. (Nasdaq:
VARI) today announced that the company plans to report its fiscal year 2007
third quarter results after 1:00 p.m. Pacific Time (PT) on Wednesday, July 25,
2007. A conference call to review the quarterly results is scheduled to follow
at 2:00 p.m. PT that same day.
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FSU’s Larbalestier Receives
Cryogenics Lifetime Achievement Award
Tallahassee, FL, 16 July 2007: David Larbalestier, the
director of FSU’s Applied Superconductivity Center, has been selected to receive
the Cryogenic Materials Award for Lifetime Achievements 2007 from the
International Cryogenic Materials Conference (ICMC). He will be presented with
the award during a meeting of the conference on Tuesday, July 17, in
Chattanooga, Tenn.
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AMSC Receives Series of PQ-SVC(TM)
Orders from Industrial Sector
Westborough, MA,
11 July 2007:
American Superconductor
Corporation (NASDAQ:
AMSC), a leading energy
technologies company, today announced a series of orders for its Power Quality
Static VAR Compensator, or PQ-SVC(TM), offering. The PQ-SVC solution was added
to AMSC's product suite through the recent acquisition of Pennsylvania-based
Power Quality Systems, Inc. This product eliminates voltage sags and flicker,
giving electric distribution companies and manufacturing operations a
cost-effective way to safely connect large electrical loads to the local power
grid.
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FONAR Upright(TM) MRI Sales Take
Off - 7 Sales in 2 Weeks
Melville, NY, 10 July 2007:
FONAR Corporation (NASDAQ-FONR),
The Inventor of MR Scanning(TM), reported today that the company has sold Seven
UPRIGHT(TM) Multi-Position(TM) MRIs during the previous two weeks. By contrast,
since this year began, sales by other MRI manufacturers have declined, with one
major company reporting a quarterly imaging sales decline including MRI of $150
million.
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The "New Look" of Superconductivity
from Ames Laboratory
Ames, Iowa, 6 July 2007: Like the surface motif of a bubble
bath, the spatial distribution of a magnetic field penetrating a superconductor
can exhibit an intricate, foam-like structure. Ruslan Prozorov at the
U.S.Department of Energy's Ames Laboratory
has observed these mystifying, two-dimensional equilibrium patterns in lead
samples when the material is in its superconducting state, below 7.2 Kelvin, or
minus 446.71 degrees Fahrenheit.
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Indian Participation in International
Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER) Approved
New Delhi, India, 5 July 2007: The Union Cabinet
today gave its approval for the following: i) To the project titled Indian
Participation in International Thermonuclear
Experimental Reactor, at a base cost of Rs.2500 crore. The FE component
calculated at base cost will be Rs.1129 crore.
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SLAC Announces New Director
and Deputy Director of Particle and Particle Astrophysics
Menlo Park, CA, 5 July 2007: Steven Kahn, the current Deputy
Director of the Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology (KIPAC),
has been named the next Director of Particle and Particle Astrophysics (PPA) at
the Department of Energy's Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC).
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UNH Researchers Prove
Existence Of New Type Of Electron Wave
Durham, NH, 5 July 2007: New research
led by University of
New Hampshire physicists has proved the existence of a new type of electron
wave on metal surfaces: the acoustic surface plasmon, which will have
implications for developments in nano-optics, high-temperature superconductors,
and the fundamental understanding of chemical reactions on surfaces. The
research, led by Bogdan Diaconescu and Karsten Pohl of UNH, is published in the
July 5 issue of the journal “Nature.”
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FONAR UPRIGHT™
MRI Owner in U.K. Buys Second UPRIGHT™
Multi-Position™ MRI
Melville, NY, 5 July 2007:
FONAR Corporation (NASDAQ-FONR), The
Inventor of MR Scanning™ reported today that
London Upright MRI has purchased its second FONAR UPRIGHT™
Multi-Position™ MRI. The unit is expected to be
placed in the United Kingdom, where there are already two UPRIGHT
Multi-Position MRI scanners.
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Call for HFIR, SNS proposals
at Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Oak Ridge,
TN, 5 July 2007:
The Neutron Scattering Science
Division at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory has
announced a call for proposals for experiments at both the High Flux Isotope
Reactor (HFIR) and the Spallation Neutron Source (SNS). This call includes six
HFIR instruments and three at SNS.
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Breakthrough in
Accelerator Physics: Crab cavities are operated successfully for the first time
Tsukuba, Japan, 3 July 2007: A team of accelerator physicists at the
High Energy Accelerator Research Organization (KEK) in Tsukuba, Japan, has
achieved effective head-on collisions of electrons and positrons using new
superconducting devices called "crab cavities" during the spring operation
period of the KEKB accelerator. This success will pave the way to increase
KEKB's luminosity, which is already the world highest, to an unprecedented
level.
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German Government R & D Grant for Zenergy 2G HTS
Wire
London, UK, 2 July 2007: Zenergy
Power plc (AIM:ZEN.L), the
specialist manufacturer and developer of commercial applications for
high-temperature superconductive (`HTS') materials, is pleased to announce that
the German Ministry of Economics and Technology has notified the Group's wholly
owned subsidiary Trithor GmbH, that it has been awarded a Euro825,000
development grant.
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Paul Chu Receives Appointment to
President’s Committee on the National Medal of Science
Houston, TX, 1 July 2007: The White House has appointed Paul Ching-Wu Chu,
a physics professor and the T.L.L. Temple Chair of Science, to be among 12
distinguished scientists who will evaluate nominees for the National Medal of
Science.
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