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August 2007
UC President Dynes to step down
Oakland, CA, 13 August 2007:
University of California
President Robert C. Dynes – a first-generation college graduate and renowned
physicist who rose to become president of the world’s most prestigious public
university system – announced today (Aug. 13) his intention to step down as
president by June 2008.
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Zenergy Receives Core Patent in Key
Renewable Energy Markets
London, UK, 9
August 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 Group has been granted a core patent covering its groundbreaking HTS
coils in Germany.
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AMSC Reports First Quarter Fiscal 2007 Financial Results
Westborough, MA,
9 August 2007:
American Superconductor
Corporation (NASDAQ:
AMSC), a leading energy
technologies company, today reported financial results for its fiscal first
quarter ended June 30, 2007.
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SUPERPOWER ANNOUNCES
NEW WORLD RECORDS IN WIRE AND MAGNET TECHNOLOGIES
Schenectady, NY, 7 August 2007:
SuperPower, Inc. today reported a
number of new milestone achievements and world record performance at the 2007 U.
S. Department of Energy (DoE) Annual Peer Review in Superconductivity for
Electric Systems in Arlington, Virginia.
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SUPERCONDUCTIVE COMPONENTS, INC. REPORTS STRONG SECOND QUARTER 2007 RESULTS
Columbus, OH, 7
August 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
results for the three months ended June 30, 2007.
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Brookhaven Physics Leaders Satoshi Ozaki and Michael
Harrison Receive IEEE's Particle Accelerator Science & Technology Award
Upton, NY, 3 August 2007: Satoshi Ozaki and Michael Harrison,
physicist-administrators at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE)
Brookhaven National Laboratory who led
the decade-long development and construction of the Laboratory's world-class
particle accelerator, the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC),
were awarded the 2007 Particle Accelerator Science & Technology Award. Sponsored
by the Nuclear & Plasma Sciences Society of the Institute of Electrical &
Electronics Engineers (IEEE), the
award consists of $2,000, shared equally between the two recipients and a plaque
for each recipient with the inscription: "For leadership in the successful
design and construction of the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider."
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HTS-110 ships class-leading 5
tesla beamline magnet to HMI, Germany
Berlin, Germany, 3 August 2007:
HTS-110 has shipped the first of its 5
tesla HTS Beamline magnets to the Hahn-Meitner Institute in Berlin, Germany.
It is the most powerful magnet to date from the New Zealand company,
achieving an impressive 5.4 tesla during testing, well above the 5 tesla
minimum target. The magnet is destined for magnetic diffraction research at
the Berlin Electron Synchrotron (BESSY),
Germany's advanced synchrotron radiation facility.
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Superconductor
Technologies Inc. Announces Second Quarter 2007 Results
Santa Barbara, CA, 2 August 2007:
Superconductor Technologies
Inc. (NASDAQ:SCON),
a leading provider of advanced wireless solutions, innovative adaptive
filtering, and world class cryogenics products for commercial and government
applications, today announced results for the quarter and six months ended June
30, 2007.
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July 2007
Oxford Instruments plc Acquires
Worldwide Analytical Systems AG (WAS)
London, UK, 26 July 2007:Oxford
Instruments plc (“the Company”), the high technology tools and systems
company, announces today that it has received irrevocable acceptances for 81.4%
of the issued share capital of WAS, a leading German manufacturer and
international supplier of Arc/Spark optical emission instrumentation used to
analyse the chemical properties of metals.
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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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