Land deal could boost chip-fab efforts Sep 17, 2009
That nanotech center is to include construction of a sterile clean room in which computer-chip research can take place. That alone should provide a boost to the decade-long effort to bring a private chip-fab company to Marcy, officials say. (Utica NY Obserer, NY)
Katharine Weymouth Steps in It Again Sep 16, 2009
It's ridiculous to believe that Weymouth occupies some clean room at Post headquarters at 15th and L Streets, leaving the editorial team uncontaminated with her views. Indeed, Kurtz quotes Weymouth as saying that although she had not read Mendelsohn's piece, she had, in her words, "used it as an example" with editors "of the kind of fare we should be moving away from." If citing a specific piece that you haven't read as the kind of piece the Post shouldn't run isn't interfering, intervening, and... (Slate)
U of MN reviews list of $242M in building projects Sep 12, 2009
The $80 million nanotechnology building would house the research arm of the university s physics program and would feature a 5,000-square-foot clean room. The Legislature must approve the university s capital plan. (Twin Cities Business Journal, MN)
CryoSat ready for launch: Media Day at IABG/Munich Sep 9, 2009
Programme The programme for the Media Day on 14 September at IABG will run as follows: 10:30 - 11:00 Registration 11:00 - 11:05 Welcome to IABG, Stefan Kupczyk, Head of Space Division, IABG 11:05 - 11:20 Welcome and Introduction to ESA's Earth Observation Programme and the Earth Explorer Missions, Volker Liebig, Director of ESA Earth Observation Programmes 11:20 - 11:30 The CryoSat Mission, Richard Francis, CryoSat Project Manager, ESA 11:30 - 11:40 Engineering of the , Eckard Settelmeyer,... (Scientific American)
Biomedical engineering coming to UB Sep 4, 2009
Crews went to work in April on the $73 million facility, which will feature interactive-technology classrooms, a clean room to fabricate electronic and optic devices, several research laboratories, a 180-seat auditorium, a 3,000-square-foot atrium and more than 100 faculty and staff offices. School of Engineering leaders expect the new building to be finished by the 2011 fall semester. (Buffalo Business First, NY)
New Clean Room To Push Boundaries Of Computer Memory Technology Sep 2, 2009
According to Dr Yoshishige Tsuchiya from the Nano Group at the University's School of Electronics & Computer Science, the Nano electromechanical systems (NEMS) available within the new clean room will make high-speed, non-volatile and low-power computer memory a reality ... "In the clean room, we will have both conventional equipment and new nanofabrication facilities such as Electron Beam Lithography and Focused Ion Beam, which we will use to fabricate the new memory devices," Dr Tsuchiya added... (Science Daily)
Lab-on-chip innovator Michelle Khine to be honored Sep 1, 2009
ichelle Khine, a professor at the University of California at Irvine, will be honored next month for inventing a method for fabricating microfluidic devices without a clean room ... to make prototypes of a Traditional microfluidic channels used for routing fluids through a battery of tests are manufactured in a clean room using semiconductor and MEMS fabrication equipment ... The latter requires a clean room, "but that is such overkill for microfluidics where 100-micron resolution is all that's... (EETimes)
Saratoga officials get chip-fab peek Aug 28, 2009
At Applied Materials, the group donned masks, shoe covers, glasses, smocks and hairnets to tour a clean room, Johnson said. They weren't allowed inside Samsung for security reasons. (Albany Times Union)
Shrink that hardware Aug 25, 2009
Michelle Khine, a founder of Shrink Nanotechnologies' nanofabrication platform, used Shrinky Dinks material to create a fully microfluidic device without the need for a clean room and sensitive and expensive equipment. For that feat Khine was named by MIT Technology Review as one of the top 35 global innovators under the age of 35. (EETimes)
Honda looks to the future with fuel-cell technology Aug 24, 2009
Sunday, August 23, 2009. Posted on: Sunday, August 23, 2009. (Honolulu Advertiser)
Division of duties at SuperPower Aug 21, 2009
The wire, manufactured in a high-tech clean room in downtown Schenectady, offers virtually no resistance to electricity, making it a possible solution for a more energy efficient electric grid. In the spring, with little fanfare, the company's chief technology officer, Venkat Selvamanickam, left the company for a faculty position at the University of Houston, which runs the Texas Center for Superconductivity. (Albany Times Union)
Lockheed Martin enhancing Newtown site Aug 13, 2009
It will house a near-field antenna range, a passive inter-modulation chamber, and an antenna assembly clean room, as well as product holding and fixture preparation areas. Bethesda, Md. (Philadelphia Business Journal, PA)
Lockheed Martin Breaks Ground Marking Expansion of Newtown, PA Facility Aug 12, 2009
The addition will house a near-field antenna range, a new passive inter-modulation (PIM) chamber, and a new antenna assembly clean room. In addition, product holding and fixture preparation areas are planned. (PR Newswire)
MIT researchers make carbon nanotubes without metal catalyst Aug 11, 2009
But these can be toxic and cause problems in clean room environments. Moreover, the use of metals in nanotube synthesis makes it difficult to view the formation process using infrared spectroscopy, a challenge that has kept researchers in the dark about some of the aspects of nanotube growth. (EurekAlert!)
Hospital board spends $2 million Aug 5, 2009
Beyond the $355,000 allocated by the board for an access road and site-preparation work at the new care center, the board also allocated $102,590 for a total overhaul of the existing hospital pharmacy s IV Preparation Clean Room, which hospital officials say is out of compliance and could fail inspections by state and federal regulatory agencies if it is not completely renovated ... The remaining $33,000 of the project s total price tag stem from other costs related to renovation, including... (Odessa American, TX)
Areas hopes for high tech on rise again Jul 26, 2009
And with the pending arrival of the nanotechnology facility and its clean room for research, SUNYIT might draw more interest from computer chip makers such as Intel to become home to a chip-fabrication plant. This has a lot more depth than some of these other things have had in the past, Meier said. (Utica NY Obserer, NY)
Intels New Mexico clean room upgrade is huge endeavor Jul 25, 2009
Intels NM clean room huge endeavor - New Mexico Business Weekly ... Intels NM clean room huge endeavor ... Courtesy of Intel Part of the Fab11X clean room at Intel s Rio Rancho site. (New Mexico Business Weekly, NM)
Muddy buddies: Potters open new studio in Eau Gallie Jul 22, 2009
It's an unusually clean room, considering its people play in the mud. The main work area of the new Indian River Potters' Guild, on the edge of the budding Eau Gallie Arts District, invites artistic vision with its big, bright windows. (Florida Today)
Shaler man's invention made it to the moon Jul 20, 2009
It was so small it had to be made in a clean room under a microscope. After the invention became a marketable product, Union Switch & Signal got the device on the military's qualified products list, which meant it could be used in military projects. (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, PA)
From there to hair Jul 18, 2009
Since 1989 he has been married to Xoan Nguyen, who works in a high-tech clean room. The couple owns a home in Milpitas and has two daughters, Jennifer, 12, and Jacklyn, 3. (Palo Alto Online, CA)
Nanotech now: Silver says Destito wanted no more promises Jul 17, 2009
It s hoped that construction of a clean room at SUNYIT for research into placing computer systems onto tiny computer chips could spark the creation of a technology corridor leading from Albany westward to the Mohawk Valley. Construction on a new 200,000-square-foot building could begin next spring, Silver said. (Utica NY Obserer, NY)
GenWay Biotech obtains CLIA certification Jul 16, 2009
Furthermore, GenWay's lab is under construction for the addition of a Class 10,000 clean room which should be complete sometime in August 2009. Dylan Malayter, Project Manager, who has played a predominant role in guiding the lab through the CLIA certification process, feels "This is an immense step forward for GenWay Biotech, Inc. We are excited to begin accepting patient samples and performing revolutionary tests that may save patients lives and enhance their treatment by monitoring their... (EurekAlert! -- Business News)
Chip plant clock ticking Jul 10, 2009
The building shell is expected to be finished in two years, with the clean room manufacturing floor fully operational by 2012. An official groundbreaking will take place July 24. (Albany Times Union)
> Carbon Nanoprobes may make it big in a tiny field Jun 30, 2009
The plant has a clean room in which Carbon Nanoprobes uses its proprietary technology to make its nanoprobes, which are 10,000 times smaller than a human hair. The nanoprobes consist of carbon nanotubes formed on silicon pyramids. (Philadelphia Business Journal, PA)
Panasonic Develops Power-Saving Simulation Technology for Factories; Technology Helps Panasonic Factory to Halve CO2 Emissions per Basic Unit Jun 29, 2009
To be specific, the power-saving simulators evaluate and optimize conditions for using air-conditioning equipment, high pressure air, typically used in clean rooms, and drying/baking furnaces ... Operation and maintenance of clean rooms require a large amount of energy ... Once the air conditioners were set, however, it was difficult to change the settings because environmental factors such as airborne dust, temperatures and humidity in the clean room can influence product quality. (JCN Network, Japan)
Teen Q&A: It’s all about choices Jun 29, 2009
my son or my son s clean room ... Close the door and decide to love your son not the clean room. (La Crosse Tribune, WI)
Hospitals' laundry operation expands Jun 27, 2009
Myles Noel, chief operating officer for the facility, said a quarter of the new expansion is a so-called clean room with equipment and procedures that allow the company to supply reusable gowns, towels and other products. That s a distinct shift away from disposable paper and plastic products and a move expected to save about $750,000 annually in hazardous waste disposal costs. (Columbus Business First, OH)
Pulling malaria from mosquitoes to fight disease Jun 16, 2009
In an FDA-sanctioned "clean room," workers dunk frozen mosquitoes in alcohol, killing them but not the stunned parasites inside. Then, peering through a microscope, the workers carefully pull each mosquito's head from its body. (Orangeburg Times and Democrat, SC)
Jaffrey, NH, company bucks trends, expands Jun 6, 2009
Concord Monitor Online - AP Headlines. The news you need now. (Concord Monitor)
GE opens $165 million facility Jun 6, 2009
NORTH GREENBUSH -- GE Healthcare on Friday officially opened its $165 million digital mammography production plant, showing off a "clean room" that occupies 1. 25 acres, and design features that will save energy and minimize environmental impact. (Albany Times Union)
Jaffrey company bucks trends, expands Jun 6, 2009
CLOUDY Saturday June 6, 2009. Today's most viewed articles. (Seacoast New Hampshire)
Rising with the sun May 24, 2009
In a clean room packed with custom-built equipment, researchers are engaged in a variety of projects. Last Monday, graduate engineering students Eric Sundholm and Richard Schafer were preparing an electron-beam oven for a test of promising new materials. (Albany Democrat-Herald, OR)
Are You Safe In A Hotel? May 22, 2009
Johnson also recommends not putting the Please Clean Room' sign on your door. "If somebody is going to try to get into your room, that's a sign that this room is empty," said Johnson, who recommends calling down to the front desk to request maid service. (Click2Houston, TX)
With tens of millions ready to invest, Sant Ventures plots next move May 16, 2009
Nick Simonite From left: Don James, Doug Frank, Chuck Griffin and Al Beavan ; all BioStable executives ; stand in what will soon be their new clean room. Sant; Ventures is putting its money in the game while many investors choose to ride out the recession on the sidelines. (Austin Business Journal, TX)
MTI Global Reports 2009 First Quarter Results May 14, 2009
2 million for the comparable period due to increased sales across all revenue sources, including clean room manufacturing, general manufacturing and distribution sales ... The Company is in breach of financial and general covenants under the credit facilities with its principal Canadian bank (the "Bank") and it mezzanine lender (the "Lender). In particular, the Company did not achieve its December 31, 2008 earnings before interest, taxes and depreciation, fixed charge coverage and funded debt to... (CCNMatthews Press Releases)
Oro Valley becomes an upscale tech mecca May 13, 2009
Integrated Biomolecule's new home will include laboratories and a supersterilized clean room. But it's not all business: "We've designed the building to take full advantage of those beautiful views so that everyone can enjoy them.". (FOX 11, AZ)
Wanda Barnes Apr 29, 2009
Wanda worked for 25 years in supervisory and management positions for Di Giorgio Corp. and for 15 years at Hewlett-Packard as a clean room operator. Wanda was preceded in death by her husband. (Corvallis Gazette Times, OR)
Character helps Wilcox School student earn state award Apr 16, 2009
Latest Updated: Wednesday, April 15, 2009. Lia Yamasato, second from left, is joined by her proud family, parents Natsumi and Aaron, and sister Sophie. (Lihue Garden Island, HA)
SmartPill ready to go at medical campus Apr 10, 2009
In preparation for the shift, the company recently completed construction of a Class 100,000 clean room where assembly will take place. An initial workforce of five assemblers is expected to double next year, depending on revenues. (Buffalo Business First, NY)
'Cruise control' for spacecraft Apr 7, 2009
You never take it out of the clean room, and then you put in on the top of 100 tonnes of high explosive and set light to it," he says, laughing nervously. "But no, the most exciting time for us will be when that spacecraft comes over the horizon and the ground station picks it up, and you can see the engines are doing what we've always said they will do. " Hear more about Goce and its ion engines in Science In Action on the BBC World Service this Friday, 18 April, at 0930 GMT. (Check World... (BBC News -- Science)
For sale: Qimonda's U.S. fab Apr 4, 2009
If a strategic buyer is not found, the advisory team will move quickly to a complete 300-mm tool line sale, and sale of the clean room manufacturing facilities in separate transactions. "This is the first time an operational 300-mm fab has come to the market for sale. The fully automated, state-of-the-art Qimonda Richmond site was built and equipped at a cost of approximately $3 billion, and volume 300mm production began in 2005," said Stephen Rothrock, Managing Director of Atreg, in a... (EETimes)
Southwestern getting fed. grant Apr 3, 2009
The center has a biotech wet lab and a nanotechnology clean room for use by researchers at its member companies. TLCC has five member companies, and its upgraded facility is expected to attract additional companies to the center. (Austin Business Journal, TX)
Cash, jobs for NanoCollege Apr 1, 2009
Researchers give the thumbs up as they operate in part of the new clean room space where research and development will take place on the next generation of computer ... A separate 100,000-square-foot building connected by a skywalk holds a new 15,000-square-foot clean room for semiconductor research. (Albany Times Union)
Fire at wafer plant in Joo Koon Crescent, one worker hospitalised Mar 28, 2009
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FDA ignored whistleblower Mar 21, 2009
Problems with syringe maker's 'clean room' were overlooked for six months ... Clean room compromised ... Specifically, the worker raised concerns about conditions in the so-called clean room at the Angier facility, which was supposed to be carefully monitored for air quality to keep germs from circulating. (News & Observer)
GEs digital X-ray center will mean 100 new jobs at $65K a year Mar 15, 2009
Health Care: GEs digital X-ray center will mean 100 new jobs at $65K a year - The Business Review (Albany). for free extra services. (Albany Business Review, NY)
Taking the Kids to the Kennedy Space Center Mar 14, 2009
In another building, another shuttle bus ride away, we got to peer down into the "clean room" where engineers and technicians ready items and experiments for the International Space Station. We also got to blast off into space, via a simulator, and ascend into orbit. (MSNBC -- Travel)
More than $5 million expected for Twin Towns Mar 14, 2009
The Center has also begun to start offering workforce training and has partnered with a company out of Grand Forks to start training employees to clean room protocols. According to Burke, the Nanotechnology Applied Science Laboratory is "coming along wonderfully.". (Wahpeton Daily News, ND)
Tastevin Bistro & Wine Mar 12, 2009
Natasha is a breezy, chatty host with the occasional "too much information" moment but she brings a lovely sparkle and warmth to this simple, clean room with a red banquette along one wall and paper-on-cloth tables. The confit pork parmentier ($17/$26) is a little dry, Natasha pre-emptively warns diners. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
Volcano is centerpiece on Guatemala trip Mar 10, 2009
Lodging in a clean room with cable television and hot water cost only about $25 a night. Food, too, was inexpensive: It was never all that great a lot of beans and rice but the fruit was fresh and the licuados, fresh-fruit milkshakes, were divine. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- Travel)
FDA warned syringe producer of violations Feb 27, 2009
Photographs introduced as evidence show a "clean room" with a window fan patched with duct tape. Others show paint chipping off the facility's floor and syringes piled high on a table. (MSNBC -- Health)
FDA knew of syringe firm's laxity Feb 26, 2009
Another critical problem, he said, was the failure to maintain a clean room where syringes were loaded. Such rooms require constant vigilance to make sure germs aren't circulating, but AM2PAT failed to uphold standards. (News & Observer)
Sand company states its case Feb 26, 2009
dad123 wrote on Feb 25, 2009 4:32 PM:" I actually attended the meeting last night and found that many hard-line questions were either dodged or avoided altogether.I specifically asked the gentleman in the "air quality" station if he would live with his children across the street or near this plant facility. He gave me the "deer in the headlights" look and stumbled around for an answer. BIG red flag. This had the attention of several people at the station and he NEVER said yes he would. I found... (Chippewa Falls Chippewa Herald, WI)
FDA ignored debris in syringes Feb 25, 2009
The so-called clean room, where air is carefully controlled to reduce the spread of germs, was ventilated with an ordinary room fan. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration -- charged with overseeing more than 10,000 drug-device makers in addition to thousands more pharmaceutical manufacturers, food processing companies and animal-feed plants -- received numerous complaints about the company's heparin products months before the bacterial infections erupted in December 2007 and January 2008. (News & Observer)
Hunt for mastermind who shipped tainted syringes Feb 25, 2009
The syringes were supposed to be loaded in a "clean room," with employees in caps and gowns and air carefully ventilated to keep germs from spreading. A photograph entered into evidence Monday shows a "clean room" refreshed with a common window fan held together with duct tape. (Newsday)
Tainted syringes killed 5 Feb 24, 2009
The syringes were supposed to be loaded in a "clean room," with employees in caps and gowns and the air carefully ventilated to keep germs from spreading. A photograph entered into evidence Monday shows a "clean room" refreshed with a common window fan that was held together with duct tape. (News & Observer)
Going the extra mile Feb 21, 2009
She makes sure those who are looking for a clean room, friendly staff and peace and quiet at the end of the day get that. But for rewards members who are looking for some excitement and a sense of community, it s often just an elevator ride away. (Columbus Business First, OH)
AMD changes chip fab design Feb 13, 2009
Renderings previously shown to the town had large footbridges between the clean room manufacturing space and the administrative offices. Those plans included a large rotunda at the entrance, which looked much like AMD's corporate headquarters in Sunnyvale, Calif. (Albany Times Union)
Draft Of Neanderthal Genome Completed Feb 13, 2009
bo s group was the production of sequencing libraries under clean-room conditions to avoid contamination of experiments by human DNA. They also designed DNA sequence tags that carry unique identifiers and are attached to the ancient DNA molecules in the clean room. This makes it possible to avoid contamination from other sources of DNA during the sequencing procedure, which was a problem in the initial proof-of-principle experiments in 2006. (Science Daily)
Toni Erikson; innkeeper worked with mentally disabled Feb 13, 2009
"You got a clean room, all the towels you wanted, and pretty much the run of the house," her daughter said. "If you wanted a cup of coffee, it was always there. If you wanted to sit and shoot the breeze, you could go sit on the porch with my mom and dad.". (Boston Globe)
Nissan GT-R is impressive, but for $77,000 it should be perfect Feb 13, 2009
And how can you fail to be impressed by its engine never mind the awesome power that is hand-built, Nissan says, in an environmentally controlled clean room by a single technician ... Made in Japan, using engine hand-assembly by a single technician in, Nissan says, climate-controlled clean room. (USA Today -- Autos)
Mars mission has some seeing red Feb 11, 2009
- In a "clean room" in Building 150 of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory is something that looks very much like a flying saucer. It's a capsule containing a huge, brawny Mars rover, a Hummer compared with the Mini Coopers that have previously rolled across the Red Planet. (Huntington WSAZ-TV, WV)
Showa Denko K.K. (SDK) Announces 2008 Business Results Feb 10, 2009
Thus it will find applications in static-free plastic cases for the carriage of semiconductor/hard disk media parts in a clean room, contributing to better quality of these parts. SDK has concluded a patent cross-license agreement with Hyperion Catalysis International, Inc., which owns many key patents pertaining to materials and applications in the area of carbon nanotube, including for resin composites. (JCN Network, Japan)
Ready to fire Feb 8, 2009
But the Feb. 9 edition of Business Week featured a story about the NanoCollege with a large photo of Kaloyeros in a clean room "bunny suit" the white outfits worn by workers and scientists to make sure particles don't contaminate the billion-dollar manufacturing tools. Post-season cliff hanger. (Albany Times Union)
Mom and Pop Whitman track the elusive snow leopard Feb 8, 2009
Visitors pay about $10 a night for a clean room, meals with the family, and a warm introduction to their culture. Having tourists every couple of weeks provides the hosts with more than enough income to replace stock lost to predators. (Weymouth News, MA)
