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Covalent Metrology Partners with Digital Surf to Bring Cutting-Edge Analytical Solutions to Instrument Users

Covalent Metrology, a leading analytical services provider offering one of the largest portfolios of characterization techniques in North America, is working with Digital Surf, a global leader in analytical software development, to offer software tools for data processing and visualization to its range of clients. The collaboration will also allow both companies to pool customer insights in the aim of providing better services and more powerful analysis tools.

Summa Equity acquires G-CON Manufacturing, the leading US-based provider of POD® cleanroom solutions

Summa Equity Fund II (“Summa”) has acquired a majority stake in G-CON, a leading US-based manufacturer of prefabricated cleanrooms used for manufacturing within the pharmaceuticals industry. G-CON designs, builds and installs turnkey cGMP (Current Good Manufacturing Practice) compliant suites called PODs, for a global biopharma customer base focused on biologics, pharma, CDMO (contract development and manufacturing), and cell and gene therapy manufacturing.

GlobalFoundries Plans to Build New Fab in Upstate New York in Private-Public Partnership to Support U.S. Semiconductor Manufacturing

GlobalFoundries (GF), the global leader in feature-rich semiconductor manufacturing, today announced its expansion plans for its most advanced manufacturing facility in upstate New York over the coming years. These plans include immediate investments to address the global chip shortage at its existing Fab 8 facility as well as construction of a new fab on the same campus that will double the site’s capacity.

Freudenberg Medical Supports the Fight against Covid-19 in India

Freudenberg Medical, part of the Freudenberg Group and a global contract manufacturing partner to the medical device and pharmaceutical industry, has added a support team in India for customer sales and service to the region. Freudenberg is committed to serving medical device and pharmaceutical customers also present in Asia Pacific region with local operations in China and Singapore.

Overhead Hoist Transport Devices Drive Materials in Semiconductor Manufacturing Facility

Overhead Hoist Transport Devices Drive Materials in Semiconductor Manufacturing Facility

Self-driving cars sit at the intersection of artificial intelligence and the automobile industry, presenting an exciting new opportunity for transportation. While the commercialization of autonomous driving awaits technological refinement and regulation, Samsung Electronics’ semiconductor production lines are already utilizing systems that share similarities with self-driving technologies.

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Lilly Diabetes helpline Assists People Seeking Affordable Insulin

Lilly Diabetes helpline Assists People Seeking Affordable Insulin

Lilly Diabetes Solution Center will assist people who need help paying for their insulin – such as those with lower incomes, the uninsured, and people in the deductible phase of their high-deductible insurance plans, Eli Lilly and Company (NYSE: LLY) announced today. A customized suite of solutions for all Lilly insulins, including for Humalog® (insulin lispro), will be used by helpline operators to find answers that best fit the personal circumstances of patients.

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Prudential Cleanroom Services Opens Laundry Processing Facility

Prudential Cleanroom Services Opens Laundry Processing Facility

The project is a 131,371-square-foot commercial laundry facility on a 14.23-acre tract. Prudential says it completed the first of three phases: building a one-story facility that includes offices, industrial space, employee areas and loading docks, with 136 parking spaces on-site for staff.

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Ancient Biocrust’s Microorganisms Helped Seas With Nitrogen

Ancient Biocrust’s Microorganisms Helped Seas With Nitrogen

Like our oceans, today’s continents are brimming with life. Yet billions of years ago, before the advent of plants, continents would have appeared barren. These apparently vacant land forms were believed to play no role in the early biochemical clockwork known as the nitrogen cycle, which most living things depend on for survival. Researchers discover ancient biocrusts played an important role in the nitrogen cycle.

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Gold Nanoparticles Could Improve Solar Energy Storage

Gold Nanoparticles Could Improve Solar Energy Storage

gold nanoparticles, coated with a semiconductor, can produce hydrogen from water over four times more efficiently than other methods – opening the door to improved storage of solar energy and other advances that could boost renewable energy use and combat climate change, according to Rutgers University–New Brunswick researchers.

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Water Evaporation Controlled by Graphene

Water Evaporation Controlled by Graphene

The study, carried out by a team from the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the Collaborative Innovation Center of Quantum Matter (Beijing), looked at the interactions of water molecules with various graphene-covered surfaces.

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Molecular clock could greatly improve smartphone navigation

Molecular clock could greatly improve smartphone navigation

MIT researchers have developed the first molecular clock on a chip, which uses the constant, measurable rotation of molecules — when exposed to a certain frequency of electromagnetic radiation — to keep time. The chip could one day significantly improve the accuracy and performance of navigation on smartphones and other consumer devices.

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