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Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. today announced a strategic agreement with Markes International. This new agreement covers non-exclusive, global distribution of Markes Thermal Desorption (TD) instruments that are used in conjunction with Thermo Scientific gas chromatographs (GC) and Thermo Scientific gas chromatograph/mass spectrometers (GC/MS).

Graham Fraser, Managing Director of Fraser Cleaning Technologies, has for some time been considered to be at the Forefront of the Component Cleaning Industry. Fraser have received consistent commendation from customers over the past forty years for their consistent Innovation.

The hydraulic component supplier Stauff UK has taken delivery of a new all-electric tube bending machine from Unison. Applications for the new machine range from the fabrication of batches of tubular components for OEMs in sectors such as the railways and oil and gas, to trade counter activity - which often handles requests to replicate old or obsolescent hydraulic tubing parts.

Motion control specialists Heason Technology Limited has appointed two highly experienced motion control professionals to strengthen its technical sales support and applications engineering capability.

ESI Group announces its participation in the ‘Plasma Technology (PT) Grid’ project, a 3-year joint initiative funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF). The main objective of the PT-Grid is to provide small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) the access to complex plasma technological simulations on the basis of the D-Grid computer infrastructure, which provides almost infinite computing and storage capacity; flexibility, adaptability and automation through dynamic and concerted interoperation of networked resources.

HEXIS Racing AMR and their Aston Martins swept to their first major international title by winning the FIA GT3 European Championship by a comfortable margin over 2008 champions Ford GT Matech. In the drivers’ standings, the crew of Aston Martin DBRS9 No.3 comprising Thomas Accary and Julien Rodrigues are the new vice-champions of Europe, while Frédéric Makowiecki and Manu Rodrigues took a splendid 4th place.

Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. today announced a new online LC/MS information resource for environmental and food safety professionals. As a comprehensive provider of solutions for environmental and food safety, Thermo Fisher is making the easy-to-use resource centers available to the world's scientific community to share its extensive knowledge and help accelerate scientific discovery. The resource center is an essential source of LC/MS information for scientists, providing a gateway to tools and advice that can assist individuals and companies in their research. The useful information centers are available via www.thermo.com/lcmsfood and www.thermo.com/lcmsenviro and are designed to benefit a variety of industry professionals, from laboratory managers and instrument users to scientists undertaking environmental and food safety research.

For the second year in a row, Team Germany - led by students from the university of Darmstadt - has taken first place at the national Solar Decathlon which took place in Washington, DC in October. In this competition, hosted by the U.S. Department of Energy 20 teams of college and university students compete to design, build and operate the most attractive, effective, and energy-efficient solar-powered house.

Colortrac Inc., the American distributor of SmartLF large format scanners, has closed its offices in Golden, Colorado and relocated with immediate effect to new headquarters in Chantilly, Virginia.

The essence of Laser Evolved Micromachining is the ability to combine laser technology’s ultra precision with the scale economies offered by other precision manufacturing processes, namely Advanced Electroforming and Photo Etching.