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Altium Limited (ASX: ALU), the electronics design industry’s leading developer of unified electronic product development solutions, has reported results for the half-year ending 31 December 2008.

Altium asked all electronics designers to leave all preconceptions at the door at this year’s embedded world conference, held in Nuremberg, Germany, March 3-5, 2009.

Wonderware United Kingdom, a division of SolutionsPT limited, today announced the release of Wonderware Industry Application for Packaging, targeting the unique needs of packaging operations in the food and beverage and consumer goods industry markets.

Bearing manufacturer NKE Austria GmbH has a new Human Resources Manager: As of February 2009, Thomas Witzler, MSc, is responsible for human resources management with a focus on personnel and organisational development as well as recruiting.

Endevco, a Meggitt group company, has announced a reseller relationship with AIMIL Ltd., based in New Delhi, to represent the company’s extensive family of measurement products in India.

Access to the most important information with just one click: the new !nsight database from Ceresana Research offers useful, fundamental information on plastics, chemicals, and additives.

The Northampton based igus has been awarded the title Supplier of the Year 2008 in the category Crisis Management by the machine and plant engineering company IMA Klessmann. igus has been a partner to the woodworking systems specialist for more than 18 years’ now, and equips CNC machining centres with energy chains and specialist cables. The company delivers both individual components and completely harnessed ReadyChain® energy supply systems which include all cables, plugs and accessories and are ready to be installed. The company provides a global function guarantee for these products.

Armstrong Optical Ltd and Sydor Optics Inc have been awarded a major contract to supply optical debris shields for the Atomic Weapons Establishment’s replacement high-energy laser facility, Project Orion.

When Master Chemical Europe introduced its TRIM® Task™ maintenance cleaner it provided industry with a highly efficient product based on the tough requirements of the production engineering sector. When diluted with water in different ratios it could be used to tackle an exceptionally wide range of grime busting jobs.

Altium continues to expand programmable device options for its desktop NanoBoard reconfigurable hardware development platform. It’s released a new daughter board aimed at high performance signal processing, FPGA-based applications.