Around the Industry

XenICs continues its worldwide extension strategy and growth by establishing Singapore-based sInfraRed Pte Ltd. As a company 100% owned by XenICs, sInfraRed is to provide comprehensive marketing, sales and support as well as volume production and customization of XenICs' products in the Asia, Australia and Middle East regions.

EADS Defence & Security will carry out the modernisation programme of four Harrier AV-8B Day Attack aircraft for the Spanish Navy. The contract, with a value of 11.5 million Euros, has been signed with Navair, the U.S. governmental authority acting on behalf of the Spanish Navy. The contract will be executed throughout the next three years, until 2011.

EADS Defence & Security has been awarded a 5-year frame agreement through its integrated activity EADS Secure Networks by State Security Networks Finland. The frame agreement future-proofs the nationwide VIRVE network for the upcoming 15 years.

Ethernet Direct Corporation is continuously awarded by Taiwan’s Municipal government with four new wastewater treatment projects in June 2008.

Anark Corporation and Analytical Graphics, Inc. today announced that Anark has been approved as an AGI Affiliated Product Partner due to the complementary nature of the companies’ products and solutions.

Endevco announced today it has signed a license agreement with Boeing Commercial Airplane Group enabling Endevco to offer an innovative aircraft wing Pressure Belt, developed jointly by the two companies, to all Endevco aviation and aerospace customers as a commercial product.

AWS Group has announced that it will shortly double the capacity of its Slovakian plant in Namestrovo. AWS bought Electro-connect Slovakia a little over a year ago for an undisclosed sum, and has since invested over £200,000, ensuring that its East European facility is a ‘mirror’ of AWS Electronics in terms of equipment, quality standards and procedures.

Cirrus Environmental, a new business which aims to help organisations measure the noise they make and thereby manage the impact that noise has on neighbours and the surrounding environment, has been established this month. The new business is a sister company to Cirrus Research plc, the UK organisation which specialises in the design and development of noise measurement equipment for health, safety and environmental applications.

Schaffner has reorganised its manufacturing strategy in Europe and has opened a new 7,000m² facility in Kecskemét, Hungary

Stuart Turnbull has been formally appointed as the new Managing Director for Sperian Protection in the UK. Sperian Protection (formerly Bacou-Dalloz) is a world market leader in Personal Protective Equipment.