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PolyOne Corp. (www.polyone.com) announced its strategic acquisition of Fiber-Line (www.fiber-line.com), a leading manufacturer of customized composite materials and engineered fibers for around $120 million. Founded in the year 1987, Fiber-Line has used its customer-centric values as well as specialty innovation to build a robust portfolio of offerings catering to oil & gas, industrial, fiber optic …
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Perimeter Solutions, one of the prominent producers offering a wide-range of fire retardants, water enhancing gels, and foams for management of fires of varying intensities across wild land, municipal, and industrial ecosystems, made an announcement yesterday. The announcement was about the completion of its acquisition of Solberg, the Amerex Corporation division of firefighting foam products. …
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Premier Inn has in partnership with E.ON has installed UK’s first hotel based battery storage unit. The lithium ion based battery has a capacity of 100 KWh and will be used to store excess energy produced from the hotel’s rooftop solar panel array. The battery will be used for at least 2 hours per day …
Digital Hub, Ireland’s cluster of technology, digital media and internet companies, based in Dublin is planning a windmill farm on its campus to support energy needs of growing number of companies in the hub. A year earlier eight new companies bought new office space and nine companies expanded their space in the hub. The windmill …
An infrared sensor based mobile food scanner will be able to determine the freshness of food. The device can be used by supermarkets and consumers alike to know the shelf life of food item. The technique uses infrared measurements to determine the shelf life and ripeness of a product which will help in understanding the …
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Food preservatives have shown a tendency to cause allergic reactions and have proved to be less than ideal for our health. Researchers from Pennsylvania State University have found a natural antioxidant in grain bran which has shown potential to be used for food preservation in the coming years. Grain bran is the hard cover of …
As Implant Files, an investigation by International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ), have exposed failure of medical regulators to test faulty medical implants and save lives, companies are using an exemption clause to escape from EU’s new rules. The May 2020 Deadline for manufacturers who test medical devices to comply with recertification norms has led …
Researchers in Barcelona have found a new grapheme based implant to map the brains activity below 0.1 Hz of frequency. The prototype created at Barcelona Microelectronics Institute will help in understanding the brains activity exponentially. For decades researchers were using electrode arrays to map the activity in the various parts of the brain. The electrode …
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Intel and GE Health’s, two of the biggest players in the digital healthcare sector, have in a collaborative project shown promises to significantly reduce the time between imaging and medical diagnosis. The new technology will harness the Intel Distribution of OpenVINO Toolkit which runs on Intel’s x-ray systems to help prioritizing and optimizing patient care. …
The healthcare industry has been continually witnessing a wave of strategic mergers and acquisitions, which could bring in major transformations in the spectrum of healthcare business. Post multiple series of consolidation between the pharmacy benefits managers and health insurers last year, biotech companies have been flourishing in the healthcare space as they have evolved as …
