With expansion a prime focus for businesses worldwide, many are looking towards rapidly establishing new regions of growth, particularly in Asia, Pacific Rim countries.
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This section of International Labmate will especially look at the success of both Asian and European companies with established premises or business partnerships, highlighting the opportunities that exist while realising potential for other companies to move into export markets.
PM Leads British Businesses on Trade Mission to India
Prime Minister David Cameron led the largest ever trade delegation to India during February as part of the UK Government's determined effort to promote British business abroad and to help Britain succeed in the global race.
Over 100 companies participated in the three day visit including more than 30 small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs), along with Ministers Lord Green, David Willetts, Hugo Swire and Greg Barker. They met with a number of Indian Government Ministers, inward investors and businesses in both Mumbai and Delhi, as the Government seeks to link British businesses up to one of the world’s fastest growing economies, predicted to become the third largest by 2050.
At the start of the mission (Feb18) the Government announced that it would support the creation of a new pan-India network of British Business Centres by 2017, the first pilot in a scheme of 20 overseas business networks, backed by £8 million of Government funding. The new business centres will offer
business-led, business-backed, support to UK businesses, particularly SMEs, in India.
The Government has also produced a study for business called 'UK India: A Natural Fit' that identifies eight key sectors where UK strengths match India’s economics requirements.
This demonstrates that there are valuable opportunities for British businesses, big and small, from all sectors of the economy stand to gain from India’s growing prosperity.
The trip took place as a series of trade and investment deals were announced which will create 500 new jobs in Britain and safeguard around 2000.
This included the announcement by specialist filtration and environmental technology group Porvair that it has been selected by India's largest private sector enterprise, Reliance Industries Limited, to design and build char filtration systems for its planned gasification plant at Jamnagar.
More Info. 153 Carl Zeiss Gains Ground in China
SMIC, the largest and most advanced foundry in Mainland China, has placed an order with Carl Zeiss for a tool bundle for qualification, repair and metrology of photomasks.
The Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corporation (SMIC), headquartered in Shanghai, China, have purchased multiple systems for photomask verification, repair and metrology from Carl Zeiss Semiconductor Metrology Systems (SMS) Division, a leading supplier of both photomask metrology and manufacturing equipment.
“This step is strategically very important for Carl Zeiss SMS as the semiconductor market in China is still on an emerging
path." states Dr. Oliver Kienzle, CEO of Carl Zeiss SMS GmbH.
SMIC purchased an AIMS™ system for qualifying their photomasks for the advanced node and beyond. To repair the detected defects SMIC will use the ZEISS MeRiT®
MG system,
which allows high end mask repair based on the state-of-the- art e-beam mask repair platform. New to the SMIC production line will be the metrology tool PROVE®
, which will be applied for high performance image placement measurements.
SMIC is one of the leading semiconductor foundries worldwide, providing integrated circuit (IC) foundry and technology services at 0.35-micron to 40-nanometer.
More Info. 154 Research Units Take up Bench Top MRI Scanner
Since the launch of its helium free, 3T, bench top MRI scanner late last year MR Solutions has taken orders for the installation of five of these machines from university and hospital research units across the world.
The universities of Perth (Australia), Antwerp, Düsseldorf and the hospital research centres at George-Francois Leclerc centre (France), Beaumont Hospitals (Michigan) are installing these powerful new scanners over the next year.
Two major advances enable the scanner to be fitted into an area the space of a desk; firstly it replaces the usual liquid helium cooling system with a magnet design incorporating new superconducting wire.
Thus a standard low temperature cryocooler can be used to cool the magnet to the required 4 degrees Kelvin (-269ºC) needed to achieve superconductivity.
Secondly it does not have to be in a separate metal lined room (a Faraday cage) as its stray magnetic field is only a few centimetres and will not interfere with the other equipment in a laboratory. These technological advances have dramatically reduced the cost of this powerful scanner to make it extremely competitive.
Professor Van der Linden Bio Imaging Laboratory of the University of Antwerp commented “This new scanner is a breakthrough and will provide us with the extra scanning power we need within our existing facilities. We can just wheel it in without knocking down any walls and without having to install a costly helium system and the safety system that goes with it. And as its stray magnetic field is so small we can put other sensitive laboratory equipment and scanners close by for much better work flow and don’t have to isolate it in a Faraday cage.”
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Spectro Launches Chinese Website
Spectro, Inc one of the largest worldwide suppliers of oil and fuel analysis instruments to industry and military markets, has launched a website dedicated to its customers and prospects in China, at
www.spectroinc.com.cn.
“This is more than just a translation of our English site,” said Sandra Schiller, Spectro’s Director of Marketing. “It shares the English site’s content and style; however it has been designed with valuable input from our Sales Manager based in China, Alex Shi and has differences in functionality.”
For example, some differences include a comprehensive product selection guide, an expanded download center where users can review brochures, data sheets, white papers, and product specifications. There is also an area for sales representatives to access for sharing marketing materials. Further, Chinese application references have added to each market sector descriptions. “This is an important tool to support our sales and marketing efforts in China,” said Mr Shi, “It will help increase awareness of the Spectro brand in China and to qualify our expertise in fluid testing instrumentation.”
More Info. 157 Dr Adam Clare
A manufacturing lecturer from The University of Nottingham has been given an award by the Japanese Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS), in recognition of his work in manufacturing and processing of materials research with two Japanese Universities. Dr Adam Clare was presented with his Furusato Award at the Japanese Embassy in London, one of only three people in the country to receive the accolade this year. Adam’s award came about as a result of his collaboration with the University of Tokyo and Okayama University, where he worked in non-conventional manufacturing techniques, such as Electrical Discharge Machining (EDM) and Electron Beam Melting (EBM).
The research work which Dr Clare conducted with Professor Okada at Okayama University, focused on looking at what happens to materials when they are processed by electron beam melting. This is especially useful for the manufacture of mould tools for high value products. Dr Clare has also worked closely with Professor Kunieda of the University of Tokyo. Together they have investigated the effects of electrical discharge machining on single crystal materials. This provides useful information for the future of electrical component manufacture. The results of this work have recently been published in the Journal of Materials Processing Technology.
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