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A Philippines children’s national football team shot to fame on the worldwide sporting front celebrating their resounding success in the inaugural Deloitte Street Child World Cup held in Durban, South Africa, in March. The tournament marked the launch of a new initiative from the Amos Trust, an organisation that works with a network of community projects from around the world to raise awareness of, and provide support to address injustice and poverty.
Team sponsor, Dr Graham Rideal, managing Director of Whitehouse Scientific, takes a very active role in working with street children in the Philippines. “The highlight for the team was their 6 - 2 win over a skillful Brazil side, which made front page headlines in most of the Philippines news papers,” he said. “Whitehouse Scientific is proud to have been
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able to help the team to participate in this fantastic tournament.”
As well as beating Brazil, the Philippines team competed against the United Kingdom, Tanzania, Ukraine and South Africa, winning the Street Child World Shield Final.
“The event exceeded all our expectations,” said Gary Mabbutt, former Tottenham Hotspur Captain and England International, who is the ambassador from FIFA (International Federation of Association Football) for the Street Child World Cup. “As well as being a great sporting occasion it also highlighted the need for an international resolution to recognise the rights of street children around the world.”
Other supporters of the tournament include Archbishop Desmond Tutu, actress Thandie
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Dr Graham Rideal (left) and FIFA Ambassador Gary Mabbutt
Newton, England Internationals David Beckham and Theo Walcott, and Manchester United Manager Sir Alex Ferguson.
Donations can be made via the Amos Trust website at:
www.streetchildworldcup.org
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Malvern Instruments Acquires Assets of Reologica Instruments AB
Malvern Instruments Ltd (Malvern, UK) has acquired certain assets of Swedish rheology company Reologica Instruments AB (Lund, Sweden), which went into administration on 23rd March 2010. Financial terms have not been disclosed. Paul Walker, Managing Director of Malvern Instruments, said: “This purchase gives Malvern access to additional technologies and intellectual property that will support the
Advanced logistics software from Paragon Software Systems is enabling The Linde Group to optimise routing and scheduling of thousands of gas deliveries across the world. The gases and engineering company has almost 50,000 employees working in around 100 countries worldwide. In the 2008 financial year it achieved sales of EUR 12.7 billion.
Linde has standardised on using the Paragon solution for planning its daily deliveries in Germany, Belgium, the Netherlands and France, with customers placing orders right up to 5pm each afternoon for next day delivery. The system is also currently being implemented in the Czech Republic, Norway, Sweden, Australia and New Zealand, and the company will roll out the system to the USA and Canada soon.
Eventually, Linde will use Paragon worldwide for managing deliveries globally and optimising its use of a combined worldwide fleet of 4,500 vehicles. The system is installed centrally and accessed via Citrix by schedulers in each country, integrating seamlessly with Linde’s SAP enterprise system.
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As sister companies within Spectris plc, Malvern Instruments and Particle Measuring Systems have completed the transfer of sales and support for Particle Measuring Systems products in Sweden, Denmark, Norway and Finland. Last month direct support of the complete product
continued development of our own rheology business. Reologica Instruments has been involved in the design and manufacture of rheometers and associated accessories for more than 20 years and there is a wealth of knowledge in the business. We anticipate that key members of the Reologica team will transfer as a result of the deal.” Existing Reologica customers should contact: Tel: +44 (0) 1684 891800.
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range in was established with sales and service teams operating from a newly established Nordic office. New contact details are: Particle Measuring Systems Nordic, Korskildelund 6, DK- 2670 Greve, Denmark. Tel: +45 70 70 28 55. Fax: +45 70 70 29 55.
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Dionex Corporation is to ship 42 ICS-1100 systems to Poland for use in environmental laboratories throughout the country. The tender order won by distributor AGA Analytical brings the number of these Dionex IC instruments in use by the Polish Environmental Inspectorate to 76. The new units, to be used for the analysis of inorganic anions in water and air samples, were said to have been chosen because of technical advantages over other
systems, including the use of 2mm microbore columns and self-regenerating membrane suppressors; as well as for a reasonable pricing structure that resulted in an overall lower cost of ownership. “We congratulate AGA Analytical for obtaining this large order for Dionex against the competition from other companies offering standard ion chromatography,” a spokesperson for Dionex said.
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Retsch, a leading German company in laboratory milling and sieving equipment, has established a new subsidiary in Russia. From this month, Retsch Rus LLC conducts business from their head office at Khimanalit Institute in St. Petersburg under the management of Mr Sergey Vinogradov who headed the former distributor, RVS Ltd, also situated in St. Petersburg. The team is
complemented by an application specialist, customer service representative and a service technician. Retsch Rus allows its Russian customers direct access to the manufacturer and benefit from first hand information, dedicated product and service specialists, and an application center with the latest Retsch equipment where customer samples are tested free of charge.
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Leading water transport and treatment specialist ITT Corporation has concluded the transfer of Nova Analytics into its group structure extending its portfolio of laboratory, field, portable, and on-line analytical instruments used in water and wastewater, environmental, medical, and food and beverage applications. Acquired brands such as WTW®
, SI Analytics® , Aanderaa® Bellingham + Stanley® and Global Water®
, ebro® , will
expand ITT’s presence in categories adjacent to its core businesses and build on global leadership positions in key markets.
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“We’re excited to offer Nova’s portfolio of recognised testing and instrumentation brands alongside our own in the fluid technology and food and beverage spaces, enabling us to build a strong platform in the $6 billion global analytical instrumentation market," said Gretchen McClain, President of ITT Fluid and Motion Control. "Combining Nova's branded instrument and sensor portfolio with our current offerings will allow us to better address all of ITT’s and Nova’s customers' operating and monitoring needs, and assist them in optimising and controlling their operating and construction expenses."
Nova employs approximately 725 people in Germany, Norway, France, the United Kingdom, the United States, and China, and generated pro forma full year global revenues of approximately US$135 million in 2009.
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