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by Heather Hobbs Joint Venture re-brands Portfolios in Particle Analysis


New joint venture NEXOPART has been created to manage all laboratory-relevant products of Germany-based parent companies Haver & Boecker and Hosokawa Alpine under one roof. With 50% input from each of the two renowned parent companies, the NEXOPART brand will offi cially be introduced on April 1st 2023 to the market as a manufacturer of premium products in the fi eld of particle analysis.


The air jet sieve from Hosokawa Alpine has been designed for the analysis of very fi ne powders and completes the conventional sieve analysis from Haver & Boecker. Thus, NEXOPART effectively offers a coherently interlocking product portfolio for the fi eld of particle analysis from a single source.


“Our goal is to inspire our customers with precision, simplicity and quality. In doing so, our focus is always on the customer,” said Markus Schönwetter, Product Manager LAB at Hosokawa Alpine and soon to be Technical Manager at NEXOPART.


Frank General, future Managing Director of NEXOPART GmbH, further underlines this: “The parent companies are giving something very, very important to the new company: And that is the team, the


employees, who have also worked for these product areas up to now.”


Through the merger, NEXOPART can bundle all processes and the entire product portfolio under one roof, which, In addition to faster delivery times, also results in better product availability. This is a great advantage for ordering test sieves in particular and also enables prompt reaction to questions or problems and if necessary, immediately put you in touch with the right contact person, resulting in improved services for the customer.


The product design will initially still be presented as usual and will be adapted to the new brand step by step. The products already bear the name NEXOPART.


The name NEXOPART tells the brand story in its shortest form: breaking new ground in particle analysis. Innovative solutions are to set the standards for the next era of work in the powder laboratory. NEXOPART therefore is associated with ‘next generation’ innovation and products in the fi eld of particle analysis, said the parent companies.


The future management of NEXOPART GmbH & Co KG: Frank General (Managing Director, left) and Markus Schönwetter (Technical Manager)


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HPC Inauguration Marks Milestone of National Collaboration


University of Kaiserslautern-Landau (RPTU), Goethe University Frankfurt, and Saarland University – has taken an important step towards establishing a powerful, modern research infrastructure with the inauguration of the new high-performance computer (HPC) MOGON NHR South-West at JGU.


NHR South-West will be funded to the tune of €7.5 million through the National High Performance Computing program of the German federal and state governments, with the state of Rhineland-Palatinate contributing €3.75 million of this alone.


Pictured from left: Professor Dr Nicolas Gauger, Director of the Computing Center (RHRZ) at the University of Kaiserslautern-Landau, Professor Dr Stefan Müller-Stach, Vice President for Research and Early Career Academics at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Dr Simon Moll, Head of High Performance Computing at Saarland University, Professor Dr Thorsten Kollegger of Goethe University Frankfurt, and Professor Dr Arnd Poetzsch-Heffter, President of the University of Kaiserslautern-Landau (photo: Peter Pulkowski).


Since its acceptance into Germany’s National High Performance Computing Alliance (NHR) in 2021, the NHR South-West consortium - consisting of Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU), the


“NHR South-West has been able to make signifi cant progress in further expanding its technical computing power. The new computer helps NHR South-West ensure that not only researchers at the four participating universities, but from all over Germany have suffi cient computing capacity for their work. The use of high-performance computers has long since become indispensable in many fi elds of research due to the large volumes of data and the complexity of simulation calculations,” said Clemens Hoch, Rhineland-Palatinate’s Minister of Science.


“Fundamental research in the natural and life sciences requires suffi ciently dimensioned computing resources,” emphasised Professor Stefan Müller-Stach, Vice President for Research and Early Career Academics at Mainz University. “Working groups in many scientifi c disciplines depend on powerful high-performance computers to maintain and further extend their predominant position in various fi elds of research. Thus, we are very pleased to have this


cutting-edge IT infrastructure at hand – in face of the increasing competition among universities both nationally and internationally in general and especially in the fi eld of data processing.”


The new MOGON NHR South-West computer will enable research groups to apply for computing time to advance research or in the fi elds of high-energy physics, condensed matter physics and the life sciences.


At the inauguration ceremony at JGU Professor Friederike Schmid explained the need for HPC, taking as an example the Multiscale Simulation Methods for Soft Matter Systems research project. As a member of the corresponding Collaborative Research Center funded by the German Research Foundation, she is investigating soft matter in various size and time scales.


“The long-term goal of our research is to upgrade multiscale techniques so they can be used in routine simulations of real-world soft material applications. Multiscale techniques are used to solve problems where important processes occur in different magnitudes in space and / or time. We aim to be able to make predictions and suggestions as to how material properties can be tangibly improved and we can only do that with powerful computers running in the background,” she added.


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International Scientists Gather at 14th IWAM Event


The 14th annual International Workshop on Advanced Materials (IWAM) held under the patronage of His Highness Sheikh Saud bin Saqr Al Qasimi, UAE Supreme Council Member and Ruler of Ras Al Khaimah, UAE, saw a gathering of over 200 conferees in Ras Al Khaimah, including a Nobel Prize winner and a member of the Nobel Prize Committee for Chemistry, for discussions on the real-world applications of Advanced Materials.


“In the rapidly changing and relentlessly developing world we live in, knowledge has become the cornerstone of sustainable economic development, and science is a vital engine of prosperity for society and our great hope to shape a better future for our younger generation,” H.H. Sheikh Saud said. “The Emirate of Ras Al Khaimah has cemented its reputation and status as a prominent global platform for brilliant scientifi c minds to come together.”


Professor Sir Tony Cheetham, the Chairman of Ras Al Khaimah Centre for Advanced Materials and professor at both the University of California, Santa Barbara, and the National University of Singapore, said: “This is the 14th event to take place in Ras Al Khaimah and we are proud to continue on this journey in the UAE, under the patronage of His Highness Sheikh Saud bin Saqr Al Qasimi, as we seek even wider exposure and use of Advanced Materials.


“IWAM brings together the fi nest minds in the scientifi c fi eld of Advanced Materials for insightful and productive discussions on breakthroughs, best practice and means to further our scientifi c disciplines for the benefi t of humanity.


Highlights of this year’s IWAM include a session led by Professor Xiaodong Zou, a member of the Nobel Prize Committee for Chemistry, from the University of Stockholm; sessions by Professor Gerbrand


Ceder and Professor Kristin Persson, both experts in AI and machine learning from the University of California, Berkeley, US; a talk from Andre Geim, who won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 2010 for the joint discovery of graphene; sessions with Ras Al Khaimah companies to discuss their interests in the applications of Advanced Materials; and a competition for high school and undergraduate students run by the University of Bolton campus in the Emirate, where students compete for cash rewards.


The global three-day IWAM event was organised by the Ras Al Khaimah Centre for Advanced Materials.


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