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July 2007
McIlvaine Company
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Marshall Plans New Construction
GES Vietnam to Open New Tech Centre
Laird Technologies Opens India Research Lab
Support Office Serves European EE Firms in China
CoorsTek Plans Additional Facility in South Korea
Hon Hai to Construct New Industry Zone in India
NY NanoCenter Awarded $4 Million
Germany Seeks to Conquer Markets with New Nanotechnology Initiative
U.S. Senate Approves Funding to Create National Research Center at UAlbany Nanocollege
Marshall Plans New Construction
The first of those projects is a $3.5 million laboratory building, which will be in Huntington, WV. Groundbreaking on the 16,000-square-foot structure is scheduled to take place in August, and construction should be completed within a year, depending on the weather.
The lab building will have interdisciplinary labs, environmental labs, space for material storage, a classroom and three offices. It will have space for expansion, too.
The other expansion project is a $50 million building that will house classrooms, faculty offices, laboratories and more. University officials plan to build it along the northern side of Third Avenue between the Robert C. Byrd Biotechnology Science Center and the engineering lab building.
Funding has not yet been secured for that project. When completed, it would eclipse the Biotechnology Science Center, which cost $48 million, as the most expensive project in Marshall history.
Both buildings will be home to various components of a Visual Interactive Simulated Environment, or VISE, system.
GES Vietnam to Open New Tech Centre
Global Equipment Services Corp. (GES) is set to break ground on a new technology centre in Vietnam, underscoring the rapid development of the country's electronics industry. The semiconductor support vendor said it received permit to build the facility last week.
GES Vietnam plans to spend about Rs.146.92 crore ($36 million) to construct the manufacturing and training centre, which will rise at the Saigon Hi-Tech Park (SHTP) in the outskirts of Ho Chi Minh City, also soon to be home to Intel Corp.'s largest assembly and test plant.
The GES facility will be operational by September 2008 and will employ some 500 local engineers.
The 6,000sqm centre will perform a variety of functions, including upgrading and design modification for semiconductor and flat-panel manufacturing equipment and training engineers to service equipment in other locations.
The company would only occupy part of the facility; it plans to lease out space to other firms.
Laird Technologies Opens India Research Lab
Laird Technologies, an antenna and EMI shielding specialist, has established a corporate research facility in Bangalore, India that will focus on the development of materials for use in electronic components and systems.
A broad range of technical specialists, including physicists, chemists and material scientists are being recruited in the coming months to staff the laboratory.
These technical specialists and the Indian laboratory will augment Laird Technologies' global engineering and technology staff of over 400.
The facility is located in the International Technology Park (ITPL) in Bangalore. B. K.
Support Office Serves European EE Firms in China
The European electrical and electronic industry has opened an office in Beijing, China to support European enterprises with information regarding standardization, certifications and technology regulations in that country.
The office, dubbed EuropElectro, was officially opened the end of June, but it had been active since February 2007. It is organized by the German industry association ZVEI and the European engineering industries organization Orgalime.
While China is one of the largest markets for electric and electronic products, its restrictive regulations regarding market access pose challenges to enterprises that intend to offer their products in China.
CoorsTek Plans Additional Facility in South Korea
CoorsTek formally announced their intention to build an additional technical ceramics
manufacturing facility in South Korea, expanding their already extensive
presence. Originally established in 1999, the current Korean facility has
seen significant increases in demand for high-purity and other specialty
ceramics — primarily for the semiconductor manufacturing and flat-panel
display industries.
CoorsTek recently signed an agreement with the South Korean government
to make a multi-million dollar investment in a new technical ceramics
manufacturing facility. The new site is more than three times larger than
the current location in Kyungbook to allow for continued growth in the
sector.
Hon Hai to Construct New Industry Zone in India
Taiwan-based Hon Hai Group recently confirmed that it would pour additional US$1 billion to US$1.5 billion to construct a 160-hectare industrial park in India, following an on-going, first-stage cellphone-manufacturing investment project that is scheduled to start mass production in August.
Hon Hai signed an investment letter of intent (LOI) with India's Tamil Nadu state government (at the southern tip of India). Hon Hai Precision Ind. Co. Ltd. and Foxconn International Holdings Ltd. (FIH) have planned to invest a total of US$1 billion in five years to construct the largest high-tech industrial zone in India, which will produce printed circuit board (PCB), connector, computer housing, personal computer (PC), cellphone, and other parts to directly supply big international cellphone brands Motorola and Nokia, as well as PC brand HP.
The first-stage investment project is expected to begin mass production of various cellphone parts for Nokia, Motorola, etc.
FIH chairman Chen Wei-liang said that his company is constructing new production plants in Hebei Province and Shanxi Province of mainland China as well; while the company already runs facilities in Shenzhen (Guangdong Province), Tianjin, Beijing of mainland China, Brazil, Finland, Mexico, and Hungary.
NY NanoCenter Awarded $4 Million
A state grant of $4 million to the Marcy NanoCenter will initiate engineering work on infrastructure improvements at the Rome, N.Y., site of its new facility.
The announcement coincided with Semicon West, being held this week in San Francisco.
The Marcy NanoCenter, currently located at the campus of the State University of New York Institute of Technology, had been the second choice by Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) for a new computer microchip manufacturing plant (AMD is instead now considering the Luther Forest Technology Campus in Saratoga. The R&D and manufacturing cluster includes AMD, ASML, Applied Materials, IBM, NXP Semiconductor and Tokyo Electron. The new location is in proximity to suppliers and nanoelectronics industry R&D at Albany NanoTech and Sematech North.
Germany Seeks to Conquer Markets with New Nanotechnology Initiative
The German Government has launched a new strategy aimed at fortifying the application potential of nanotechnology for Germany's most important industries.
The 'Nanotechnology Conquers Markets' initiative will aim to pool know-how on nanotechnology in order to leverage growth and employment in four of Germany's leading industries: automobile industry (NanoMobil), optics (NanoLux), electronics (NanoFab) and life sciences (Nano for Life).
Nanotechnology solutions are fast becoming the part and parcel of automobile construction, and they are vital for maintaining competitiveness. 'NanoMobil' therefore aims to give Germany the competitive edge by supporting research and development (R&D) projects for the automobile industry and its suppliers. Specific focus will be placed nanotechnologies applications that enhance safety, ecology/sustainability and comfort.
U.S. Senate Approves Funding to Create National Research Center at UAlbany Nanocollege
The College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering ("CNSE") of the University at Albany ("UAlbany") announced today that Senator Charles Schumer, in partnership with Senator Hillary Clinton, has secured $1 million in funding today in the Senate Appropriations Committee to create a new national nanotechnology research center through a partnership between the National Institute for Science and Technology ("NIST") and CNSE.
The New York Center for National Competitiveness in Nanoscale Characterization ("NC3") would leverage pertinent intellectual assets and physical resources of CNSE and NIST to act as a "Next Generation Bell Labs Model" to advance nanoscale metrology innovations and strengthen the resulting R&D-manufacturing-commercialization eco-system in the U.S., in accordance with the report entitled "Sustaining the Nation's Innovation Ecosystem" by the President's Council of Advisors on Science & Technology. By acting as a global resource for R&D, education, and commercialization in the critical science and technology area of nanoscale characterization and metrology, NC3 represents a true embodiment of the principles and objectives of the American Competitiveness Initiative.
As part of NC3, CNSE and NIST will also explore and implement innovative programs to encourage active cooperative work and mutual exchanges of researchers and scientists between the two organizations.
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