customer news
1. Aigis Mechtronics releases new
stainless steel security camera housing.
2. GE Healthcare develops high
definition MRI system.
3. Varian releases the VK 7030 Dissolution
Tester with Direct Vessel Heating (DVH).
4. BSH Home Appliances highlights Bosch
brand of kitchen and laundry products.
5. WEDECO releases industrial UV water
purification system.
Aigis Mechtronics releases new
stainless steel security camera housing.
The specially designed housing
packages perform equally well in sensitive environments and
under harsh industrial conditions making these units perfect
for protecting sensitive camera equipment in food
processing, biomedical and other industrial facilities.
Formerly a
manufacturing unit of Philips Communication,
Security & Imaging, Inc. (Philips CSI),
Aigis produces a full line of
electro-mechanical equipment including
housings for cameras, integrated
camera/housing packages, mini-domes,
pan/tilt units and mounts.
Located in Winston-Salem, North Carolina,
Aigis has over 20 years experience in the
forming and machining of mechanical
products. Over the past 10 years, the
facility has focused primarily on the design
and manufacture of mechanical products for
the CCTV security industry. The new company
was created through an internal management
buyout that is headed by Keith Todd and four
of his key managers.
Aigis focuses on customer
service through flexible design and quick turnaround for
customized applications. In an increasingly demanding
industry, Aigis seeks to help its customers achieve a
perfect fit both functionally and aesthetically.
www.aigismech.com
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GE Healthcare develops high
definition MRI system.
GE Healthcare announced that it has developed the world’s
first high definition magnetic resonance (HDMR) system. This
breakthrough technology was launched at the Radiological
Society of North America’s 90th Scientific Assembly and
Annual Meeting in Chicago, Illinois.
HDMR will, for the first time, provide physicians with
unprecedented image clarity in cases where patients are
difficult to image due to movement, including Parkinson’s
patients who suffer from uncontrollable patient motion and
including children who do not respond to sedation.
This new GE technology dramatically improves MR imaging
speed and quality, allowing clinicians to obtain vast
amounts of data in a short time and perform MR studies that
otherwise would be compromised.
According to recent studies, 25 to 30 percent of all head MR
studies are compromised by some amount of patient movement,
which can impact patient diagnosis. However, GE’s exclusive HDMR technology, PROPELLER, provides uncompromised images of
the brain despite patient motion.
This new technology, available on GE Signa 1.5T and 3.0T MR systems,
enables massively simultaneous imaging in multiple channels
in increments of 16. HDMR features a unique balanced
acquisition architecture, with individual receive channels
connected to dedicated reconstruction engines.
GE’s exclusive EXCITE technology has already enabled three
exclusive, targeted MR applications with meaningful clinical
benefits: VIBRANT for bilateral breast imaging in a single
exam; TRICKS for MR angiography of the legs; and PROPELLER
for high-quality brain imaging that is extremely resistant
to motion artifacts. EXCITE HD brings each of these new
applications info high definition.
GE Healthcare is a $14 billion unit of General
Electric Company (NYSE: GE) that is headquartered in the
United Kingdom. A MR production facility is located in
Florence, SC.
www.gehealthcare.com
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Varian releases the VK 7030
Dissolution Tester with Direct Vessel Heating (DVH).
Varian expanded its V-Series line of dissolution testers
by introducing the VK 7030 with patented Direct Vessel
Heating (DVH), designed to improve productivity, efficiency
and automation for pharmaceutical laboratories.
Unlike traditional dissolution testers that immerse
vessels in water to regulate temperature, the new VK 7030
heats its patented vessels directly to raise the temperature
inside. The patented Direct Vessel Heating (DVH)
technology provides faster heat up of dissolution media,
eliminates tedious chores associated with water bath
draining and cleaning and alleviates algae build up.
The Auto Temp in-vessel temperature monitoring system on the
VK 7030 automatically measures and records individual vessel
temperatures. Additionally, independent cannulas can be
lowered individually or in unison and allow programmed
staggered drops and sampling without disrupting vessel
hydrodynamics while ensuring accurate sampling position.
Varian,
Inc.'s dissolution product line is a world leader in
dissolution testing, providing instrumentation and solutions
that improve the way a pharmaceutical company works.
Varian's Dissolution Testing Group is located in Cary, NC.
www.varianinc.com
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BSH Home Appliances highlights
Bosch brands of kitchen and laundry products.
As an extension of its print "Your Life. Our
Inspiration." branding campaign, leading home appliance
manufacturer Bosch announced the debut of new national
television advertising this month. Building on the
reputation of its top-rated dishwashers, the new 60 and
30-second spots entitled "Every Day" represent Bosch's first
brand commercials in the U.S.
Displaying a clean visual style evocative of the
contemporary, European design of Bosch products, the spots
show the appliances as high-performance, high-efficiency
domestic tools. Beginning with the voiceover "every day is
precious," the spots follow a mother and child as they take
advantage of the versatility of cooking appliances, expertly
care for laundry and enjoy the extreme quiet of a Bosch
dishwasher to "get the most out of every day."
Bosch, which is part of BSH Home Appliances Corporation
-- a division of Bosch und Siemens Hausgeraete GmbH, the
third largest appliance manufacturer in the world -- began
selling dishwashers in North America in 1991. Today, Bosch
manufactures a diverse portfolio of appliances including
dishwashers, ranges, cooktops, wall ovens, washers and
dryers at its state-of-the-art factory in New Bern, N.C.
www.boschappliances.com
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WEDECO releases industrial UV
water purification system.
WEDECO Ultraviolet Technologies, based in Charlotte NC,
announced the release of its new line of industrial UV
systems specifically designed for OEM’s and End Users that
have stringent water purification requirements. The CHI
Series, with flow rates from 10 gpm through 200 gpm, offers
a wealth of standard and optional features that high purity
customers demand.
The CHI Series utilizes the Type XLR low pressure, high
intensity (Lo-Hi) UV lamp system offering 3 times the
intensity of low pressure low intensity lamps which means
fewer lamps allowing a more compact design. The
microprocessor based control is housed in a UL 508A Listed NEMA Type 4X stainless steel remote mounted enclosure.
The CHI Series also offers a wealth of optional features
such as sanitary fittings, thermal overheat protection
switch, lamp validation and two types of UV sensors (Type
UCS & UCA). The Type UCA Sensor is unique in that it
provides protection of the UV sensor element during hot
sanitization of the process lines. The CHI UV system is
unsurpassed in the market today.
www.usa.wedeco.de
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