The Netherlands have a unique ecosystem of OEM companies, subsystem suppliers, knowledge institutes and upcoming innovators that cooperate in developing High Tech Systems (HTS). As a result, the Dutch high tech industry is a major global contributor to development in fields of technology such as mechatronics, precision engineering, embedded systems, microsystems and nanotechnology. Technology already in use worldwide today, and innovative solutions for tomorrow. Dutch HTS will provide you with the latest company news, furthermore it gives you access to key-people that work in the Dutch High Tech Systems industry.
LATEST NEWS:
07/29/07 ASMi reports second quarter 2010 operating results [ASMi]
Commenting on the results, Chuck del Prado, President and Chief Executive Officer of ASM International, said, "ASMI's second quarter performance reflects strong growth in both our wafer processing and assembly and packaging operations. Our Front-end business returned to profitability, we reached the cost reduction targets as set out in our global restructuring program...
07/29/10 UPS Worldport Expansion Project completed [Vanderlande]
After four years of dedicated hard work and cooperation between UPS and Vanderlande Industries, the UPS Worldport Expansion project in Louisville (USA) is now finalized. Senior executives of UPS, Scott Wicker and Mark Scherrens, along with Joop Broeksteeg, President of DPP division for North America and Michiel Peters, President and
CEO of Vanderlande Industries, visited Vanderlande Industries
headquarters in The Netherlands to celebrate the successful
completion of the project...
07/29/10 Free-Power and Scheuten Solar realize large roof system in France [Scheuten Solar]
Recently Free-Power, located in Clermont-Ferrand, France and Scheuten Solar France officially opened a roof integrated PV-system consisting of over 1,800 solar modules. The system with a power output exceeding 380 kWp was realized in the Auvergne region in France. To date this PV power plant is the largest one realized in this region of France. Hundreds of guests and local authorities attended the event which received extensive press coverage...
07/29/10 Robot to become caretaker for elderly (Dutch article, source: Nu.nl)
Op een beurs in Tokio zijn woensdag de nieuwste snufjes op het gebied van robottechnologie getoond. DiGORO was de grootste publiekstrekker. Deze geavanceerde robot kan mensen en voorwerpen herkennen. Ook RAPUDA, een mechanische arm, deed het goed. Beide robots zijn ontwikkeld om bejaarden te helpen als zij bijvoorbeeld invalide of dement worden...
07/28/10 TMC appoint Luud Engels as C.O.O. (Dutch article) [TMC]
TMC kondigt de benoeming aan van Luud Engels als COO van TMC Group. Luud Engels zal tijdens de eerstvolgende Algemene Vergadering van Aandeelhouders officieel worden voorgedragen als lid van de Raad van Bestuur. Luud Engels is afgelopen 6 maanden reeds actief geweest als interim COO binnen TMC Group N.V.De 50-jarige Engels beschikt over een ruime ervaring in de business waarin TMC actief is...
07/27/10 Norma Asia ISO 9001-2008 certified [Norma]
On June 11th Norma Asia obtained the ISO 9001-2008 certificate. All procedures and regulations have been set down competently. Last year the quality of information dissemination has been improved substantially. There is now a mature professional organisation with approximately forty employees...
07/27/10 Besi reposrts record quarterly orders and backlog. Revenue and profitability exceed expectations [BESI]
Besi today announced its results for the second quarter, ended June 30, 2010. Richard W. Blickman, President and Chief Executive Officer of Besi, commented: "We are pleased to report that Besi returned to profitability in the second quarter of 2010. Shipment and order levels increased significantly due to the continued expansion of industry demand for memory, personal computing and smart phone devices and our ability to ramp production at our global facilities more rapidly than anticipated...
07/23/10 Phenom Pro Suite: generates answers not just images [Phenom World]
Phenom-World BV, producer of the Phenom desktop scanning electron microscope, announces the launch of a new software product, the Phenom Pro Suite. The Phenom Pro Suite applications expand the functionality of the Phenom by automated collection of images, visualize samples in 3D, measure surface roughness and automated fiber analysis...
07/23/10 Sioux' CEO envisions the development of the 'Brainport' High Tech Systems region (Dutch article) [Sioux]
Maandelijks geeft Sioux CEO Hans Duisters zijn oordeel over de barometerstand voor de hightech systems industrie. Deze maand stelt hij de vraag hoe Brainport kan doorgroeien tot een technologische topregio in 2020...
07/21/10 Verum and SolidSource close technology partnership agreement [Verum]
Verum Software Technologies and SolidSource have closed a technology partnership agreement that will see the two companies working closely together on the development of new software engineering technologies. Initially the partnership will focus on applying SolidSource’s expertise in translating complex information into simple, easy to understand graphics to enhancing the way that Verum’s ASD:Suite displays information to and interacts with the Software Engineer..
07/19/10 TNO and VDL deliver high-tech mirror support proto-types for what will be the largest telescope ever made [TNO]
TNO and VDL delivered three prototypes of support structures for the main mirror of the European Southern Observatory (ESO)’s European Extremely Large Telescope (E-ELT). The ESO-commissioned ground-based telescope will include the largest mirror ever built and gather 15 times more light than the largest optical telescopes operating today...
related item: view press release VDL here
07/15/10 Besi announces preliminary revenue, orders and backlog for Q2-2010 [BESI]
Besi today announced preliminary revenue of € 89 million in its second quarter ended June 30, 2010, an increase of € 32 million, or 56%, as compared to the first quarter ended March 31, 2010. Prior revenue guidance for the second quarter was € 79 - € 82 million. Orders for the second quarter ended June 30, 2010 of € 133 million increased by approximately € 36 million, or 37%, as compared to the first quarter ended March 31, 2010...
07/15/10 Scheuten Solar implements three PV projects for WDP in Belgium [Scheuten Solar]
Scheuten Solar has implemented three turnkey PV systems consisting of a total of 4,380 photovoltaic (PV) modules for WDP (Warehouses de Pauw). As well as an EPC (Engineering, Procurement & Construction) contract, a Support & Maintenance contract has been signed. The systems have been installed at three different WDP
warehouses in Vilvoorde, Aalst and Zele, Belgium...
07/14/10 ASML announces 2010 second quarter results; sales set for new high amid increasing semiconductor fab spend [ASML]
ASML today announces 2010 second quarter results. “Our second quarter sales came in at EUR 1.069 billion, confirming the continued strong demand in the semiconductor industry for our leading edge lithography systems,” said Eric Meurice, President and Chief Executive Officer of ASML. “Our NXT:1950i is now enabling volume production of the most advanced and cost-efficient semiconductor nodes, with close to 20 systems shipped and half a million silicon wafers already exposed"…
07/13/10 Bayer MaterialScience joins Holst Centre flexible electronics research [Holst Centre]
Bayer MaterialScience AG, one of the world’s largest producers of polymers and high-performance plastics, and Holst Centre, an open innovation initiative by research organizations imec (Belgium) and TNO (The Netherlands), have now announced their partnership in the field of flexible electronics. By joining the Holst Centre eco-system, Bayer exchanges its own expertise with the existing network of academic and industrial partners...
07/13/10 Chip makers adopt ASML's holistic lithography to continue Moore's law [ASML]
ASML today at SEMICON West announces broad customer adoption of holistic lithography products which optimize semiconductor scanner performance and provide a faster start to chip production. 100% of ASML's leading-edge scanners are now sold with one or more holistic lithography components. Semiconductor manufacturers face increasingly smaller margins of error as they shrink chip features. Holistic lithography provides a way to shrink within these margins to continue Moore's Law...
07/12/10 New automatic parcel-sorting system order for Vanderlande Industries from Bartolini Corriere Espresso [Vanderlande]
Vanderlande Industries has received an order from Bartolini, Italy’s number one express parcel company, to install a further automatic parcel-sorting system in its new logistics centre in Landriano, south-east of Milan. The new sorter is the 18th such system to be installed in Bartolini
sorting centres throughout Italy. Together with three existing
centres, Bartolini’s new facility will serve the greater Milan area...
07/09/10 Scheuten Solar realises PV project for 'Entsorgung Herne' [Scheuten Solar]
Scheuten Solar has realised a turnkey PV-system consisting of 1,500 photovoltaic (PV) panels for ‘Entsorgung Herne’. Besides an EPC-contract (Engineering, Procurement & Construction) an operation & maintenance contract was signed. Yesterday, the system was officially opened with the
presence of local press and authorities of the city Herne...
07/08/10 JADA The first badminton robot [FMTC]
youtube movie of the first badminton robot
07/06/10 Verum Launches New ASD:Suite Community Portal [Verum]
Verum announced that on July 8th the company will launch a new Web based ASD:Suite Community Portal. The on-line community will serve as a virtual meeting place for current ASD:Suite users as well as prospective new users. As the number of ASD:Suite users grows monthly, Verum seeks to better serve dedicated software engineers using the ASD:Suite. Verum is committed to improve the ASD:Suite user experience during the coming year with the ASD:Suite Community Portal as the first step in this direction...
07/06/10 RUV nominated for Solar Industry Award [RUV Systems]
RUV Systems is nominated (short listed) for the Solar Industry Awards 2010, in the category "Metrology Inline Solution". It is a nice acchievement for a technology that was introduced as an inline tool only in 2009, still working it's way up to the top...
07/05/10 The Cornea Topographer case [MECAL]
Recent technological developments in vision and imaging will increase the potential for application of optical principles in precision measurement and decision support. This vision had led Dutch engineering company Mecal to extend its portfolio with engineering services and product development support in vision and optronic technology...
read full article here
07/05/10 Satisfactory order intake for Vanderlande Industries in difficult market [Vanderlande]
Vanderlande achieved an order intake of EUR 611 million in financial year 2010 (ending March 31st 2010). This order intake is comparable to that in the previous financial year and provides the company with an order book amounting to EUR 811 million, a solid starting position for the company that currently operates in a difficult market...
07/05/10 Matchmaker design [Technobis]
The driving force behind the ever-increasing density of components on printed circuit boards (PCBs) is the miniaturisation of handheld equipment for component placement. PCB technology went from Thru Hole to Surface Mount and currently there is a growing presence of components that have the contacts on their blind side, as is the case with Ball Grid Arrays (BGAs). This article describes the design and use of a semi-transparent mirror in component placement for superimposing the image of the contact side of a component with the image of the corresponding tracks on the PCB...
read full article here
07/01/10 Leading Dutch high tech companies and knowledge institutes prioritize development of PV technology
Prominent Dutch high tech industry members, gathered in the ‘Pid’ subsidiary program, will give top priority to the development of PV technology. Programs partners Dutch Space B.V., ECN, Holland Innovative B.V., OTB Solar B.V., Philips Applied Technologies B.V., Scheuten Solar B.V., Smit Ovens, TNO Science & Industry and TU/e Eindhoven, supported by the Noord-Brabant Development Agency (BOM), today announced to have received approval to start a dedicated project to further develop CIGS PV cells...
06/30/10 New biomaterial should prevent problems after PTCA [UT]
Many cardiac patients who have percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty (PTCA) receive a stent. A stent is a thin metal tube which is placed in the coronary artery to prevent it from closing up again. In practice, 10 percent of these patients develop complications from stents. The University of Twente in the Netherlands is therefore starting a research project to develop a new generation of stents. The project will cost a total of 1.8 million euros...
06/30/10 Vanderlande Industries receives order for new baggage handling system at Zvartnots Airport, Armenia [Vanderlande]
Vanderlande Industries has been awarded the contract for a new baggage handling system for the new International Terminal at Zvartnots International Airport, located in Yerevan, Armenia. The system will be installed in a new International Terminal, giving the airport the capacity to
handle the increasing flow of passengers…
06/30/10 EU grant for ultrasound research [UT]
The University of Twente’s MIRA research institute has been awarded an EU grant of €300,000 to explore the integration of photoacoustic imaging techniques in medical ultrasound scanning equipment. It is hoped that the improved technology will produce much more detailed images and enable researchers to obtain a clearer picture of tumours and rheumatic inflammations...
06/30/10 IBSPE appointed Agilent European Distributor [IBS]
IBS Precision Engineering has been appointed as the European distributor for Agilent’s high-quality range of Laser interferometer, position measurement systems. IBSPE boast extensive experience in the field of advanced measuring systems integration,operating within the nano scale. The company’s international market knowledge, expertise
and renowned commitment to service, makes it the ideal European
distributor for this range of highly accurate measuring systems...
06/30/10 Vanderlande Industries launches new automated case picker [Vanderlande]
Vanderlande Industries has successfully completed development and implementation of its Automated Case Picker, which forms the heart of the company’s new Automated Case Picking system. The Automated Case Picking system is especially aimed at retailers, who require high throughput to handle a large product range with a variety of cases...
06/29/10 FEI commissions Titan S/TEM at Institute of Nanoscience of Aragon [FEI]
FEI Company has successfully completed the installation of its Titan(TM) scanning/transmission electron microscope (S/TEM) at the Zaragoza University Institute of Nanoscience of Aragon (INA), located in Spain. By providing direct access to structural and analytical information down to the atomic level, the Titan S/TEM will play an essential role in all three of the institute's primary interest areas: the physics of nanosystems, nanobiomedicine and nanomaterials...
06/29/10 MI-Partners develops active 6 degree-of-freedom vibration isolation platform [MI-Partners]
Commercially available active vibration isolation systems basically are; a combination of passive compliant suspension with active damping of the low frequent suspension modes. Broad application however has not yet occurred. Until now performance gain was limited and Horizontal-Tilt crosstalk asks for complex control strategies. Therefore the actual benefits appear not sufficient to accept the added cost. MI-partners has developed a new active vibration isolation platform with high performance, limited control complexity and high cost efficiency...
