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:
06/21/10 Adaptive Deformable Mirror technology (Dutch article) [TU/e]
Het scherp waarnemen van de sterrenhemel is lastig, doordat de atmosfeer het beeld continu vertekent. TU/e-onderzoeker Roger Hamelinck ontwikkelde een nieuw type telescoopspiegel, dat snel het beeld corrigeert. Zijn product is nodig voor grotere, scherpere telescopen,
maar geeft ook oude telescopen een scherpere blik..
06/18/10 Intel litho strategy change could propel ASML (source: EEtimes)
Lithography equipment vendor ASML could achieve 100 percent market share with Intel Corp. at the 22-nm/20-nm manufacturing process technology node, according to analysts at Nomura in London. The comments came after a visit by analysts to ASML in which they were told that Intel's traditional two-suppler lithography sourcing strategy may be under review...
06/18/10 Comsol announces chemical reaction engineering module [Comsol]
COMSOL today releases the Chemical Reaction Engineering Module. This new module is built on the COMSOL platform to create a single environment where engineers and scientists obtain highly accurate studies of material transport and chemical reactions of a wide assortment of chemistries under different operating conditions...
06/17/10 Vanderlande Industries UK Ltd receives Fourth Gold RoSPA Safety Award [Vanderlande]
For the fourth year in succession Vanderlande Industries UK Ltd have been awarded the prestigious RoSPA Gold Achievement Award for Occupational Health & Safety.The award was presented at a ceremony at the National Exhibition Centre in Birmingham in May alongside the Safety & Health Expo, Europe’s leading annual health & safety exhibition...
06/16/10 New vanderlande-dinamic extendibles welcomed by the market [Vanderlande]
The Vanderlande-Dinamic extendible conveyors have been enthusiastically received in the market, with orders being placed by a number of customers. As well as their use in new projects and as standalone equipment, these extendible conveyors also allow quick and convenient extensions and changes to be made to material handling
systems in parcel and postal sorting depots...
06/16/10 New parcel sorting system for MTN in Italy [Vanderlande]
Vanderlande Industries has won the order to deliver a new parcel sorting system to MTN, part of the Italian logistics and express courier company Log Service Europe Group, which itself is a member of the Logistics World Alliance. Within Log Service Europe, MTN is responsible for express service operations. The new system will be located in...
06/15/10 Assembléon feeder takes 4-mm tape to improve 01005 chip placement and reduce waste by 75% [Assembléon]
A 4mm feeder for Royal Philips Electronics subsidiary Assembléon’s A-Series pick & place machines improves the reliability of 01005 component placement. Assembléon’s ITF3 feeder accepts the new W4P1 all-plastic tape standardized
by the International Electrotechnical Commission...
06/14/10 ALSi starts shipments of its new high speed 300 mm low K grooving and dicing systems To American and Asian customers [ALSi]
After an intensive development effort and close cooperation with a number of strategic customers, ALSi is shipping the first systems of their new ICA 1204 platform. The platform is for up to 300 mm wafers with full integration
of various pre-and post laser processes...
06/10/10 Nikon places new order for Mi systems[Technobis]
Nikon's new Mi macro imaging station provides the perfect environment for the capture of unfixed and fixed gross specimen images in the mortuary or path lab. Ideal for pathologists in healthcare environments, veterinary, research and forensic laboratories. Manufactured by Technobis Mechatronics...
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06/09/10 World’s first application of flexible OLED lighting on foil [Holst Centre]
The ORECA01 car from French racing team Oreca will be using rear view mirrors with an integrated thin film encapsulated Flexible Organic Light Emitting Diode (OLED) on the back. Since flexible OLED lighting and signage devices will only be available on the market (and in our homes) within a few years, the initiators of the project - Huntsman Advanced Materials and Holst Centre - consider the integration in the composite material of the race car as a great success. The results of the project are valuable for the road to market of OLED lighting technology. OLEDs are ...
06/09/10 Vanderlande Industries' BAXORTER For Danang Airport In Vietnam [Vanderlande]
Vanderlande Industries has been awarded the contract for an upgrade to automatic sorting with BAXORTER for Danang International Airport in Vietnam. This demonstrates that even regional airports of a modest size see the benefits in automating their baggage handling process with BAXORTER...
06/08/10 Vanderlande Industries Strengthens Relationship with SAP and Joins PartnerEdge™ Program [Vanderlande]
Vanderlande Industries strengthens its partnership with SAP by joining the SAP PartnerEdge™ program. Vanderlande has already cooperated intensively with SAP since 2003. As part of the PartnerEdge program, Vanderlande has optimised the interface between the SAP environment and Vanderlande’s VISION Warehouse Management and Control System (WMS/WCS)...
06/08/10 Scheuten Solar introduces Multisol® Integra Module [Scheuten Solar]
Scheuten Solar is constantly seeking for smart PV-solutions alongside their standard high performance solar modules. Thanks to over ten years of experience in the solar market Scheuten Solar is proud to present Multisol® Integra; an integrated PV-solution suited for almost any sloped roof. This PV in-roof installation system replaces the conventional tile covering; whether as a part of the roof or as covering of the entire roof.
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06/08/10 Anteryon WaferOptics - Optical Interface technologies and solutions [Anteryon]
The core technologies of Anteryon are glass replication, surface structuring and opto-mechanical / opto-electronic assembly. Combining the core technologies they are able to produce Wafer Optics®, Lenses, Lasers and Planar Optics (Youtube movie)
View Youtube movie here
06/07/10 TNO develops electronic partners for future deep-space astronauts [TNO]
TNO scientists lead MECA, a European Space Agency (ESA) project developing the ideal future ‘ePartner’ for long duration space missions. As the doors close on six volunteers who will simulate astronauts on their way to Mars and back, TNO’s experiments into human-machine interactions are just beginning. Mars500 will be the first time that a crew will be able to be continuously monitored for 520 days, under extreme conditions and with a complex set of tasks to accomplish...
06/07/10 Qualcomm makes strategic investment in Anteryon [Anteryon]
Anteryon and Qualcomm today announced Qualcomm’s strategic investment in Anteryon as part of its European investment fund. Qualcomm Ventures Europe is leading this round with BNP Paribas Private Equity and Biggell Finance also participating as existing shareholders, and Quest for Growth (Euronext: QfG), a Belgium-based investment fund, as a new investor. Investment funds will be used for the breakthrough WaferOptics® optical module production technology and Anteryon’s Asia production facility expansion. Terms of the investment have not been disclosed...
06/04/10 ISARA 400, the next generation ultra-precision coordinate measuring machine [IBS]
In various field of manufacturing and research, a growing demand for high-accuracy 3D measurements of large products exists IBS Precision Engineering has developed a new ultra-precision coordinate measuring machine (CMM) with an unprecedented ratio of measurement volume vs. measurement accuracy, the ISARA400...
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06/04/10 Scheuten Solar wins the Global Industry Innovation & Advancement of the Year Award [Scheuten Solar]
Frost & Sullivan recognizes Scheuten Solar for its consistent innovation that has helped make it a leader in the global solar market Scheuten Solar was recently awarded with the 2009 Global Frost & Sullivan Industry Innovation and Advancement of the Year Award for the solar market...
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06/03/10 Philips and RXi Pharmaceuticals sign agreement to jointly research innovative image-guided therapy concepts based on RNAi [Philips Research]
Philips and RXi Pharmaceuticals Corporation a US-based biopharmaceutical company announce that they have entered into a joint research agreement to explore the benefits of combining proprietary technologies from both companies for the targeted delivery of experimental therapeutics based on RNA interference (RNAi)…
06/02/10 Brainport project recruits knowledge workers in China (Dutch article, source: ED.nl)
Zes mensen die in China een hoge technische opleiding hebben afgerond, komen voor een proefstage naar Veldhoven. Daar gaan de Chinezen kennismaken met ASML als bedrijf en omgekeerd maken de managers van ASML kennis met hen. De bedoeling is dat een aantal van hen, of alle zes, hier blijven werken bij het bedrijf. Op dezelfde manier halen het Dutch Polymer Institute in Eindhoven en Dow Chemical in Terneuzen enkele Chinese hightech-werkers naar hun bedrijf...
06/02/10 EPIA pushes EU to support solar technology funding (source: PV-Tech)
As part of a plan to ensure the future competitiveness of the European-based PV industry, the European Photovoltaic Industry Association (EPIA) is pushing ahead with efforts to coordinate the collection of €1.235 billion in R&D funding with support from the EU. The funds would be used to support various programs over the next three years...
05/31/10 Demcon acquires minority interest in Qlima (Dutch article) [DEMCON]
Frisse lucht is essentieel voor het goed functioneren van mensen op het werk, op school of thuis. Zelfs het landelijk Innovatieplatform heeft aandacht voor het probleem van onvoldoende frisse lucht in het klaslokaal.Qlima biedt de oplossing met een eenvoudig in te bouwen actief ventilatiesysteem, Qualivent geheten. Mede dankzij DEMCON investment uit Oldenzaal kan Qlima nu met de Qualivent de markt op...
05/27/10 Machinefabriek Gebrs. Frencken AS 9100 certified [Frencken]
This month Machinefabriek Gebrs. Frencken in Eindhoven successfully passed the audits by Lloyd’s Register for the AS/EN 9100 certification. This certificate is not only applicable to machined and turned parts but also to precision sheet metal parts and mechanical assemblies for the aerospace industry...
05/26/10 IBS presents the Isara 400 ultra precision coordinate measuring machine [IBS]
IBS Precision Engineering has developed a new ultra precision coordinate measuring machine (CMM) with an unprecedented ratio of measurement volume vs. measurement accuracy, the Isara 400...
05/25/10 Vision on HighTech Systems and materials by Point-One, HTAS and M2i (Dutch article)
HighTech Systems & Materials (HTSM) is het Nederlandse sleutelgebied dat hoogwaardige technologische producten en systemen levert. Met een jaarlijkse R&D-investering van 2,3 miljard euro en een productiewaarde van 74 miljard euro is HTSM een essentiële, duurzame bron voor de creatie van hoogwaardige werkgelegenheid in Nederland...
05/21/10 ASM International N.V. announces Results of Annual General Meeting of Shareholders [AMSi]
ASM International today announced the results of its Annual General Meeting of Shareholders held May 20, 2010 in Amsterdam, The Netherlands.In line with the ASMI Boards' recommendations as included in the Company's proxy statement, shareholders approved all resolutions as proposed to the Annual Meeting...
05/21/10 COMSOL Multiphysics Version 4.0 Now Shipping [Cosmol]
COMSOL Inc. announces that version 4.0 of its multiphysics simulation software is now shipping. First unveiled at the 2009 users conference in Boston, COMSOL Multiphysics version 4.0 features an all-new user interface that makes the power of multiphysics simulation available to a wider
audience of scientists and engineers...
05/20/10 Meco’s metallization line for crystalline solar cells boost cell efficiencies [Besi]
Meco (member of the Besi group) equipment engineers have developed their Cell Plating Line (CPL) for the metallization of crystalline solar cells to enable a fine line and thin seed layer of silver paste to boost cell efficiencies for volume production applications...
05/20/10 Nuon seeks investment partner for Helianthos [Helianthos]
Nuon seeks a strategic investor for Helianthos. Helianthos is developing a pilot plant to demonstrate the roll-to-roll production process for flexible solar cells. Nuon is seeking a complementary partner who can support Helianthos to ensure the business is brought successfully to the market...
05/20/10 AAE expands into Micro-machining and -measurement [AAE]
With the acquisition and installation of a state-of-the-art DMG Sauer Lasertec 80 Lasermachining center, AAE is now able to offer “cutting edge” performance in Micromachining. Equipped with two lasers, it allows for cutting, boring and welding, each with optimal results...
05/18/10 Onninen builds new automated warehouse to improve order fulfillment and customer service [Vanderlande]
Onninen has selected Vanderlande Industries to design and implement the material handling system (including warehouse control system) for its new order fulfillment centre in Hyvinkää, Finland...
05/18/10 Showcase of the first PlasmaPrint On-Demand product at LOPE-C [InnoPhysics]
At the LOPE-C in Frankfurt, Germany, InnoPhysics will show case the first PlasmaPrint On-Demand product : the PlasmaPrint toolkit for integration in tabletop R&D print platforms. The show case will be a joint effort with Pixdro. Together with Pixdro the PlasmaPrint toolkit has been made integratable with their Pixdro LP50 desktop print system...
