For years, engineers at SensArray heard from their customers how much they wanted a wireless temperature measuring device that could run within a lithotrack to measure the real-time temperatures of the hotplates and heating elements—without having to manually access the wafer.
Lonny Wolgemuth, medical market manager for Specialty Coating Systems (www.scscookson.com), cites the movie Field of Dreams when he talks about his company's recently finished 1,700 square-foot cleanroom.
A series of protein purification kits has been unveiled by Pall Corp. (www.pall.com) to aid proteomic researchers in the development of new drug therapies.
In a move designed to meet increasing research and development needs within the semiconductor industry, International Sematech (www.sematech.org) has established the Advanced Technology Development Facility, Inc. (ATDF) as an independent subsidiary of its R&D wafer fab and related analytical labs.
Ozone treatments to reduce harmful pathogens during food processing and handling may be a good thing, but until proven, the Food and Drug Administration (www.fda.gov) is recommending that apple juice and cider processors establish their own documented validation study—or choose another treatment method.