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ATLANTA - Wednesday, June 1st 2016 [ME NewsWire]

(BUSINESS WIRE)-- AGCO, Your Agriculture Company (NYSE:AGCO), a worldwide manufacturer and distributor of agricultural equipment, is pleased to announce that its Tractor Manufacturing Facility in Beauvais, France has been presented with the country’s prestigious Factory of the Year 2016 award. The Beauvais site in Picardy beat ten other shortlisted factories from a wide range of industries in France to win the title.

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The Factory of the Year Awards are organised by “L’Usine Nouvelle”, the leading industrial magazine in France. In selecting the overall Factory of the Year Award winner, the Jury looked for a facility which has demonstrated an in-depth transformation initiative and delivered significant performance gains including increases in productivity, qualit ... Read more »

TRIS AMINO® HCl PRIME provides the lowest level of elemental impurities to improve essential processes for biotech manufacturers

BUFFALO GROVE, Ill. - Wednesday, June 1st 2016 [ME NewsWire]

(BUSINESS WIRE)-- ANGUS Life Sciences, a newly formed division of ANGUS Chemical Company, the leading manufacturer and marketer of nitroalkanes and their derivatives, today launched TRIS AMINO® HCl PRIME – a new excipient used for purification of biologic or protein drug manufacturing. Used in downstream processes, TRIS AMINO HCl PRIME helps to control pH, offering stability and drug purification when manufacturing at large scales.

“As a result of the changing regulatory landscape, manufacturers may soon be required to monitor and report the levels of elemental impurities in their manufacturing processes. With TRIS AMINO HCl PRIME, our customers have peace of mind knowing there will be very low levels of elemental impurities,” said Doug Ward, mark ... Read more »

Exchanging Expertise with LAPD

ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates - Saturday, May 28th 2016 [ME NewsWire]

A delegation from the Security Support Department at the General Directorate of Security Support, the General Secretariat of the Office of HH Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Interior, examined the variety of methods to handle dangerous incidents, and major events, as well as the proper process to take operational decisions during their visit to the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) in the United States of America (USA).

Major Hasan Al Shehhi, Head of the Training Section at the Security Support Department, explained that members from the delegation met with Captain Philip S. Fontanetta, Commanding Officer, Emergency Operations Section at LAPD. They reviewed the Security Support’s experience and ways to handle security-related events and scenarios They also exchanged expertise with the LAPD and were acquainted with ways to handle dangerous poli ... Read more »

Between Several National Institutions

ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates - Tuesday, May 31st 2016 [ME NewsWire]

Lt. General HH Sheikh Saif bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Interior, witnesses on Tuesday, the signing of two memoranda of understanding (MoUs). The first MoU, which was inked between the Khalifa Student Empowerment Program and Sheikh Zayed Private Academy, aims to activate the National Charter for Students’ Awareness of the Khalifa Student Empowerment Program “Aqdar”, to serve the priorities envisioned by the UAE. The second MoU between the Ministry of Interior’s Innovation Center and the Khalifa University of Science, Technology and Research, is designed to reinforce future cooperation in the field of innovation; in a bid to achieve the government's vision to instill innovation as a culture and lifestyle in the working environment.

The first MoU was signed by Ahmed Mohammed Al Marar, Director of ... Read more »

LUXEMBOURG - Wednesday, June 1st 2016 [ME NewsWire]

SES’s largest satellite over Asia-Pacific, adding a total payload of 81 36MHz transponder equivalents of which 53 in Ku-band are incremental, expanding SES’s scale in global video and mobility verticals with important anchor customers already secured

(BUSINESS WIRE)-- SES S.A. (Euronext Paris:SESG) (LuxX:SESG) announced today that its new SES-9 spacecraft is entering commercial service. SES-9 has successfully completed its testing and reached its orbital position at around 108.2 degrees East where it has joined SES-7 and will replace NSS-11.

SES-9, built by Boeing Satellite Systems International, is the largest SES satellite to serve the Asia-Pacific region, with 57 high-power Ku-band transponders – equivalent to 81x36MHz transponders, out of which 53 are incremental. The new spacecraft will provide significant expansion capacity to serve the fast-growing video and mobility sectors across N ... Read more »

GAITHERSBURG, Md. - Tuesday, May 31st 2016 [ME NewsWire]

The SmartNode OpenScape Business Appliance from Patton and Unify offers businesses with up to 1,000 users an affordable, one-box, unified communications solution that is fast and easy to implement.

SmartNode VoIP... more than just talk!

(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Patton Electronics—US manufacturer of UC, cloud, and IoT enabling solutions for carrier, enterprise and industrial networks—is now shipping the SmartNode OpenScape Business Appliance (SN-OSB).

Developed in partnership with Unify, Patton’s SN-OSB, offers small-to-medium businesses (SMBs) a one-box unified communications (UC) solution for up to 1,000 users that is fast and easy to implement.

While many smaller companies have been reluctant to make the transition to Unified Communications, Patton and Unify offer a solution that makes it fast and easy for the information technology (IT) staff of SMBs to implement an All-IP ... Read more »

VILLEJUIF, France - Wednesday, June 1st 2016 [ME NewsWire]

(BUSINESS WIRE)-- “We are very proud to welcome Institut Curie to WIN,” said Dr. John Mendelsohn, Chairman of WIN and Director of the Khalifa Institute for Personalized Cancer Therapy and past President of MD Anderson Cancer Center. “The Institut Curie is undeniably a leading European cancer research center with remarkable research that will constitute a major asset for WIN.”
WIN’s mission is to rapidly translate precision cancer medicine discoveries into standards of patient care worldwide. “Our vision and value proposition is that we can accomplish more together than each organization can achieve working alone. In WIN, renown academics and industries work hand in hand to develop the tools and therapies needed to significantly improve survival and quality of life of cancer patients from diverse backgrounds.” said Dr. Vladimir Lazar, Chief Operating Officer of WIN. WIN, ... Read more »

ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates - Wednesday, June 1st 2016 [ME NewsWire]

A delegation from the UAE participated in the 21st Meeting for the Heads of Punitive and Correctional Institutions and the Security Media Committee in the GCC. The meeting, which commenced on May 30 in Riyadh, will continue until tomorrow (Thursday).

The delegation was headed by Brigadier Dr. Yusuf Rashed Al Hamidi, Head of the Policies and Standards Department at the General Directorate of Punitive and Correctional Establishments at the Ministry of Interior. During the meeting, attendees discussed initiatives, suggestions and solutions to promote the correctional and humanitarian efforts at the punitive and correctional institutions. This would help to develop the services provided to inmates of these institutions in GCC countries, as well as reflect the cultural aspect of the member states.

The meeting will approve a number of recommendations following extensive discussions of the diff ... Read more »

MoI: Winning Two UAMC Awards is Well Deserved

ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates - Sunday, May 29th 2016 [ME NewsWire]

The Ministry of Interior (MoI) expressed its pride at the recently announced decision by the General Secretariat of the United Arab Media Council (UAMC) to award the Gold Pendant of the First Order to Lt. General HH Sheikh Saif bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Interior. The award comes in recognition of His Highness’s support and development of the UAE's Security Media. In addition, the Security Media Department was chosen as the best Arab security media department for 2016, and this is therefore a well-deserved honor.

Major General Nasser Lakhrebani Al Nuaimi, Secretary General of the Office of HH Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Interior, Chairman of the Minister of Interior’s Excellence Award Committee, stressed that all the achievements in excellence, competitiveness, Arab and International trus ... Read more »