 BIOTECHNOLOGY & HEALTHCARE
Spain Biotech: An Engine for Economic Change
To kick off Spain's presence at the 2009 BIO International Convention, José María Fernández Sousa-Faro, Ph.D., president of ASEBIO sat down with Bio-IT World's, managing editor, Allison Proffitt to discuss how Spain is focusing on biotechnology to be an engine for economic change through gradual internationalization, development and technology transfer in a 10 minute podcast. More...
Carles Callol, scientific director at the Spain-based biotechnological research firm, Biobide, participated as a speaker in the World Pharmaceutical Congress that took place in Philadelphia on June 9-11. This year's program focused on safe and effective therapeutics and the title of Collol's talk was, "Validation of an Automated Screening Platform in Zebrafish, the Expanding Impact of New Animal Models in Drug Safety." More...
The Spain-based healthcare technology and biotech firms, Biokit, Certest, NTE, Operon, QCA, SEPMAG, Spinreact and Vircell will display their latest innovations at the American Association for Clinical Chemistry's (AACC) Annual Meeting and Clinical Lab Exhibition. This year's event will take place July 19 to 23 in Chicago. More...
Spain was once again recognized as the world's number one organ donor country in 2008, with 3,945 transplants and almost 2,000 donors. In late June, the Spanish National Transplant Organization (ONT) accepted two face transplant proposals from La Fe hospital in Valencia and Virgen del Rocío hospital in Sevilla. This is a significant step forward for Spanish healthcare, since there have only been seven experimental surgeries previously performed in the world. More... |
Acciona Energy began operating a new 123 megawatt (MW) wind farm in June, 2009 in Oklahoma's Roger Mills and Custer counties. The facility features 82 Acciona Windpower 1.5 MW wind turbines, spread across 5,000 acres. More...
Iberdrola Renewables will begin two new projects in the U.S. during the first half of 2009. The first project has begun in Texas, a leading U.S. wind power market, thanks to an intelligent merging between public initiative and the entrepreneurship of private companies. Secartys will chair the group's participation and be represented on the show floor with their own booth. Intersolar North America will mark Secartys first participation as exhibitor in a solar industry related event in the U.S. More...
Mecasolar to Open Production Plant in California
Spain-Based solar component company, Mecasolar will open a new production plant near San Francisco, California. The new facility, where the company will manufacture 1 and 2 axis solar trackers, as well as fixed structures, is scheduled to be completed by the first quarter of 2010.
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RAIL
Q&A with Virginia Verdeja, Vice President of Sales, CAF CAF is one of the international market leaders in the design, manufacturing, maintenance and supply of equipment and components for railway systems, developing successful projects worldwide. More...
Three Spanish companies were among the many rail innovators leading technical sessions at the American Public Transportation Association (APTA) 2009 Rail Conference, which took place at the Hilton Chicago hotel, June 14 -19. More...
U.S. Secretary of Transportation, Ray LaHood, made special reference of the Spanish high speed railway system (AVE), which he labeled as "both inspiring and encouraging" during a pre-recorded video in the opening session of the American Public Transportation Association's (APTA) Rail Conference in Chicago. The conference was attended by more than a thousand international rail industry players, from June 14 to 17. More...
Can We Really Learn from Spain?
LaHood Looks for Rail World Answers in Spain
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ACS Group Signs Agreement for North Carolina Concession
Spain-based construction corporation ACS, currently one of the main players in the American infrastructure market, signed a project development agreement with North Carolina Turnpike Authority (NCTA) on May 29. The terms of the agreement give ACS-led group, with its subsidiaries Dragados and Iridium and the American-Canadian engineering firm Lochner, right of first refusal on building the Outer Banks' Mid-Currituck bridge as a long term toll concession. More...
Formed by Italy-based, Impregilo, Belgian-based Jan de Nul and Constructora Urbana from Panama, the consortium Grupo Unidos por el Canal, led by Spain-based construction corporation, Sacyr Vallehermoso has recently been chosen to design and construct the third set of locks of the Panama Canal. This project is the main component of the expansion according to the Panama Canal Authority (ACP). More...
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SPAIN IN THE NEWS
Spanish Spin-Offs
Focusing on a specialty - such as human-tissue samples - creates a source of new companies
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