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Turbines: Samsung Fife base, Borders buy
As multi-million pound wind energy deal between Samsung Heavy Industries (SHI) and UK firm David Brown Gear Systems is to be followed by more high-profile business partnerships, the British ambassador to Korea has said. Simultaneously the Borders Fallago Rig has been bought by EDF Energy Renewable Ltd from North British Wind Power.
Kintyre nightmare ends:next St Andrews
Birds and ancient buildings are among the successful and staunch defenders of the lovely west coast lands, in saving them from intrusive, dominating, windfarm turbines.
Glow video conferencing Scotland
Pupils from a Kirkcaldy primary hosted and took part in a nationwide broadcast event recently when Strathallan Primary was chosen to put on the live event broadcast to schools throughout Scotland through the Scottish Government’s GLOW intranet service.
ParaPhrase for RGU & St Andrews
Researchers at Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen and at the University of St Andrews have been awarded €1.25m as part of a European Commission-funded project to research improved programmability and performance of parallel computing technologies.
FMC opens 240 jobs
Oil and gas services firm FMC Technologies is to create 240 jobs in Bellshill and Dunfermline, taking its Scottish workforce above 1,000.The US company's expansion was secured with a £2.5 million regional selective assistance grant from the Scottish Government and will include a significant number of research and development posts.
Security and cloud software acquisitions
Advanced Checking Services, the Glasgow-based specialist in checking driving licences, has been bought by the ID management specialist GB Group in its second Scottish based acquisition during July. While the Pinacle Telecom Group with Glasgow offices, has purchased MacLellan IT Ltd outsourcing business for around £1.1m in a bid to expand its cloud-computing services.
Software and council savings
Dunfermline-based Exactive is urging that MicsoftLync used by Scottish councils could save tens of millions of pounds in operating costs each year by implementing systems that vastly improves efficiency in their computer and telephone networks.
Golf Scholarship endangered
American student Earl Moorer graduating from St Andrews University during the traditional summer series of ceremonies was the first to benefit from a New Links Scholarship, inspired by the black golfer Charlie Sifford who challenged the PGA Tours white only clause in the 1960's and became the first African-American to play on the PGA Tour and awarded an honorary degree at St Andrews, proposed by astrophysicist Dr Kenny Wood.
Fiction in painful fact
A 40 year old 'wanna be novelist' US masters student at Edinburgh University and a Middle East activist has confessed to being Amina Abdallah Arraf, supposedly a Syrian lesbian writing about the country.
Only three can win
The UK is to put forward 12 projects for consideration by the European Investment Bank for its New Entrants Reserve, the €4.5bn fund for spending on C02 Capture & Storage (CCS) and “innovative renewable projects” (IRPs). There are seven CCS projects and five IRPs. Scotland has scores three out of the CCS and an awesome four out of five in renewable projects.
Winning bridge under budget, boast
The Forth Crossing Bridge Constructors consortium has been chosen to build a replacement bridge across the Forth, the biggest Scottish infrastructure project for a generation. The consortium, comprising of Dragados, Hochtief, American Bridge International and Morrison Construction, was chosen ahead of Forthspan following an 18-month competitive tendering process.
Vote counting stooshie
Fife Council chiefs are planning to delay vote counting until the day after Scotland goes to the polls on May 5. Depute returning officer Iain Grant confirmed that the results of the Scottish Parliament poll will not be known until well into the afternoon of May 6.
Living seals for local waters
It is now illegal to kill or injure a seal without a license.Introduced under the Marine (Scotland) Act 2010, the culling of seals in waters such as the Tay, Forth and Eden estuaries will be heavily regulated in a bid to prevent declining populations of the animals.
Dunfermline gets Amazon Fulfilment
Dunfermline receives not only a major jobs boost with the news that the e-commerce organisation Amazon Books will open its new distribution centre in the city, but also gets a bright technology boost to attract other business and industry.
Kopin's 4D coup
Forth Dimension Displays (FDD) the Fife, Dalgety Bay manufacturer of all-digital, ultrahigh-resolution, near-to-eye ferroelectric reflective microdisplays has been purchased for around $11m by Kopin Corporation, famous for its lightweight, power efficient and ultra small III-Vs material based LCDs and HBTs enhancing battery life, talk time and signal clarity.
Not to be missed: Cleanrooom auction
International plant and machinery auctioneers Troostwijk Auctions have been instructed to sell the extensive range of equipment that was originally intended for Hyundai’s semi-conductor plant at Dunfermline - some £80m of top of the range site utilities, which has now been sold after Motorola and Freescale to Shepherd Offshore Group.
BiFab awarded Oyster 2
A £4m contract from Aquamarine Power will see the first next-generation Oyster device, Oyster 2 fabricated over the next six months at Burntisland Fabrications Ltd (BiFab) manufacturing plant at Methil on the Firth of Forth in Scotland. Installation of Oyster 2 will then begin at the European Marine Energy Centre (EMEC) near Stromness in Orkney in summer 2011.
NMI award for Compugraphics International
Lead photomask supplier Compugraphics was voted Supplier of the Year 2010 at the National Microelectronics Institute (NMI) awards ceremony in London. The accolade made by representatives from manufacturing sites on the following categories: flexibility and responsiveness to customer requests; quality of product; business impact of product and continuous improvement practices.
Fab offices for offshore
That white elephant, the Dunfermline fab built by Hyundai (Hynix) in 1997, then sold to Motorola Semiconductors (Freescale) in 2000 has at last been sold to Shepherd Offshore Group, located at Offshore Technology Park, Walker in Newcastle, which plans to knock the fab down, but will use the office block.
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