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Timken today announced plans to build a new E25m antifriction bearing manufacturing facility in Tamil Nadu, southern India, bringing 300 new jobs to the area.

TriAccess Technologies has developed a line of high sensitivity radio frequency integrated circuits designed for use in Fibre-to-the-Home applications.

Sikorsky is to acquire US-based Keystone Ranger Holdings, a privately owned company specialising in full-service engineering, completion and technical support for commercial helicopters.

BAE Systems recently received a $227 million contract modification from the US Army Tank-automotive and Armaments Command to reset 361 Bradley Operation Desert Storm vehicles returning from Iraq.

CADFind, the first commercial design retrieval system that can find 2D engineering drawings from a sketch, has now been extended to work with 3D CAD solid modelling environments.

Private industry has been urged to join a public-sector commitment to fund advanced manufacturing research and development in bioprocessing.