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CSA Corporate Sustaining Member Acme Cryogenics, Inc. has promoted Michael Dewey to the position of General Manager of Quality Cryogenics of Atlanta, LLC.

Oxford Superconducting Technology and Alstom Magnets and Superconductors have announced the creation of an alliance to collaborate to supply conductors to ITER, one of the largest scientific projects ever undertaken.

Paratherm has also hired Rich Clements as Sales Manager to oversee the current sales staff of technical representatives. He has twenty years of executive level sales management experience and has held positions as Product Director, Plant Manager and Plant Engineer.

Replacement thermal conductivity detectors (TCDs) for the Varian 3800 gas chromatograph (GC) are now available from GOW-MAC Instrument Company.

Jim Oetinger has been appointed Director of Technology at Paratherm. Formerly the head of sales and technical functions, he now focuses on solving heat transfer problems and system issues from customers.

Construction of the Facility for Antiproton and Ion Research (FAIR), a new $1.2 billion particle accelerator, will begin in the German city of Darmstadt as part of a project by the German Society for Heavy Ion Research (GSI).

A brief ceremony in Geneva on November 7, 2007 marked the latest milestone for CERN’s Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the world’s most powerful particle accelerator.

American Superconductor Corporation and TECO-Westinghouse Motor Company announced the formation of a research joint venture to develop high temperature superconductor (HTS) and related technologies for high-power, direct drive wind generators for offshore wind farms.

Det Norske Veritas (DNV) has granted FIBA Technologies, Inc. approval of Manufacturer Certificate No. T-1142, which approves FIBA for the manufacturing of seamless gas bottles and pressure vessels of Class I and II. FIBA is one of only four companies in the world to be granted this approval.

Carl T. Johnson, former president of The Compressed Gas Association, has been nominated by President George W. Bush to be Administrator of the Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration at the Department of Transportation.

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