Browsing: Innovation
Yesterday (23), São Paulo became the first city on the continent to have the vehicle launched. The objective of the project, executed by the University of São Paulo, is to reduce the emission of polluting gases, providing incentives to the use of alcohol instead of diesel in public transportation.
The hospital, in partnership with the Paulista University, is gong to establish a laboratory to help in the identification of the main extracts removed from plants from the Amazon and Atlantic Forests. The objective is to detect antitumoural, antibacterial and antioxidant substances. It is estimated that Brazil has 20% of the global biodiversity.
The French Theolia group, a generator of renewable energy, has established company Theolia Emerging Markets, headquartered in the Arab country. The Moroccan subsidiary is gong to control the construction and operation of wind farms in emerging markets, including Brazil.
Agência Brasil* Brasília – Today (18) will see the launch of the Chinese-Brazilian Terrestrial Resources Satellite CBERS-2B, from the Satellite Launch Centre in Taiwan, China. The two countries have been jointly developing the programme since 1988. According to the press office at the Brazilian Ministry of Science and Technology, images from CBERS satellites are used
In around four years, farmers from all around the world should be able to plant Brazilian genetically modified soy. The Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation and Basf are working to place the seeds, which should generate plants resistant to imidazolinone herbicides and promise to end the Monsanto dominion in the area.
The Syrian-Lebanese Hospital will allocate the funds to equipment, infrastructure, and services. New features include the Centre for Health Follow-Up and Check-Up, which will have examination rooms, medical offices, and specialists. The institution will also have a new 20-storey building.
From the Newsroom* São Paulo – Brazil was chosen to host the 5th International Conference on Beneficiation of Phosphate, to be held from February 11th to 16th, 2008 in the southeastern Brazilian city of Rio de Janeiro. The conference is organised by the Engineering Conferences Foundation. Brazil occupies the seventh position in the global ranking
From the Newsroom*São Paulo – According to a survey conducted by the Datafolha institute, commissioned by advertising agency F/Nazca Saatchi & Saatchi, 39% of Brazilians access the Internet. The percentage includes Web use at home, at work, at the house of relatives or friends, or in other places, such as educational institutions and cyber cafés.
The contract for the construction of the plant, the first worldwide, was signed last week. The mill will be implemented in the northeastern Brazilian state of Bahia and should costs 80 million Brazilian reais (US$ 43 million). The mill should start operating in December next year.
From the Newsroom* São Paulo – Brazilian producers of tooling machinery, used for manufacturing industrial parts, recorded revenues 7.4% higher in the first four months this year than in the same period last year. The information was supplied by the Sectorial Chamber for Tool Machines at the Brazilian Machinery Manufacturers Association (Abimaq). The revenue in
Agência Brasil* Rio de Janeiro – The production of biofuel from cellulose may be attained before estimated by specialists. Embrapa Agroindústria de Alimentos, the food agroindustry unit of the Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation (Embrapa), based in the southeastern Brazilian state of Rio de Janeiro, is carrying out studies for ethanol production from enzymes extracted from
