From the Newsroom* São Paulo – Shoe industry São Paulo Alpargatas is going to inaugurate on Friday (25) a research and development centre in the city of São Leopoldo, in the southernmost Brazilian state of Rio Grande do Sul. The unit will concentrate intelligence turned to innovation and development of new products for the global
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From the Newsroom* São Paulo – Mobile telephony in Brazil registered another 1.2 million numbers in July. Up to the seventh month of the year, there were 93 million telephone numbers operating in the country, a volume 1.4% greater than the total registered in June. Of the total, around 74 million are prepaid and 18
The Research and Development Centre is after a commercial partner to start operating in the Arab world. CPqD supplies technology to support operations and business, mainly in the telecommunications sector. The Foundation has revenues of R$ 204.5 million a year (US$ 93.8 million at current exchange rates) and started exporting in 2000.
From the Newsroom* São Paulo – A study by consultancy IDC Brazil shows that 55% of the Brazilian manufacturers will have 12% greater information technology budgets this year than they had in 2005. The study shows that in the segment of small and medium companies, the budgets will be turned mainly to hardware and, among
Agência Brasil* Brasília – The Chilean capital will host today (27) and tomorrow the International Agroenergy Seminar. At the event, experiments about the use of agricultural resources for the production of energy will be presented. The opening of the seminar will include the participation of Chilean president Michelle Bachelet, and of the regional director of
This year, the city of Ajman will start using a sewage treatment system developed in Brazil. It was developed through research led by Ricardo Franci Gonçalves and is appropriate for hot regions, like Brazil and the Emirates.
Agência Brasil* Brasília – To provide incentives to the production and introduction of biodiesel in the national market, new contracts for the purchase of the product were signed yesterday (25) at a ceremony at the Presidential Palace. Six refining companies agreed to supply Brazilian oil giant Petrobras, up to the end of June 2007, with
From the Newsroom* São Paulo – Representatives from 18 countries are discussing digital mapping of soils in a workshop in Rio de Janeiro. The meeting started yesterday (04) and follows up until Friday (07). It is organised by the Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation (Embrapa) for Soils, the International Union for Soil Sciences and the Brazilian
From the Newsroom* São Paulo – Two scientists from the Roger Abdelmassih Clinic and Research Centre on Human Reproduction, in São Paulo, southeast Brazil, presented an all-new research at the annual meeting at the European Society of Human Reproduction, in Prague, last month. The scientists, Russian naturalised Brazilian, Irina Kerkis and Alexandre Kerkis, managed to
Agência Brasil Brasília – A decree signed yesterday by president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva makes it official: Brazil will use the Japanese digital TV format to implant its own Brazilian system. Under the terms of the decree, Brazil will move from analog to digital transmissions over a period of ten years, and four new
Agência Brasil* Porto Alegre – The first phase of the wind energy park (which produces energy with the force of the wind) of the southern Brazilian state of Rio Grande do Sul will be inaugurated today (28) in Osório, coastal city in the state. During the ceremony 25 wind generators will be activated, which will
Agência Brasil Brasília – Brazil is now ready to begin manufacturing a vaccine that will be used in the case of the transmission of bird flu to human beings. The vaccine will be made at the Instituto Butantã, in São Paulo, beginning in July, reports the minister of Health, José Agenor Alvarez. The government will
From the Newsroom* São Paulo – Brazilian petrochemical company Ipiranga Petroquímica is going to produce PE-100, high density polyethylene whose main characteristic is its resistance to high pressure, in Brazil. Ipiranga will be the first company in Latin American to produce the material. Research began in 2001 and was completed last March. Up to the
Agência Brasil* Rio de Janeiro – In Campos Elíseos, district in the city of Duque de Caxias, in the southeastern Brazilian state of Rio de Janeiro, was held this morning (31) the inauguration of the Governador Leonel Brizola Thermoelectric Plant. Built together with the Duque de Caxias Refinery (Reduc), TermoRio has the capacity of producing
