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
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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
A program to modernize Brazilian engineering and increase the technological capacity of companies was launched yesterday, in Brazilian capital Brasília. One of the actions will be joining teaching and company needs. Around 20,000 new engineers graduate in the country every year.
Biofábrica Moscamed Brasil, to be opened in July, is born with the perspective of being an export company. It is going to produce 200 million sterile male flies per week to control pests in crops. Spain and South Africa are among the potential foreign markets.
From the Newsroom* São Paulo – Brazil is going to adopt the Japanese digital television standard. The European and North American standards were also being evaluated, but the Brazilian government decided to opt for the Japanese. Due to this choice, Japan should agree to study the possibility of building a semiconductor factory in Brazil. *Translated
From the Newsroom* São Paulo – The Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation (Embrapa) is receiving project plans in advanced biology and its applications in agribusiness. The total value of resources directed is of US$ 8.35 million. The researches in biotechnology have as their aim exploiting genetic variability that exists in biodiversity. This allows for generating alternatives
The figure, referring to 2005, is part of a study by the Getúlio Vargas Foundation, one of the most famous Brazilian business administration schools, in São Paulo (SE), and represents growth of 16.7% over the expenses made by financial institutions in the area in the previous year. Banks invested 11% of their net assets in technology in 2005.
The city of Alegrete, in Brazilian state of Rio Grande do Sul, will receive a power plant to generate energy from rice residues. It is going to produce 36,600 megawatts per year and will work together with a silica producing unit, which is a compound used to produce glass and construction materials, amongst other things.
The president of the leather division of the Cairo Chamber of Commerce, Mohamed Wasfy, is in Brazil to see some of the national machinery for manufacturing shoes. The Egyptians plan on opening a centre to train workforce for the industry. Yesterday Wasfy visited installations of the National Service of Industrial Education in Rio Grande do Sul.
