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.
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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.
Agência Brasil Star City (Russia) – The three astronauts aboard the International Space Station (ISS) who will return to planet earth this weekend, the Brazilian Marcos Pontes, the Russian Valery Tokarev and the American Willian McArtur, will make the final leg of their journey in a round capsule weighing 2.9 tons containing four square meters of
The armies of the two countries presented last week, in Brazil, the prototype of a military vehicle to be used by the Brazilian and Argentinean military forces. This is the result of a scientific and technological agreement signed between the two governments in the 1980s.
The minister of Local Administration and Environment of Syria, Helal Alatrash, was impressed with the work executed in São Paulo in basic sanitation and control of environmental pollution. He arrived in Brazil last week. Alatrash visited institutions in the area and participated in a biodiversity conference in Curitiba.
