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(1888PressRelease) Pristima, Xybion’s core preclinical data management software platform, has been selected to support the complete preclinical process for QPS-Taiwan.
CEDAR KNOLLS, NJ: Xybion Corporation and QPS LLC. announced today that QPS Taiwan, a global preclinical toxicology services provider, has selected to deploy Pristima®Suite, Xybion’s premier preclinical application. QPS will leverage Pristima Suite in a ‘Software as a Service’ (SaaS) deployment model, supported by Xybion’s Singapore data center & technology services group.
Pristima is an end-to-end preclinical data management system that helps companies to reduce their preclinical operational costs while decreasing time-to-market for drug discovery. QPS will be leveraging many key components of the preclinical software suite including the General Toxicology, Clinical Pathology, Necropsy, Pathology and SEND modules to capture, manage and report data from preclinical studies. Following an exhaustive selection process where all competitive products were considered, QPS Taiwan selected Pristima as a SaaS installation. Xybion will host the application in its Singapore data center. With the addition of QPS Taiwan, Xybion continues to expand its offerings in the Asia Pacific market, growing its client base to a total of 11 countries in North America, Europe and Asia. QPS Taiwan will be using the Pristima functionality to refine and expand its comprehensive GLP CRO preclinical study service capabilities to serve its clients worldwide.
Carlos Frade, Vice President of Preclinical R&D Solutions at Xybion, was quoted: “QPS Taiwan selected the Software as a service model, which offers a less time consuming validation process and a more cost effective approach to achieve the required capabilities, maintenance, and support over the Internet. QPS Taiwan will leverage Xybion’s Total Preclinical Solutions package to install, validate and deploy the most modern and most well-integrated data management suite on the market.”
Walter Bee, Ph.D., Vice President, Head of Global Safety Assessment and Regulatory Affairs, commented: “QPS Taiwan’s Center of Toxicology and Preclinical Sciences (CTPS) is one of the oldest and most experienced GLP laboratories in Asia. Our scientists combine training and experience from Europe, Japan, the USA and Asia in the unique environment of a first class Taiwanese laboratory. With the introduction of Pristima® as our data acquisition and management system, we are underlining our commitment to excellent service to our sponsors. This software enables our scientists to provide results quickly, reduces paperwork and increases data quality. It supports the organization, structure, and format of datasets in the Standard for Exchange of Non-Clinical Data (SEND) format for submission to the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA). The tailored solution Xybion provided fits our current needs but leaves room for expansion in line with our growth ambitions.”
As an enterprise-grade solution suite for preclinical research, Pristima offers a powerful and robust toolset to improve clients’ efficiency, promote compliance and accelerate the final reporting. Dr. Pradip Banerjee, CEO, Xybion Corporation commented, “We are pleased to have QPS Taiwan as a client and look forward to assisting them in reaching their business goals. We are delighted that QPS Taiwan has decided to have Xybion host Pristima in our data center. Many of our clients find SaaS delivery to be an efficient, scalable and cost effective alternative to an onsite installation. We are committed to maintaining Pristima as the leading preclinical data management solution to meet the needs of a fast growing CRO.”
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Xybion Corporation is a global leader in the development and delivery of critical enterprise solutions to highly regulated industries, helping companies lower cost, mitigate risk and accelerate growth, while managing quality and compliance. Xybion is the maker of Pristima Suite, a leading preclinical data management solution for the life science sector. Pristima Suite is the only fully integrated preclinical and vivarium management solution that natively connects to enterprise quality & compliance management processes on the market today.
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Founded in 1995, QPS is a GLP/GCP-compliant contract research organization (CRO) supporting discovery, preclinical and clinical drug development. We provide quality services to pharmaceutical and biotechnology clients worldwide. QPS operates regional laboratories and testing facilities which are located at its headquarters in Newark, DE, USA; Springfield, MO, USA; Groningen, The Netherlands; Hyderabad, India; and Taipei, Taiwan.
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For thousands of years the mining industry has supplied the world with the raw materials the growing population needed for ever increasing consumption. However, mining is not the only supplier of these raw materials. Next to the primary mining industry a secondary mining industry is growing: ‘urban mining’. The existing stock of materials in the urban environment is recycled more and more. 38% of iron input in the steel making process comes from scrap. The average ‘new’ copper cable contains some 30% recycled material. The more we recycle, the less we need to mine of rotary kiln. As mining costs increase because ‘easy’ mineral deposits are becoming scarcer and as technological improvements make recycling more competitive, the impact of urban mining on the traditional mining sector grows.
Mining fills the gap between demand and recycled supply. Most people see metal recycling as something additional to mining. Some view recycling more as a competing source of raw materials. However, the right way to look at the combination of mining and recycling is that mining fills the gap between demand and recycled supply. Recycled metal is fundamentally cheaper and more sustainable than mined metal. In an ideal, stable world, all used metal will be recycled at low cost, leaving no need to mine any new metal. In 2006 the International Council on Mining & Metals published a declaration endorsed by its members, including all major mining companies and the associations of producers of all major metals, stating as a fact: “Primary metal production fills the gap between the availability of secondary material and total demand.”
Obviously this gap between demand and availability of secondary material is different for each material. Recycling coal is fundamentally impossible, making us fully dependent on mined coal. The same goes for many industrial minerals. Diamonds, gold, and other investment goods do not have a consumption cycle similar to iron, making the market dynamics of recycling of these resources totally different. The most direct impact of recycling on the mining industry can thus be seen for consumption metals.jaw crusher:http://www.crusher-machine.com/1.html dryer machine:http://www.crusher-machine.com/24.html
Recycled supply of metals is more sustainable than mined supply. Recycling does not require the destruction of natural environments, however good miners manage to restore natural environments after mining with hammer crusher. Probably more important in a time of growing concern about and need for action against climate change: recycling requires significantly less energy than mining. Re-melting and casting an existing metal is simply a lot easier than having to extract the metal from an ore. Even though separating joined and mixed materials poses a challenge for recycling, the total energy requirement for recycling a ton of iron is some 20% lower than for mining and processing it. For copper the energy saving is approx. 60% and for aluminium even 90%. Expressed in saved carbon emissions these numbers look even better.
Recycled supply is not only more sustainable, but it is also fundamentally cheaper than mined supply. That is, if the collection and recycling processes are managed well. With the lower energy demand and demand for other input materials processing with recycled inputs is cheaper than processing with mined inputs. If regulated well the collection and separation of waste streams serving as input to recycling is much cheaper than mining the same amount of material too.
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A new film, To the Light, exposes the cost in human health and lives of China”s coal-fired power boom. There is a saying in China about the coal miners who go underground into the bowels of the earth to earn their living – that they only become human again when they come back to the surface.
After watching New York University Journalism School graduate Yuanchen Liu”s stark and unflinching debut documentary, To the Light at the recent Margaret Mead Festival at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City, it is not hard to see why China”s miners feel that they have left the human world behind sand maker when they descend into their cramped coal tunnels for shifts of backbreaking labor that can last seven hours at a stretch.
The visually lyrical and heartbreaking film, which won the Mead”s prestigious award this year for best in show, follows three miners both below and above the ground, and documents the price that they and their families have paid for their participation in what is arguably the world”s deadliest profession.
Coal mining has always been dangerous. Scores die each year in mining accidents in the US. But this figure pales besides the estimated 20,000 people a year (according to the film) who perish in accidents in China”s primitive mines. The government”s official numbers are lower, but independent observers like Robin Munro, a human-rights activist at the Hong Kong-based China Labor Bulletin, say that the true toll is routinely under-reported by mine owners and provincial officials who often have a personal financial stake in these lucrative operations and the prosperity they bring to the rural communities where the mines are located.rotary kiln:http://www.hx-crusher.com/rotary_kiln.html cone crusher:http://www.hx-crusher.com/cone_crusher.html
These mortality statistics do not include deaths from black lung and other pulmonary diseases, which also claim untold tens of thousands of victims per year. In Liu”s film, the miners venture underground without protective masks. China”s mines suffer from inadequate ventilation systems, and Liu told me that dangerous coal dust sparkles like fireflies in the light from the miner”s helmets. They use old fashioned pick axes instead of jackhammers, and crouch or lie down in three foot high side tunnels for hours at a stretch, hacking away at the rock faces.
The central government does not lack safety regulations on the books. In practice, however, these rules are often ignored in the rush to get more coal out of the ground. Coal use in China is increasing at a staggering ten percent a year to fuel its industrial boom dryer machine. Over 70 per cent of China”s energy is generated by coal-fueled power plants with two to three new plants going online every week. In the most chilling scene of all, a miner works an underground coal seam as a time display on the screen counts down the minutes left in his life.
In the meantime, To the Light will be screened at selected locations around the US and worldwide when the Mead Festival goes on tour early next year. It is distributed by Shearwater Films, and is a must see for anyone who wants to find out what is going on below the dazzling, high-tech surface of modern China.
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Satellite-based Global Positioning Systems (GPS) allow for precise and real-time navigation of mining vehicles. This translates into increased productivity, efficiency and safety for the surface mining industry of impact crusher. However, no directly comparable technology exists for accurate tracking in underground mining operations because satellite communications are unavailable in the space.
Dr. Joshua Marshall, an assistant professor in The Robert M. Buchan Department of Mining at Queen’s University, and his research team have been working on a map-based underground GPS (uGPS) technology that could be used in underground mines.
The team sporadically placed radio frequency identification (RFID) tags about every 100 metres throughout the CANMET Experimental Mine in Val-d’Or, Québec. Afterwards, they sent an underground vehicle equipped with sensors and a RFID reader into the mine to collect information about the environment – tunnels, corners, intersections, etc. The stationary RFID tags serve as landmarks (their locations are initially unknown) that are automatically surveyed by the RFID reader as the vehicle passes by. “We then “stitch” together the data to create a consistent representation of the environment,” says Marshall. The map can then be used to navigate a mining vehicle through the tunnels of the mine.
Marshall says RFID tags are not required to determine the position of vehicles underground, but placing RFID tags throughout the tunnels splits the mine into smaller, more manageable areas. The different areas of the mine are divided into submaps, which combine to form a global map of the mine – like an atlas. “Without this technique, one needs a computer with a very large amount of memory to process the whole map all at once, which is not practical,” Marshall states.hammer crusher:http://www.hxjqchina.com/product-list_20.html ball mill:http://www.hx-china.com/14.html
The team has shown their technology can arbitrarily map large areas (e.g. tens of kilometres). “Of course, the larger the area, the more tags would be necessary and the longer it would take to make the maps after data collection,” says Marshall. But the maps can be made using a normal computer, and the size of the map that can be generated is only limited by the computer’s available memory.
Compared to using RFID tags alone for vehicle navigation, the uGPS technology provides higher accuracy positioning and reduces the time needed to locate the vehicle with the use of cone crusher. “We can see, within a metre or so, where the vehicle is in real time,” Marshall says. “If you were simply to use RFID tags you could not do this. You would be able to guess where the vehicle is whenever it passes near a tag, which could be 100 meters away!”
There are some uncertainties in the maps since the vehicle’s sensor scans less than the full 360 degree view of the vehicle’s surroundings. But the team’s maps are still much more detailed than typical survey maps and provide environmental features that would not be seen normally (e.g. bumps in the walls).
The team is currently working with industry partners to develop and deploy their uGPS technology in an underground mine in the United States. Marshall envisions the robotic mapping and underground positioning technologies to be a useful asset management system for underground operations in the future.
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The metals boom preceded the minerals boom, both of which have been paralleled by ongoing interest in discovering new sources of energy, oil and natural gas specifically. Once metals markets were consolidated, investment flows turned to mineral resource extraction and towards exploring previously inaccessible sources of oil and natural gas in jaw crusher use. Rising prices for fuel and mineral commodities in an era of technological innovation has pushed capital investment into previously unexploited areas of the globe, including the South Pacific. Under highly competitive market conditions, Asian capital has joined the quest and accelerated the pace of primary resource investment even where it remains a secondary market player. The race to secure market share in these commodities is well and truly on.
Against that backdrop Commodore Voreque Baimimarama travels this week to Vanuatu in his capacity as Chairman of the Melanesian Spearhead Group (MSG), a sub-group of the Pacific Island Forum (PIF) regional organization that encompasses most Pacific Island States, including Australia and New Zealand. Created in 1999, the MSG has recently been rivaled by the 2010 creation of the Polynesian Leader’s Group (PLG), which aggregates eight members of the PIF. Unlike the PLG, the MSG has an established institutional structure and programmatic agenda, increasingly dominated by Fiji due to its diplomatic importance and the relative underdevelopment of or political instability in other member states (New Caledonia, Papua New Guinea, the Solomon Islands and Vanuatu).The MSG contains a multilateral trade agreement between the its members, and because of historical investment interest in resource extraction in the sub-group (forestry and fisheries as well as minerals), it has seen the bulk of regional foreign investment in the last two decades. The ExxonMobil-led liquefied natural gas project in the PNG is one sample of that ongoing interest, now pushed into newly exploitable areas.impact crusher:http://www.hxjqchina.com/product-list_12.html Jaw crusher:http://www.hxjqchina.com/product-list_11.html
China already has an established economic footprint within the MSG and its diplomatic presence, the largest in the PIF region, has grown commensurate to the size of its investments in cone crusher manufacturing. Russia and Fiji have just signed economic cooperation agreements, and Indian venture capital has made footholds there as well. This trend has begun to be seen in PNG and the Solomons. Should the move to emphasize trade and investment between the MSG and BRICs lead to higher levels of commerce with the latter, the impact will significantly increase the investment gap between the MSG and PLG. Given its larger membership and smaller resource base, PLG benefits from an eventual TPPA will be much more diffuse than in the MSG with or without the BRIC connection. The more the BRIC-MSG connection comes into play, the less the MSG will need to be part of the TPPA and other pan-Pacific trade agreements. Should that happen, the MSG will begin to outweigh the PLG influence within the PIF, which opens the possibility of an MSG-Australia/New Zealand confrontation within the PIF because the Antipodean states do not want the PIF to be dominated by Fijian interests.
Given the failure of the sanctions regime, the inclusion of Fiji in future trade talks could be a way of incrementally restoring it to full membership status while allowing Canberra and Wellington to save face. The ball is in the MSG court, with Fiji controlling the MSG play.
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Iron ores are rocks and minerals from which metallic iron can be economically extracted. The ores are usually rich in iron oxides and vary in color from dark grey, bright yellow, deep purple, to rusty red. Iron ore is the raw material used to make pig iron, which is one of the main raw materials to make steel. 98% of the mined iron ore is used to make steel with the use of Hongxing Raymond mill machine.
China plans to supply 45 percent of its iron ore use by 2015, a big increase from lastyear”s 32 percent, as the country steps up efforts to protect its steel industry from a foreignmonopoly over iron ore. The country also aims to get half of its iron ore imports from Chinese-invested mines to breakthe grip of the three major global miners, Vale SA, BHP Billiton and Rio Tinto, according to areport from Monday”s Economic Information Daily, a Beijing-based Xinhua-run newspaper.
China, the world”s biggest consumer of iron ore, has been boosting domestic production of themineral and increasing overseas investment to secure supplies as its steel firms, mainlydependent on imports, have been subject to price fluctuations. The country imported 618 million tons of iron ore in 2010, taking up more than 68 percent of itsconsumption. In the first eight months of this year, China imported 448 million tonnes of ironore, up 3.5 percent year-on-year, data from the Ministry of Industry and InformationTechnology (MIIT) showed.
The average price in the period increased by 38 percent from the same time last year to reach$163.75 per tonne. The price increase added 130 billion yuan ($20.47 billion) in costs forChina”s steel firms, according to MIIT. The world”s top three producers, Vale SA, BHP Billiton and Rio Tinto, control two-thirds of theworld”s iron ore exports and have a say in global ore prices. Whether China is able to guarantee the iron ore supplies matters to the development of thecountry”s steel industry, said Luo Tiejun, deputy director of MIIT”s raw material department. “The whole steel industry has been living on a meager profit,” said Zhu Jimin, president ofShougang Group.ball mills:http://www.hx-crushers.com/p72.html Hammer crusher:http://www.hx-china.com/2.html
Last year, the combined profits of the 77 big and medium-sized steel companies in China wasonly 88.1 billion yuan, but the combined cost increase of those companies caused by iron oreprice hikes reached 196 billion yuan, Zhu said. The profit ratio of medium-sized and large steel enterprises is 3 percent, lower than the 6percent of the industrial sector in China, according to MIIT. “The international monopoly has pushed the price of iron ore more quickly than the growth ofsteel prices,” said Zhu. China is working to establish a guarantee system for iron ore supply, according to the 12thFive-Year Development Plan (2011-2015) for the iron and steel industry, made public on MIIT”swebsite on Monday.
According to the plan, China will encourage steel firms to cooperate with resource-rich countries, especially its neighbors, to co-exploit iron ore mines. The country is expected to add more than 100 million tons in iron ore capacity abroad by 2015, said the plan. According to the plan, China will continue to step up domestic exploration and mine consolidation hammer crusher. It also vows to improve the order of iron ore market in China. The country”s annual crude steel consumption will reach around 750 million tons by 2015, said the plan.
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Guinea “welcomes” Chinese investment to stimulateeconomic growth in what Alpha Conde, president of the West African state said was a “win-win” situation. “Guinea has abundant mining resources so that ore beneficiation machines will have a lot of uses and China is a rapidly developingnation in great need of commodities and resources. We will open the doorwidely to Chinese companies and provide what China needs,” Conde said. “It”s a sort of win-win cooperation.” Guinea has two thirds of the world”s bauxite reserves and hopes thatmining will provide a boost for its economy.
Inflation exceeding 20 percent has plagued one of the poorest countries inthe world, but a Guinean government development plan for 2011-2015seeks to invigorate the economy by focusing on “mining, agriculture, hydroelectricity and water supplies”. The country has 40 billion tons of bauxite reserves and 15 billion tons ofhigh quality iron ore. Western companies, such as Alcoa and Rusal, currently dominate the mining sector. Alcoa and Rusal have three projects in Guinea, producingbauxite worth $1.64 million in 2010. Rio Tinto recently signeda $700 million iron ore deal with the Guinean government. The United States, Canada and some European nationsprovide the major source of foreign investment in Guinea, concentrated mostly on bauxite, gold and diamond mining. “China”s investment is very important for Guinea and wewelcome Chinese investors in agriculture and infrastructure,”said Koutoub Moustapha Sano, minister of internationalcooperation. “And we also warmly welcome Chinese investment in mining.”
Chinese investment in Guinea, compared to that in other African nations, is relatively small andmainly focused on agriculture, fishing, telecom and contracted projects. Investment dropped 18.2percent to $1.76 million in 2010. In recent years a growing number of Chinese companies – including State-owned giants such asChinalco and CPI International Minerals & Investment Co Ltd – began eyeing the mining sector.Some have already invested while others are in negotiations. Fu Ziying, vice-minister of commerce, met Conde recently and was optimistic about futurecooperation in the mining sector. “We expect the investment environment to become stable, and there are also preferential policiestailored for Chinese companies under the new mining law.”raymond mill:http://www.crusher-machine.com/13.html ball mill:http://www.crusher-machine.com/21.html
The new administration, which took office last year, is revising legislation governing mining and thenew draft is expected soon. “We will standardize foreign investment activities here to really benefit our people,” said Conde. There is no doubting Guinea”s mining potential but before it can be tapped the new law will have tobe studied, said Shi Mingwei, general manager of CPI International Minerals & Investment of rotary kiln manufacturing. The company is currently in talks with the Guinean government. China”s investment in Africa accumulated to $9.33 billion by 2009, according to a report by theInformation Office of the State Council with much of it going to South Africa, Nigeria, Zambia and Sudan. But that figure is dwarfed by investment from Western companies. Annual foreign direct investmentinto Africa is estimated to be $80-90 billion, with China accounting for about $1 billion.
But from a long-term perspective, China”s investment in Africa will be “strong and sustainable”, saidZheng Chao, commercial counselor of the Department of Outward Investment and Economic Cooperation under the Ministry of Commerce. For decades, China has been active in providing aid to Guinea, including the construction of thelandmark Guinea National Stadium. “Guinea also needs to return (the favor) with what China needs,” said Conde. Bilateral trade in 2010 grew by 65.7 percent year-on-year to $476 million, with Chinese exportsrising by 49.8 percent and imports surging by 781 percent.
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The Chinese economy’s continuous, rapid and healthy development places a demand on energy and mineral resources that draws attention worldwide which leads to the development of mining machines such as ball mill. With respect to foreign investment in the Chinese mineral industry, the earliest large-scale foreign investment project was the Shanxi Pingshuo Mining Project. From then on, China has continued to implement the policy of encouraging foreign businesses to invest in the exploration and exploitation of mineral resources in China. The Chinese government has already taken a number of measures to further improve the environment for foreign investment, widen the outward opening and strengthen international cooperation. These include:
1. Encouraging foreign businesses to invest in the Chinese mineral industry: Dating from 1999, China has successively issued ‘Opinions on Further Encouraging Foreign Investment at Present’, ‘Catalogue of Industries for Guiding Foreign Investment’, and ‘Catalogue of Dominant Industries for Foreign Investment in the Central and Western Regions’, which were amended many times to fit new circumstances.
2. Gradually improving the laws and regulations for mineral resources management: China has put in place a legal system for its mineral resources consisting of the ‘Mineral Resources Law’ and other relevant laws and regulations, with the Constitution as its foundation. These laws and regulations have constituted China’s basic legal system for the management of its mineral resources and provided a legal guarantee for foreign investment in the Chinese mineral industry.
3. Continuously improving cooperation with foreign companies in exploring and exploiting oil and gas resources: In the field of oil and gas resources, the Chinese government has always adopted a pattern of cooperation with foreign companies. Cooperation is always carried out using specified state companies and product sharing contracts, which is a method that has been widely endorsed by all foreign companies in dryer machine design. Major laws include ‘Regulations on the Exploitation of Offshore Oil Resources in Cooperation with Foreign Enterprises’ and ‘Regulations on the Exploitation of Onshore Oil Resources in Cooperation with Foreign Enterprises’.cone crusher:http://www.crusher-machine.com/4.html hammer crusher:http://www.hxjqchina.com/product-list_20.html
4. Encouraging foreign businesses to invest in the exploration and exploitation of other mineral resources: China issued ‘Opinions on Further Encouraging Foreign Businesses to Make Investment in Exploring and Exploiting Mineral Resources Other Than Oil and Gas’ in October 2000. This further expanded the rights of foreign businesses to start exploration and exploitation ventures either with exclusive capital or in cooperation with Chinese partners.
The approval system for foreign investment in the mineral industry is the same as those for other infrastructure industries in that it is subject to the foreign capital and industry access approval systems.
1) Foreign capital access approval system
The foreign capital access approval system was set up with the establishment of the Chinese legal system’s apparatus for foreign investment. Simultaneously, a system of multi-tiered administration was established, according to which, the authorities of different levels exercise different powers over different industrial categories and total investment amounts.
2) Industry access approval system
China has adopted an authorisation system for the exploration and exploitation of mineral resources. For the exploration and exploitation of mineral resources, one must, in accordance with the law, apply for registration, hold an exploration or exploitation licence and gain the right of exploration and exploitation, respectively. Foreign-invested high material consumption, high energy consumption, and/or high pollution projects are restricted or prohibited.
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