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eOrigen in pioneering NHS dementia care study

22nd October: Health Secretary Alan Johnson, has launched a £2m research project to help dementia patients and their carers. eOrigen will partner technology development specialists Ikonami to produce interactive training material.  full text...


British Energy renews eOrigen contract to 2010

24th September: British Energy and e-learning specialist eOrigen.com have signed another two year contract. They have so far jointly produced over 25 training programmes, considered to be setting new standards for training in the nuclear sector.  full text...


Auxetix values market potential “in billions”.

27th May: Dr Patrick Hook of Auxetix, manufacturers of blast-proof materials and technologies, has revealed that the potential market for their product could be worth $10 billion.  full text...


Screen Learning: Smart Cat helps deaf children?

26th May: Screen Learning to work with UCL's Deafness Cognition and Language (DCAL) Research Centre to see if the innovative “Smart Cat” software can help teachers assess the abilities of children using British Sign Language  full text...


Auxetix Wins National Performance Textiles Award

10th March 2008: Auxetix, in partnership with Heathcoat Fabrics of Tiverton and the University of Exeter, last week won the 2008 Performance Textiles Award for Excellence as well as winning the Innovation Category.  full text...


Prosurgics To Collaborate With Adept Technologies

5th March 2008: Prosurgics has announced it has signed a deal with Adept Technology, Inc. of Livermore, California, to collaborate on the next generation of Prosurgics' robotic systems for neurological and soft tissue surgery.  full text...


DualGlo Expect Glowing Results At Santa Pod

4th March 2008: High-Performance glow-in-the-dark paints from DualGlo have been used to incredible effect on a Custom Car due to be exhibited at The Maragoni Fast Show at Santa Pod Raceway next week.  full text...


Croma wins with Westland, MoD & Prison Service

15th February: AIM-listed investee company Croma plc have today announced in a Trading Update that they have won a series of contracts at Westland Helicopters, the Ministry of Defence, and the Prison Service.  full text...


Screen Learning Ltd Wins Major BETT Award

28th January 2008: At this month's prestigious BETT Awards, top prize in the hard-fought “e-Assessment for Learning” category went to Screen Learning Ltd with its ground-breaking online Smart Cat Profiling tool.  full text...


Auxetix Profile Extends To Include BBC

8th January 2008: Successful tests on Zetix, the blast-resistant fabric being produced by Exeter University spin-off Auxetix Ltd, have led to increased publicity for the company, and a more visible profile, soon to include the BBC  full text...


Auxetix Passes Bomb Test With “Zetix”

7th Dec. 2007: “Zetix”, the revolutionary bomb-proof fabric created by Auxetix, the 2007 Global Security Challenge world finalists, is now featured on Gizmodo.com, together with amazing pictures showing how the fabric works.  full text...


Infoflow Automated Reports now via Salesforce.com

11th October: At September's Dreamforce Conference in San Francisco, information distribution specialist Infoflow, announced they are now also distributing their revolutionary reporting software on Salesforce.com's AppExchange  full text...


Auxetix blasts in to Security Challenge Final

2nd October 2007: Against stiff competition Auxetix Ltd, with their ground-breaking “smart” blast-protection fabric, today won the European Semi-Final of the 2007 Global Security Challenge, held in Munich.  full text...


Trading Statement: Croma Confident

3rd September 2007: Croma chairman, John French, today announced in a trading statement strong sales performance in the first months of the Group's new financial year, and said they were looking for further M&A opportunities.  full text...


Auxetix wins Techtextil Innovation Prize 2007

20th June 2007: Auxetix has won the Techtextil Innovation Prize 2007 for the best technical textile development of the year with its ZetixTM blast-mitigation fabrics, awarded at Frankfurt's International Techtextil Exhibition.  full text...


Croma promotes Bretel as CCTV moves forward.

11th June 2007: Croma Group have announced that Group FD David Bretel will stand down in order to become MD of Croma Defence Systems Ltd and CCTV arm Croma Shawley, whose new products have been “well received” in the market.  full text...


Formerol gets 'high' profile publicity

5th June 2007: the June edition of British Airway's widely-read in-flight magazine “Business Life” features Jane ni Dhulchaointigh and Formerol amongst a selection of “entrepreneur success” stories  full text...


Croma Directors buy in to future success

23 March 2007: AIM-listed surveillance and security specialist Croma Group today released interim results for the 6m to 31 December, and announced that directors John French and Nicholas Hewson had both added to their stakes in the company.  full text...


Auxetix blast ahead with 'Smart Curtain'

23 March 2007: Testing of Auxetix Ltd's 'smart' blast curtain fabric at the Home Office site in Cumbria (see news article of 14th Dec 2007) has been successfully concluded.  full text...


Ministers get to grip with Formerol

6th March 2007: Formerol, the company behind the invention of the ground-breaking soft-grip polymer, today met with government Ministers at a NESTA showcase of companies supported by the Creative Economy Programme.  full text...


Greenbridge again feature on ITV Meridian News.

31st January 2007: With people still dying of MRSA and C.Diff across the country, ITV Meridian News asks why the NHS is resisting proven new life-saving technology, such as Activ8 from Greenbridge.  full text...


Greenlights shown to Greenbridge

29th January 2007: Boeing have given the green light to Greenbridge's Activ8 being used on any Boeing aircraft, while a Cyprus hospital has achieved fantastic test results using Activ8 to disinfect an operating theatre.  full text...


Breaking the mould: Formerol makes it personal

24th January 2007: A sculptor's accidental discovery of a new polymer, Formerol, shaped by hand and “cured” at room temperature to a tough soft-touch material, is leading to the development of highly personalised tools and products.  full text...


Croma Group secures new sales contracts

22nd January 2007: AIM-listed surveillance and security specialist Croma Group have announced new sales contracts secured this month exceeding £1m in value, with clients ranging from the MoD to Homebase plc.  full text...


Croma Group looking to acquire CCTV Manufacturer

16th January 2007: Croma Group, the AIM-listed surveillance and security specialist, have announced they are to buy a leading manufacturer and distributor of CCTV equipment. Furthermore, turnover is up 186%.  full text...


Greenbridge in Daily Mail with Activ8

16th January 2007: With Government figures suggesting a mere 7,000 cases of MRSA in England each year, experts put it at nearer 100,000. The Daily Mail considers the problem, and features Greenbridge's Activ8 cleaning fluid.  full text...


Explosive times ahead for Auxetix's blast curtains

14th December 2006: The "smart" curtain being developed by Auxetix Ltd to provide blast protection from terrorist attacks will be tested in February at a Home Office site in Cumbria by exploding 100kg of TNT next to a sample of the material.  full text...


Food intolerance testing success from Prevent plc

24th November 2006: Prevent plc have produced an award-winning test for food allergy and sensitivity, using Acalk®, a system developed by their nutritional team and based on the results of more than 35,000 people surveyed within the UK.  full text...


Isolation Wards highlight need for Activ8

19th November 2006: Sunday Telegraph reports on the creation of NHS superbug isolation wards, and the ongoing failure of the NHS to address the problem using new cleaning technology such as Activ8.  full text...


Greenbridge reaches Europe and the Middle East

23rd October 2006: Greenbridge has recently signed two new Distribution Agreements with companies selling to the European and Middle Eastern markets. These Agreements are expected to generate significant revenue within a short timescale.


Dualglo helps Anglers fish in the dark!

12th September 2006: Dualglo's "glow-in-the-dark" technology has been adapted by product developer and designer Grant Taylor for a new generation of fishing tackle for night fishermen not wishing to use chemicals or toxic isotopes.  full text...


eOrigen & Accenture Complete eLearning Project

1st September 2006: eOrigen.com have completed a major eLearning development project in partnership with Accenture, focussed on improving the knowledge and skills of contact centre staff.  full text...


DAILY MIRROR features Greenbridge's Activ8

23rd August 2006: On Monday the Daily Mirror ran a feature about Greenbridge's Active8 and how if Maidstone Hospital had used it, the lives of some of the 19 patients who died from C.Diff. in May could have been saved.  full text...


Greenbridge's Activ8 on ITV Meridian News.

26th July 2006: ITV Meridian South East lead their evening news yesterday with a feature questioning why Maidstone Hospital and local NHS Trusts were still not using proven products such as Greenbridge's Activ8 to combat so-called “superbugs  full text...


Auxetix develops radical optical fibre sensor

17th July 2006: Auxetix have developed a revolutionary optical fibre sensor, intended for data gloves or smart clothing. The fibre sensor is very robust and flexible, incorporating techniques that increase sensitivity by about 600%  full text...


GMTV's Dr Mark Atkinson to join Prevent

20th April 2006: Dr Mark Atkinson, the renowned medical journalist and GMTV doctor, is to become Chief Medical Officer for Prevent plc.  full text...


“Investing for Growth tips Croma.

18th April 2006: Financial Journalist of the Year Jon Mainwaring, writing in the March 2006 issue of “Investing for Growth magazine, rates Croma as a “buy, while Artemis joins Framlington and Noble as institutional backers.  full text...


Croma Acquires Biometric Identification Group

7th April 2006: Surveillance and security group Croma has announced the acquisition of biometric identification outfit Photobase for up to £3.1m.  full text...


Ixaris starts 2006 in rude health

7th April 2006: After being billed by Real Business magazine as one of the 50 British companies to watch in 2005, Ixaris entered 2006 well-placed to continue the treble digit growth it sustained over the past year.  full text...


eOrigen gets Gold at IVCA Awards

27th March 2006: At the 40th International Visual Communication Association (IVCA) Awards, eOrigen.com won Gold for the “best internal multimedia computer based programme to train, inform, or educate people  full text...


eOrigen.com gains ECDL-F and BCS Approval

10th February 2006: Building on the success of its approved multi-media CD-ROM based courseware, eOrigen.com has gained ECDL-F and BCS Approval for their Web and Workbook based e-Citizen courseware.  full text...


Croma gets Vigilant: products enhanced

7th February 2006: Croma Group recently announced the acquisition of specialist asset protection company Vigilant Security. The addition will enhance Croma's cross-selling capabilities, and broaden their product range and services.  full text...


AISH Incineration to benefit if Avian Flu strikes

23rd January 2006: DEFRA announces national Poultry Register to establish control measures if Avian Flu develops in the UK. AISH Incineration well placed to handle the disposal of carcases should mass culls be required.  full text...


Artificial lifting techniques assist old oil wells

13th January 2005: In these days of high energy prices, Artificial Lift show how old or previously unsuitable oil wells can benefit from artificial lifting techniques.  full text...


eOrigen completes major NHS e-learning project

14th November 2005: last month eOrigen.com successfully completed and launched a major e-learning project for the North West Strategic Health Authority and North West Non-Medical Prescribing Education Group.  full text...


eOrigen awarded training package by British Energy

14th Nov 2005: eOrigen.com's successful long term supply of Computer-Based Training and DVD training projects to British Energy since 1999 continues, with the award of another project.  full text...


Police ask Auxetix to design Blast Defence Fabric

11th November 2005: The Police Scientific Development Branch have awarded Auxetix Ltd £49,000 to examine the feasibility of constructing “smart blast-protection textiles based on the highly unusual properties auxetic fibres exhibit.  full text...


eOrigen Strengthens Management Team

14th October 2005: eOrigen.com appoints Chris Hall (previously Sales Director of Parity Training) to the Board to strengthen its executive management team.  full text...


Artificial Lift secure clamp order

7th October: Following a successful visit to the oil industry showpiece exhibition in Houston this summer, Artficial Lift has secured a trial order for their revolutionary cable clamps from industry heavyweight Schlumberger.


Greenbridge breakthrough to combat Bird Flu & MRSA

26th September 2005: Greenbridge Environmental Control announces significant scientific breakthrough in preventing the spread of lethal infections including Avian Bird Flu, MRSA and SARS.  full text...


High-Tech Exeter Firm Attracts Investor Backing

24th September 2005: Lacomp plc and Exeter law firm, Foot Anstey, are pleased to report the recent completion of an investment by the 'Lacomp British Enterprise EIS Fund 4' in Exeter based Auxetix Ltd.  full text...


Prevent Sees Public Sector As Lucrative Target

1st August 2005: With the Government's new target objectives leading to employees facing higher stress levels, Prevent's health-screening programme has been put into place at 8 local councils, with a further 20 under negotiation.  full text...


eOrigen awarded major e-learning contract by NHS

13th July 2005: North West Strategic Health Authority in collaboration with The North West Non-Medical Prescribing Education Group selects eOrigen to work on government-sponsored Non-Medical Prescribing e-Learning Project.  full text...


E-Learning can provide vital nuclear skills

11th July 2005: Computer-based training and 'e-learning' can play a key role in helping plug a serious 'skills gap' affecting Britain's nuclear industry, says eOrigen.com. The skills shortfall was identified in a Government report.  full text...


ECDL Forum a great success for eOrigen

23rd May 2005: eOrigen.com recently attended the ECDL Forum ('European Computer Driving Licence'), hosted by the British Computer Society, an event that drew over 15,000 test centre managers from the distance learning and e-learning sectors.  full text...


Armstrong: Robotic Surgery no longer sci-fi

18th May 2005: The BBC reported on a successful kidney transplant operation that was completed with the assistance of a 'da Vinci' robotic device.  full text...