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Following its acquisition of Clean Air/PMV in May, Telstar considers itself among the European leaders in provision of biological safety cabinets. Dutch company Clean Air/PMV, founded in 1971, has strong brand
recognition, particularly in Central and Northern Europe with an 80% market share in the Benelux (Holland, Belgium and Luxemburg). “The Clean Air/ PMV transaction represented an ideal way for Telstar to extend its product portfolio, increase its presence in laboratory equipment and its market share in Central and Northern Europe,”said Telstar Business Director Jordi Puig.

Clean Air/PMV Managing Director Milo Bianchetti, who`s father Ruud Bianchetti originally founded the company added: “Becoming part of the Telstar Group represented a key milestone; we identified many synergies between both companies which I am sure will allow Clean Air to further
develop its business”. The transaction agreed involved Telstar acquiring the total stake in the business. Hanwell Instruments, a UK manufacturer and supplier of data acquisition and control solutions for industry is pleased to announce the appointment of Portuguese company,
Reatrol LD as a non-exclusive distributor for its comprehensive range of products. Reatrol will have specific responsibility for hospitals
and laboratories within Portugal. With almost 20 years of expertise in the design of data acquisition products, the Hanwell products enable users to combine standalone dataloggers, radio telemetry and bus-based
instrumentation into their building management systems.

Companies can contact Manuel Matos on +351 227 127 418 or by e-mailing reatrol@sapo.pt TDK-Lambda will be the new name for Lambda. After parent company Densei- Lambda KK became a wholly owned TDK subsidiary in March 2008, an integration process with TDK`s power system businesses
was implemented and from October 1st a new division called TDK-Lambda Corporation began operations.

Martin Southam, European Marketing Director, commented: “The creation of the new division firmly places the newly named TDK-Lambda at the forefront of power supply technology worldwide. We now have an even
greater potential for innovation, advancing power technology at an unbeatable rate. Customers can also be confident that reliability remains at the core of all our products.”

A live demonstration of the control that can be achieved with real-time analysis was one of the highlights of a joint presentation by
Malvern Instruments and Ferrari Granulati at this year`s Powtech on 30th September to 2nd October 2008, Nurnberg, Germany).

Audiences were able to watch as process changes at the Ferrari Granulati plant in Verona, Italy, were made directly from the
stage. An Insitec analyser, installed on-line at the Ferrari Granulati plant instantaneously tracked the impact of changes on particle
size, a defining product performance variable.

Ferrari Granulati uses both in- and on-line particle size analysers from the Malvern range to produce white marble powders of high quality for use in the paper, plastics and construction industries.
A downloadable article detailing the work at Ferrari Granulati is available at www.malvern.com