NSF International partners with NATRUE to develop first American National standard for Natural Cosmetics.

NSF International partners with NATRUE to develop first American National standard for Natural Cosmetics.

Personal care in the United States will finally have a national standard for natural personal care products that is accredited by the American National Standards Institute (ANSI).

NSF International, the U.S. testing and certification organization committed to protecting the environment and public health, will lead the development of the new American standard for Natural Cosmetics on the basis of our NATRUE criteria (NATRUE Standard Level 1).

The partnership marks an important step towards inte

Realkapital Partners appoints PAMERA to manage its assets in Germany

Realkapital Partners appoints PAMERA to manage its assets in Germany

Frankfurt am Main, February 8, 2011 – the Norwegian fund manager Realkapital Partners AS, Oslo, has mandated PAMERA Asset Management GmbH, Frankfurt am Main, with the asset management of a German real estate portfolio. The portfolio comprises three commercial properties with a total area of around 25,000 sq.m.: the office buildings Spaldingtor in Hamburg and Solitaire in Frankfurt am Main as well as the Leine-Forum in Laatzen near Hanover. The properties were acquired by Realkapital on behalf of

PAMERA sees strong start, optimistic for office market 2011

PAMERA sees strong start, optimistic for office market 2011

Frankfurt, 1st February 2011 – PAMERA Asset Management has advised its clients on the successful completion of about 38,500 sq.m. of lease agreements throughout 2010. With more than half being new leases, and the remainder lease extensions, PAMERA was able to book a significant increase on the leasing rate of several properties it manages. As of February 2011, PAMERA manages about 485 million euros of real estate assets, consisting of 300,000 sq.m. of lettable space.

PAMERA"s clients numb

CoSynth Shows FPGA-based Machine Vision at embedded world

CoSynth Shows FPGA-based Machine Vision at embedded world

CoSynth GmbH & Co. KG presents exemplary solutions for intelligent camera solutions at embedded world 2011, March 1st-3rd in Nurnberg. The systems are designed for industrial machine vision and automotive industry. The image manipulation and object recognition core is implemented as a hardware accelerated one-chip FPGA system. Several camera interfaces are supported.
The processing part of the demonstrator has been generated from an existing algorithm written in the C language. The

Exhibitors and visitors thrilled with dual trade – imm cologne 2011 exceeds all expectations

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– 138,000 visitors from 128 countries
– Extremely international and high-quality visitor structure
– Excellent mood amongst the 1,213 providers from 48 countries
On 23rd January 2011, the imm cologne and LivingKitchen in Cologne drew to a close with an excellent result. Including estimates for the final day of the fair, the dual event drew around 138,000 visitors to Cologne – an increase of 38 percent.
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