NUKEM GmbH Signs Sale Contract for Subsidiary Company NUKEM Technologies GmbH

September 21st, 2009 COLOGNE, Germany - Deutsche Card Services today announced that it is expanding its stationary point-of-sale (POS) card payment solutions. In addition to the existing service of credit card acceptance in stationary POS business, the subsidiary of Deutsche Bank, will, with immediate effect, directly offer payment terminals and the national card payment methods girocard, direct debit and GeldKarte in the German market.

September 9th, 2009 VELBERT, Germany - Huf Hülsbeck & Fürst GmbH & Co. KG made a significantly higher offer to Ficosa to take over the shares of the two subsidiaries in Spain and Portugal.

August 3rd, 2009 ST GEORGEN, Germany - Economic experts expect up to 35,000 business failures in Germany in 2009. Intangible assets such as patents are not sufficiently taken into account by many banks when making lending decisions.

July 1st, 2009 ZAHNA, Germany - Germany is well known for its beer, its sausages and now for its herb liquor. Germany is the country with the biggest variety of herb liquor in the world; there are more than 150 different herb liquors all over Germany.

June 1st, 2009 LOS ANGELES - Plastinum Polymer Technologies BV, an indirect majority-owned subsidiary of Plastinum Polymer Technologies Corp. (OTC Bulletin Board: PLNU - News), today announced that it has signed a sales contract with a Dutch manufacturer for the sale to the manufacturer of 2500-3600MT on an annual basis of Plastinum's recently developed Infinymer 49.0, a product made from post-consumer mixed plastic household waste.

May 4th, 2009 HALLBERGMOOS, Germany - Cross reference: Picture is Distributed via EPA (European Pressphoto Agency) and can be Downloaded Free of Charge at: www.presseportal.de/pm/55057/eurofighter_gmbh?keygroup=bild - The Shareholder representatives of the Eurofighter consortium appointed with effect from 1st May 2009 Bernhard Gerwert as the Chairman of the Supervisory Board and Enzo Casolini as the new CEO of Eurofighter GmbH. Mr. Casolini takes over from Aloysius Rauen, who left the company on 30th April.

April 26th, 2009 KARLSRUHE, Germany and LONDON - Pangora GmbH, the supplier of online marketplace technologies, is to combine its previous six business divisions into three segments: Portals & Brands, Shops & Content and Innovation &Technology. As a result, the board of management will be scaled down from six to three executives and this will be accompanied by a reduction in staff numbers.

April 23rd, 2009 ALZENAU, Germany and CHERNOBYL , Ukraine - On 24 April 2009, NUKEM Technologies GmbH, based in Alzenau (Germany), handed over a turnkey waste treatment centre for solid radioactive waste (ICSRM = Industrial Complex for Radwaste Management) to its customer, the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant. The project was primarily financed by the European Commission's TACIS program, with additional funding provided by the Ukrainian government.

March 18th, 2009 VIENNA, Austria and SINGAPORE - Mycoplasma biosafety specialist Mycosafe Diagnostics GmbH and virus and prion biosafety company ViruSure GmbH - both based in Vienna, Austria - today announced at BioMedical Asia 2009 that they are to establish a second site in Singapore as part of a joint venture. This move will ensure that both companies are in an ideal position to offer the biosafety expertise and laboratory services so urgently required in the rapidly-expanding biopharmaceutical and biotechnology industry in Asia.

March 18th, 2009 ALZEY, Germany - Developing its SIMAPIC Technology, Pyades Technologies GmbH Located in Alzey, Germany, Ushers in a Revolution in Working With Image Databases Until now image databases had a decisive disadvantage compared to conventional databases: the images could not be allocated specific search parameters without additional work. Searching for images has only been possible based on file names and assigned tags.

June 17th, 2009 Arcandor puts 15 subsidiaries into bankruptcyBERLIN — Embattled German retailer Arcandor AG on Wednesday placed 15 additional subsidiaries under bankruptcy protection along with its Karstadt department stores and the Quelle GmbH mail-order company. Arcandor said in documents filed Wednesday with a district court in Essen, where it is based, that the 15 companies include Corporate Service Group GmbH, Primondo Operations GmbH and Foto Quelle GmbH.

September 25th, 2009 AP may sell stake in its German ServiceFRANKFURT — The Associated Press said Friday that it is in talks with German news agency DDP about selling a stake in AP's German language news service to the Berlin-based company. The discussions involve the possibility of Deutscher Depeschendienst GmbH acquiring a shareholding in AP GmbH — AP's Germany-based subsidiary — and a long-term content-sharing agreement, AP said.

August 20th, 2009 Hamilton Sundstrand gets contract valued at $2.3BMOSCOW — Aviation electronics manufacturer Hamilton Sundstrand Corp. said Thursday it received a contract valued at about $2.3 billion from Irkut Corp.

September 10th, 2009 Trust approves GM deal of Opel to Magna, SberbankBERLIN — The Opel Trust has given its approval for the sale of General Motors Co's European unit Opel to a consortium of Magna International Inc. and Russian lender Sberbank.

June 30th, 2009 Magna confident of Opel deal by July 15BERLIN — The head of Canadian auto parts maker Magna says he is confident a deal to take over carmaker Adam Opel GmbH will be completed by the middle of July. Magna International Inc.

July 13th, 2009 Nabucco gas pipeline at a glanceHere are basic facts about the Nabucco gas pipeline agreed Monday among Turkey, Bulgaria, Romania, Hungary, and Austria. —WHERE: Across the five signatory countries — from Ankara, Turkey, to Baumgarten, Austria — carrying gas from Central Asia to Western Europe.

July 4th, 2009 GM Europe: Talks on selling Opel near completionBERLIN — Negotiations for the sale of General Motors Corp.'s unit Adam Opel GmbH to Canadian autoparts maker Magna are progressing well and should soon be complete, the head of GM Europe said in remarks released Saturday. Carl-Peter Forster was quoted as telling the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung that he hoped the sale of Opel to Magna International Inc.

August 18th, 2009 CBI unit wins $40 million ethylene plant contractTHE WOODLANDS, Texas — A subsidiary of Chicago Bridge & Iron NV said Tuesday it won a contract worth about $40 million to supply eight heaters to an ethylene plant in Taiwan. The Lummus Technology subsidiary said it won the contract from CTCI Corp.

September 3rd, 2009 MUMBAI - Moser Baer India, with business interest in optical storage media, is developing a 1 MW solar power project in Chandrapur in Maharashtra. When completed, it will be one of the largest solar projects in the world using the latest thin film technology, the firm said.

July 2nd, 2009 Injunction against Delta in Mesa case upheldATLANTA — A federal appeals court has upheld a preliminary injunction barring Delta Air Lines Inc., the world's biggest airline operator, from terminating a regional flying contract with Mesa Air Group Inc. subsidiary Freedom Airlines.