Plainfield, IL — Weyerhaeuser has selected HPD to supply a new Chloride Removal Process (CRP) system as part of an installation of a new recovery boil

Plainfield, IL — Weyerhaeuser has selected HPD to supply a new Chloride Removal Process (CRP) system as part of an installation of a new recovery boiler at their Campti, LA mill.

The CRP system, a proprietary crystallization process from HPD, decreases concentration of chloride and potassium in the recovery cycle that become enriched in flue gas dust. Chloride and potassium, if left untreated, accumulate in the process and often lead to fouling of the recovery boiler, which can lead to corrosion and inefficient boiler operations. The Chloride Removal Process allows removal of these elements with efficient recovery of process chemicals such as sodium and sulfate. Savings in operating costs are realized through a reduction in chemical makeup costs that are associated with the dumping of precipitator ash as a means of removal.

The new system will be integrated into the existing recovery area at the Campti Mill. HPD will provide design, engineering and major equipment supply involved with the Chloride Removal Process

Quantum Dot Products

Quantum Dot Corporation (QDC) announces two additions to its nanocrystal-based family of fluorescent labels: the Qtracker 655 Kit for loading Qdot nanocrystals into live cells and the Qdot 705 streptavidin conjugate for ultra-bright, near-infrared bio-detection.

Qtracker 655 Kit

The Qtracker 655 Kit is the first in a new line of labeling reagents designed for introducing Qdot nanocrystal-based fluorochromes into live cells. The Qtracker kit utilizes custom-targeting peptides to deliver the extremely bright Qdot nanocrystals to the cytoplasm. Once inside the cells, the Qdot nanocrystals provide highly photostable fluorescence that doesn't bleach over time or under extensive, continuous illumination and observation.

"The Qtracker 655 Kit is an excellent tool for long-term studies of migration, motility, morphology and many other characteristics where the cell must be observed over time, even through several generations of cell division," explains Charlie Hotz, QDC's director of labels R&D.

QDC says Qtracker quantum dots are easy to use in powerful experimental designs because they do not add unwanted autofluorescence, are not transferred to adjacent cells in the population and display excellent retention properties. Qdot nanocrystals are inert and nontoxic to all tested cell types. They may be still observed in cells a week or more after transfection.

Qdot 705 Streptavidin Conjugate

QDC also introduces the Qdot 705 Streptavidin Conjugate, the brightest near-infrared fluorophore available by far. This new conjugate is ideal for applications requiring visualization in turbid, opaque or otherwise scattering media such as in vivo experiments.

The Qdot 705 Streptavidin conjugate is useful in a wide range of applications, including: immunohistochemistry, in vivo labeling, western blots, solid-phase immunosorbent assays and flow cytometry.

Far-red and near-infrared light penetrates much more deeply into samples such as tissues, gels and animals than typical visible light, and also escapes from a greater depth. Additionally, autofluorescent background is significantly diminished in this spectral region, particularly when excitation is in the blue or UV range. Emission is well beyond the spectral range of typical sample autofluorescence. Also, scattering and other optical effects which reduce resolution are minimized in the red. These qualities are now coupled with the exceptional brightness and stability enabled by Qdot nanotechnology.

The Qdot 705 Streptavidin conjugate can be used with other colors of Qdot conjugates for multicolor analysis. It is orders of magnitude more photostable than Cy5 streptavidin conjugates and can be excited at many different wavelengths including 633nm, 532, and 405nm -- common sources in an array of existing instrument platforms.

"At last year's cell biology meeting, we launched our company's first product. Since then, the product portfolio has been expanded significantly to include 6 Qdot colors and a range of different biomolecules including antibodies, streptavidin, protein A, and biotin. We are also beginning to see our customers publish landmark scientific papers, enabled by our Qdot products," said Carol Lou, QDC's president.

Quantum dots are nanoscale crystals of semiconductor material that glow, or fluoresce brightly when excited by a light source such as a laser. They are used by life-science researchers as tiny beacons, or markers, allowing them to easily see individual genes, nucleic acids, proteins or small molecules. Qdot conjugates work by seeking out and bonding with target materials. Once bound to a target, each individual Qdot particle emits light. Depending on their size, they can glow in a variety of colors and are up to 1,000 times brighter than fluorescent dyes.

NARDA EAST

Narda Microwave East has been serving the Microwave/RF components and subsystems markets for over 50 years. Under the world-renowned Narda brand name, our employees and field sales representatives take great pride in bringing the highest quality catalog and custom components to our valued military and commercial end users.

We specialize in the manufacture of:

• Passive components (couplers, power dividers, attenuators, terminations, phase shifters, detectors and adaptors)

• Electro-Mechanical and Pin Diode Based switching products

• Data drivers, oscillators and integrated assemblies for fiber optic communications systems operating at 40 GBPS and beyond

• State of the art MIC multi-function assemblies.

While it is likely that our extensive inventory and broad COTS product range will result in an off-the-shelf solution for your applications, we also excel in the development and production of custom active/passive components and multifunction assemblies, specifically tailored toward your applications.

Superior customer service, in concert with the largest microwave components inventory in the business and an outstanding quality management system insure the availability and reliability that you, our customer relies upon. So, if you are looking for an off the shelf component, or a trusted and reliable extension of your own internal engineering resources (or both), look to Narda, we hope that you will consider us today!

KYC compliance

Know Your Customer (KYC) compliance regulation has proved to be one of the biggest operational challenges banks, accountants, lawyers and similar financial service providers worldwide have had to overcome.

World-Check, the industry standard KYC compliance solution, provides an overview of KYC compliance and its origins, and outlines the compliance mandate as applicable to banks, accounting firms, lawyers and other regulated financial service providers – not just in the UK, Europe and the USA, but all around the world. Relied upon by more than 3,000 institutions worldwide, this KYC database solution provides effective legal and reputational risk reduction.

Why “Know Your Customer?”


The 9/11 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Centre revealed that there were sinister forces at work around the world, and that terrorists activities were being funded with laundered money, the proceeds of illicit activities such as narcotics and human trafficking, fraud and organised crime. Overnight, the combating of terrorist financing became a priority on the international agenda.

For the financial services provider of the 21st century, “knowing your customers” was no longer a suggested course of action. Based on the requirements of legislative landmarks such as the USA PATRIOT Act 2002, modern Know Your Customer (KYC) compliance mandates were created to simultaneously combat money laundering and the funding of terrorist activities.

What is Know Your Customer (KYC)?


Know Your Customer, or KYC, refers to the regulatory compliance mandate imposed on financial service providers to implement a Customer Identification Programme and perform due diligence checks before doing business with a person or entity.

KYC fulfils a risk mitigation function, and one its key requirements is checking that a prospective customer is not listed on any government lists for wanted money launders, known fraudsters or terrorists.

If preliminary KYC checks reveal that the person is a Politically Exposed Person (PEP), for example, Advanced Due Diligence must be done in order to ensure that the person’s source of wealth is transparent, and that he or she does not pose a reputational or financial risk in terms of their finances, public positions or associations. Beyond customer identification checks, the ongoing monitoring of transfers and financial transactions against a range of risk variables forms an integral part of the KYC compliance mandate.

But to understand the importance of KYC compliance for financial service providers better, its origins need to be examined.

Origins of Know Your Customer (KYC) compliance


The arrival of the new millennium was marred by a spate of terrorist attacks and corporate scandals that unmasked the darker features of globalisation. These events highlighted the role of money laundering in cross-border crime and terrorism, and underlined the need to clamp down on the exploitation of financial systems worldwide.

Know Your Customer (KYC) legislation was principally not absent prior to 9/11. Regulated financial service providers for a long time have been required to conduct due diligence and customer identification checks in order to mitigate their own operation risks, and to ensure a consistent and acceptable level of service.

In essence, the USA PATRIOT Act was not so much a radical departure from prior legislation as it was a firmer and more extensive articulation of existing laws. The Act would lead to the more rigorous regulation of a greater range of financial services providers, and expanded the authority of American law enforcement agencies in the fighting of terrorism, both in the USA and abroad.

In October 2001, President George W. Bush signed off the USA PATRIOT Act, effectively providing federal regulators with a new range of tools and powers for fighting terror financing and money laundering. During July 2002, the US Treasury proceeded to introduce Section 326 of the PATRIOT Act, a clause that removed some key burdens for regulators and added significant enforcement muscle to the Act.

What 9/11 changed, in essence, was the extent to which existing legislation was being implemented. Using the provisions of the earlier anti-terrorism USA Act as a foundation, it included the Financial Anti-Terrorism Act, which allowed for federal jurisdiction over foreign money launders and money laundered through foreign banks. Significantly, it is this anti-terror law that would make the creation of an Anti Money Laundering (AML) programme compulsory for all financial institutions and service providers.

Section 326 of the USA PATRIOT Act dealt specifically with the identification of new customers (“CIP regulation”), and made extensive provisions in terms of KYC and the methods employed to verify client identities.

In accordance with this piece of updated KYC legislation, federal regulators would hold financial institutions accountable for the effectiveness of their initial customer identification and ongoing KYC screening. Institutions are required to keep detailed records of the steps that were taken to verify prospective clients’ identities.

Although current KYC legislation does not yet demand the exclusion of specific types of foreign-issued identification, it recommends the usage of machine-verifiable identity documents. The ability to notify financial institutions if concerns regarding specific types of identification were to arise, combined with a risk-based approach to KYC, proved to provide a robust mechanism for addressing security concerns.

Effectively, the risk-based approach to customer due diligence grants regulated institutions a certain degree of flexibility to determine the forms of identification they will accept, and under which conditions.

KYC compliance: Implications for banks, lawyers and accounting firms


The KYC compliance mandate, for all its positive outcomes, has burdened companies and organisations with a substantial administrative obligation. Additionally, KYC compliance increasingly entails the creation of auditable proof of due diligence activities, in addition to the need for customer identification.

CDM Electronics

CDM Electronics is a certified small business, CCR# 42827, founded in 1993, CDM Electronics' mission is to provide our customers with exceptional interconnect products and value added services that meet or exceed our customers' expectations. We welcome the chance to design a creative solution to the most challenging issues.

Our Products
CDM Electronics is a NEDA Authorized Supplier for electronic connectors, coaxial cables and other interconnect products. This assures you that you are receiving factory new and approved products. With today's ever changing business climate, particularly in light of RoHS initiatives which transpired in July 2006, it is imperative that your applications perform to specification and in compliance with environmental and other government regulations. For those applications not requiring RoHS compliance, there are still several performance and reliability factors that are compromised when superior products are not deployed. Choose CDM for all of your interconnect sourcing requirements and you are guaranteed excellent products with on time deliveries.

Our Services
In 1999, CDM management recognized that customers wanted access to thousands of parts in stock ready for same day shipment. But this only represented half of our customers' needs. So

we embarked upon a program to expand our offering into the arena of cable assembly and value added programs. Since that time, CDM has experienced explosive growth and now provides a host of value added services, from "womb to tomb". We provide quick turn engineering and cable assembly services for prime contractors, as well as 2nd and 3rd tier providers. Our satisfied customer list includes Northrop Grumman, BAE, General Dynamics, and all branches of the United States military: Army, Navy, Air Force and Marines.

CDM credits our great staff, especially our brilliant engineering team, with our enormous success in this area.

Proactive Cost Reduction Program™
Process improvement and cost-saving solutions are as important to us as they are to you. Our "Proactive Cost Reduction Program" is a trademarked initiative created by CDM Electronics to constantly create cost-saving solutions for our customers.

Our People
From Reception to Shipping, CDM Electronics is proud to have the most loyal & dedicated employees. But it takes more than just our own employees to make our company great. We rely heavily on the expertise of several of our providers, especially our web designers: