NEW YORK, January 11 /PRNewswire/ --

"I am pleased to announce that Haas TCM Inc. and its subsidiaries, Kemfast Aerospace Group, Ltd. and Kemfast, Ltd (collectively Kemfast) and its MC Technologies division have combined with an affiliate of The Jordan Company, L.P. to form Haas TCM Group Inc. ICMS Holdings, Inc. (d/b/a Avchem, Inc.), an existing portfolio company of Jordan, will be integrated with Haas TCM Group Inc. The focus of these businesses is to provide chemical management services on a global basis to a wide range of industries including aerospace, automotive, electronics, health care and other markets, as well to government agencies such as the U.S. Defense Logistics Agency," stated Dean M. Willard, Chairman of the Board of Haas TCM Group Inc.

LONDON, January 11 /PRNewswire/ -- eyeforpharma, the global source of information and education for the pharmaceutical industry, announced today that the 5th annual Patient Compliance & Communication conference, London, 11-12 June 2008 has secured its full speaker faculty including leading executives from Pfizer, Novartis, Wyeth, GSK, Bayer, AstraZeneca and Merck Serono.

The full detailed brochure is available to download now at http://www.eyeforpharma.com/pceu2008/brochure.shtml

LONDON, January 11 /PRNewswire/ --

The Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) has today named the UK's top young women engineers in its Young Woman Engineer of the Year Awards.

The Awards are the most prestigious of their type within the engineering profession and recognise success and talent among women engineers. This year the awards celebrate their 30th anniversary.

The main prize, the IET Young Woman Engineer of the Year, went to an electrical engineering programme co-ordinator with power company E.ON. Another winner began her career working on some of the world's most popular toys.

The winners are:

- Alice Delahunty, age 26 from Nottingham, won the 2007 IET Young Woman Engineer of the Year Awards. Alice works for E.ON

PHILADELPHIA, January 11 /PRNewswire/ --

AMERICAN LIBRARY ASSOCIATION (ALA) MIDWINTER MEETING -- Kirtas Technologies, the leader in quality, high-speed, nondestructive book digitization, today introduced three new systems to round out its product offering to the growing number of organizations and businesses digitizing their works and bringing information to a new generation of digital users.

The Kirtas APT BookScan 2400RA(TM) is a new, high-volume machine that provides remote access allowing users to capture raw images in one location and process them at another. It is equipped with a high-performance blade server, which enables the remote capability as well as providing increased storage capacity and a faster processing speed.

HOOFDDORP, The Netherlands, January 11 /PRNewswire/ --

- Kulik Continues Chairing Board of Chinese Joint Venture

The Board of Directors of CEVA Group plc. announced today that David G. Kulik, CEVA's Vice Chairman and former CEO, has advised the Company of his retirement, effective February 22nd, 2008. The Company also announced that they have entered into an agreement with Mr. Kulik wherein he will be a consultant to management as well as continue in his position as Chairman of the Board of ANJI-TNT, the joint venture between CEVA Logistics and Shanghai Automotive Industries Corporation - SAIC.

WILMINGTON, North Carolina, January 10 /PRNewswire/ --

- Business process management supports success in technology-focused projects

PPD, Inc. (Nasdaq: PPDI) today announced that CSS Informatics, the clinical and safety data management consulting services and proprietary e- technologies division of PPD, has entered into a solutions partner agreement with Nimbus Partners, a provider of process management software and services.