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WILMINGTON, Mass., Dec. 10, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Heilind Electronics, the largest distributor of interconnect products in North America, is now a JST franchised distributor for the nation of Brazil. Heilind operates in Brazil as Kotek Eletro Eletronica Ltda. A leading distributor of electronic components based in Sao Paulo, Kotek was acquired by Heilind in January of this year. "We're excited about the opportunity to offer the innovative, precision engineered connectors of JST to the...

The carbon footprint of humans will be reduced by four awards for plant and microbial research issued under a new joint U.S./Japanese program Four joint United States and Japanese research teams have been awarded funding totaling about $12 million (about Yen 960 million) to develop new environmentally-friendly techniques to increase the production of renewable biofuel and reduce pesticide use. These environmentally-friendly techniques will be based on studies of metabolites--chemical...