Around the North

More than 100 researchers, engineers, students and industry personnel from around the world are expected to whirl into Sudbury Oct. 14 - 17 for the 12th International Conference on Mechatronics Technology (ICMT 2008).

Sudbury Area Mining Supply and Service Association (SAMSSA) is giving its members two chances to meet and greet senior procurement officials from Chile's Antofagasta plc in early November.

Timmins-based Dumas Contracting, one of the country's largest mining and engineering firms, has struck an agreement giving a controlling interest in the company to European based Pala Investments Holdings Limited.

Having been created in 1997, Collège Boréal's veterinary technician training program has recently received its accreditation from the Ontario Association of Veterinary Technicians (OAVT).

The 119th Sault Ste. Marie Chamber of Commerce general meeting and business awards luncheon is set for Oct. 17. This year's event will be held at the Marconi Cub from 11:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. Guest speaker is former astronaut and Sault native Dr.

A Sault Ste. Marie forest biotech company that knows how to kill the emerald ash borer is still waiting on Ottawa's approval to contain an outbreak in the city. Joe Meating, president of BioForest Technologies Inc.

Cambrian College has signed a memorandum of understanding with the Canadian GeoExchange Coalition to offer a full semester of new courses as part of its energy systems curriculum.

MPH Ventures is preparing to take a bulk sample at its Pidgeon Molybdenum deposit in northwestern Ontario.

A proposed Michigan ethanol plant to be built across the border from Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario is receiving almost $50 million in funding from the state and federal government. The U.S.

Robert Lipic, president and CEO of the Sudbury-based Mining Technologies International Inc. (MTI) has been nominated for the 2008 Premier's Award in technology.