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EMPLOY MENT
THE ANNUAL HMire-A-Sindent
week came to an end yesterday
after a week-long celebration that
saw North Vancouver City Mayor
Jack Loucks and North Van-
couver District Ald. Ernie Crist
kicking the Hire-A-Student foot-
ball to officially kick off the
event.

Both Loucks and Crist are en-
couraging North Vancouver
employers to hire a student this
summer.

To hire a student, and for more
information on the program, con-
tact the Canada Employment
Centre for Students in North
Vancouver at 666-9192.

POWER SMART

NORTH VANCOUVER-based
Albright and Wilson has been
recognized by B.C. Hydro'’s
Power Smart) program for its
energy conservation measures.

The North Vancouver company
is on B.C. Hydro’s top ten cus-
tomer fist. {t uses electricity to
manufacture a key chemical com-
ponent for the pulp industry.

FEDERAL FUNDING

EBCO TECHNOLOGIES Inc. of
Richmond will receive a
$2,679.900 repayale contribution
from the federal government's
Western Economic Diversification
fund to design, commercialize and
market smail cyclotrons.

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RIEFS

The eselotroms will produce
short-lived radioachive totopes for
medical use in hospital and
clinics emploving a new imitging
technology called positron emmis-
sion tomography (PET).

PEP is a dingnostic tool cur-
cently gaining popularity. [te pro-
duces images that reflect the
biochemical process and can be
used to identify disease processes
in the brain, heart or other areas
where true metibolic information
is required.

“Hoods very important to have
the source of the isotopes as close
as possible to the centre of use.’
said Western Economie Diver-
sification Minister Chartes Mayer.
“The small csclotrons being de-
veloped by Ebco will enable me-
dium and large hospitals to have
their own isotope source.”

Only two othes companies in
the world are believed to have the
ability to produce cyelotrons on a
scale similar to Ebco. Total costs
of the project are estimated at $8
million.

WHEELS IN MOTION

CANADIAN AUTOPARTS
Toyota Inc. (CAPTIN) will soon
be designing and developing its
own proprietary wheel models al
its plant in Delta,

The firm has received a loan of
$595,000 from the federal gov-
ernment to help initiate the wheel
development program.

Until now, the Delta plant has
been strictly a manufacturing unit
for the Tovota organization, pro-
ducing aluminum wheels designed
and developed in Japan.

The federal funds will go
towards the designs, production
prototypes, dies, gauges, paint
masks and a rim testing machine.
Total costs of the project) are
estimated at SE.S million.

"We will be working clasely
with Toyota vehicle marketing
organizations to ensure that the
new wheels are suited to overall
vehicle design, joval demand and
are competitively priced,’ said
Minoru Azuma, CAPTIN’s presi-
dent.

He added that once the com-
pany has demonstrated its ability
to design wheels for a range of
Toyota vehicles, the company
hopes to expand its safes efforts in
North America and Europe.

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Smyth, ‘eft, Albright and Wilson plant manager and Paul Timmons, vice-president of Canadian
manufacturing for iis energy conservation measures.

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