1.   We are encouraged by the prospects for our growth businesses led by autocatalysts, electronic materials and biomedical products.

2.   New manufacturing facilities for biomedical products have been opened at our West Deptford site.

3.   Biomedical products, a broad category of businesses, already accounts for the second-largest chunk of Thermo Electron revenues and seems likely to grow bigger.

4.   KUB, he added, was working with Universiti Putra Malaysia to commercialise biomedical products made from haruan extract.

5.   Economic espionage includes anything from copying designs of computer chips to stealing patented biomedical products.