Ostara announced today the completion of a U.S. $10.5 million private equity financing, led by VantagePoint Venture Partners and Foursome Investments Limited.

SiC Processing AG announces an increase of its worldwide total production capacities of 200% by the year 2010.

Oxsensis Ltd has launched, Wave-Phire™, the world’s first commercially available 1000°C (1800°F) dynamic pressure sensor and the first of a range of sensor products designed for use at extreme temperatures which are immune to EMI effects.

Germany’s largest biogas-to-grid plant is now up and running at Könnern, near Halle.

The City of Edmonton's Gold Bar wastewater treatment plant has met a milestone by successfully operating for over six months as the world's first industrial-size nutrient treatment facility to remove phosphorus and other nutrients from municipal biosolids and recycle them into environmentally-safe commercial fertilizer.

Hydrodec Group announces a major export order for its Superfine transformer oil from Ceyhan Madeni Yag Ve Ticaret Ltd (‘Ceyhan’), a special purpose subsidiary of the Turkish trading company Innova Teknoloji, for distribution of Superfine in Turkey. Turkey is one of the world’s major centres for the manufacture of transformers, with a number of well-known global companies operating plants in the country.

London - SiC Processing AG today announced the completion of a €53.4 million round of financing to fund further international expansion. The round was led by zouk ventures, and joined by Merrill Lynch Corporate Principal Investments (CPI) Group, CC Private Equity Partners (CCP), Masdar Clean Tech Fund, and Foursome Investments together with existing investors and the Heckmann family.

Solarcentury Holdings Limited today announces the completion of a £13.5m round of financing to fund its product development and international expansion strategy. The round was led by zouk ventures, a European Cleantech investor, and co-led by Good Energies, a global investor in renewable energy. Additional investors are Foursome Investments and Vantania Holdings Limited (advised by the Consensus Business Group), along with participation by existing investors VantagePoint Venture Partners and Scottish and Southern Energy.

LONDON - Close Ventures has announced that it has led a £4.36 million round of funding, with Foursome Investments and existing investors, including Seven Spires and Rainbow Seed Fund, into Oxsensis (www.oxsensis.com), an industrial technology firm based in the world famous Rutherford Appleton Laboratory in Oxfordshire, England.

Acquisition expands company’s ultraviolet product offering to meet high market demand for alternative disinfection technologies.