Goettingen, – In its meeting yesterday, the Supervisory Board of Sartorius AG approved the recommendation by the Executive Board to submit a proposal to the Annual Shareholders’ Meeting on April 19, 2012, to pay dividends of 0.82 euro per preference share (previous year: 0.62 euro) and 0.80 euro per ordinary share (previous year: 0.60 euro). […]

Marlborough, MA- Block MEMS has been awarded a major contract from Johns Hopkins University in support of the Department of Defense intelligence community to develop and supply miniaturized, handheld versions of its battery operated Portable Hazard Observation System (PORTHOS™). PORTHOS is a man portable passive Fourier Transform Infrared (FTIR) spectrometer. Under this contract Block will […]

HONG KONG and SINGAPORE, • Net profit before exceptional items up 13.8% to US$11.2m • First and final dividend of 6.2 HK cent recommended • Growing demand for Techcomp’s products in China and other Asian emerging markets in FY2012 Techcomp (Holdings) Ltd (“Techcomp”, or the “Group”, HKSE stock code: 1298, SGX stock code: T43), one […]

WALTHAM, Mass.– Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. (NYSE: TMO), the world leader in serving science, today announced that its board of directors has approved the initiation of a quarterly cash dividend to its shareholders – the first in the company’s history. The initial quarterly cash dividend of $0.13 per share will be paid on April 16 […]

STATESVILLE, N.C. – Kewaunee Scientific Corporation (Nasdaq: KEQU) today announced the financial results for its third quarter ended January 31, 2012. Sales for the quarter were $21,574,000, down 4% from sales of $22,568,000 in the third quarter last year. Additional sales of $720,000 for products manufactured late in the quarter were not recorded as a […]

Marlborough, MA, Block MEMS has recently been awarded a prestigious Army Small Business Innovative Research (SBIR) Phase II Enhancement Contract. This award follows Block’s previous success in winning a Phase II Commercialization Pilot Program (CPP) award for its versatile LaserScan™ Analyzer. Petros Kotidis, CEO of Block MEMS, stated, “The focus of this new award will […]

MINNEAPOLIS, MOCON, Inc. announced today that on February 21, 2012, its Board of Directors declared a quarterly cash dividend of ten and one-half cents ($0.105) per share, payable on May 18, 2012, to shareholders of record on May 4, 2012. This is a five percent increase over the previous rate of ten cents per share. […]

BILLERICA, Mass., Bruker Corporation today reported financial results for the fourth quarter and year ended December 31, 2011. Fourth Quarter 2011 Financial Highlights: • Revenue increased 14.2% year-over-year to $475.1 million (12.5% currency-adjusted growth, or 12.2% growth excluding acquisitions and currency effects) • Bruker Scientific Instruments (BSI) segment GAAP EPS was $0.25, and BSI adjusted […]

SOUTH EASTON, Mass.,Pressure BioSciences, Inc. today announced that it has closed on an $800,000 private placement with the sale of units consisting of a total of 971,867 shares of restricted common stock and 485,937 warrants to purchase restricted common stock. Seven current investors, including the Company’s CEO/President, the Company’s Chairman of the Board of Directors, […]