After a five-year absence from Atlanta, Georgia, Pittcon returned to the city this year from March 6 to March 10. Attendance figures as of the end of the day on March 9 showed that conferee attendance declined 14.9% to 6,890. Exhibitor attendance was down 12.6% to 5,064. With Europe’s largest analytical instrument show, Analytica, taking […]
West Chester, PA 8/4/15—Chiral Technologies, a DAICEL company and provider of enantioselective chromatography, has acquired the assets of Diffinity Genomics for an undisclosed amount. Diffinity Genomics supplies the RapidTip technology for single-step rapid purification of amplified DNA fragments. ”The innovative, patented purification technology from Diffinity was a perfect choice for our expansion in the bio-separation/purification […]
A single quadrupole MS (SQMS) system is a mass analyzer with one mass-filtering cluster. SQMS, particularly when paired with UHPLC, is a technique that is becoming more prevalent in routine food analyses, including the detection of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, pesticides and aflatoxins. Traditional methods of food analysis have typically used higher-performing instruments, such as LC/MS/MS […]
The Parenteral Drug Association’s Interphex (International Pharmaceutical Expo) show took place April 26–28 in New York City, New York, where it is held every year. The exhibit is dedicated to products for biopharmaceutical manufacturing. Attendance at the show rose 14% this year. Among the instrument companies exhibiting were Beckman Coulter Life Sciences, ChemoMetec, Freeslate, Hamilton, […]
IBO has moved up its quarterly financial review of major publicly held instrument and lab product businesses to the mid-month issues in order to provide more time-sensitive reporting. In addition, IBO has reorganized its Sales Indexes to one primary Laboratory Instruments and Products Sale Index, which will be presented in the May 31 issue. These […]
Cannabis testing in the US has made progress on multiple fronts but still has a long way to go, resulting in new opportunities for lab product and instrumentation companies. Testing demand is growing as more states legalize recreational use, and institute testing and lab requirements. But the fragmented market and unique business environment creates challenges […]
With the completed acquisition of Life Technologies (see IBO 2/15/14) in 2014, Thermo Fisher Scientific further solidified its number one position among IBO’s list of the top 30 analytical and life science instrument, aftermarket and lab product companies. All sales and sales growth figures in this article are based on IBO’s calculations of companies’ revenues […]
Among the many products at Pittcon released within the last six months of the show, IBO has selected three that stood out for innovation, technical achievement and commercial potential. This year’s top three products offer convenient solutions to technical bottlenecks and limitations. Shimadzu Nexera UC IBO’s top product pick for Pittcon is Shimadzu’s Nexera UC […]
Waltham, MA 2/17/15—PerkinElmer has announced a chromatography collaboration with Waters, under which its LC and GC portfolio will be standardized on Waters Empower Software chromatography data system. “Our alliance with Waters combines cutting-edge chromatography technologies and sophisticated analysis software with leading application knowledge and best-in-class services,” stated Jon DiVincenzo, president of Environmental Health, PerkinElmer. PerkinElmer […]
This year, Pittcon was held in New Orleans, Louisiana, from March 7 to March 12. Unfortunately, the location did not appear to help attendance. According to the preliminary figures available as of March 9, total attendance was down 15.8% from last year, when the location was Chicago, Illinois (see IBO 3/31/14), to 13,683. The number […]
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