Hong Kong 10/9/14; Singapore 10/9/14—Techcomp has agreed to acquire from Bruker the assets related to Bruker’s GC and single-quadrupole GC/MS businesses, including inventories, intellectual property, trademark, licenses and other assets, for $13.5 million. The net book value of the tangible assets is $14 million. Techcomp stated that the acquisition will allow it to expand its […]
The market for high-end GC/MS technologies has been experiencing rapid growth over the past several years, led by robust demand from environmental and food-testing applications. Users are migrating from single-quadrupole MS to triple-quadrupole MS technology for quantitative analysis of known compounds. While Q-TOFs MS systems are more widely recognized for their use with LC, their […]
IBO’s laboratory equipment design awards recognize creative and function industrial design of lab equipment, which is defined as receiving an electrical current, operational for a minimum of one year and unable to analyze a sample characteristic. Gold Award ELGA’s PURELAB Chorus laboratory water system is the winner of IBO’s 2014 Gold Industrial Design Award for […]
Washington, DC 7/23/14—Bruker has announced in an SEC filing that it plans to divest certain assets of its Chemical & Applied Markets Division (CAM) and restructure the unit. In 2013, CAM had revenues of $100 million. Bruker stated that it plans to divest or restructure CAM’s GC product lines, including its single-quadrupole GC and GC/MS […]
Thin-layer chromatography (TLC) is a planar chromatography technique that in general separates a sample by normal-phase partitioning using a glass, plastic or metal surface commonly coated with silica particles as the stationary phase. Resolution can be adjusted through the thickness of layers and particle sizes, with finer particles providing an upgrade in resolution but a […]
Company Announcements Repligen’s 2013 Bioprocessing Product sales increased 13.5% to $47.5 million to make up 70% of total revenues. Novasep’s 2013 Synthesis sales grew 5.2% to €155.1 million ($206.8 million) to make up 49% of revenues. In April, FloDesign Sonics, a developer of core acoustic separation technology for bioprocessing, closed a $10 million Series A […]
IVD relies on a number of technologies to test for certain conditions, diseases and infections. Molecular diagnostic (MDx) tests use genomic and proteomic technologies for such analyses. The February 2014 Strategic Directions International report, “The Coveted Molecular Diagnostics Market: From Clinical Research to Diagnosis and Personalized Medicine—Innovative Technologies Break Through,” covers the use of nucleic […]
Company Announcements DANI Instruments opened a US subsidiary in New Jersey in January. INFICON first quarter Emergency Response & Security revenue rose 60% to $8.8 million to make up 12% of company sales due to demand for portable devices to analyze toxic organic substances. In May, VUV Analytics closed a $5.8 million Series A equity […]
Biologic drugs continue to be one of the fastest-growing categories of the pharmaceutical market. US sales of biologics grew 9.7% annually from 2010 to 2012 to $65.5 billion, or 47% of the global market, according to EvaluatePharma. According to the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America, 907 biologic medicines and vaccines are in development at […]
Analytik Jena entered the ICP market with the introduction of the PlasmaQuant PQ 9000 ICP-OES, which features a compact design and delivers high resolution, ease of use, flexibility and precision. The PQ9000 is a simultaneous ICP system that employs four key components: high-resolution optics, the V (vertical) Shuttle Torch, Dual View PLUS technology and a […]
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