In April, Veeco Instruments appointed Jeannine M. Sargent, executive vice president of Metrology and Instrumentation, Corporate Marketing and Business Development, as executive vice president, Business Development. Under a collaboration agreement, Veeco and Leica Microsystems GmbH will integrate their respective BioScope II atomic force microscope (AFM) and DMI series inverted microscope for cell biology applications. Veeco […]

INFICON’s Emergency Response & Security reported 2006 sales decreased 15.7% to $18.3 million to make up 9% of the total company’s revenues. Torion Technologies named Douglas W. Later, PhD, president and CEO last year. He was previously senior market development manager and director of corporate marketing for Dionex. Ion Signature developed a customized version of […]

PANalytical became the exclusive representative of OBLF GmbH’s optical atomic emission spectrometers in North America. PANalytical acquired the rights to the Wilis & Duncan course on advanced X-ray fluorescence (XRF) analysis. Shimadzu Scientific Instruments (SSI), Shimadzu’s US subsidiary, assumed control of the sales, service and support for Shimadzu subsidiary Kratos Analytical’s X-ray spectrometer business in […]

DeltaDOT appointed Richard Lingard as vice president of Sales. He was previously director of Strategic Alliances for Invitrogen. SRU Biosystems exclusively licensed Novartis’s Evanescent Resonance technology for drug discovery applications. The technology enables enhanced sensitivity to fluorescence-based assays. In April, Caliper Life Sciences named John DelliSanti executive vice president and chief commercial officer. He previously […]

Airgas named James A. Muller senior vice president, Specialty Gases and Life Sciences, in January. He was previously president of Airgas East. In March, Air Liquide purchased Linde Gas UK based on an enterprise value of €105 million ($138.2 million). Air Liquide UK’s sales are around €60 million ($78.9 million). In March, Corning Life Sciences […]

A new survey by PricewaterhouseCoopers indicates that Asia is likely to become the top market in the world for medicines, and a major center for research and manufacturing. Of the 185 executives from domestic and multinational companies (MNCs) in Asia who were surveyed, 58% believe that the pharmaceutical industry will shift its focus to Asia. […]

GE Healthcare will exclusively distribute under the ULTA brand a new range of microfiltration cartridges and disposable filters from Parker domnick hunter for biopharmaceutical manufacturing. The companies also entered into a joint technology development agreement. As part of an R&D collaboration, Invitrogen will contribute its PD Direct media and cell line development expertise and Viropro […]

In March, Techcomp announced exclusive distribution agreements in China and Asia Pacific markets with Kurabo Industries, Implen GmbH, Corona and Astranet. In March, the Verder Group and engineering firm Samuel Hodge acquired Autoclude, a manufacturer of peristaltic pumps for the OEM and laboratory markets. In April, Mocon opened a technical support office in Shanghai, China […]

Biotools B&M Labs SA released CapitalBio’s microarray platform to the Spanish market and provided CapitalBio with its LIONPROBES real-time amplification technology, the Gelification stabilization platform and recombinant enzymes for kits and reagents for the Chinese market. Oxford Gene Technology and Integrated Genomics partnered to develop and market a Pichia pastoris gene expression oligonucleotide microarray. In […]

LUM GmbH named Twinson International as a Chinese distributor and Lih-Yuan Enterprise as a Taiwanese distributor. Asia accounts for more than 30% of the company’s sales. Under an OEM agreement, Micro Imaging Technology will supply its tabletop rapid microbial identification system as an option for JMAR’s BioSentry Water Monitoring System. Particle size analyzer company NanoSight […]