Washington, DC 4/16/14—Danaher has named Executive Vice President Thomas P. Joyce, Jr. to succeed H. Lawrence Culp, Jr. as president and CEO. Mr. Culp will retire on March 1, 2015. Mr. Joyce is currently responsible for Danaher’s Water Quality, Life Sciences and Diagnostics platforms, which have combined annual revenues of over $9 billion. “During Larry’s […]
Company Announcements Spinomix named Nasri Nahas as CEO in January. He previously served as CEO of GeneBio. In 2014, CambTek named the following exclusive distributors: Pragolab for the Czech and Slovak Republics, Synersy for France and ITS Sciences for South Korea. In February, Agilent Technologies agreed to comarket CambTEK’s Rapid Extraction System sample preparation technology […]
Company Announcements Roche’s 2013 sales of nucleic acid purification/real-time PCR reagents and systems in the life sciences market grew 6%. QIAGEN adjusted fourth quarter 2013 sales grew 4.6%, 2% organically, to $362.6 million (see IBO 1/31/14). All figures below are on a currency-neutral basis. Consumables and related sales expanded 7%, 3% excluding acquisitions, to make […]
Rye Brook, NY 3/3/14—Xylem, whose Test business supplies analytical and process instrumentation, has named Patrick K. Decker president and CEO. Most recently, he was president and CEO of Harsco, a global industrial services company, and previously was president of Tyco Flow Control. He succeeds Steven R. Loranger, who remains a Board member. “The Board of […]
Company Announcements German distributor Altmann Analytik acquired Dinkelberg analytics in January. Techcomp announced in January that it will acquire the remaining 49% equity interest in Jingke Scientific, a Chinese instrument manufacturer, and 51% equity interest in Jingke Trading from INESA Electron for $2.1 million. The Jingke companies had 2012 sales of $10.2 million. Agilent Technologies […]
Company Announcements Shimadzu Analytical Instruments opened a Taiwanese subsidiary in November 2013. In November 2013, Imspex Diagnostics acquired GAS, a provider of ion mobility spectrometry technology. For the fiscal half year ending September 28, 2013, Halma Environmental & Analysis revenue grew 9.4%, 3% organically, to £82.6 million ($127.3 million) to make up 25% of revenues […]
Reinach, Switzerland 12/30/13—Matthias Altendorf will become CEO of measurement instrumentation and services firm Endress+Hauser effective January 1, 2014 (see IBO 5/15/13). He previously served as managing director of the company’s Center of Competence for level and pressure measurement engineering in Maulburg, Germany. He replaces Klaus Endress, who will join the Supervisory Board after 19 years […]
Santa Clara, CA 12/17/13—Agilent Technologies has named Fred Strohmeier senior vice president, Agilent, and president of the Life Sciences and Diagnostics Group (LDG). He replaces Lars Holmkvist who left the company for personal reasons. Most recently, Mr. Strohmeier served as vice president and general manager of Life Science Products and Solutions. “He is a highly […]
Holliston, MA 12/4/13—Scientific instrument and apparatus company Harvard Bioscience will trim its workforce by 13% as part of a realignment of global operations. The reductions will eliminate certain operational redundancies and create a leaner, more nimble organization, according to the company. Beginning in 2014, the company expects to record annual savings of around $2 million […]
Company Announcements Hitachi High-Technologies’ fiscal second quarter 2014 Science and Medical Systems (SMS) sales grew 7.5% to ¥37.1 billion ($375.2 million = ¥98.89= $1) due to the acquisition of SII NanoTechnology (see IBO 12/15/12) and currency. Sales of Electron Microscopes and Other Scientific Instruments climbed 8.3% and 47.7% to account for 21% and 18% of […]
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