Tokyo, Japan 9/25/07—Japan’s Nikkei News reports that Toshiba, Canon, Toray Industries, Yokogawa Electric and seven other Japanese firms, supported by the Kazusa DNA Research Institute, will form a consortium to develop microarrays for applications in diagnostic medicine, food and environmental analysis. According to Nikkei, the Japanese microarray market will total ¥100 billion ($869.2 million) by […]
Horiba Jobin Yvon gained exclusive distribution rights to GenOptic’s SPRi-Lab+ detector, and the companies are comarketing the SPRi-Plex system. GE Healthcare granted Applied Biosystems and NorDiag ASA licenses to its patents for the biomagnetic isolation of nucleic acids. FujiFilm Life Sciences entered the North American market earlier this year with an agreement to market and […]
Woburn, MA 9/27/07—Nova Analytics’ Nova Analytics Deutschland GmbH subsidiary has acquired Bellingham & Stanley. Based in the UK, Bellingham & Stanley is a developer and manufacturer of refractometers and polarimeters. “B&S provides Nova Analytics with a range of refractometers and polarimeters, further enhancing our expansion into new markets,” stated Nova Analytics President and COO Chris […]
On September 10, the US government’s Interagency Working Group on Import Safety issued its first report on import safety. The Group, which includes personnel from 12 federal departments and agencies, was created in July by the Bush Administration following the discovery of tainted imported pet food (see IBO 5/31/07). The report recommends a strategic framework […]
A new report by the American Chemistry Council (ACC) shows that the pace of the global chemicals industry is slowing. Global production on a year-over-year basis grew 4.7% in the first quarter, and is up 4.9% excluding pharmaceuticals. Chemical production this year is expected to increase 4.7%, up slightly from the 4.5% growth of 2006. […]
In June, Agilent appointed Neil Cook, PhD, as vice president and director of the Molecular Technology Laboratory at Agilent Laboratories. He will also serve as the R&D/technology manager for the Life Sciences and Chemical Analysis business. Most recently, he was vice president for research and business development and chief scientific officer for PerkinElmer Life and […]
As IBO’s annual review of publicly listed contract testing lab companies shows, it was another year for revenue growth at the world’s largest laboratory service companies serving a diversity of industries. The pace of consolidation appeared to slow, but global expansion continued. The activities of three major contract testing companies, Campbell Brothers ALS, Eurofins and […]
Total IBO International Instrumentation Sales Index revenues for calendar year 2006 grew 7.1% in converted US dollars to $3,026 million, while operating profits jumped 35.3% to $654 million, leading operating margin to improved 450 basis points to 21.6% of sales. First-half 2007 Index sales improved 3.7% over the first half of 2006 to $1,576 million, […]
Precision System Science licensed Hitachi’s bead array technology for commercializing new capillary bead tips. Digilab BioVisioN GmbH licensed GenWay Biotech’s Seppro IgY technology for proteomic sample preparation and will become the Official European Seppro Center. In July, Sigma-Aldrich promoted Gerrit van den Dool to the newly created position of vice president of Sales and Dr. […]
In May, XRF Scientific appointed Terry Sweet as managing director. In July, SII NanoTechnology announced it had established a new sales and service base in Neu Isenburg, Germany, for its X-ray fluorescence (XRF) business. It also tripled the size of its Shanghai, China plant and established new sales and service locations in Shenzhen, Zhongshan, Huizhou […]
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