In December 2006, SYSTAG AG, a provider of automated solutions for chemical process development, announced a management buyout of a majority share of the company. Tecan appointed Matthew Robin and Carl Severinghaus to its Group Executive Committee. Mr. Robin is responsible for the Liquid Handling and Robotics business unit. He was previously CEO of medical […]
Alpha Innotech’s 2006 revenues grew 10% to $13.3 million due to increased sales to international distributors and GE Healthcare, but were offset by declining US sales (see page 12). Revenues from outside the US accounted for 43.9% of sales.
NanoAndMore USA opened a West Coast office in Portland, Oregon in December 2006. BudgetSensors, a manufacturer of silicon and silicon nitride probes for atomic force microscopes (AFM), named NanoAndMore USA its exclusive North American distributor. Oxford Instruments NanoAnalysis America was named Kleindiek Nanotechnik’s North American sales and service representatives for micro- and nano-manipulation systems for […]
Despite divergent economic data, all three major indexes managed to gain ground this month. The S&P climbed 1.0%, the Dow Jones rose 0.7% and the NASDAQ increased 0.2%. On March 29, the Commerce Department revised the fourth quarter GDP growth rate from 2.2% to 2.5%. The change was spurred primarily by escalating inventories of unsold […]
China plans to dramatically increase agricultural biotechnology spending to guarantee its food supply. Although a final budget has yet to be approved, spending is set to increase five times its current level, according to Zhang Liang Chen, president of the Agricultural University of China. According to Jikun Huang, director of the Center for Chinese Agricultural […]
The United Kingdom’s fiscal 2007 budget, announced on March 21, increased resources for scientific research. The budget specified a 2.5% average annual increase in real terms in science spending to £6.287 billion ($12.267 billion) by 2010–11. In 2007–08, UK science spending totals £5.397 billion, including £3.383 billion for the Department for Trade and Industry and […]
According to “Public Support for Science and Innovation,” a new report by Australia’s Productivity Commission, the Australian government budgeted an estimated AUD 5.974 billion ($4.492 billion) for science and innovation in 2006–07. Major government research agencies accounted for 23% of funding, including the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization, which recieved AUD 607.2 million, making […]
Company Announcements Datacolor and China Textile Information Center partnered to provide training and color certification programs in digital color management. TeraView appointed Dr. Barrie Thorpe, formerly executive vice president of Operations for AstraZeneca, and Dr. Andrew Carr, formerly director of Amersham, to its Board in 2006. Perten Instruments set up a fully owned Chinese subsidiary […]
IMS Health reports that 2006 global pharmaceutical sales grew 7.0% to $643 billion, with “specialist-driven” products accounting for 62% of market growth. Sales in India and China increased 17.5% and 12.3% to $7.3 billion and $13.4 billion, respectively. Latin American sales grew 12.7% to $33.6 billion, and Asian-Pacific and African sales increased 10.5% to $66 […]
Sales of semiconductor equipment rose 23.1% last year to $40.47 billion, according to Semiconductor Equipment and Materials International (SEMI). Sales of wafer processing equipment, assembly and packaging equipment, and test equipment increased 26%, 14% and 21%, respectively. Japan, the largest market, accounted for 22.7% of spending, while sales in China, the fastest growing region, increased […]
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