The laboratory equipment market consists of centrifuges, transfection, extraction techniques, fume hoods, biological safety cabinets (BSCs), incubators, microwave-assisted chemistry and fermentors/bioreactors. The lab equipment market accounted for nearly $2.5 billion in revenues in 2010 and will experience modest growth of 4.4% in 2011 to exceed $2.5 billion. Much of this growth will be due to […]
Company Announcements Sanyo North America’s Biomedical Solutions Division opened a new production assembly line in Sanyo E&E’s Tijuana factory in September for assembly of the Japanese-made parts into insulated ultra-low temperature freezes for North American orders. VWR Scientific officially opened its new corporate headquarters at the Radnor Corporate Center in Radnor, Pennsylvania, in October. The […]
BioScale launched its ViBE Protein Analysis Workstation in September. The system is available in two versions: the eight-sample microanalyzer, which is a manual version, and the fully automated workstation for 96-well plates, both of which are priced between $50,000 and $100,000. The systems are based on BioScale’s Acoustic Membrane and Microparticle (AMMP) technology, said BioScale […]
Company Announcements RETSCH established a Russian subsidiary earlier this year. The head office is located at Khimanalit Institute in St. Petersburg. Gilson named A. Daigger and Company its exclusive General Services Administration (GSA) distributor for GSA advantage contracts. Gilson also appointed DOT Scientific and Genesee Scientific as distributors of its PIPETMAN products. Eli Manchester Jr. […]
With the pickup in global merger and acquisitions activity this year, certain segments of the lab products market have gained new attention. Specifically, two companies providing specialty chemicals for lab research, such as reagents, buffers, acids and HPLC solvents, have attracted new owners, which hope to capitalize on specialty applications, geographic expansion and the increase […]
Company Announcements Gerresheimer announced the closure of its Life Science production facility in Vineland, New Jersey. The plant’s activities will be transferred to China and Mexico. ATAGO announced in February that it opened a subsidiary office in Brazil. Artel began offering direct sales of its Multichannel Verification System and Pipette Calibration System in Germany, Switzerland […]
Company Announcements Under a strategic product licensing, manufacturing, comarketing and collaborative R&D agreement, Pressure BioSciences was licensed by Target Discovery to manufacture and sell a line of reagents for use with its Pressure Cycling Technology for the extraction and recovery of intact, functional proteins associated with cell membranes in tissue samples. BioSystem Development and ProZyme […]
Ultrasonic homogenizers use ultrasonic sound waves to create cavitation, which is the rapid formation and collapse of minute bubbles. These imploding bubbles vibrate violently, creating mechanical waves that disrupt the surrounding cells/particles. Ultrasonic homogenizers are heavily used in life sciences laboratories to disrupt cells and tissues. Applications include tissue preparation, nucleic acid extraction and the […]
Company Announcements Autoclave manufacturer SHP Steriltechnik AG signed a joint venture agreement with Vietnam-based Vinacontrol and FCS-Service GmbH to establish a company that will operate food-testing labs in Vietnam. Biohit’s ErgoTube microcentrifuge tubes will be branded and sold by both Biohit and BioCision, and Biohit will copromote BioCision’s CoolRack microfuge tube racks. New Jersey newspaper […]
Company Announcements ATLAS Biolabs GmbH joined Roche NimbleGen’s certified service program for targeted enrichment. In February, RainDance Technologies named S. Roopom Banerjee president and CEO. Recently, he was director of Healthcare Investment Banking at Leerink Swann. Former CEO Christopher McNary now serves as COO. RainDance Technologies partnered with Ambry Genetics for sequence enrichment and targeted […]
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