Company Announcements Thermo Fisher Scientific will add 104 jobs over three years to its Asheville, North Carolina facility, which manufactures cold-storage equipment, centrifuges and ovens. Gerresheimer’s Life Science Research reported 2009 sales declined 5.8% to €87.4 million ($121.4 million), and fell 11.9% excluding currency effects, to make up 9% of revenue. Adjusted EBITDA fell 27.4% […]
Atomic Spectroscopy Bruker introduced the Q2 ION at its Pittcon press conference. The Q2 ION is a compact benchtop arc-spark spectrometer. It is a cost-effective complement to handheld XRF for metals analysis at smaller foundries and recycling centers. The system is now available at a price of roughly $35,000. Following the success of its Terra […]
Company Announcements Protein Discovery and New Objective announced a strategic comarketing and development agreement for Protein Discovery’s GELFREE 8100 Fractionation System and New Objective’s PicoFrit nanobore chromatography columns and Digital PicoView nanospray sources. Denator AB announced the completion of a fourth round of financing in fall 2009 that raised SEK 15 million ($2.2 million). In […]
Company Announcements Nova Capital Management sold Dynalab, which supplies value-added packing and fabrication services for plastic lab supplies, to Martin Davies and Kathleen DeWitt in fall 2009. Kewaunee Scientific opened its first manufacturing plant outside the US in Bangalore, India, in October 2009. The company has 175 associates in the country. Biohit established a subsidiary […]
Company Announcements In September, Denator AB announced an exclusive distribution agreement for the UK and Ireland with Scientific & Medical Products for its Stabilizor T1 system. Life Technologies and febit holding GmbH entered into a strategic comarketing agreement for re-sequencing studies for their respective SOLiD next-generation sequencing system and HybSelect Sequence Capture solution. Febit also […]
Sample introduction is an important step in the use of inductively coupled plasma (ICP) spectroscopy, as only a sample which has been broken down into a fine aerosol can be properly introduced into an ICP’s plasma discharge. ICP sample introduction has also been the source of much success for CETAC Technologies. The company was founded […]
Second-quarter revenues for IBO’s Lab Equipment/Consumables Sales Index contracted 6.7% to $853.8 million, and operating profits declined 6.1% to $259.2 million. Adjusted operating margins improved 30 basis points to 30.4% of sales. Biohit’s second-quarter sales declined 5% to €8.7 million ($11.9 million = €0.73 = $1), while operating income plunged 38% to €0.2 million ($0.3 […]
Company Announcements Alfa Aesar Research Chemicals purchased the 49% interest of its partner in a Chinese catalog joint venture for €5.2 million ($6.6 million). CP Lab Safety announced earlier this year that after producing goods in China for more than seven years, it has begun to manufacture its line of more than 80 products in […]
Gold Award Veritide’s Ceeker is the recipient of this year’s IBO Gold Design Award for portable instrumentation. The optical-based spore detection system was built with the New Zealand industrial design firm 4ormfunction. It weighs 2.1 kg (4.6 lb), measures 25 x 13 x 26.5 cm (10 x 5.25 x 10.5 in) and costs around $25,000. […]
Gold Award IBO’s 2009 Gold Design Award winner for lab equipment is Genevac’s Rocket. Eschewing a boxy exterior for smooth curves, the centrifugal evaporator’s coiled form lends it a futuristic look. The originality of the system’s design matches its technical novelty. The Rocket is the company’s first centrifugal evaporator that features a low-temperature, low-pressure steam-heating […]
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