In the second installment of IBO’s twice yearly look at new laboratories, we examine nonprofit projects in the US, new pharmaceutical and contract research organization (CRO) labs, as well as new food testing and food R&D labs. Nonprofits and Medical Schools The three nonprofit institutions listed in the table on page 3 are among the […]
Company Announcements Kromasil announced earlier this year that it stopped selling analytical bulk material to independent column packers and is now only using a network of distributors. In September, Chromatide partnered with Kromasil, an Akzo Nobel brand, to develop silica-based HPLC media with an emphasis in the area of chiral purification. YMC opened an office […]
Is 2008 the year of the microarray scanner? It could very well be with at least five new scanners hitting the market by year end. The timing coincides with the introduction of higher density DNA microarrays. With more probes per chip, probe size is smaller, requiring higher resolution scanning. In addition, new software designed for […]
Company Announcements Protein Discovery closed a $10 million series C round of equity financing led by Santé Ventures. Digilab Genomic Solutions’ Hummingbird Plus parallel pipetting instrument for low-volume applications will be manufactured by CyBio AG using its Hummingbird dispensing heads and cassettes and CyBio’s CyBi-Well automation platform. BioTrove named custom lab automation provider Synchron Lab […]
Analytical instrument makers have two choices about how to sell their products: directly or through distributors. The choice is especially important for sales in other countries. Although selling directly ensures more control over the sale, direct contact with the end-user and a full percentage of the sale, it also requires substantial investment and greater resources. […]
Company Announcements Eppendorf UK named Scientific Laboratory Supplies a UK distributor. Brinkmann Instruments began distribution of VELP Scientifica Instruments’ products in the US. Telstar Life Sciences acquired Clean Air Techniek BV, which sells clean air technology for labs and lab products, and PMV BV, which services clean air products, in May. In May, Sigma-Aldrich fully […]
Company Announcements JEOL USA named Boeckeler’s RMC Products Division, a microtome manufacturer, as a distributor of its Cross Section Polisher sample preparation tool. More than 4,000 units of the Polisher have been sold worldwide. Carl Zeiss opened an SGD$30 million ($22 million) demonstration facility in Singapore in March. Carl Zeiss SMT opened its new 53,000 […]
On a basic level, a workflow is a sequence of steps necessary to complete a designated task. In a laboratory, there are many workflows. For example, a workflow may consist of the specific procedures for preparing a sample for analysis. Another workflow may encompass sample preparation as well as sample analysis. Laboratory product and instrument […]
Company Announcements SPEX SamplePrep is now the exclusive US distributor of Katanax Automated Electric Fluxers. Skyray Instrument entered the US market in March with four instruments, including the portable Pocket-II x-ray fluorescence spectrometer (XRF). Thermo Fisher Scientific added an optical emission and X-ray spectroscopy product demonstration center to its Training Institute in West Palm Beach, […]
In the second multibillion dollar deal in the analytical instrument industry in less than two years, Invitrogen and Applied Biosystems announced on June 12 a $6.7 billion merger agreement (see page 2). The merger will create the industry’s largest company and the dominant supplier for life science research. The deal brings together the industry’s largest […]
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