Solid-supported liquid extraction (SLE) is an efficient sample preparation method that eliminates the need for conditioning, equilibration and washing. Compared to other sample preparation techniques, such as liquid-liquid extraction (LLE), SLE has lower solvent requirements, a greater degree of reproducibility and can be fully automated. Analogous to LLE, SLE uses the same aqueous sample-solvent system […]
Company Announcements For the first six months, sales for Mettler-Toledo‘s Laboratory business grew 6% excluding currency to roughly $533 million to account for 46% of revenues. First and second quarter Laboratory sales advanced 7% and 6% excluding currency, respectively. Sales growth was driven by increased demand and favorable pricing for analytical instruments and laboratory balances. […]
Radnor, PA 9/10/14—VWR has acquired Netherlands- and Belgium-based Klinipath and its affiliates Immunologic, Mortupath and Klinipath BVBA for an undisclosed amount. Kilinipath provides equipment, consumables and reagents, representing suppliers for the histology, pathology, cytology, immunology and clinical chemistry industries, as well as supplies private-label equipment, reagents and plastic disposables. “Klinipath, Immunologic and Mortupath are recognized […]
Company Announcements In June, Pressure Biosciences engaged IssuWorks to provide strategic advisory services to the company in order to review strategic and financing alternatives, including the possible spin-off of vertical market applications. Invent Biotechnologies named MoBiTec as a distributor for European markets. Product Introductions BioVision released in April the EZEnrich Polyubiquitin Beads, EZDetect Polyubiquitin Probe, […]
Bioreactors are vessels for cell culturing and have been widely used for much of the past century. Systems employ glass vessels for smaller applications (up to 20 L) and stainless steel tanks for larger reactions, and were cleaned or autoclaved and reused. In the past decade, the technology underwent a technological change with the introduction […]
Company Announcements Johnson Matthey reported that 2013 sales for Alfa Aesar were flat at £79 million ($123 million). Avantor Performance Materials named Helen Evans as vice president, Laboratory Products, in April. Most recently, she served as general manager, Research Markets, US and Canada, for GE Healthcare. In May, Avantor Performance Materials appointed Michael Stubblefield as […]
Each August, IBO selects the winners of the IBO Design Awards, recognizing the industrial design of analytical instruments, laboratory equipment (page 6) and portable instruments (page 7) that are notable for their enhancement of the user experience. The accomplishments are aesthetic in terms of the product’s visual appeal and novelty, yet the industrial design also […]
The winners of IBO’s portable analytical instrument design awards are products that are not only compact and stylish but address the unique challenges of doing analyses outside of the laboratory. A portable instrument is defined as one that is battery powered and is designed to be transported and used outside of a lab. Gold Award […]
IBO’s laboratory equipment design awards recognize creative and function industrial design of lab equipment, which is defined as receiving an electrical current, operational for a minimum of one year and unable to analyze a sample characteristic. Gold Award ELGA’s PURELAB Chorus laboratory water system is the winner of IBO’s 2014 Gold Industrial Design Award for […]
Waltham, MA 7/17/14; Chicago, IL 7/17/14—Private-equity firm GTCR has agreed to buy Thermo Fisher Scientific’s Cole-Parmer Instrument business (see IBO 5/31/14), part of its Laboratory Products and Services Segment, for $480 million in cash. Based in Illinois with 400 employees, Cole-Parmer is a manufacturer and distributor of laboratory supplies, specializing in fluid-handling, test and measurement, […]
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