Company Announcements CambTEK named Kinesis its exclusive distributor of its Rapid Extraction System in Austria, Germany, Italy, Switzerland and North America. CambTEK appointed Indtech Instruments its exclusive sales partner in India. Seal Analytical, a Porvair company, announced in September the acquisition of Thomas Cain, a manufacturer of automated chemical addition, sample preparation and digestion systems […]
Lab reactors are generally used to optimize or reproduce large-scale chemical reactions at the lab bench. While simple, manual units make up the majority of the market, advanced systems equipped with sensors that control temperature, pH and pressure have become a more significant part of the market. Controlled lab reactors (CLR) typically employ a glass […]
IBO includes the following technologies in its laboratory equipment section: laboratory centrifuges, water purification equipment, transfection techniques, extraction techniques, gas generators, concentrators and evaporators, incubators, fume hoods, biological safety cabinets, microwave-assisted chemistry, fermentors and bioreactors, lab washers, and shakers and stirrers. The laboratory equipment market totaled more than $3.83 billion in 2013 for growth of […]
The general analytical techniques (GAT) market is a collection of the most basic lab instruments, including electrochemistry systems, lab balances, radioactivity systems, dissolution testing equipment, and continuous flow (CF) and discrete analyzers. While these technologies are fundamentally different from each other, they share similar market characteristics. These instruments are somewhat low-end technologies and market demand […]
Company Announcements In September, VWR extended its global distribution agreement with Thermo Fisher Scientific. In December, Stanley L. Haas, senior vice president and president of Asia Pacific at VWR, resigned. BioSpectrum Asia reported in September that Merck Millipore India named Toshvin Analytical a strategic channel partner for the sales and service of lab water purification […]
This month, AVIA Biosystems introduced its first product, the Model 2304 Automated Protein Denaturation System. Designed to determine protein stability, it automates chemical denaturation measurements. A complement to physical denaturation studies of protein stability, chemical denaturalization enables the measurement of thermodynamic values at a given temperature without the need to extrapolate from a higher temperature, […]
Company Announcements IKA opened subsidiaries in Brazil and South Korea this year and plans to manufacture products in Brazil. In June, VWR named Peter Schüle senior vice president and president, European Lab Business. He previously served as vice president, Supply Chain Europe, Middle East and Africa, at Sigma-Aldrich. In July, Avantor Performance Materials expanded its […]
Tissue homogenization is often the very first step in isolating cells for either analysis or further extraction of their content, such as DNA and proteins. The traditional method of performing tissue homogenization is by manually applying force onto tissues in order to break them into smaller, homogenous pieces, from which the cells and other components […]
Company Announcements LGC Genomics and Covaris announced in June a partnership to integrate their respective DNA purification solution and FFPE extraction workflow. In July, QIAGEN partnered with Exosome Diagnostics to develop and commercialize sample preparation kits for the processing of nucleic acids from exosomes. The exclusive agreement includes the life science and translational medicine markets. […]
Hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, extracts natural gas from underground shale by drilling vertically and then horizontally and injecting water, chemicals and proppants under high pressure into the well to release the trapped gas. According to the Energy Information Administration, US production of shale gas increased from 1,990,145 million cubic feet (mcf) in 2007 to 8,500,983 […]
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