IBO’s annual Industrial Design Awards recognize recently introduced products whose physical appearance and features make a distinct and valuable impression, enable the products’ functionality and successfully communicate the products’ messages. In a more general sense, the Awards highlight how the looks of the products make people want to use the products. The IBO Industrial Design […]
The IBO Design Awards for Laboratory Equipment recognize unique, innovative industrial designs of laboratory equipment that enhance usability. Laboratory equipment is defined as a product that receives an electrical current, will last for at least one year and does not analyze a sample characteristic. The designs of this year’s three winners showcase user-friendliness and a […]
Company Announcements INFICON’s first quarter Emergency Response & Security sales fell 35.5% to $5.5 million to make up 8% of company sales due to low shipments to Asia. In June, IonSense and Cerno Bioscience announced the integration of their respective DART GSX system and MassWorks software. The companies will comarket the product. Under an OEM […]
Company Announcements Takashi Nishijima, director and senior vice president of the Industrial Automation Platform Business, was named representative director and president of Yokogawa Electric, effective April 1. SICK acquired in April Ação Solucão, its Brazilian distributor. Ação Solucão has more than 30 employees. SICK’s 2012 revenues rose 7.6% to €971.3 million ($1,245 million) (see page […]
Statesville, NC 7/8/13—Kewaunee Scientific, a provider of laboratory, healthcare and technical furniture products, has acquired all of the outstanding minority shares of its Kewaunee Labway Asia subsidiary. Based in Singapore with a subsidiary in India, Kewaunee Labway Asia serves as the company’s international center for sales and installation and had fiscal 2013 sales of $17 […]
Company Announcements Gerresheimer’s 2012 Life Science Research sales improved 8.6%, 2.0% organically, to €99.6 million ($128.0 million). Currency added 7.8% to revenue growth, while a divested product line lowered growth by 1.2%. BINDER’s 2013 sales totaled €56 million ($72 million). SOTAX opened a subsidiary in the Czech Republic in April. RFCL changed its name to […]
Company Announcements Spinomix closed a Series A equity investment of $3 million, led by Debiopharm Group. Pressure BioSciences appointed Dr. Mickey Urdea, founder and managing partner of Halteres Associates, to its Board in February, replacing Wayne Fritzsche. In May, Perfinity Biosciences named Robert H. Ellis president and CEO. He was formerly president and CEO of […]
Allschwil, Switzerland 6/13—SOTAX, a provider of dissolution testing, automated sample preparation and physical testing equipment, has acquired Dr. Schleuniger Pharmatron. Financial details were not disclosed. Headquartered in Thun, Switzerland, Pharmatron engineers and manufactures equipment for the physical testing of pharmaceutical dosage forms. “The acquisition and integration of Dr. Schleuniger Pharmatron is a further step towards […]
Cancer and personalized medicine are two research areas in which discoveries are accelerating. Supporting research in these fields are biobanks for the storage of tissue samples. The presence of all types of biobanks has increased at such a rate that nearly two-thirds of US biobanks have emerged within the past decade. According to the NIH’s […]
Jena, Germany 4/2/13; Jena, Germany 4/10/13—Analytik Jena has agreed to acquire US-based UVP for an undisclosed amount. A supplier of digital imaging systems for proteomic, genomic and animal science applications, UVP posted fiscal 2012 sales of $17.2 million, with half of its sales generated in North America. Analytik Jena expects the acquisition to increase its […]
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