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Company Announcements Fiscal first quarter sales for Brooks Automation’s Life Science Systems (LSS) segment grew 25.2% to $20.9 million (see IBO 2/29/16) to account for 17% of company sales. The acquisition of BioStorage (see IBO 11/15/15) added 39.0% to revenue growth, but was partially offset by currency headwinds of 2.4%. Organic LSS sales declined 11.4% […]

BioTek Instruments Grows New Cell Business

June 30, 2016/0 Comments/in Volume 25, Issue 6 Laboratory Automation Articles Volume 25 /by admin

Based in Vermont, BioTek Instruments has over 400 employees. Its instrumentation is found in over 125,000 labs. Thirty percent of employees are located outside the US, and the company has 11 subsidiaries worldwide and 70 distributors. BioTek’s development in many ways mirrors the development of the drug discovery instrumentation market, from the heyday of big […]

New Products at Analytica 2016

May 15, 2016/0 Comments/in Volume 25, Issue 3 Atomic Spectroscopy, Chromatography, Electrochemistry, Informatics, Laboratory Automation, Laboratory Products, Liquid Chromatography, Materials Characterization, Molecular Spectroscopy, Surface Science Articles Volume 25 /by admin

Analytica 2016 featured a wide variety of new products. Below is a list of products officially launched at the show or in recent months. The list is not all inclusive. Atomic Spectroscopy Agilent Technologies introduced the 5110 ICP-OES spectrometer. The 5110 features a dichroic spectral combiner that integrates light from both the axial and radial […]

The Focus on Customer Productivity

May 15, 2016/0 Comments/in Volume 25, Issue 3 Ag/Food, Environmental, GC and GC/MS, Informatics, Laboratory Automation, Liquid Chromatography, Mass Spectrometry Articles Volume 25 /by admin

Lab productivity, workflow-based solutions and ease of use were major themes for instrument companies at Analytica 2016. Major instrument firms have positioned themselves to serve these needs by providing a broad range of analytical techniques; an integrated offering of hardware, software, consumables and services; and a focus on all aspects of application-based workflows. IBO spoke […]