Company Announcements In May, Gardner Denver’s Medical Group acquired TriContinent Scientific, a manufacturer of precision pumps, valves and syringes, XYZ robots, microplate washers and manifolds, and pipettes and dispensers. Applied BioCode licensed its Bardcoded Magnetic Bead technology to Molecular Devices for use on its microplate reading systems within the life science research, food and beverage, […]
Company Announcements In March, Freeslate announced a partnership with the Center for Intelligent Research in Crystal Engineering (CIRCE), a CRO, for utilization of CIRCE’s predictive modeling for solid-state challenges. Tecan proposed Lars Holmqvist as a new Board member, replacing Erik Walldén. Most recently, he was senior vice president, and president of Life Sciences and Diagnostics […]
This year, Pittcon was held in New Orleans, Louisiana, from March 7 to March 12. Unfortunately, the location did not appear to help attendance. According to the preliminary figures available as of March 9, total attendance was down 15.8% from last year, when the location was Chicago, Illinois (see IBO 3/31/14), to 13,683. The number […]
Held for the first time in Washington, DC, the SLAS (Society for Laboratory Automation and Screening) 2015 conference and exhibit hosted 4,964 attendees and 296 exhibitors at the Walter E. Washington Conference Center, February 7–11. Attendance declined 14.7% from 2014, when the show was held in San Diego, California (see IBO 1/31/14), but was up […]
Comprising about 7% of the analytical- and life science–instrumentation market, the lab-automation segment covers five categories: liquid handling, microplate readers, management informatics, multiplex and high-throughput (HT) ELISA, and robotics. A medium-sized market, lab-automation techniques increase lab productivity by managing workflow, and increasing the speed, efficiency and accuracy of lab work. The overall lab-automation market grew […]
Company Announcements Sias announced in July that its cofounders and major shareholders, Clare Dench and Pius Fink, stepped down from management duties. The company also split its Commercial Operations division into a Customers and Markets division and a Development division. Andrew Alliance opened an office in Boston, Massachusetts, in August. Precision System Science (PSS) and […]
Company Announcements Freeslate integrated Wyatt Technology’s DynaPro Plate Reader II into its Biologics Formulation System. Fiscal second quarter sales ending March 31 for Brooks Automation Life Science Systems (LSS) climbed 38.4%, 15.3% excluding the acquisition of Matrical (see IBO 7/31/13), to $12.6 million to account for 10% of company sales (see IBO 5/31/14). Including the […]
Männedorf, Switzerland 7/30/14—Tecan has agreed to acquire German firm IBL International, a provider of microtiter-plate–based imunoassays for specialty diagnostics for use in research and clinical labs, for €29.0 million ($39.2 million = €0.74 = $1). In 2013, IBL had revenues of €16 million ($21 million = €0.75 = $1). “As part of our strategy, this […]
In June, Tecan announced the Fluent, its liquid-handling system for cell and biochemical assays. Compared with the Freedom EVO, the Fluent has faster robotic arms that operate simultaneously, offering higher speed and throughput. The three task-specific robotic arms are the Flexible Channel Arm for individual sample transfer; the Multiple Channel Arm for plate-to-plate transfers and […]
In April, Waters announced the NuGenesis Lab Management System, an update to NuGenesis 8, released in 2012. Like the previous version, the product features a Scientific Data Management System (SDMS), ELN and laboratory execution system. The system bypasses elements of LIMS, such as invoicing and trend analysis, that many labs do not require. Waters Senior […]
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