Laboratory asset management (LAM) is an enterprise-level service that has become an important component of large, multinational companies maintaining accurate appraisals of their lab assets. It includes services such as scheduled and preventative maintenance, instrument repair, managing warranties, instrument and component purchasing, compliance and calibrations, instrument lifecycle planning, and instrument relocation. LAM services are extremely […]
Chelmsford, MA 7/25/11—Brooks Automation has acquired Nexus Biosystems, a supplier of automated compound and sample management solutions for life science, for a net cash price of $79 million. For the twelve months ending June 30, Nexus recorded revenues of $36 million. “Together with our other recent acquisition, RTS Life Sciences, and our core technical competencies […]
Company Announcements The Automation Partnership changed its name to TAP Biosystems in March. In March, Tecan entered into an agreement to commercialize products based on HP’s inkjet-dispensing technology for pharmaceutical drug discovery. The digital drug titration device enables the fast delivery of picoliter to microliter sample volumes. Tecan will provide exclusive sales, marketing, service and […]
Chelmsford, MA 4/21/11; Manchester, UK 4/1/11—Brooks Automation has acquired RTS Life Science, a provider of lab automation systems for life science, from Entologi for $3.3 million, net of cash on hand. Entologi, which acquired RTS Life Science just last year (see IBO 10/31/10), stated that RTS Life Science now generates monthly sales of £1 million […]
The first of IBO’s biannual new laboratory roundup indicates that companies are trying to strengthen their position in foreign markets by expanding their lab presence in Asia, most notably in India and China, to serve customers both locally and globally. In addition, the table on page 6 highlights plans for new academic, forensics and nonprofit […]
Company Announcements As part of its restructuring of RTS Life Science, Entologi has formed the Vision Technology Business Unit, which will focus on products for manufacturing, lab and warehouse applications. Tecan and Sword Diagnostics announced in January the availability of Sword’s detection reagents in the US for use with Tecan’s Infinite M1000 and 200 PRO […]
Two companies whose lab automation businesses illustrate the evolution of the lab automation market and technologies are PerkinElmer and Agilent Technologies. Formerly, laboratory automation was primarily associated with high-throughput compound screening for drug discovery. Now, laboratory automation is an integrated feature of application-based workflows in both drug discovery and development. PerkinElmer’s Bio-discovery business includes lab […]
This year’s LabAutomation was the debut conference for the Society for Laboratory Automation and Screening (SLAS). Formed in July 2010 by the merger of the Association for Laboratory Automation and the Society for Biomolecular Sciences, the SLAS was created to take advantage of the organizations’ shared resources and opportunities, including global expansion and member diversity. […]
Company Announcements Tecan and Luminex entered into an OEM agreement in October 2010 to develop an automated newborn-screening solution that will combine Tecan’s Freedom EVO liquid handling platform and HydroFlex washer with Luminex’s xMAP technology and LX 200 instrument. Effective January 1, Frederic Vanderhaegen, previously head of Tecan’s Detection business unit, took over the Life […]
The laboratory automation market accounts for approximately 7% of the analytical and life sciences instrumentation market. It consists of four technology categories: liquid handling, microplate readers, robotics and management informatics. It is a medium-sized market whose important technology is designed to automate repetitive laboratory procedures to increase the speed, efficiency and accuracy of the work […]
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