Fremont, CA and Mountain View, CA 5/13/16—Takara Bio USA (TBUSA), a provider of life science reagents and kits, has announced an agreement to acquire single-cell analysis instrument firm WaferGen Bio-systems. TBUSA will pay up to $50.0 million based on a 1.0–3.5 multiple of WaferGen’s 2016 revenues. “The combination of TBUSA’s RNA-seq and T Cell Receptor […]
Sunnyvale, CA 4/18/16; Sunnyvale, CA 4/21/16—Publicly held Japanese materials and polymer firm JSR has established a new business unit, JSR Life Sciences, which includes its large-scale purification and chromatography, exosome, magnetic and latex bead, biopolymer, surface chemistry and microfluidic products for life science and diagnostic markets. Eric R. Johnson was named head of the unit. […]
Currency fluctuations and economic turbulence not only produced a shift among IBO’s 2015 list of the top 30 analytical and life science instrument, aftermarket and lab product companies, but also yielded a calendar year sales decline when translated into US dollars. Total sales for the top 30 companies (see page 6) as reported in US […]
Companies continue to sharpen their focus on integrated solutions and workflows to increase lab productivity and differentiate themselves in the marketplace. At this year’s Pittcon, IBO spoke with executives at MilliporeSigma, Shimadzu Scientific Instruments (SSI) and Thermo Fisher Scientific. Each company has recently reorganized executive responsibilities to reflect an emphasis on the integration of workflow […]
After a five-year absence from Atlanta, Georgia, Pittcon returned to the city this year from March 6 to March 10. Attendance figures as of the end of the day on March 9 showed that conferee attendance declined 14.9% to 6,890. Exhibitor attendance was down 12.6% to 5,064. With Europe’s largest analytical instrument show, Analytica, taking […]
Company Announcements NanoTemper Technologies opened an office in Bengaluru, India, in November 2015. In December 2015, MR Solutions named Summit Pharmaceuticals as its sole supplier for Japan. MR Solutions announced in January a partnership with Green Imaging Technologies and the introduction of the ImaCore 3017 for rock core imaging. In December 2015, MBio Diagnostics announced […]
A majority of large publicly held instrument and lab product companies ended 2015 on a strong note, benefiting from sustained demand from biopharmaceutical customers and steady growth in applied markets. Nevertheless, currency effects along with weak industrial markets continued to dampen organic top line growth. Moreover, several companies were negatively impacted by fewer selling days […]
Company Announcements Ridgeview Instruments announced in August that AceProbe Technologies will market its LigandTrace technology in India. In September, Biometrics completed a financing round with €3.1 million ($3.5 million) to further develop its label-free system based on 1-lambda RIDe technology. In October, Sony DADC BioSciences and FIANOSTICS announced a collaboration to develop highly sensitive and […]
The American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) has announced the Genomics, Evidence, Neoplasia, Information, Exchange (GENIE) project, in which several academic medical centers from the US and Europe will participate. Although cancer centers are collecting huge amounts of information on tumor genomes, much of the resulting analysis is not helpful in finding drugs to treat […]
Company Announcements Aspect Imaging announced in March the conclusion of its three-year partnership with Bruker (see IBO 9/15/12). The UK’s University of Bath announced in July a license agreement with Sirius Analytical Instruments related to the company’s new Sirius Scissor system, which mimics the stresses of biopharmaceutical experiences when transitioning from formulation conditions to a […]
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