Company Announcements Microsaic’s 2015 sales declined 31.5% to £782,813 ($1.2 million). Operating loss widened 23.2% to £3.9 million ($6 million). Twenty-three units were sold during the year. The total number ordered or sold as of the first half of this year is 112. Proteome Sciences reported a 33% increase in sales of TMT tags in […]

Company Announcements In March, Microsaic Systems named Christopher Buckley to its Board. Most recently, he was a Global Brand director at Novartis. Waters announced in March that the University of California San Diego School of Medicine’s Center for Advanced Laboratory Medicine joined its Centers of Innovation Program. In April, SCIEX announced a collaboration with CRO […]

The total market for atomic spectroscopy reached $3.6 billion in 2014, and the category as a whole is forecast to experience growth of 3% in 2015, slightly less than the growth achieved in 2014. Environmental applications, which commonly focus on specific elements, are significant for these instruments, which are generally used to determine elemental composition […]

Mass spectrometry (MS) enjoyed a very good 2014 as revenues exceeded 7%, a nice improvement from 2013, led by LC/MS systems, both quadrupole and time-of-flight (TOF) MS instruments. On the other hand, demand for portable, in-field and magnetic-sector MS instruments was anemic, growing less than 3%. This year, the total MS market is expected to […]

Merck KGaA and Sigma-Aldrich Consolidation continued in the lab-products market, as less than a year after Thermo Fisher Scientific’s purchase of Life Technologies (see IBO 2/15/14), Merck KGaA announced a $17 billion deal to buy Sigma-Aldrich (see IBO 9/30/14). The deal highlights the importance of scale and diversification and transforms Merck/EMD Millipore into a major […]

Over the past few decades, MS has developed into a vibrant and diverse market. The instruments’ ability to rapidly and accurately detect and identify molecules in a sample has made their underlying technology a gold standard in applications from proteomics to environmental testing. The technology requires a number of subsystems to work in concert: a […]

Company Announcements AB SCIEX and Dalton Pharma Services announced in August a research collaboration to develop antibody-drug-conjugate–analysis capabilities. Tecan announced in August a comarketing agreement with RECIPE Chemicals and Instruments for automation of LC/MS/MS IVD kits. Microsaic Systems selected Plexus to provide manufacturing solutions for its 4000 MiD system. Microsaic Systems announced its first OEM […]

Company Announcements For the fiscal first quarter ending June 30, Hitachi High-Technologies Science and Medical Systems (SMS) sales climbed 33% to ¥38.8 billion ($380.1 million = ¥102.09 = $1) to account for 25% of company revenues (see IBO 7/31/14). Medical product sales jumped 53%, and sales of Biotechnology and Other products grew 16% to account […]