Paoli, PA 8/13/07; Paris, France 8/13/07—AMETEK has acquired CAMECA SAS, a manufacturer of secondary ion mass and low-energy X-ray emission spectrometers, as well as tomographic atom probes and electron probe microanalysis instrumentation, for €82 million ($112 million) from the Carlyle Group. Based in Paris, France, CAMECA has annual sales of approximately €60 million ($82 million). […]
SRI Instruments, located in Torrance, California, began life in 1985 as Scientific Repair Inc. CEO and President Hugh Goldsmith, a former employee of PerkinElmer, started the company in his garage, repairing GCs and HPLCs. After some years repairing and creating spare parts for these instruments, Mr. Goldsmith began making inexpensive GCs, and was able to […]
Hitachi High-Technologies Life Science’s revenue for fiscal 2007 ended March 31 rose 9.3% to ¥933 billion ($8.1 billion) (see IBO 6/30/07) to account for 9.8% of company sales. Operating profit increased 39.4% to ¥123 billion ($385.3 million). Sales of liquid chromatographs and DNA sequencers increased. Hitachi High-Technologies opened a branch office in Moscow, Russia, in […]
Syrris opened an office in La Jolla, California. Biotage AB elected Axel Broms and Per-Olof Eriksson to its Board, replacing Jeff Bork and Björn Odlander. In May, Agilent and Integrated DNA Technologies agreed to harmonize their chemistry, processes and analytical techniques and to provide reciprocal referrals for synthetic oligonucleotides, creating a complete development pathway for […]
Rheineck, Switzerland 6/20/07—Hach Lange has completed the acquisition of Züllig AG, a provider of online measurement solutions, as of June 12. Founded in 1913, Züllig AG specializes in control and automation solution for waste and drinking water plants. Hach plans to maintain Züllig’s Swiss headquarters.
New Delhi, India; Mumbai, India 7/25/07—Indian news sources report that RFCL, an Indian supplier of laboratory products and services, has acquired Wipro Biomed, an OEM partner and distributor of research and clinical products, from software company Wipro. The transaction price was not disclosed. Wipro Biomed consists of three businesses: the Life Science Group, Diagnostic System […]
Abingdon, UK 7/26/07—Oxford Instruments has agreed to acquire 81.4% of Worldwide Analytical Systems AG (WAS), a supplier of arc/spark optical emission spectrometers. Oxford Instruments will pay a maximum of £9.3 million ($19.1 million) in cash. Based in Uedem, Germany, with 67 employees, WAS generated 2006 revenues of £5.7 million ($10.5 million) and a profit of […]
Thermo Fisher Scientific has entered into an agreement to acquire India-based Qualigens Fine Chemicals from GlaxoSmithKline Pharmaceuticals for INR 240 crore ($59.5 million). According to Thermo, Qualigens is India’s largest laboratory chemical manufacturer and supplier. Based in Mumbai with 150 employees country-wide, Qualigen’s manufactures and sells fine chemicals, diagnostic kits and laboratory products, and had […]
Under a collaboration and licensing agreement with Dr. Gerry Shaw of the University of Florida and EnCor Biotechnology, Millipore is developing a neurofilament ELISA kit to measure the biomarker pNF-H. Millipore named Charles Wagner, vice president of Strategy and Corporate Development, CFO, effective August 15. Meridian Bioscience restructured and expanded its Meridian Life Science subsidiary […]
IO Informatics appointed Robert Stanley, cofounder and CTO, president and CEO in April. VelQuest integrated its GMP Electronic Notebook System, designed for QA/QC applications, with Symyx Technologies’ electronic lab notebook applications, which are designed for R&D. Thermo Fisher Scientific granted Sage-N Research a sublicense to sell the SEQUEST search engine products. Agilent integrated EMC’s NetWorker […]
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