IonSense named KR Analytical as the European distributor for its DART MS ion source in November 2006. Bruker Daltonics and HealthLinx will file a joint patent cooperation treaty for the biomarker candidates for pregnancy complications discovered under their existing collaboration. Bruker Daltonics retains marketing rights to the blood test in Europe, UK, Africa and South […]
London, England 3/12/07—Linde has sold BOC Edwards’s vacuum and semiconductor businesses to private equity firm CCMP Capital for €685 million ($901.1 million). BOC Edwards is a supplier of vacuum systems to analytical instrumentation companies, among other industries. “This is the start of a new independent era for BOC Edwards in which we can focus on […]
Company Announcements Life Therapeutics spun out its LifeGels division, a manufacturer of electrophoresis gels, and Life Bioprocess division into a new company, NuSep, in late 2006. The divisions’ 2006 sales rose 95% to $793,000. Nu Sep is expected to list on the Australian stock exchange in late March. Under a partnership for sales, marketing and […]
Aliso Viejo, CA 3/8/07—Carl Zeiss Microimaging has acquired Clarient’s ACIS and Trestle Instrument Systems business assets and intellectual property for $11 million in cash and an additional $1.5 million based on post-closing conditions. In 2005, revenues for Clarient’s Technology Group, which includes fee-per-use and system sales, rose 16% to $8.7 million, including $4.4 million in […]
New York, NY 2/13/07; Carlsbad, CA 2/13/07—Invitrogen has agreed to sell BioReliance to private equity firm Avista Capital for $210 million. BioReliance, a contract service organization providing biological safety testing, toxicology, viral manufacturing and laboratory animal diagnostic services, has annual revenues of $110 million and provides services to more than 600 clients per year. Tim […]
Washington, DC 2/9/07—Thermo Fisher Scientific has filed a petition of approval with the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to sell its centrifugal vacuum evaporators assets to Riverlake Partners and MVC Capital. Thermo Fisher Scientific is required to divest the business within five months as a condition of the FTC’s approval of the merger of Thermo […]
Company Announcements Ingersoll Rand Security Technologies agreed to jointly market and sell HiEnergy Technologies’ SIEGMA explosives detection and confirmation system. RAE Systems integrated its chemical and radiation product lines into MDI Security Systems’ ONE Unified Technology platform. Thermo Fisher Scientific’s Santa Fe, New Mexico radiation detection equipment manufacturing facility will cease operations in March, according […]
Cambridge, UK 1/29/07, Maynard, MA 1/29/07 and Columbus, OH 1/29/07—BioWisdom, a developer of software for business information analysis in the healthcare industry, and OmniViz, a company that specializes in software for data visualization, have announced that they will unite under the BioWisdom name. Gordon Baxter, CEO of BioWisdom, said that “this transaction is an important […]
Company Announcements Alpha Technologies Services, a Roper Industries company, signed an exclusive distribution agreement with AFA Technologies (Instruments) Shanghai for China, effective October 1, 2006. ADMET entered the Indian market with its universal testing machines, as well as other products, in October 2006. It sells direct and through representatives. In fall 2006, Q-Sense AB, the […]
Santa Clara, CA 2/1/07—Intevac has acquired the assets and certain liabilities of Raman spectroscopy company DeltaNu for an undisclosed amount. Intevac is a developer of low light imaging sensors, cameras and systems and a supplier of magnetic media supporting equipment. Based in Laramie, Wyoming, DeltaNu’s products include handheld and benchtop Raman spectroscopy instruments and Raman […]
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