Company Announcements In the third quarter, within Danaher’s Environmental segment, sales for existing water quality business grew low single digits (see IBO 10/31/12). Hach core revenue grew mid-single digits, as municipal spending for core lab and process instruments grew low single digits. Consumables and service represented 55% of water quality sales. Within the Life Sciences […]
Gilbertsville, PA 12/13/12—Rockland Immunochemicals, a provider of antibodies and antibody-based tools, has acquired the TrueBlot IP (immunoprecipitation)/Western blot product line from eBiosciences, an Affymetrix company. “As eBioscience continues to focus its efforts on our evolving flow cytometry, immunoassay and immunohistochemistry applications in immunology, oncology and other therapeutic areas, we are pleased that the TrueBlot product […]
Tokyo, Japan 12/3/12; Tokyo, Japan and Villach, Austria 12/7/12—Showa Denko has announced a strategic partnership with BIA Separations for joint marketing and R&D, expanding its business to include chromatography resins for biopharmaceutical manufacturing. Showa Denko currently offers lab-scale HPLC products under the Shodex brand name. Based in Austria with 80 employees, BIA Separations provides short […]
Sanford, ME 12/11/12—Maine Manufacturing has acquired from GE the assets of its laboratory filter and membrane business. The acquired product lines include the Cameo brand of syringe filters, capsule and cut disc filters; transfer membranes; and flat sheet and roll stock microporous membranes. Maine Manufacturing will continue to operate the Westborough, Massachusetts facility that makes […]
Radnor, PA 12/4/12—VWR International has acquired France-based Labonord and Belgium-based Switch for undisclosed amounts. Labonord supplies consumables and chemicals, including histology products. Switch manufactures cytology and histology reagents and dyes under the Q-Path brand, which are sold in France, Belgium and the Netherlands. Labonord is a Switch distributor.
Munich, Germany 11/30/12; Tokyo, Japan 12/3/12—Konica Minolta Optics has acquired German firm Instrument Systems effective December 1 for an undisclosed amount. Instrument Systems provides LED light source and other lighting-related measurement systems based on spectroscopy. Headquartered in Munich with 99 employees, the company’s fiscal 2012 sales grew 26.8% to €30.3 million ($40.4 million = €0.75 […]
Tokyo, Japan 12/10/12; Tokyo Japan 12/12/12; Tokyo, Japan 12/12/12—Hitachi High-Technologies and SII NanoTechnology, a unit of Seiko Instruments, have announced that the companies’ merger will proceed (see IBO 5/31/12, 8/15/12). The acquisition is expected to be completed by January 1, 2013. The announcement follows the decision by the Japan Fair Trade Commission (JFTC) that the […]
Santa Clara, CA and Penzberg, Germany 11/7/12—Agilent Technologies will be the exclusive provider of continued services to Roche NimbleGen customers as Roche phases out its NimbleGen microarray production and services. Roche and Agilent announced that customers can transition to Agilent arrays with minimal disruption for all applications because of the technologies’ similarities. “Our field service […]
San Diego, CA 11/12/12—Illumina announced that VWR International will distribute its qPCR portfolio, including the Eco Real-Time PCR System and the NuPCR reagents, in the US. “We are very excited to join forces with VWR to accelerate adoption of our qPCR portfolio, particularly into the pharmaceutical and industrial markets where VWR has a strong presence,” […]
Paris, France 10/22/12; Paris France 10/22/12—Publicly held French energy firm AREVA has entered into exclusive negotiations with private equity company Astorg Partners to sell its Canberra radiation measurement business. AREVA is divesting assets in order to reduce debt and finance new investments.
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