Tokyo, Japan and Hilden, Germany 6/18/15—Hitachi High Technologies and QIAGEN have entered into a long-term strategic collaboration for molecular testing for life science and IVD. Hitachi High-Technologies will contribute its instrument development and manufacturing technologies, while QIAGEN will provide molecular sample-to-insight solutions. Initially, the collaboration will focus on automated systems for PCR and NGS. The […]
IBO has moved up its quarterly financial review of major publicly held instrument and lab product businesses to the mid-month issues in order to provide more time-sensitive reporting. In addition, IBO has reorganized its Sales Indexes to one primary Laboratory Instruments and Products Sale Index, which will be presented in the May 31 issue. These […]
Company Announcements Cobalt Light Systems opened a US subsidiary in Reston, Virginia, in November 2014. FOSS 2014 revenues declined 2.2% but grew more than 2% organically to DKK 1.72 billion ($306.4 million) (see page 12). In March, ANDalyze named VWR as a distributor of its DNAzyme-based heavy metal–testing products. Product Introductions Konica Minolta announced in […]
Atomic Spectroscopy HORIBA updated its XRF-based sulfur-in-oil analyzer with the SLFA-6800, available in a single-sample arrangement or with an eight-position carousel. One improvement is the removal of lead from the circuit board. The system will begin shipping in May priced at about $38,000. JEOL’s benchtop JSX-1000S ElementEye for ED-XRF measurements was introduced late last year. […]
Atomic Spectroscopy PerkinElmer added to its PinAAcle series of atomic-absorption spectrometers. The 500 is a corrosion-resistant, flame-only system designed primarily for environmental applications that require robust performance, such as the mining and petrochemical industries. The system will begin shipping in June at a price in the low $20,000 range. Bruker introduced the S2 Puma as […]
This year, Pittcon was held in New Orleans, Louisiana, from March 7 to March 12. Unfortunately, the location did not appear to help attendance. According to the preliminary figures available as of March 9, total attendance was down 15.8% from last year, when the location was Chicago, Illinois (see IBO 3/31/14), to 13,683. The number […]
Company Announcements Italy’s Istituto Nazionale di Ottica-CNR and Planetary Emissions Management announced in December 2014 that they are developing a portable system based on the saturated-absorption cavity ring-down method for measurement of atmospheric radiocarbon dioxide. In January, B&W Tek opened an office in Taipei, Taiwan, its fifth international office. In February, Datacolor announced that it […]
Led by demand for Raman spectrometers, the total molecular spectroscopy market is expected to grow 3.7% in 2015 to more than $4 billion. This technology segment, which consists of nine techniques, has an extensive range of applications, from identifying water contaminants to determining protein structure. Offering a wide variety of molecular spectroscopy techniques, Bruker is […]
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 […]
In November, Axiom Analytical introduced the RFP-465 Multipass Raman Probe for vapor analysis. Its patented design boosts the sensitivity of Raman spectroscopy by up to an order of magnitude, according to the company. Unlike most probes, the RFP-465 has a reflector at its tip and a long pass filter at an orientation normal to the […]
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