Company Announcements

Hamilton opened a customer service center in Badalona, Spain, in February, to support customers in Spain and Portugal. The product lines covered by the center are automated liquid handling and process analytical measurements.

In June, Hitachi High-Technologies opened the $4.5 million Hitachi High Tech Science Park in Chatsworth, California, to support partners of its Scientific Systems Business, and its Biotechnology and Medical Products Business. It is also the headquarters of Hitachi High-Technologies Science America.

Fluidigm announced in a May regulatory filing that Evan Jones will retire from its Board.

In June, Cal-I Enterprises, a supplier of refurbished lab equipment, opened its fourth refurbishing center in Los Angeles, California. The approximately 20,000 ft² (1,858 m²) center will refurbish analytical, medical and optical lab equipment.

In June, Tecan named Erik Norström as head of Corporate Development. Since August 2015, he served as corporate vice president, Business Development, at bioscience firm Chr. Hansen Holding.

AMETEK announced in June the retirement of Chairman Frank S. Hermance, effective July 7. AMETEK CEO David A. Zapico will be named chairman.

In June, Thailand’s The Nation reported that QIAGEN has opened an office in Bangkok and established the QIAGEN-TropMed Centre for Molecular Techniques at Mahidol University. The company also partnered with the Medical Genomic Centre at Ramathibodi Hospital for use of NGS.

GE Healthcare announced in June the appointment of Kieran Murphy, CEO of GE Healthcare Life Sciences, as CEO of GE Healthcare. He replaces John Flannery, who was named CEO and chairman elect of GE.

Oxford Instruments named Stephen Blair to its Board, effective July 1. Most recently, he served as chief executive of e2v.

For fiscal 2017 ending April 1, Halma’s Environmental & Analysis sector revenue grew 16.0%, 3.5% organically, to £219.1 million ($284.4 million) to make up 23% of company revenues (see IBO 6/15/17).  Adjusted segment operating margin expanded 170 basis points to 19.0%. Photonics, Water and Environmental Monitoring sales rose 20.9%, 5.7% and 13.4% to make up 62%, 25% and 12% of sector revenues, respectively. US sales grew 6% organically to make up 43% of sector revenue. Asia Pacific revenue rose 13% organically to make up 21%. While UK sales grew 2% on an organic basis, European sales declined 4% organically.

Merck KGaA announced in June the establishment of the Merck Foundation, which combines its corporate responsibility activities, and expands its scope to address health, social and economic challenges in the 21^st century.

Bruker announced in June that Chris van Ingen plans to retire from its Board this month.

Product Introduction

Shimadzu announced in June the introduction of the free Shimadzu Multi-omics Data Analysis Pack for metabolic engineering, designed for faster analysis and visualization of proteomics, metabolomics and flux analysis data sets from Shimadzu GC/MS and LC/MS systems in order to create a metabolic map. It is available on the Garuda Platform. The product is the result of a collaboration with the Systems Biology Institute and Osaka University.