Company Announcements

In August, Hercuvan named Intralab Ekatama as a distributor for Indonesia.

In September, Bio-Techne announced a corporate initiative to advance cell and gene therapy research and ex vivo cell processing.

For the fiscal year ending March 31, JEOL Scientific and Metrology Instruments sales grew 3.0% to ¥ 68,480 millions ($687.0 million) (see Bottom Line) to make up 66% of company revenues.

In September, MilliporeSigma opened a new 40,903 ft² (3,800 m²), $20 million BioReliance lab in Singapore, calling it the first GMP BioReliance biosafety testing lab in Asia Pacific. It offers a range of upstream and downstream bioprocessing solutions through an M Lab Collaboration Center, Media Development Services Lab and imMEDIAte Advantage Lab.

In September, PerkinElmer announced a collaboration with India’s Institute of Chemical Technology to open “explorer G3 Project,” an advanced high-throughput screening facility at DBT-ICT Centre for Energy Biosciences, Mumbai. The facility will house a fully automated robotic system integrated with different instruments, like PerkinElmer’s JANUS G3 liquid handler, colony picker, thermal cycler, multimode reader and automated incubators for microbial screening and characterization applications.

In October, Konica Minolta launched Konica Minolta Precision Medicine Japan (KMPMJ) for marketing high-end precision medicine tools and diagnostic services in Japan. Based in Tokyo, with 23 employees, the business will be led by Ken Masuo. KMPMJ will provide tools to identify and track disease-linked biomarkers and related services to accelerate the development of targeted therapies. It will also offer diagnostic and prognostic testing services using genes, proteins and other molecules.

GE named Board member H. Lawrence Culp, Jr., former CEO of Danaher, as chairman and CEO in October.

In October, Becton, Dickinson promoted Tom Polen to COO, in addition to his current role as president. The company has not had a COO since 2016.