Company Announcements

The Hindu Business Line reported in December 2015 that Thermo Fisher Scientific will add 70 employees to its approximately 180-employee Global Technology Development Centre in Bengaluru, India, this year. Personnel at the company’s R&D Center in Bengaluru will double to 90 employees this year.

Illumina announced in December 2015 four new Illumina Accelerator (see IBO 4/30/14) investments as part of its third funding cycle: synthetic biology firm MetaMixis, medical technology company NextGen Jane, skin microbiome firm Skinomics, and Vitagene, a health technology company. The Accelerator is focused on creating an innovation ecosystem for the genomics industry.

Industrial process automation firm Caltrol announced in December 2015 a partnership agreement with RS Calibration Services, a provider of calibration, validation and quality engineering services to the life sciences industry.

Bioanalytical Systems named Wendy Perro, president and CEO of Alba Therapeutics, to its Board in December 2015.

For the fiscal year ending September 30, 2015, Bioanalytical Systems’ Analytical Instrument sales declined 7.9% to $2.0 million.

In January, Metrohm USA announced a partnership with the University of Maryland School of Pharmacy.

Bio-Rad Laboratories joined IBM Research and Mars’ Consortium for Sequencing the Food Supply Chain. Bio-Rad will contribute expertise in chromogenic and molecular tests for food pathogens and food quality indicators.

Merck KGaA named Udit Batra, head of its Life Science business sector, to its Board in January.

BioMerieux’s 2015 Industrial Application sales rose 11.0%, 4.4% in constant currency to €362.8 million ($403.1 million), or 18% of revenues. BioFire Defense sales doubled, up 67.3% in constant currency, to €24.8 million ($27.6 million).

Hach announced it will build a 86,000 ft2 R&D center at its existing campus in Loveland, Colorado. The building will open in late 2017. More than 750 associates work at the Loveland campus.

Waters formed a new Executive Committee and announced that Executive Vice President and Waters Division President Arthur G. Caputo transitioned into an advisory role, effective February 10, and will retire at the end of 2016. The current members of the Committee—Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary Mark T. Beaudouin, Senior Vice President and CFO Eugene G. Cassis and Senior Vice President of Global Human Resources Elizabeth B. Rae—will be joined by: Michael C. Harrington, senior vice president of Global Markets; Terrance P. Kelly, senior vice president, and president of TA Instruments; Rohit Khanna, senior vice president of Applied Technology; Ian S. King, senior vice president of Instrument Technology; and David A. Terricciano, senior vice president of Global Operations.