Company Announcements

In April, Metrohm became the exclusive distributor of Analytik Jena’s analytical measurement products in India and Scandinavia.

In May, Anton Paar opened its 14th foreign subsidiary in Malmö, Sweden, to serve Sweden, Denmark and Finland.

In June, Corning hired Dr. Richard Eglen as vice president and general manager of its Life Sciences business. Most recently, he led PerkinElmer Bio-discovery.

In June, PerkinElmer acquired Dexela, a provider of flat panel CMOS X-ray detection technologies and services, expanding its medical-imaging portfolio.

Halma Health and Analysis sales grew 22.5% to £218.3 million ($355.0 million) for the fiscal year ending April 2 (see IBO 6/30/11) to make up 42% of company sales. Organic sales grew 17%. Photonics (34% of sales), Health Optics/Other (25%), Water (23%) and Fluid Technology (18%) revenues grew 25%,15%, 18% and 36%, respectively.

Halma acquired Avo Photonics in July for an initial cash consideration of $9.0 million. Avo designs and manufactures miniature photonic components and subsystems for OEM customers. In 2010, Avo had $5.7 million in sales.

In June, Hitachi High-Technologies established an analyzer development center, its first outside of Japan, at its production subsidiary in Dalian, China. The center is expected to have around 100 employees by 2013.

Agilent in June registered its Cedar Creek, Texas, reagent-manufacturing facility with the FDA as a medical device establishment. The registration is required for the manufacture of diagnostic products.

In June, Agilent and the National University of Singapore Environmental Research Institute announced an alliance. Areas of collaboration include automated miniaturized sample preparation and chemical analysis for the field and automated high-throughput toxicity screening.

ITT Water and Wastewater announced in July it will establish a Singapore hub to support Asia Pacific.

In June, it was announced that the Drug Discovery Division of Genetix will join Molecular Devices.

In June, Danaher opened an office in Dubai to serve as its Middle Eastern headquarters.

In July, the metabolomics program at Georgetown University Medical Center joined Waters’s Center of Innovation Program.

In July, Shimadzu UK opened a 1500-square-meter product evaluation lab facility at its central UK headquarters in Milton Keynes, UK.

The Business Standard reported that in July Thermo Fisher Scientific opened a 3,500-square-foot center of excellence for chromatography consumables and specialty products in Ahmedabad, India.

In July, Lars Rebien Sørensen, former president and CEO of Novo Nordisk, joined Thermo Fisher Scientific’s Board, bringing the number of members to 12.