An audit by the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) Office of Inspector General has found that the USDA Food Safety and Inspection Service’s (FIS) national residue program for cattle is inadequate. The program samples processed meat from slaughter plants to test for residue of veterinary dugs, pesticides and heavy metals. Currently, 120 substances are tested […]
New laboratory construction in late 2009 and early 2010 was driven by both public and private expenditures. New laboratory plans included a continuing flow of bioscience university projects in the US, as well as government-coordinated national projects worldwide. R&D laboratories for agricultural biotechnology companies and new labs for consumer products companies were also announced. Among […]
Fourth-quarter sales for the IBO Lab Equipment/Consumables Index climbed 8.3% to $922.96 million, including 2.4% growth from currency. Median growth was 6.3%. Operating profit grew 14.7% to $305.37 million. Operating margins improved 190 basis points to 33.1% of sales. The median operating profit margin was 17.5%. For the year, Index sales slipped 1.6% to $3,478.49 […]
The environmental market for process Total Organic Carbon (TOC) instruments is substantial, and is expected to continue to experience robust growth in the near future. There are several traditional analytical methods for TOC analysis, although actions by the US EPA have now allow for much more rapid innovation. The same technology employed in laboratory TOC […]
Company Announcements Nikon acquired a license from Harvard University for the right to use the Stochastic Optical Reconstruction Microscopy (STORM) technology. Nikon licensed from the University of California, San Francisco, the rights for Structured Illumination Microscopy (SIM) technology. For the year ended September 30, 2009, revenue for Carl Zeiss’s Microscopy Group rose 8% to €339 […]
In the February 15 issue, IBO detailed R&D reorganizations at major pharmaceutical companies. Since then, Merck has announced its 2009 results, including a new Merger Restructuring Program. The Program addresses the combined operations of Merck and Schering-Plough, which Merck acquired in November 2009. Merck plans to cut 15% of its 100,000 employees by the end […]
Company Announcements In February, Roche NimbleGen named CapitalBio a Certified Service Provider (CSP) for gene expression, Comparative Genomic Hybridization (CGH)/copy number variation and DNA methylation. Roche NimbleGen named imaGenes GmbH a CSP for DNA methylation analysis. Oxford Gene Technology was named Agilent’s first High-Throughput CSP for Agilent microarrays. Kreatech Diagnostics will exclusively distribute Oxford Gene […]
Company Announcements Eurocontrol Technics, a subsidiary of Global Fluids International, agreed in January to acquire Xenemetrix, a developer of X-Ray Fluorescence (XRF) systems. Xenemetrix’s XRF systems make up the monitoring component of Eurocontrol’s Petromark technology. Under a purchase and supply agreement, PANalytical began sales of XRF Scientific’s Eagon 2 fused bead preparation system. Bruker AXS […]
Financials for the IBO Laboratory Sales Index have been updated from the numbers that appeared in the February 28 issue now that all the companies in the Index, except for Oxford Instruments, have reported calendar-year fourth-quarter and year-end results. For the fourth quarter, Laboratory Sales Index sales grew 6.9% to $4,985.89 million, including 5.1% growth […]
Company Announcements SLS Micro Technology GmbH introduced the compact GCM Micro Box. Available in four models, it features the GCM 5000 micro GC module, which is a printed circuit board with an injector, thermal conductivity detector and fixed separation column. As part of a resale agreement, Alpha Omega Technologies, which supplies custom analyzers to the […]
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