St. Louis, MO 5/14/09—Emerson Process Management has acquired Scientific Instruments’ on-line wet chemistry analyzers product line for an undisclosed price. The product line includes silica, sodium, phosphate and hydrazine monitors that are used to control plant processes in the power and water treatment markets. The product lines have become part of Emerson’s Rosemount Analytical division. […]
Company Announcements Radleys appointed Heidolph Brinkmann as the exclusive North American distributor for its chemistry apparatus. Radleys has more than 7,000 systems installed worldwide. In February, MultiSynTech GmbH granted Biotage AB distribution rights to its peptide synthesis systems. The companies will also jointly develop a new microwave-aided peptide synthesis system. Italian contract research organization EspiKem, […]
Since 2006, the Japanese government has steadily invested in neuroscience research. On an annual basis, the government provides ¥30 billion ($290 million) to brain science, or 7% of its budget for the life sciences. Efforts include the formation by the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology’s Council for Science of a Brain Science […]
Company Announcements STARLIMS Technologies’ 2008 sales rose 6.2% to $25.2 million (see IBO 3/31/09). Product revenue grew 11.3% to $15.5 million, and Service revenue declined 1.1% to $9.8 million. Adjusted operating income fell 30.2% to $3.0 million. Sales to public-sector labs accounted for 39% of revenues, manufacturing customers accounted for 25% of sales. Revenue from […]
As federal agencies begin to receive American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) funds (see IBO 2/28/09)—the so-called US stimulus funding—they are releasing more information about how they plan to spend the money. Of all of the agencies, the NIH was the largest beneficiary (see IBO 2/28/09) of ARRA funds for research. This article will outline […]
The IBO Laboratory Sales Index has been updated from the February 15 issue now that 19 of the 21 companies in the Index have reported calendar-year 2008 results. Estimates are provided for Oxford Instruments and Shimadzu. For the fourth quarter, Laboratory Sales Index revenues improved 1.1% to $4,715 million. Operating profits grew 2.4%, and operating […]
The University of Karlsruhe and the Karlsruhe Research Center are set to merge following final government approval this summer. The new entity will be named the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) and will be the largest research center in Germany. The KIT will include Europe’s largest center for energy research, with expertise in nanoscale and […]
Company Announcements Chromatide announced further investments by Enterprise Ventures and Alliance Fund Managers. GE Healthcare is collaborating with Celestial Biologicals to set up India’s first GMP-compliant fully integrated chromatography-based plasma fractionation facility. The facility is based in Ahmedabad. Agilent is providing technical support for the development of Aurora SFC Systems’ Fusion A5, which converts HPLC […]
Microfluidics, or lab-on-a-chip systems, have been somewhat pigeonholed as being a technology for capillary electrophoresis, particularly with the success of the Agilent 2100 Bioanalyzer and Caliper Life Sciences’ LabChip products. However, the use of microfluidic technology in LC has grown rapidly during the past several years. Agilent introduced the first chip-based LC/MS system in 2005, […]
The EPA plans to regulate greenhouse gases. Agency studies found that carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, hydrofluorocarbons, perfluorocarbons and sulfur hexafluoride are public health hazards. Source: New York Times
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