Santa Clara, CA 8/23/07; 8/27/07—Agilent Technologies has announced that Chris van Ingen, president of its Bio-Analytical Measurement business (BAM), will retire on October 31. “I leave Agilent with a great sense of accomplishment,” stated Mr. van Ingen. “The past few years have been very exciting ones for us, with ongoing success in our current markets […]
This month, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) released a report that consolidates its research on China’s innovation policies. The research was requested by China’s Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST) and is the fruit of several fact-finding operations by the OECD, an October 2006 workshop held in Chongqing, China, on the evaluation […]
It was a surprisingly strong calendar-year second quarter for major analytical instrument companies. Healthy European and Asian sales, continued robust industrial market sales, and a strengthening of sales to big pharma helped companies generate results that topped a number of companies’ expectations. A stronger US dollar also helped US companies leverage pricing advantages in foreign […]
In May, Affymetrix opened a manufacturing facility in Singapore. ChannelNewsAsia reports that the facility will manufacture 30% of the company’s products and has a staff of 124. Affymetrix appointed John C. Batty CFO and executive vice president in June. He previously served as senior vice president of finance and CFO of Credence Systems. In July, […]
BIOBASE GmbH and DNASTAR’s software achieved Affymetix GeneChip compatibility. In June, Illumina made available the open-access iControlDB genotyping-control repository. OGT launched the CytoSure Syndrome Plus and Chromosome X exon specific CGH arrays for cytogenetics.
This month, ensuing renewed concerns over subprime mortgages and the credit crunch, the Dow suffered the second-biggest decline of the year, falling 2.8% on August 9. In the four-day trading period ending August 16, the Dow, S&P 500 and NASDAQ declined 5.6%, 6.1% and 6.2% to four-month lows of 13,846, 1,408 and 2,451, respectively. From […]
East Hills, NY 7/19/07; 8/2/07; 8/20/07—Pall announced in early August that its Audit Committee determined that the company will be required to restate its annual and quarterly results for some or all of fiscal years 1999–2006. The decision is related to Pall’s July announcement of an inquiry into “the possible material understatement of US income […]
KSV Instruments named new distributors: Massanalys Nordic AB for Sweden; dpUNION Instrumentação Analítica e Científica for Brazil and Arquimed SA for Chile. Fauske & Associates named PT. Haes Brothers its exclusive Indonesian distributor and Scientific & Medical Products its exclusive Irish distributor. In June, MTS Systems named Laura B. Hamilton president and COO. She had […]
Paoli, PA 8/13/07; Paris, France 8/13/07—AMETEK has acquired CAMECA SAS, a manufacturer of secondary ion mass and low-energy X-ray emission spectrometers, as well as tomographic atom probes and electron probe microanalysis instrumentation, for €82 million ($112 million) from the Carlyle Group. Based in Paris, France, CAMECA has annual sales of approximately €60 million ($82 million). […]
Laboratory equipment tends to be the humble workhorse in a lab. While it does not perform the high-profile work of measuring and analyzing samples, research simply could not be done without it. Traditionally, aesthetics have not been a priority in the design of lab equipment. The decision by a laboratory equipment manufacturer to improve the […]
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