Thermo Fisher Scientific introduced the Orion 2-Star benchtop pH meter and the Orion 5-Star Meter. Siemens Water Technologies launched the Total-Check 900 In-Line TOC Monitor for laboratory applications. Mettler-Toledo introduced the SevenGo handheld meters, consisting of five models, for measuring pH, conductivity and dissolved oxygen. Mettler-Toledo released the FiveEasy bench meters for pH and conductivity […]
Hitachi High-Technologies Life Science’s revenue for fiscal 2007 ended March 31 rose 9.3% to ¥933 billion ($8.1 billion) (see IBO 6/30/07) to account for 9.8% of company sales. Operating profit increased 39.4% to ¥123 billion ($385.3 million). Sales of liquid chromatographs and DNA sequencers increased. Hitachi High-Technologies opened a branch office in Moscow, Russia, in […]
In April, YSI acquired the environmental division of AMJ Equipment, its southeastern US selling partner, which has been renamed AMJ Environmental. Sensicore appointed Kenneth Ogan, PhD, former vice president of technology for Danaher’s Environmental Water Quality Group, as vice president of R&D and Douglas Reed, formerly with Agilent, as vice president of Sales.
Waltham, MA 7/26/07—PerkinElmer has announced that Robert F. Friel, president of the company’s Life and Analytical Sciences division (LAS), will become president and COO, effective August 1. He is expected to be named CEO in February 2008, replacing Gregory L. Summe, who will become executive chairman until April 2009. The LAS presidency is not expected […]
CS Bio introduced the CS336 multichannel solid phase peptide synthesizer. 3-Prime launched the Retro-Columns synthesis columns, developed with DNA Technologies, for extending the lifespan of older synthesizers.
According to the results of survey published in June by, the top three choices for outsourced R&D were other companies (48.1%), independent R&D organizations (38.9%) and academia (35.1%). The two most popular types of outsourced work were new product innovations (32.1%) and new process innovations (31.3%). The two most common reasons for outsourcing were the […]
Thermo Fisher Scientific has entered into an agreement to acquire India-based Qualigens Fine Chemicals from GlaxoSmithKline Pharmaceuticals for INR 240 crore ($59.5 million). According to Thermo, Qualigens is India’s largest laboratory chemical manufacturer and supplier. Based in Mumbai with 150 employees country-wide, Qualigen’s manufactures and sells fine chemicals, diagnostic kits and laboratory products, and had […]
IBO published its annual analytical and life science instrument industry forecast for 2007 in mid-January (see IBO 1/15/07). While we only had preliminary estimates of the industry’s 2006 performance, it was clear that the year was better than 2005. Still, a fair amount of uncertainty remained about our 2007 forecast, not the least being the […]
San Francisco’s Moscone Convention Center again hosted the 2007 Semicon West exposition, which ran July 16–20. Last year, IBO noted a certain levity among the booths and exhibits (see IBO 7/15/06), as spirits were doubtless buoyed by the surge of business in 2006. Indeed, sales of semiconductor equipment in 2006 surpassed even the generous growth […]
Late last week, PerkinElmer announced that Robert F. Friel, president of the company’s Life and Analytical Sciences division (LAS), would transition to president and COO on August 1, before being named CEO next February. Gregory L. Summe, chairman, president and CEO, who has been with the company 10 years as of next January, will assume […]
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