Instrument industry sales should remain stable in the next six months, according to IBO’s Spring Business Climate Survey. Twice a year IBO conducts a survey of analytical instrument companies and associated suppliers. Twenty-four executives were surveyed from companies whose combined sales exceed $5 billion. Fifty-eight percent of the instrument and laboratory product–related company executives who […]
In 2006, the Securities and Exchange Commission’s new disclosure rules for executive compensation went into effect. These rules provide investors with a more accurate outline regarding the compensation of top executives and directors of US public companies. The most significant changes include disclosure of annual total compensation, annual change in pension value and annual, nonqualified […]
In the first quarter of 2007, revenues for IBO’s Laboratory Sales Index grew an impressive 11.6% to $4,101 million. Operation profit jumped 14.0% to $654 million and operating margin climbed 50 basis points to 16% of sales. More than half of the companies realized significant improvements in operating profits, but those were offset by declining […]
Biotools B&M Labs SA released CapitalBio’s microarray platform to the Spanish market and provided CapitalBio with its LIONPROBES real-time amplification technology, the Gelification stabilization platform and recombinant enzymes for kits and reagents for the Chinese market. Oxford Gene Technology and Integrated Genomics partnered to develop and market a Pichia pastoris gene expression oligonucleotide microarray. In […]
DANI introduced the FAUST (Fast Adaptive Unit Sensing Trace of Explosives) technology for explosives detection, based on chemical sensors. Totali, DANI and Glavani introduced the detectOne security booth for the detection of explosives, radioactive hazards, weapons and biometric data. Brijot Imaging Systems launched the new-generation BIS-WDS GEN 2 object detection and people screening technology, featuring […]
LUM GmbH named Twinson International as a Chinese distributor and Lih-Yuan Enterprise as a Taiwanese distributor. Asia accounts for more than 30% of the company’s sales. Under an OEM agreement, Micro Imaging Technology will supply its tabletop rapid microbial identification system as an option for JMAR’s BioSentry Water Monitoring System. Particle size analyzer company NanoSight […]
Carlsbad, CA 5/1/07; Albuquerque, NM 5/2/07—CVI announced that it has signed an agreement with Barloworld Scientific to acquire Melles Griot. While terms of the deal were not revealed, Barloworld said that CVI will pay “a small premium over tangible net asset value” for Melles Griot. After the acquisition, which is expected to close within a […]
In February, biosensor developer NanoSensors signed a letter of intent to acquire the assets of DKL International, a provider of passive detection technology. SELEX Sensors and Airborne Systems contracted with ilochip A/S to develop a lab-on-a-chip system for detecting and identifying airborne biological pathogens. The $125.6 million jury verdict against L-3 Communications, resulting from its […]
Illumina launched the HumanCNV370-Duo DNA Analysis BeadChip, developed in collaboration with deCODE genetics, to target novel regions of the genome that show copy number variation. It enables the analysis of two samples simultaneously. Illumina released the BeadXpress System detection platform, based on VeraCode digital microbead technology, for low to mid-multiplex experiments. Illumina launched a custom-content […]
Tempe, AZ 5/1/07—GE Healthcare has sold its prearrayed Codelink microarray product line to Applied Microarrays, according to its website. Based at Arizona State University, Applied Microarrays also offers contract manufacturing of custom arrays. GE Healthcare continues to provide activated slides and related reagents for microarrays.
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