Fourth quarter 2006 IBO Life Science Index sales rose 8.7% to $2,124 million. Operating profit for the same period gained 2.8% to $343 million, a steep decline from the previous quarter’s operating profit growth of 19%. Operating margin slipped 110 basis points from 17.2% to 16.1% of revenues. Year-over-year Life Science Index sales increased 7.7% […]
Routine Becomes Commonplace Although advancing technology remains an important aspect of instrument companies’ product development and reputation, companies are putting greater emphasis on instrumentation for so-called routine applications, such as quality analysis and quality control testing, or other nonresearch applications. Many of the fastest growing markets, including food and beverage and metals testing, do not […]
The Indian government released its fiscal 2007–08 (starting April 1) budget on February 28. The budget contained favorable news for instrument companies and their customers. The annual budget for the Ministry of Science and Technology rose 46% to Rs3,271 ($74.0 million). Within the Ministry, the Department of Science and Technology received a 58% increase in […]
Atomic Spectroscopy Bruker AXS, following the acquisition of Quantron (see IBO 9/15/06), released “Brukerized” versions of Quantron’s arc-spark instruments around the first of the year. The Q6 Columbus is a laboratory system, as is the Q8 Magellan, which is priced at about $65,000. The Q8 Coronado (based on the Magellan) is an automated system for […]
Arc/spark is a specialized optical emission spectroscopy (OES) technique that is strongly associated with the analysis of metals. In principle, these instruments can be used with nonconductive materials if they are prepared by grinding and forming a mixture with powdered graphite. There are also dedicated systems with specialized electrodes for the analysis of liquids, generally […]
In February, Brazilian president Lula da Silva launched a policy for the development of biotechnology that could make the country a biotech leader within 15 years. The policy is designed to foster collaboration between industry and scientists and to create incentives for biotech scientists. This plan will add support to preexisting innovation initiatives (see IBO […]
Aliso Viejo, CA 3/8/07—Carl Zeiss Microimaging has acquired Clarient’s ACIS and Trestle Instrument Systems business assets and intellectual property for $11 million in cash and an additional $1.5 million based on post-closing conditions. In 2005, revenues for Clarient’s Technology Group, which includes fee-per-use and system sales, rose 16% to $8.7 million, including $4.4 million in […]
San Diego, CA 3/13/07; Santa Clara, CA 3/13/07; San Diego, CA 3/1/07—A jury from the US District Court for the District of Delaware decided that Illumina infringed on, and induced infringement on, claims of five Affymetrix patents. The jury determined a proper royalty rate of 15% and awarded $16.7 million in damages to Affymetrix for […]
Company Announcements In January, eGene entered into a distribution agreement with Fisher Scientific Canada for the HAD-GT12 system. eGene entered into a three-year distribution agreement with Gene Company for China. Under a value-added reseller agreement, Picometrics SA will provide Agilent Technology’s capillary electrophoresis system coupled with its laser induced fluorescence detector. In February, Advanced Analytical […]
IonSense named KR Analytical as the European distributor for its DART MS ion source in November 2006. Bruker Daltonics and HealthLinx will file a joint patent cooperation treaty for the biomarker candidates for pregnancy complications discovered under their existing collaboration. Bruker Daltonics retains marketing rights to the blood test in Europe, UK, Africa and South […]
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