Each year, the IBO Design Awards honors the best in industrial design of analytical instruments and laboratory equipment. This year’s winners encompass a diversity of approaches to the challenge of designing a product whose visual appearance complements and distinguishes the product’s technical abilities. IBO again this year recognizes industrial design in three product categories: analytical […]
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 […]
On August 9, President Bush signed into law the America COMPETES (Creating Opportunities to Meaningfully Promote Excellence in Technology, Education, and Science) Act. Designed to increase the federal resources devoted to education and research in the fields of science, engineering and mathematics, the Act authorizes a total of $33.6 billion in funding, according to an […]
A consistent need in a variety of market sectors, including security, environmental research and quality assurance and control is to be able to achieve laboratory-quality results in the field. IBO’s Portable Instrument Industrial Design Award acknowledges manufacturers’ success in solving the various challenges inherent to providing a portable version of a technique, and placing that […]
SRI Instruments, located in Torrance, California, began life in 1985 as Scientific Repair Inc. CEO and President Hugh Goldsmith, a former employee of PerkinElmer, started the company in his garage, repairing GCs and HPLCs. After some years repairing and creating spare parts for these instruments, Mr. Goldsmith began making inexpensive GCs, and was able to […]
In the second quarter of 2007, revenues for IBO’s Laboratory Sales Index grew a robust 13.8% to $4,083 million. Operating profit jumped 29.3% to $631 million, and operating margin climbed 190 basis points to 15.5% of sales. Strong organic and acquisition-related growth from Thermo Fisher Scientific, Bruker BioSciences, PerkinElmer and Agilent helped boost revenues and […]
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 […]
Called Ilha Formosa (beautiful island) by Portuguese explorers, Taiwan has proven to be an attractive location for an array of high-tech industries. Revenue at Taiwan’s three major science parks—Hsinchu Science Park, the Central Taiwan Science Park and the Southern Taiwan Science Park—is expected to top TWD 2 trillion ($60.8 billion) in 2007, according to Taiwan’s […]
By the time Bio-Rad Laboratories acquired Ciphergen Biosystems’ ProteinChip systems business for $20 million (see IBO 8/15/06) in November last year, the product line had a rocky commercial history. Sales of the ProteinChip system, which was launched in 1999, and related products peaked in 2003. The ProteinChip system uses chip-based chromatography to separate and enrich […]
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