The 44th International Symposium on HPLC 2016 was held at the San Francisco, California, Marriott Marquis from June 19 through June 24. The event included a series of short courses, tutorials, poster sessions, vendor technical workshops, and an exhibition featuring suppliers of HPLC systems, columns, software, components and consumables. The venue continues a tradition of […]
Based in Vermont, BioTek Instruments has over 400 employees. Its instrumentation is found in over 125,000 labs. Thirty percent of employees are located outside the US, and the company has 11 subsidiaries worldwide and 70 distributors. BioTek’s development in many ways mirrors the development of the drug discovery instrumentation market, from the heyday of big […]
In June of last year, the markets agonized over Greece’s default. Now, a new economic crisis has emerged as the UK voted this month to exit the EU. In the two days following the Brexit, global markets shed roughly $3 trillion in value. However, as the dust settled, markets recovered as investors realized either the […]
Bio-Rad Delivers Strong LS Results Bio-Rad Laboratories Life Science (LS) recorded nearly double-digit quarterly sales growth due to a weak comparison in China and a strong backlog, which was bolstered by system-related challenges in the third quarter of 2015. LS first quarter sales climbed 6.4% to $165.9 million to account for 35% of revenue. Excluding […]
In the US, dietary supplements (DS) are not required to undergo the same stringent testing, standardization and regulation as pharmaceutical drugs, leaving opportunities for DS companies to make misleading claims, mislabel packages and use contaminated ingredients. Adulteration of DS has long been a concern of consumers and regulatory bodies due to the lack of required […]
The annual American Society for Mass Spectrometry (ASMS) conference was once again marked by a robust technical program and multiple new product releases. Held this year in San Antonio, Texas, registration for the conference totaled 6,267, up 2.9% from last year, when the conference was held in St. Louis, Missouri (see IBO 6/15/15). One of […]
Agilent Shines Agilent Technologies topped fiscal second quarter expectations as sales climbed 5.8%, 8.0% organically, to $1.0 billion. Currency headwinds and divestments impacted sales growth by 1.3% and 0.8%, respectively. Organic sales were driven by strong double-digit growth in China, especially in food and biopharmaceutical markets. Sales further benefited from enhanced revenue cycle times as […]
The migration from HPLC to UHPLC continues to fuel growth in the overall LC market, with performance, workflow and productivity enhancements driving end-user purchases. LC manufacturers are making the transition for end-users somewhat seamless, particularly with the expansion of column chemistries, including the use of sub–2 µm, sub–3 µm and superficially porous particles (core shell) […]
US equity markets advanced in May in spite of the US Federal Reserve’s implications to raise interest rates in June. On the economic front, first quarter US GDP growth projections were raised 30 basis points to 0.8%, led by continued strength in consumer spending and a strong housing market. However, the tepid economic growth was […]
A majority of large publicly held instrument and lab product companies maintained positive growth momentum in the first quarter due to sustained demand from biopharmaceutical markets, as well as strong life science and applied spending in China. Favorable pricing along with reduced currency headwinds further contributed to growth. As a result, combined calendar year first […]
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