North Brunswick, New Jersey–based company Distek, which focuses on dissolution products and services, unveiled at Pittcon 2011 its Symphony 7100 dissolution test, which is scheduled to begin shipping in June at an introductory price of $19,625 (see IBO 4/15/11). Distek’s Global Sales and Marketing Manager Jeff Seely told IBO that the concept of the product […]
The declining US dollar and strong corporate profits propelled US equity markets to new multiyear highs in April. The Dow Jones Industrial Average, S&P 500 and NASDAQ climbed 4.0%, 2.8% and 3.3% for the month and are up 10.7%, 8.4% and 8.3% for the year, respectively. Yet, despite strong market activity, economic data remained ominous. […]
Familiar names dominate the first of IBO’s twice yearly review of patent litigation among analytical instrument companies. DNA sequencing technology has given rise to a new set of infringement suits. In addition, other life science techniques and XRF are the focus of new litigation. New Suits Affymetrix and Illumina are at it again following the […]
The first of IBO’s biannual new laboratory roundup indicates that companies are trying to strengthen their position in foreign markets by expanding their lab presence in Asia, most notably in India and China, to serve customers both locally and globally. In addition, the table on page 6 highlights plans for new academic, forensics and nonprofit […]
The American Chemical Society (ACS) held its 241st National Meeting in Anaheim, California, on March 27–31. The technical program featured over 9,000 papers. Attendance was 14,023, down 22.4% from the spring 2010 conference held in San Francisco, California, which had the second-largest attendance ever. IBO attended a presentation by Simon J. Teague, PhD, principal scientist, […]
Since it was founded in 1994, Advanced Chemistry Development (ACD/Labs) has aimed to provide its customers with desktop and enterprise solutions to efficiently manage the substantial amount of information generated in R&D. The company’s offerings include analytical data management and interpretation software, nomenclature software, and physicochemical property and ADMET prediction tools. ACD/Labs has grown from […]
Agilent Technologies, ITT and Merck KGaA each completed major analytical instrument or laboratory product acquisitions within the last year. IBO spoke with each company about the challenges related to and new opportunities resulting from the acquisitions. Merck completed its $7.0 billion purchase of Millipore in July 2010 (see IBO 2/28/10). According to Jon DiVincenzo, head […]
Atomic Spectrometry LECO introduced two elemental analyzers for applications involving metals, alloys and other inorganic samples: the CS844 for carbon/sulfur measurements and the ONH836 for measuring oxygen, nitrogen and hydrogen. Improvements in the combustion furnace, detector systems and cleaning automation have been combined with touch-screen control. The CS844 is priced at $65,000 and began shipment […]
For the third quarter, the IBO Lab Equipment/Consumables Index grew 2.4%, or 3.6% excluding currency. Operating profit improved 3.2%, and operating margins gained 10 basis points to 17.3% of sales. Fourth-quarter Index sales were flat, but grew 1.0% excluding currency to $4,030.02 million. Operating profit increased 3.6% to $691.05 million, and operating margins improved 40 […]
As expected, IBO’s annual list of the top 30 analytical and life science instrument companies was reshuffled in 2010 due to consolidation and the global economic recovery. Several transactions, including Life Technologies’ divestiture of its joint venture MS business to Danaher (see IBO 9/15/09, 2/15/10) and Agilent Technologies’ acquisition of Varian (see IBO 7/31/09, 5/15/10), […]
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