IBO has selected Shimadzu’s AXIMA MegaTOF MALDI-TOF MS as the product of the show at this year’s ASMS meeting. While new introductions and improvements of triple quadrupole and Q-TOF LC-MS were impressive, the MegaTOF opens up new areas of MS analysis. The MegaTOF is a linear TOF built around the use of CovalX’s high mass […]
This year’s 58th American Society for Mass Spectrometry (ASMS) meeting was held in Salt Lake City, Utah, from May 23 though May 27. Factoring in the Varian acquisition by Agilent that closed the week prior (see IBO 5/15/10), there were exactly the same number of exhibitors this year, 166, as in 2009. Although the number […]
First-quarter revenues for IBO’s Laboratory Instrument Sales Index climbed 10.2% to $4,713.32 million, including 3.9% growth from currency transactions. Operating profit improved 23.8% to $871.20 million, and operating margin climbed 200 basis points to 18.5% of sales. Revenues benefited from improved demand and a weak year-over-year comparison, while cost saving initiatives sustained operating profit growth. […]
When one thinks of comprehensive GC (GCxGC) systems, Zoex is likely one of the first companies that comes to mind. The Texas-based company was established in 1993 as a result of the work of Edward B. Ledford, Jr., Zoex’s founder, with the inventor of GCxGC, John B. Phillips. Zoex is a premier provider of GC […]
Following the 2008 recession and heightened scrutiny over executive rewards, there is little surprise that total executive compensation for the executives in IBO’s annual executive compensation tables declined last year. In fiscal 2009, total average compensation for the 57 executives at 42 analytical instrument and laboratory product companies in IBO’s three Stock Indexes (see IBO […]
The gloom has lifted, according to the latest results of IBO’s Business Climate Survey. In contrast to the fall 2009 Business Climate Survey, conducted in October 2009 (see IBO 10/15/09), when 17% of respondents expected sales to decline in the next six months, not one Survey participant in this spring’s Survey expects sales to decline. […]
In February, SEAL Analytical, a Porvair company, introduced the AQ1 Discrete Analyzer. Discrete analyzers measure the alkalinity, as well as chloride and nitrate content of a sample, among other analytes, in individual reactions using automated colorimetric analysis. This is particularly relevant to the environmental market for applications such as nutrient, water and wastewater analysis. Discrete […]
Positive corporate earnings and acquisitions boosted US equity markets in April, as the Dow Jones Industrial Average, S&P 500 and NASDAQ ended the month up 1.4%, 1.5% and 2.6%, respectively. Momentum was furthered by rising home sales, manufacturing data and consumer sentiment, along with optimistic comments from the Federal Reserve. However, investors grew apprehensive following […]
In the first of IBO’s twice annual look at US intellectual property cases among instrument and laboratory product companies, cases related to life science technologies predominate. Decisions Wyatt Technology has filed an appeal with the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals after the US District Court for the Central District of California dismissed its case against […]
Alternative energy sources have received much attention and government funding in the past decade, and solar cell, or photovoltaic (PV), technology is no exception. The research and production of solar cells relies upon a variety of analytical instrumentation, including atomic spectroscopy, GC, molecular spectroscopy and surface science techniques. Raman, FTIR and UV-Vis-NIR spectroscopy, as well […]
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