Company Announcements Pall acquired GeneSystems, a provider of microbiological detection systems for process monitoring, in September. Invitrogen launched a patent-licensing program in September. New England Biolabs, QIAGEN GmbH and Kirkegaard & Perry Laboratories licensed technology covering the random prime amplification of nucleic acids. Takara Bio granted Promega a license to make, use and sell LA-PCR–related […]
Company Announcements GSI Group acquired photonics supplier Excel Technology for approximately $360 million in cash. Bruce Koepfgen resigned from Thermo Fisher Scientific’s Board in September. Oxford Instruments Plasma Technology sold its Molecular Beam Epitaxy business to RIBER SA in September for €450,000 ($656,163) in cash and a cash earn-out. Steven Parker resigned from Oxford Instruments’ […]
Company Announcements Air Liquide acquired Pure Helium, a supplier of liquid and gaseous helium, helium-based mixtures and argon, with presences in India and the Middle East. Pure Helium has 40 employees and had 2007 revenues of $20 million. Under a strategic alliance announced in July, Steelcase’s Laboratory Solutions division will integrate Lab Crafters’ fume hood […]
Company Announcements Ahura Scientific announced three new distributors: Nucletron Technologies GmbH for Germany and Austria, HazmatLINK for the UK and Benelux, and RMI for the Czech and Slovak Republics. T-Ray Science exclusively licensed MIT’s technology for dual-mode, pulsed and continuous TeraHertz waves. Product Introductions X-Rite launched the xDNA system with the M98 handheld spectrophotometer for […]
Company Announcements GENEART AG extended its strategic collaboration with QIAGEN NV to include synthetic human genes optimized for use in insect or mammalian cells in addition to those designed for production in E.coli bacteria. GENEART AG established a subsidiary on the US West Coast in San Francisco, California. Invitrogen named Joe Beery as head of […]
Company Announcements Hudson Control Group named Dr. Alan H. Katz chief scientific officer. Previously, he led Wyeth Research’s computation chemistry and drug design group. PaR Systems, a provider of specialized material handling and automation equipment, was acquired in July by MML Capital and PaR Systems management. BioTrove opened an office in San Carlos, California, in […]
Company Announcements Agilent granted imaGenes GmbH the status of Certified Service Provider for Expression Profiling Services. Agilent named Turku Center for Biotechnology of University of Turku and Abo Akademi University a Certified Service Provider for gene expression microarrays. Affymetrix entered into a distribution agreement for Biotique Systems’ XRAY gene expression analysis software. Under a collaboration […]
Company Announcements JEOL’s Scientific Instrument sales for the year ended March 31 declined 39.3% to ¥39,090 million ($341.0 million) (see IBO 9/15/08), as strong sales of transmission electron microscopes were offset by declining sales of X-ray fluorescence systems. Industrial Equipment sales rose 46.5% to ¥54,799 million ($479.8 million), led by sales of scanning electron microscopes. […]
Company Announcements Zwick Roell named Instrumatic A/S as a sales partner for Denmark. NanoSight opened an office in the Western Region of the US in August. Malvern Instruments and Aimil, the company’s distribution partner in India, formed a joint venture in May. In October, MTS Systems elected President and CEO Laura B. Hamilton chair of […]
Company Announcements Geneva Bioinformatics named GE Healthcare Life Sciences as its Latin American distributor. Abbott has made an additional $20 million investment in Ibis Biosciences (see IBO 2/15/08), bringing its equity holding to 18.6%. Thermo Fisher Scientific integrated its MS instrumentation with Genedata’s Genedata Expressionist software for metabolomics applications. The Thermo Fisher Scientific Biomarker Research […]
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