Company Announcements Agilent announced the acquisition of the Blos bead nitrogen/phosphorous detector technology in March. In April, OI entered into an agreement with DANI Instruments SpA to sell DANI’s sample introduction and detector accessories. Sales began in May 2008. OI entered into a one-year value added resellers (VAR) agreement with Agilent Technologies effective June 1, […]
Company Announcements ABB Switzerland merged its analyzer and software businesses for the cement and minerals industries in March, forming the Collaborative Production Management unit, which encompasses Expert Optimizer, Knowledge Manager and SpectraFlow solutions. Analytical NanoTechnologies acquired the Newton Galley Sampler manufacturing division of the Newton Industrial Group for £247,000 ($480,000). The Galley Sampler is a […]
Company Announcements Precision System Science, reagent company Diagenode SA and Nippon Gene announced plans to develop an automated epigenetic system. Claire M. Fraser-Liggett, PhD, and Steven St. Peter, MD, resigned from Helicos Biosciences’ Board in May. Helicos BioSciences named Stephen P. Hall senior vice president and CFO in May. He was formerly CFO of TriPath […]
Company Announcements JEOL USA named Boeckeler’s RMC Products Division, a microtome manufacturer, as a distributor of its Cross Section Polisher sample preparation tool. More than 4,000 units of the Polisher have been sold worldwide. Carl Zeiss opened an SGD$30 million ($22 million) demonstration facility in Singapore in March. Carl Zeiss SMT opened its new 53,000 […]
Company Announcements Takara Biotech opened a manufacturing facility for Clontech products in Dalian, China, earlier this year. LGC Standards will commercialize Abcellute’s hepatocyte preservation technology. Lentigen exclusively licensed fundamental lentiviral vector technology from the University of Cambridge. Invitrogen named Germany-based imaGenes as its European distributor for Gateway full ORF clones. Invitrogen was named the exclusive […]
The future of biotech remains strong although growth may be slowing. Sales of biotechnology drugs grew 12.5% to $75,120 million last year, according to IMS Health, compared to 18.2% growth in 2006. Targeted oncology therapies, auto-immune agents, anti-diabetic agents and pure vaccines made up the majority of the market, which consisted of 134 products in […]
The markets tumbled in June as the Dow Jones Industrial Average, S&P 500 and NASDAQ declined 10.2%, 8.6%, 9.1%, respectively. With rising inflation, record oil prices and a worsening credit markets, even the most optimistic Wall Street pundits dismissed any ideas about a quick recovery in the second half of the year. The high cost […]
Company Announcements SGE Analytical Science opened an office in Shanghai, China, in December 2007. In April, JEOL and JOEL Datum formed Datum Instruments, a new company for servicing JEOL’s environmental, metrology and inspection equipment, including benchtop MS, fluorescent x-ray analyzers, portable GCs and mobile scanning electron microscopes. In April, Sartorius Stedim Biotech opened a Technical […]
Company Announcements Poland’s Selvita Life Sciences Solutions was named an authorized partner of Starlims Technologies. In May, Starlims Technologies acquired Laboratory Expertise Center and launched a unit to provide strategic informatics consulting services to its customers. CambridgeSoft formed an alliance with Stewart Computational Chemistry in April to ensure compatibility between their respective MOPAC2007 semiempirical quantum […]
From its beginnings as a manufacturer of modular laser devices, to its branching out into custom molecular spectroscopy products, to providing Original Equipment Design (OED) and OEM products, B&W Tek has been evolving from the outset. The company manufactures UV-Vis, NIR and Raman systems for laboratory and process applications. Sean Wang, PhD, B&W Tek’s CEO, […]
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