Company Announcements In March, Invitrogen announced that its drug discovery products will be validated on selected Tecan microplate readers and instruments, starting with the Infinite Series, and the companies will codevelop applications. Invitrogen’s drug discovery products will be tested on certain BMG Labtech microplate readers and certain readers will be certified for use with Invitrogen […]
Company Announcements SPEX SamplePrep is now the exclusive US distributor of Katanax Automated Electric Fluxers. Skyray Instrument entered the US market in March with four instruments, including the portable Pocket-II x-ray fluorescence spectrometer (XRF). Thermo Fisher Scientific added an optical emission and X-ray spectroscopy product demonstration center to its Training Institute in West Palm Beach, […]
The National Institutes of Health’s (NIH) 1000 Genomes Project research consortium will help to further develop and refine next-generation DNA sequencing, as discussed in the January 31 issue of IBO. On June 11, the NIH announced that the three largest providers of next-generation sequencing technology will formally take part in the Project. Applied Biosystems, Illumina […]
IBO has selected Waters’ new Xevo triple quadrupole LC/MS as the best new product from this year’s ASMS meeting. While this new benchtop system certainly has a modern look, consistent with its name, it is the collision cell technology on the inside that made IBO take notice. The Xevo’s novel collision cell design enables it […]
Company Announcements WaferGen Biosystems signed exclusive distribution agreements for its SmartSlide Micro-Incubation System with INBIO for Australia, ScienceWerke for Singapore and with Westburg for the Benelux Systems. BioNanomatrix, a developer of whole genome imaging and analysis technology, raised $5.1 million in Series A funding in March. Oxford Nanopore Technologies, formerly Oxford NanoLabs, secured investments of […]
Shimadzu is Japan’s largest analytical instrument maker and the world’s sixth largest analytical instrument company (see IBO 4/15/08). On May 29, Shimadzu President and CEO Shigehiko Hattori presented the company’s financial results for the fiscal year ended March 31 (fiscal 2007). He noted the adverse effects of a stronger yen on company sales growth and […]
Company Announcements Nacalai USA and Nano-C are developing an industrial-scale HPLC technology for the production of fullerenes and their chemical derivatives. Waters is integrating its Empower 2 software with ESA Bioscience’s Corona Charged Aerosol Detector. Hitachi High-Technologies and Waters agreed to develop and distribute an interface for Waters’ Empower 2 software and Hitachi’s LC systems. […]
This issue, IBO has made a couple of changes to its Life Science Sales Index. Beckman Coulter’s Life Science division, which includes the company’s centrifugation, life science automation and capillary electrophoresis-based systems, and Illumina were added to the Index. First-quarter 2008 Life Science Index sales grew 8.9% to $2,195 million compared to 9.7% growth in […]
Company Announcements Revenues from AMETEK’s Ultraprecise Measurement and Analysis businesses grew to more than $400 million in 2007. Revenues in 2007 for Spectris’s Materials Analysis segment, which consists of PANanalytical, Malvern Instruments and Particle Measuring Systems, increased 4%, 8% in constant currencies, to £213.8 million ($427.6 million), and operating profit rose 15% to £34.8 million […]
Company Announcements Quantum announced in 2007 that it is now the exclusive distributor of Tekmar products in the western US. In February, Picarro and OI agreed to develop and market a carbon detection package for measuring carbon isotopes in environmental water and solid samples. Finesse Solutions opened a sales and service center in Northborough, Massachusetts, […]
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