Alpha Innotech’s 2006 revenues grew 10% to $13.3 million due to increased sales to international distributors and GE Healthcare, but were offset by declining US sales (see page 12). Revenues from outside the US accounted for 43.9% of sales.
In December 2006, SYSTAG AG, a provider of automated solutions for chemical process development, announced a management buyout of a majority share of the company. Tecan appointed Matthew Robin and Carl Severinghaus to its Group Executive Committee. Mr. Robin is responsible for the Liquid Handling and Robotics business unit. He was previously CEO of medical […]
Under a strategic alliance announced in February, VWR International’s BioSciences program will offer Tecan’s microarray instruments and microplate readers.
Company Announcements Labtronics named Axion Control Systems a reseller of its LimsLink Suite. Labtronics appointed Katálysis as an authorized distributor of the LimsLink Suite for Brazil. In March, Symbion Systems partnered with Labtronics to offer solutions combining Symbion’s DX, RX and LX spectroscopic data software and Labtronics’ LimsLink. LabVantage Solutions established an office in Mumbai, […]
Company Announcements AAPPTec appointed Presearch to distribute its peptide and organic molecule synthesis instruments. Biotage AB announced in February that due to the “unsatisfactory” profitability of its Chemical Development business, it will gradually close the business. Biotage AB and McMaster University’s Institute of Applied Radiation Sciences signed an agreement to develop a new chemistry platform […]
Company Announcements Affymetrix promoted James Gibson, vice president of accounting and corporate controller, to principal accounting officer in December 2006. In January, Illumina signed a collaborative agreement with the Mayo Clinic to codevelop molecular diagnostic tests for the study of complex diseases. Partek’s Genomics Suite achieved GeneChip-compatible status for analysis of SNP association studies using […]
Company Announcements Germany’s Molnar-Institut acquired DryLab chromatography modeling software and the MethodMatch and ColumnMatch software from Rheodyne in 2006. Dionex established a European customer support center in 2006 in Olten, Switzerland. It joins the company’s other support centers in the US, China and Thailand. Dionex opened a new North American sales and service facility in […]
Company Announcements Datacolor and China Textile Information Center partnered to provide training and color certification programs in digital color management. TeraView appointed Dr. Barrie Thorpe, formerly executive vice president of Operations for AstraZeneca, and Dr. Andrew Carr, formerly director of Amersham, to its Board in 2006. Perten Instruments set up a fully owned Chinese subsidiary […]
PREMIER Biosoft released SimGlycan for predicting the structure of a glycan from mass spectrometry data. Biber Technologies launched FirstAlight ERP Laboratory Software for the small to medium-sized lab. TAL Technologies released WinWedge Pro 4.0 for interfacing RS232 and TCP/IP devices, such as lab equipment and instruments, to any Windows application. CLC bio released the CLC […]
Integromics SL, a provider of software solutions for genomic and proteomics data management and analysis, joined Microsoft’s BioIT alliance in November 2006. Text-mining software company Clarabridge joined Microsoft’s BioIT alliance in January. Bioinformatics provider CLC bio became a member of Microsoft’s BioIT alliance in January. Thermo Fisher Scientific joined Microsoft’s BioIT alliance in January. GNI […]
Pay Invoice
Latest Blogs
-
MOBILion Expands into Proteomics MS Market
April 30, 2026 5:05 pm
-
Carterra Introduces Faster SPR
March 27, 2026 7:26 pm
-
New Report Details Higher Education Science R&D Spending
February 27, 2026 3:23 pm
Sitemap
Your Data and Privacy
About Us
IBO (Instrument Business Outlook) is a twice-monthly newsletter aimed at providing decision-makers with the latest and most complete information available on the life science and analytical instrument industry, and lab product markets. IBO delivers the latest curated industry news, information and trends, as well as SDi data and analysis to deliver the maximum in industry insight with a minimum time investment for executives and investors.
