Company Announcements In January, eGene entered into a distribution agreement with Fisher Scientific Canada for the HAD-GT12 system. eGene entered into a three-year distribution agreement with Gene Company for China. Under a value-added reseller agreement, Picometrics SA will provide Agilent Technology’s capillary electrophoresis system coupled with its laser induced fluorescence detector. In February, Advanced Analytical […]

IonSense named KR Analytical as the European distributor for its DART MS ion source in November 2006. Bruker Daltonics and HealthLinx will file a joint patent cooperation treaty for the biomarker candidates for pregnancy complications discovered under their existing collaboration. Bruker Daltonics retains marketing rights to the blood test in Europe, UK, Africa and South […]

Company Announcements Life Therapeutics spun out its LifeGels division, a manufacturer of electrophoresis gels, and Life Bioprocess division into a new company, NuSep, in late 2006. The divisions’ 2006 sales rose 95% to $793,000. Nu Sep is expected to list on the Australian stock exchange in late March. Under a partnership for sales, marketing and […]

Company Announcements Ingersoll Rand Security Technologies agreed to jointly market and sell HiEnergy Technologies’ SIEGMA explosives detection and confirmation system. RAE Systems integrated its chemical and radiation product lines into MDI Security Systems’ ONE Unified Technology platform. Thermo Fisher Scientific’s Santa Fe, New Mexico radiation detection equipment manufacturing facility will cease operations in March, according […]

Company Announcements Alpha Technologies Services, a Roper Industries company, signed an exclusive distribution agreement with AFA Technologies (Instruments) Shanghai for China, effective October 1, 2006. ADMET entered the Indian market with its universal testing machines, as well as other products, in October 2006. It sells direct and through representatives. In fall 2006, Q-Sense AB, the […]

Company Announcements CETAC Technology entered into a marketing and partnership agreement with Coherent for its GeoLasPro Laser Ablation System in fall 2006. CETAC Technology named StarLab SaS as its Italian distributor in fall 2006. PANalytical, a Spectris company, opened a direct sales and support organization in Mexico in November 2006. The employees of PONA, the […]

Company Announcements Beckman Coulter signed an OEM and supply agreement in fall 2006 to provide the Agencourt RNAClean nucleic acid purification product for packaging in NuGEN Technologies’ WT-Ovation Pico RNA Amplification System. Finnzymes Instruments licensed key thermal cycler and PCR patents from Applied Biosystems in fall 2006. In January, Finnzymes Instruments and Bridge Biosciences formed […]

Company Announcements Under a 2006 asset purchase agreement, Advanced Chromatography Systems acquired the EZ Flash II GC accessory and the TEA analyzer organic nitrogen detection from assets of Thermo Fisher Scientific. PerkinElmer partnered with Ion Signature Technology (IST) to offer IST’s Ion Signature Quantitative Deconvolution Software to users of its Clarus 600 GC/MS. GOW-MAC Instruments […]

Company Announcements YSI named Man (Waylon) Cheung to the newly created position of director of Asia Pacific Region. He was most recently key accounts manager for Emerson Process Management in China. Product Introductions Mettler-Toledo released a portable kit specifically for USP conductivity measurements, featuring the SG7 SevenGo Pro Portable conductivity meter and InLab 740 USP […]

Company Announcements Proxeon appointed Mårten Winge CEO in 2006. He joined the company from Olink Bioscience. Cenix BioScience GmbH, Applied Biosystems and the Biotechnology Center of the Technische Universität Dresden established a joint facility to develop tools and methods to enable more detailed and probative analyses of the cellular functions of therapeutically relevant genes. Applied […]