Company Announcements DKSH signed in March an exclusive marketing, sales, distribution and after-sales service agreement with China-based Rigol Scientific for Malaysia for HPLC systems and UV-Vis spectrometers. Phenomenex announced in April that its Indian business grew 15% in 2015. Analytik Jena announced in April the sale of its Optics business to NOBLEX, a subsidiary of […]
Company Announcements Cepheid’s 2015 Non-Clinical revenue declined 1.2% to $28.7 million, or 5% of total revenues. North America Non-Clinical sales grew 11.0% to $27.6 million due to increased grant and collaboration revenues. International Non-Clinical sales fell 75.0% to $1.0 million. Non-Clinical revenue is also expected to decline in 2016. In February, Cepheid named Warren Kocmond, […]
Company Announcements Sartorius 2015 sales grew 25.1%, 16.0% organically, to €1.1 billion ($1.2 billion) (see IBO 4/15/16). Adjusted operating profit grew 52.5% to €204.9 million ($227.7 million). Lab Products & Services (LPS) revenue increased 5.0% excluding currency to €305.5 million ($339.5 million), with sales in Asia Pacific, EMEA and the Americas up 11.4%, 2.9% and […]
Company Announcements Spark Holland added Axel Semrau as a “Value Added Partner” for Switzerland and Austria. The companies have worked together for five years in Germany. In May, Purigen Biosystems completed an $18.2 million Series A financing from 5AM Ventures and Roche Venture Fund. The company plans to commercialize an isotachophoresis-based benchtop system for automated […]
Company Announcements In January, Quanterix named Cold Spring Biotech as its exclusive distributor for China, and Research Instruments as a distributor for Singapore, Thailand and Malaysia. In February, Quanterix named CRO Frontage Laboratories as a preferred partner for assay R&D. In March, Quanterix raised $46 million in Series D financing. It will launch desktop instruments […]
Company Announcements Flow chemistry instrument supplier Vapourtec announced a 15% increase in sales in 2015. Swedish firm ADDvise agreed in February to acquire LabRum, a Swedish provider of lab furniture, safety ventilation and lab equipment, for SEK 34.5 million ($4.1 million) with a possible earn out of SEK 11.5 million ($1.4 million). LabRum had fiscal […]
Company Announcements Epigenetic tools firm Cambridge Epigenetix closed a $21 million Series B financing in March, led by Google Ventures, and appointed Dr. Geoff Smith as CEO. Most recently, he served as site lead and vice president of Product Development at Illumina. Genovis announced a strategic cooperation agreement with CRO Alphalyse in which they will […]
Company Announcements In fall 2015, Endress+Hauser named Instrumentation and Controls as its exclusive representative for Arizona and parts of New Mexico. Ovizio Imaging Systems and Pall Life Sciences announced a long-term global supply agreement for Ovizio’s iLine S microscope in October 2015. It will be commercialized as part of Pall’s Xpansion cell production platform. JP3 […]
Company Announcements Beijing SDL Technology, a Chinese supplier of environmental monitoring and analysis products, acquired a majority share of Kore, a provider of MS systems for the lab, process and surface science markets, in October 2015. In November 2015, Fluidigm purchased patents related to ICP-based mass cytometry from PerkinElmer for $6.5 million. Fluidigm granted PerkinElmer […]
Company Announcements SPECS Surface Nano Analysis transferred its Joule Thompson SPM product line to Unisoku in November 2015. Unisoku now manufactures and sells the systems. In December 2015, electron microscopy firm Vironova acquired NOW, a provider of consulting services for product development. Vironova has 35 employees, and NOW has 18 employees. In March, the Swiss […]
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