Company Announcements AMETEK Process Instruments named Belilove Company-Engineers as its exclusive representative for Northern California. Metrohm announced a new brand, Metrohm Process Analytics, for its Applikon wet chemistry process analyzers and Metrohm NIRSystems instruments. Endress+Hauser opened a sales firm in Finland in July. In September, Endress+Hauser named Forberg Scientific as its exclusive representative for Wisconsin […]

Company Announcements Battelle named NicheVision as a distributor of its ExactID software for forensics in July. In August, Illumina, Warburg Pincus and Sutter Hill formed Helix, a company to empower consumers to discover insights into their genomes through an ecosystem of content partners. The company received over $100 million in financing commitments, and Illumina CEO […]

Company Announcements Aspect Imaging announced in March the conclusion of its three-year partnership with Bruker (see IBO 9/15/12). The UK’s University of Bath announced in July a license agreement with Sirius Analytical Instruments related to the company’s new Sirius Scissor system, which mimics the stresses of biopharmaceutical experiences when transitioning from formulation conditions to a […]

Company Announcements Biodesix announced in July that it will begin offering Biognosys’s HRM technology as part of its companion diagnostic–development capabilities to create novel protein assays for the oncology market. In August, Agilent Technologies announced a collaboration with Dr. Steven Gross of Weill Cornell Medical College’s Department of Pharmacology to advance ALS research. Agilent MS […]

Company Announcements Sage Analytics announced in July the appointment of Herzog Scientific as its US West Coast sales representative. In September, Princeton Instruments named Delta Optics, part of Irida Iberica, as its new sales representative for Spain. Agilent Technologies named DKSH as a spectroscopy solutions distributor for Vietnam, covering marketing, sales and after-sales services. Product […]

Company Announcements Lockheed Martin formed in July its Healthcare Technology Alliance to develop and refine technologies to help guide decisions for care, diagnosis and treatment of disease while protecting critical health information. Founding members include Cisco, Cloudera, Illumina and Intel. Illumina announced in August the second funding cycle of its Accelerator investments: PathoGn, which uses […]

Company Announcements ALPCO announced in July a strategic account sales and distribution agreement with Cisbio US. In August, Meridian Bioscience named Catherine A. Sazdanoff, president of Sazdanoff Consulting, and John C. McIlwraith, managing director of Allos Ventures, to its Board. Eurogentec appointed MoBiTec as a distributor of its AnaSpec products, qPCR kits, oligonucleotides and other […]

Company Announcements Under a mutual distribution agreement signed in July, Rigaku Reagents will promote and sell MiTeGen’s crystallization, crystal harvesting, data collection and other product lines worldwide, and MiTeGen will promote and sell Rigaku’s Wizard product lines of matrix screens and other products in the US. In August, Oxford Instruments appointed Hillsborough General Trading as […]