Company Announcements In March, SPECTRO Analytical Instruments appointed Quantum Analytics as the exclusive distribution and financing partner for its elemental analyzers in the US. In April, Bruker Elemental announced a marketing cooperation agreement with XGLab, developer of the ELIO portable XRF system. The system joins Bruker’s US portfolio of products for art conservation. In June, […]

Company Announcements In May, Gardner Denver’s Medical Group acquired TriContinent Scientific, a manufacturer of precision pumps, valves and syringes, XYZ robots, microplate washers and manifolds, and pipettes and dispensers. Applied BioCode licensed its Bardcoded Magnetic Bead technology to Molecular Devices for use on its microplate reading systems within the life science research, food and beverage, […]

Company Announcements In March, GE Healthcare opened an Innovation Village in Cardiff, Wales, which will support 8–10 businesses. Quantum Analytics named Marty Kaloostian as president and CEO in March. Most recently, he led Merger & Acquisition and Technology Licensing deals for Agilent Technologies. Under an April strategic relationship, Becton, Dickinson will provide additional grant funding […]

Company Announcements In March, ImmunoReagents announced a strategic alliance to market ProteoVec’s PV-Pure Ig microscale antibody purification kits for binding a wide range of recombinant monoclonal and human/animal-source polyclonal immune globulins. The product is based on chromatographic purification resin to which an advanced peptidomimetic ligand is affixed. In April, Pressure BioSciences entered into a collaboration […]

Company Announcements Full-year 2014 sales for Horizon Discovery climbed 79.1% to £11.9 million ($19.5 million) (see IBO 4/15/15). Sales benefit-ed from acquisitions, as well as demand for genome-editing services and molecular diagnostic reagent products. Products and Services revenues jumped 39.4% and 151.6% to make up 29% and 60% of sales, respectively. Sales for the Leveraged […]

Company Announcements In March, QIAGEN signed a commercial agreement with GATC Biotech to provide GATC clients with full access to its Ingenuity Variant Analysis solution. The access includes interpretation services and direct access as a feature of GATC’s services. In April, QIAGEN announced a reseller agreement with BGI to provide its Ingenuity Variant Analysis in […]

Company Announcements ORFLO Technologies agreed in 2014 to distribute the microfluidic-based zEPI Flow flow cytometer to breweries and wineries to improve yeast-counting and -viability QC activities. In March, Lonza entered into a distribution agreement for CytoMate Technologies’ CytoSMART Technology. In April, Shimadzu announced its official entry into the cell analysis business with the development and […]

Company Announcements In January, Omega Engineering announced that it is now selling lab sample–handling products, such as shakers, rockers, mixers, stirrers and homogenizers. INTEGRA Biosciences opened a German subsidiary in January. LGC announced in February an exclusive agreement to distribute CIFGA’s specialist marine biotoxin standards and reference materials. In March, CEM announced the formation of […]

Company Announcements In 2014, sales for Modern Water’s Monitoring Division fell 22.9% to £2.7 million ($4.4 million) to make up 98% of revenues due largely to slower Chinese sales. The firm’s adjusted operating loss widened 5.0% to £5.1 million ($8.4 million). In March, Tintometer acquired UK-based Droptestkits.com, trading as DTK Water, a manufacturer and supplier […]

Company Announcements Cobalt Light Systems opened a US subsidiary in Reston, Virginia, in November 2014. FOSS 2014 revenues declined 2.2% but grew more than 2% organically to DKK 1.72 billion ($306.4 million) (see page 12). In March, ANDalyze named VWR as a distributor of its DNAzyme-based heavy metal–testing products. Product Introductions Konica Minolta announced in […]