Company Announcements In September, Qlucore named Commmugene as a distributor for South Korea. Vista Equity Partners agreed in September to acquire TIBCO Software for $24 per share, or $4.3 billion including the assumption of net debt. The acquisition was completed this month. TIBCO provides Spotfire software, which is exclusively licensed to PerkinElmer (see IBO 12/15/13) […]
Company Announcements In October, Horizon Discovery entered into a coexclusive distribution agreement with Haplogen Genomics, gaining access to cell lines to distribute a new high-throughput, affordable cell line–engineering service. New England BioLabs signed a supply agreement with TriLink BioTechnologies, for which it will manufacture and supply enzymes for in vitro transcription, capping and poly(A) tailing […]
Company Announcements PAC opened a technical facility in Shanghai, China’s pilot free-trade zone in October. The company also has a sales office in Shanghai. Third quarter organic sales for Danaher’s Life Science business grew in the low single digits, as positive demand in the US and Western Europe was hindered by funding delays in China. […]
Company Announcements Nanophoton announced in September that a Japanese intellectual-property high court upheld a lower-court decision rejecting Renishaw’s claims on patents related to Raman microscopy systems (see IBO 12/15/10). In September, Edinburgh Instruments added in direct sales support for the US. Perten Instruments opened an office in Winnipeg, Canada, in October. In November, Metrohm announced […]
Company Announcements Hamilton Scientific acquired the assets of Dancker, Sellew and Douglas, a long-standing dealer partner, in August. In August, VWR rescinded the purchase agreement for LABRep (see IBO 6/15/14) after identifying inappropriate business practices and received a full refund of the purchase price, according to an SEC filing. In September, Esco set up a […]
Company Announcements GenoLogics was selected by Illumina in September as the preferred LIMS provider to support HiSeq X Ten sequencing-system customers. Nabsys named Steve Lombardi as president and CEO in September. Sunquest Information Systems and Partners Healthcare established a strategic alliance that includes a strategic investment by Sunquest in GeneInsight. SeqLL, which offers Helicos’ sequencing […]
Company Announcements DECTRIS signed a frame contract in June for the delivery of detectors for Shimadzu’s XRD systems. Thermo Fisher Scientific announced in August that its Persistent Organic Pollutants Center of Excellence and the UK’s University of Birmingham will host research related to an EU grant for studying the sources and pathways of brominated–flame-retardant pollution. […]
Company Announcements JH Technologies and Leica Microsystems expanded their regional coverage for industrial, educational and forensic customers in August to include Southern California. McBain Systems will expand their service capability and continue to serve as the Leica regional service organization for the Western US. Thermo Fisher Scientific named AXT as a distributor of its Nano-scale […]
Company Announcements Sphere Fluidics secured in June $2.3 million in the first close of a new investment fund to develop its Cyto-Mine single-cell analysis system. BioFluidix and cytena partnered to develop single-cell printing technology. In August, News-Gazette.com reported that Sony Biotechnology will close the 22-person iCyt Mission Technology site in Champaign, Illinois, and move the […]
Company Announcements In September, ChromaCon entered into a licensing and technical collaboration agreement with LEWA, granting LEWA license rights to its intellectual property for twin-column–bed chromatography. Microsaic Systems signed an OEM agreement with Gilson. Shipments are expected to start in the first quarter of 2015, with volumes increasing to 50 per year. Product Introductions W. […]
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