Company Announcements Repligen agreed to acquire in June the business of Refine Technology, including the Alternating Tangential Flow system, for $24.5 million in cash, stock and contingent milestone payments. The purchase is expected to add $3.5–$4 million in revenue for the remainder of 2014. In June, Repligen appointed Nicolas M. Barthelemy to its Board. Most […]
Company Announcements Digital Surf acquired Image Metrology in July. Bitplane, an Oxford Instruments company, named Carl Zeiss Microscopy as a US distributor for the Imaris image-processing software. FEI’s second quarter sales grew 6.5% to $237.0 million (see IBO 7/31/14), including 1.4% growth from acquisitions. Currency decreased sales by 0.2%. Adjusted operating profit rose 14.1% to […]
Company Announcements Avacta appointed Cosmo Bio as a Japanese distributor of custom Affimer services and catalog-reagent sales. In July, Phenomenex announced the spin-off of Neoteryx, which will provide Volumetric Absorptive Microsampling technology for the collection, handling and analysis of biological fluids. The first product, the Mitra Microsampling Device, collects 10 µL of fluid in seconds […]
Company Announcements For the fiscal first quarter ending June 30, Hitachi High-Technologies Science and Medical Systems (SMS) sales climbed 33% to ¥38.8 billion ($380.1 million = ¥102.09 = $1) to account for 25% of company revenues (see IBO 7/31/14). Medical product sales jumped 53%, and sales of Biotechnology and Other products grew 16% to account […]
Company Announcements RUCDR Infinite Biologics was named a RainDance Center of Excellence in June. Thermo Fisher Scientific in July signed an exclusive agreement with NewLab Engineering, a subsidiary of COPAN Italia, to distribute Card Processing Automation technology for preparing DNA samples for human identification in forensic, paternity and research labs. Under an OEM agreement with […]
Company Announcements The Nestlé Institute of Health Sciences and Waters commenced in June their collaboration to develop assays for the quantification of vitamins in biological fluids. Bruker announced in June the clearance of its MALDI Biotyper as a medical device by the China Food and Drug Administration for the identification of micro-organisms isolated from human […]
Company Announcements In July, investment-firm StoneCalibre acquired Edge Biosystems, a manufacturer and distributor of sample preparation and clean-up products for sequencing. Pressure Bioscience entered into a strategic R&D agreement with Parabase Genomics to develop a sample preparation method for Parabase’s neonatal molecular diagnostics and newborn confirmatory-testing process. Cypher Genomics announced a copromotion agreement with Illumina […]
Company Announcements In May, Agilent Technologies agreed to distribute Cartagenia’s cloud-based software for CNV analysis, which allows Agilent to sell usage-priced annual licenses to the Bench Lab CNV module to small- and medium-sized cytogenetics labs. In June, PerkinElmer agreed to exclusively commercialize and sell PET-x-ray and 3-D CT imaging systems developed by, or in conjunction […]
Company Announcements In April, Spectro Inc. changed its name to Spectro Scientific. Elcometer opened a Houston, Texas, office in May. In July AMETEK named Werner Mueller as managing director for the Petroleum business unit of AMETEK Oil and Gas, which includes Grabner Instruments and Petrolab. Most recently, he was managing director, Central Eastern Europe at […]
Company Announcements For the fiscal year ending March 31, revenue for Nikon’s Scientific Solutions Business (formerly Life Science and Industrial Systems) grew 15.2% to ¥98,510 million ($983 million), with 80% consisting of Industrial sales and 20% being Life Science sales. Fiscal 2015 segment sales are forecast to increase 5.6%. Zeiss Microscopy sales for the first […]
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