Company Announcements Thermo Fisher Scientific announced in June the registration of its San Jose, California, facility with the FDA as a medical-device establishment as part of its initiative to develop Class 1 MS-based instruments for the clinical market. Waters announced that Omics’s PetroOrg Petroleomics Software is now available for the SYNAPT G2-Si MS. Waters gained […]
Company Announcements For the first six months, sales for Mettler-Toledo‘s Laboratory business grew 6% excluding currency to roughly $533 million to account for 46% of revenues. First and second quarter Laboratory sales advanced 7% and 6% excluding currency, respectively. Sales growth was driven by increased demand and favorable pricing for analytical instruments and laboratory balances. […]
Company Announcements In June, Pressure Biosciences engaged IssuWorks to provide strategic advisory services to the company in order to review strategic and financing alternatives, including the possible spin-off of vertical market applications. Invent Biotechnologies named MoBiTec as a distributor for European markets. Product Introductions BioVision released in April the EZEnrich Polyubiquitin Beads, EZDetect Polyubiquitin Probe, […]
Company Announcements Avacta announced in May a collaboration with UbiQ Bio to develop ubiquitin-specific antibodies. In June, Cambridge Research Biochemicals announced an exclusive supply-and-marketing agreement for its BIONET brand peptides with Key Organics. Cellectis granted Thermo Fisher Scientific a license to its TAL nucleases, currently marketed by Thermo under the brand name TALEN, outside the […]
Company Announcements In May, Büchi Labortechnik acquired German company NIR-Online, a developer of online NIR and vision systems for industrial applications. The founders remain members of the management team. HEL announced in June the acquisition of Magellan Instruments, a manufacturer of bioprocess off-gas analyzer systems. In July, MOCON expanded its Board from eight to nine […]
Company Announcements In May, QIAGEN cofounder Dr. Detlev Riesner stepped down from the Supervisory Board. Dr. Elaine Mardis, codirector of the Genome Institute at Washington University and the Robert E. and Louise F. Dunn Distinguished Professor of Medicine, was proposed as a new member. Endress+Hauser revenues rose over 7% in 2013 to €1.8 billion ($2.4 […]
Company Announcements In May, Igenbio opened an office in Japan. In June, One Lambda, a Thermo Fisher Scientific company, gained exclusive rights to GenoDive Pharma’s long-range primers and amplification conditions for HLA-locus–specific amplification in order to develop an IVD next-generation sequencing (NGS) kit. Rubicon Genomics added multiple European distributors, including Cambridge Bioscience for the UK […]
Company Announcements Johnson Matthey reported that 2013 sales for Alfa Aesar were flat at £79 million ($123 million). Avantor Performance Materials named Helen Evans as vice president, Laboratory Products, in April. Most recently, she served as general manager, Research Markets, US and Canada, for GE Healthcare. In May, Avantor Performance Materials appointed Michael Stubblefield as […]
Company Announcements Thermo Fisher Scientific and Evans Analytical Group announced in May a collaboration to add pulsed ion-source technology to glow-discharge MS. In June, Thermo Fisher Scientific entered into a collaboration with Nuclea Biotechnologies to develop multiplexed-MS–based research methods for high-throughput quantification of native insulin and its therapeutic analogs. Thermo Fisher Scientific announced in June […]
Company Announcements Freeslate integrated Wyatt Technology’s DynaPro Plate Reader II into its Biologics Formulation System. Fiscal second quarter sales ending March 31 for Brooks Automation Life Science Systems (LSS) climbed 38.4%, 15.3% excluding the acquisition of Matrical (see IBO 7/31/13), to $12.6 million to account for 10% of company sales (see IBO 5/31/14). Including the […]
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