Company Announcements DANI Instruments opened a US subsidiary in New Jersey in January. INFICON first quarter Emergency Response & Security revenue rose 60% to $8.8 million to make up 12% of company sales due to demand for portable devices to analyze toxic organic substances. In May, VUV Analytics closed a $5.8 million Series A equity […]
Company Announcements Nikon and JEOL announced a business alliance in February, including market and technology developments. Areas of cooperation include correlative microscopy. Nikon also made an investment in JEOL. In April, Anasys licensed a US Department of Energy Oak Ridge National Laboratory technology that allows for simultaneous chemical and physical characterization through the combination of […]
Company Announcements Promethera Biosciences and EMD Millipore announced in March a collaboration to develop an improved ready-to-use, microfluidic perfusion liver assay. In Vitro ADMET Laboratories and Taconic signed an agreement to commercialize cryopreserved hepatocytes. NMI Technology Transfer will develop Chromobody-expressing cell types to create novel cell lines for distribution and comarketing by ChromoTek. ChromoTek’s Chromobodies […]
Company Announcements CEM signed an exclusive licensing agreement in February with SpheriTech to manufacture and sell SpheriTide-based resins, with an initial focus on peptide synthesis. In March, PerkinElmer collaborated with China’s Fudan University Shanghai Medical College to open a 90 m2 joint small-animal in vivo–imaging demonstration lab. Gyros named Tekon Biotech as the exclusive distributor […]
Company Announcements MTS Systems announced in December 2013 the early termination of its Administrative Agreement with the US Department of the Air Force (see IBO 11/30/11) due to its demonstrated efforts to establish and strengthen programs to promote compliance. In February, MTS Systems named Dr. Michael Jost as senior vice president and general manager of […]
Company Announcements In March, the Irish Centre for Fetal and Neonatal Translational Research (INFANT) announced a research partnership with Waters. Waters will invest in the INFANT Centre at the University College Cork and will work with the Centre to develop a screening test to predict spontaneous preterm birth based on a blood-based biomarker. Agilent Technologies […]
Company Announcements In a March SEC filing, QIAGEN reported that it paid $68.2 million in cash, net of cash acquired, to purchase CLC bio (see IBO 10/31/13). N-of-One and BioDiscovery partnered to jointly market and sell N-of-One’s interpretation solutions and content with BioDiscovery’s genomic-analysis software. In April, N-of-One partnered with Syapse, which will offer access […]
Company Announcements Andor Technology, an Oxford Instruments company, appointed Gary Wilmot, director of Engineering, as managing director in March. He replaces Conor Walsh. Hitachi High-Technologies announced in April the establishment of a Mexican subsidiary to accelerate business development in the automotive and industrial markets. In April, EMD Millipore announced a new, nonexclusive preferred-distribution agreement for […]
Company Announcements China-based Shinetek Instruments acquired gas-generator maker ZhongYa Gas Instruments Research Institute in February. ZhongYa products will be sold under the ChemVak brand. BINDER announced in February a reorganization under which executive-team members were appointed as division managers. BINDER had 2013 sales of more than €60 million ($80 million). Belux lab equipment distributor Analis […]
Company Announcements Douglas Scientific acquired in January the Smart-DART Platform for portable molecular diagnostics screening from DIAGENTIX. DIAGENTIX continues to have rights to develop and commercialize the platform. In February, Life Technologies assigned IntegenX the rights to distribute Life’s GlobalFiler Express chemistry on IntegenX’s RapidHIT platform. WaferGen announced in March it named Maithreyan Srinivasan, formerly […]
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