Company Announcements Dr. Junying Yuan, head of the Chinese Academy of Sciences’ Interdisciplinary Research Center on Biology and Chemistry, received an Agilent Technologies Thought Leader award in December 2013. Astrotech subsidiary 1st Detect entered into a strategic OEM agreement with Rigaku in January for its OEM-1000PI MS, which was integrated with Rigaku’s thermogravimetric analyzer to […]
Company Announcements Spinomix named Nasri Nahas as CEO in January. He previously served as CEO of GeneBio. In 2014, CambTek named the following exclusive distributors: Pragolab for the Czech and Slovak Republics, Synersy for France and ITS Sciences for South Korea. In February, Agilent Technologies agreed to comarket CambTEK’s Rapid Extraction System sample preparation technology […]
Company Announcements Roche’s 2013 sales of nucleic acid purification/real-time PCR reagents and systems in the life sciences market grew 6%. QIAGEN adjusted fourth quarter 2013 sales grew 4.6%, 2% organically, to $362.6 million (see IBO 1/31/14). All figures below are on a currency-neutral basis. Consumables and related sales expanded 7%, 3% excluding acquisitions, to make […]
Company Announcements Alpha Mos revenues for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2013, increased 3.3% to €8.87 million ($11.7 million). In March, LECO and CDS Analytical announced a technology relationship that interfaces their respective GC TOFMS and programmable pyrolysis sample introduction system. INFICON Emergency Response & Security revenue grew 36.7% in the fourth quarter 2013 […]
Product Introductions Metrohm introduced in November 2013 the scTRACE gold sensor for the voltammetric determination of arsenic in water. No preconditioning is required. In January, Modern Water launched the voltammetry-based OVA7000 Dual Cell for detecting metals in liquid applications. It has two analytical cells and one pretreatment unit, and can detect up to 10 metals. […]
Company Announcements XRF Scientific increased its shareholding in Gestion Scancia, a manufacturer of X-ray fluxes, from 20% to 50% in fall 2013. In January, Helmut Fischer acquired IfG-Institute for Scientific Instruments, its longtime partner for polycapillary optics. The UK’s University of Leicester Space Research Center announced a collaboration with Bruker Elemental to develop a handheld […]
Company Announcements AB SCIEX completed the transfer of the manufacturing of Eksigent chromatography products from the US to Singapore last fall. In December 2013, Therapure Biopharma agreed to acquire Upfront Chromatography’s assets and business related to human plasma fractionation and will market the technology under the new trademark PlasmaCap EBA. Chiral Technologies appointed SMS a […]
Company Announcements Life Technologies announced in January a multiyear license and supply agreement with Quest Diagnostics, giving Quest the right to develop molecular tests on the Ion Torrent platform. Illumina entered into a multiyear licensing agreement, giving Quest Diagnostics broad rights to its sequencing and genotyping technology for molecular lab–developed tests in the US and […]
Company Announcements During the third quarter 2013, VWR instituted a restructuring program, which will consolidate several small distribution and other facilities. Expected to be completed in 2014, the program will cost approximately $40 million. In January, LGC acquired German firm Dr. Ehrenstorfer, a producer of pesticide and other organic reference materials. INFORS HT opened US […]
Company Announcements Bulldog Bio announced that it is exclusively distributing Phase Holographic Imaging’s M4 Phase Holographic System, a compact microscope for image cytometry, in North America. Vivone Biosciences announced in November 2013 a three-year Cooperative Research and Development Agreement with the FDA’s National Center for Toxicological Research to expand the capability of its flow cytometry–based […]
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