Company Announcements Shimadzu Analytical Instruments opened a Taiwanese subsidiary in November 2013. In November 2013, Imspex Diagnostics acquired GAS, a provider of ion mobility spectrometry technology. For the fiscal half year ending September 28, 2013, Halma Environmental & Analysis revenue grew 9.4%, 3% organically, to £82.6 million ($127.3 million) to make up 25% of revenues […]

Company Announcements JEOL announced in October 2013 the integration of Gatan’s 3View Serial Block Face Imaging System, an automated sectioning and image capture system, with its JSM 7100F field emission–scanning electron microscopy (SEM) to enable imaging of 3D structures. In November 2013, Zeiss granted a license to patents relating to LED fluorescence excitation in microscopy […]

Product Introductions In November, 2012, Magritek introduced the Spinsolve Carbon benchtop NMR spectrometer. Sales/Orders of Note Bridge12 Technologies announced in September 2013 the receipt of a three-year, $1.2 million Phase I NIH small business innovation research fast-track grant for the development of an integrated terahertz system for dynamic nuclear polarization–NMR that would eliminate the need […]

Company Announcements CambTEK named Kinesis its exclusive distributor of its Rapid Extraction System in Austria, Germany, Italy, Switzerland and North America. CambTEK appointed Indtech Instruments its exclusive sales partner in India. Seal Analytical, a Porvair company, announced in September the acquisition of Thomas Cain, a manufacturer of automated chemical addition, sample preparation and digestion systems […]

Company Announcements Advion entered into its 10th OEM agreement in September 2013. In October 2013, Thermo Fisher Scientific announced a collaboration with the University of Salzburg’s Christian Doppler Laboratory for Biosimilar Characterization and scientists from Sandoz Pharmaceuticals to develop new methods for characterizing proteins to be used in biopharmaceuticals. Thermo will provide expertise for applying […]

Company Announcements In October 2013, Roche certified the University of Liverpool’s Centre for Genomic Research as a provider of Roche NimbleGen SeqCap EZ Services. Knome raised $5.8 million in a debt offering, according to an October 2013 SEC filing. In November 2013, Maverix Biomics announced a strategic comarketing agreement with QIAGEN to streamline the interpretation […]

Company Announcements In September, Attana resumed direct sales operations in Europe and North America. TriFoil Imaging acquired Bioscan in September. Menarini Group acquired Silicon Biosystems. In September, Biosearch Technologies acquired a majority stake in LightSpeed Genomics, a provider of optical detection solutions based on Synthetic Aperture Optics technology. Biosearch and LightSpeed codeveloped Biosearch’s StellarVision gene […]

Company Announcements In September, VWR extended its global distribution agreement with Thermo Fisher Scientific. In December, Stanley L. Haas, senior vice president and president of Asia Pacific at VWR, resigned. BioSpectrum Asia reported in September that Merck Millipore India named Toshvin Analytical a strategic channel partner for the sales and service of lab water purification […]

Company Announcements Brooks Automation named Mark D. Morelli president and COO in August. He previously served as executive vice president and COO. In September, TTP Labtech named AXT its exclusive distributor for Australia and New Zealand. Labcyte announced a collaboration with AstraZeneca to use acoustic dispensing combined with MS for high-throughput, low cost, label-free analysis. […]

Company Announcements In September, Sandia Biotech entered into a coexclusive distribution and marketing agreement with Sigma-Aldrich for its Split Fluorescent Protein product line. Porvair exclusively licensed technology to Thermo Fisher Scientific for a range of life science sample preparation filters, which it will also manufacture. Life Technologies agreed to distribute to the research market Advanced […]