Company Announcements RainDance Technologies closed a $20 million Series E financing round in April that included Myriad Genetics as a new strategic equity investor. In April, Co-Diagnostics agreed to acquire from DNA Logix certain technologies for genetic analysis in the clinical, industrial and bio-threat markets. BioFire Diagnostics expanded its financial commitment with Athyrium Opportunities Fund […]
Company Announcements In May, Green Imaging Technologies announced a licensing agreement with Schlumberger Technology for access to a processing and analysis algorithm to extract 2D maps from data for use in rock core NMR analysis. It is the first company to gain a license to the technology. In May, Stelar and HTS-100 announced a collaboration […]
Company Announcements Microfluidics firm Hurel closed a $9.2 million Series A private equity financing facility in April. In April, Aushon BioSystems named Susan Vogt CEO, replacing founder Peter Honkanen, who assumed the role of COO. Most recently, Ms. Vogt was president and CEO of SeraCare. IntegenX named Robert A. Schueren CEO in April. Most recently, […]
Company Announcements INFICON’s first quarter Emergency Response & Security sales fell 35.5% to $5.5 million to make up 8% of company sales due to low shipments to Asia. In June, IonSense and Cerno Bioscience announced the integration of their respective DART GSX system and MassWorks software. The companies will comarket the product. Under an OEM […]
Company Announcements Takashi Nishijima, director and senior vice president of the Industrial Automation Platform Business, was named representative director and president of Yokogawa Electric, effective April 1. SICK acquired in April Ação Solucão, its Brazilian distributor. Ação Solucão has more than 30 employees. SICK’s 2012 revenues rose 7.6% to €971.3 million ($1,245 million) (see page […]
Company Announcements Takashi Nishijima, director and senior vice president of the Industrial Automation Platform Business, was named representative director and president of Yokogawa Electric, effective April 1. SICK acquired in April Ação Solucão, its Brazilian distributor. Ação Solucão has more than 30 employees. SICK’s 2012 revenues rose 7.6% to €971.3 million ($1,245 million) (see page […]
Company Announcements In June, XRF Scientific entered into a memo of understanding to acquire Kitco Labware, a supplier of platinum labware and precious engineered products, from Kitco Metals. XRF is a supplier of Kitco Labware. The acquisition will provide diversification of revenue from new end-markets, expansion into Latin America and an expanded customer database. Product […]
Company Announcements Real Time Genomics and Omicia entered into a commercial partnership in April to deliver genomic analysis and interpretation, respectively, in a single workflow for the clinical interpretation of childhood diseases. The integrated product will be launched later this year. Life Technologies partnered with Ridom in April to make SeqSphere+ whole-genome bacterial typing software […]
Company Announcements GE Healthcare Life Sciences revenue was flat in the first quarter, according to GE’s conference call. FLIR Systems named Andrew C. Teich, president of Commercial Systems, president and CEO in May, replacing Earl Lewis, who remains chairman. QIAGEN first quarter revenues grew 2.4%, 1% organically, to $303.6 million (see IBO 4/30/13). AmniSure (see […]
Company Announcements Diba named Kinesis the exclusive distributor of its OmniSep columns. In April, ASI and Chromatan announced an exclusive agreement to combine development, sales, marketing and manufacturing efforts to bring Continuous Countercurrent Tangential Chromatography, a continuous single-use and column-free purification technology, to market. Shimadzu announced in April that Waters Empower chromatography data system (CDS) […]
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