Company Announcements QIAGEN’s third-quarter sales grew 5.3%, 4% organically, to $304.3 million (see IBO 11/15/12), with acquisitions adding 6% and currency lowering sales by 5%. At constant exchange rates, Instruments, and Consumables and Related revenues increased 4% and 10% to account for 13% and 87% of sales, respectively. Molecular Diagnostics revenue rose 15% to account […]
Product Introductions Thermo Fisher Scientific introduced in September the addition of negative and positive ion chemical ionization capabilities, as well as direct insertion and direction exposure probe options, to its Thermo Scientific TSQ 8000 triple quadrupole GC/MS system. INFICON’s third-quarter Emergency Response & Security sales rose 23.4% to $5.8 million. Vernier Software & Technology released […]
Company Announcements Picarro secured a $7 million round of Series D equity financing in July, led by Focus Ventures and joined by DAG Ventures, NTT Electronics and Mingxin China Growth Fund. In October, Ocean Optics named COO Richard Pollard president. Block Engineering named Griot Group as a US sales representative for the Pacific Northwest, the […]
Company Announcements WITec announced in August the opening of regional offices in Tokyo, Japan and Barcelona, Spain. Lawrence A. Bock resigned from FEI’s Board in August. Endeeper, a software and services companies for geological data, signed a long-term representation agreement with Carl Zeiss of Brazil. Applikon Biotechnology signed a long-term marketing and distribution agreement for […]
Company Announcements France’s Bio-Logic acquired UK-based Uniscan Instruments earlier this year. Existing management remains in place. In October, Pentair’s Aquatic Systems business acquired Aquatic Eco-Systems, a supplier to the aquaculture market. Pentair’s Aquatic System business acquired in October Canada-based Point Four Systems, a provider of solutions for water quality monitoring and treatment. Product Introductions Xylem’s […]
Company Announcements Magritek announced in August a merger with ACT GmbH. The companies will jointly manufacture NMR solutions for rock core analysis and materials scanning. The companies have worked together for years. Business Day reported that no cash was exchanged and that ACT will take the Magritek brand name. In September, Agilent Technologies entered into […]
Company Announcements In September, Agilent Technologies entered into a comarketing agreement with service provider MRM Proteomics to offer a complete solution for quantitative proteomics using multiple reaction monitoring. Agilent announced a comarketing agreement with Molecular Discovery to provide an advanced metabolite-identification platform, which combines their respective LC/MS technology and Mass-MetaSite software. AB SCIEX announced in […]
Company Announcements In the third quarter, within Danaher’s Environmental segment, sales for existing water quality business grew low single digits (see IBO 10/31/12). Hach core revenue grew mid-single digits, as municipal spending for core lab and process instruments grew low single digits. Consumables and service represented 55% of water quality sales. Within the Life Sciences […]
Company Announcements Abcam’s sales for the fiscal year ending June 30 rose 17.5% to £97.8 million ($155.2 million) (see IBO 9/15/12). Excluding acquisitions, sales rose 11.9%, or 11.5% in constant currency. Adjusted operating profit grew 20.9% to £38.6 million ($61.3 million). Sales to the Americas, Europe/Middle East/Africa, Japan, and Asia Pacific grew 9.7%, 10.1%, 17.1% […]
Company Announcements Genedata and Insilico Biotechnology integrated their respective Genedata Selector and Insilico Discovery simulation software to create an end-to-end platform for industrial biotechnology research. In September, ChemAxon opened a new East Coast headquarters in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Ingenuity Systems partnered with Life Technologies in October to develop a joint solution for interpretation of molecular profiling […]
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