Company Announcements NorDiag sold its molecular diagnostics assets in May to DiaSorin for €7.6 million ($10.0 million) and changed its name to Norda. It will continue to sell its Magnatrix automated DNA purification systems. Precision System Science reorganized its structure, effective July 1, setting up a Global Sales & Marketing Group, Production and Supply Management […]
Company Announcements Great Holdings and KFP Partners acquired SpectrAlliance from Expo Technologies in March and renamed the company Prozess Technologie. Advanced Photonix entered into a value added reseller agreement in April with Automation and Control Technology for its T-Gauge measurement system. Process NMR Associates and Quantum Tessera Consulting entered into a strategic partnership in May. […]
Company Announcements In August, BIA Separations announced a cooperation agreement with the Centre for Bio Separations Technology at India’s VIT University. Product Introductions Advion introduced in June the affordable and easy-to-use Chip-Mate ESI chip based on a nano-LC ion source. The company also released a fit-for-purpose smaller array ESI Chip with 25 emitter nozzles. Knauer […]
Company Announcements Under a May collaboration agreement, Affymetrix’s QuantiGene ViewRNA In Situ Hybridization Tissue Assay will be automated on Leica Microsystem’s BOND RX staining platform for research applications. In June, Affymetrix announced a research collaboration licensing agreement with Massachusetts General Hospital to codevelop new cancer biomarker tests using its QuantiGene ViewRNA Assay platform. Affymetrix expanded […]
Company Announcements In June, STARLIMS acquired its Asia Pacific distributor, STARLIMS Australasia. Global Helix opened an office in Japan in June and selected Filgen as its exclusive distributor for the country. NextBio and the Cancer Care Institute formed a strategic partnership in June focused on the clinical use of genomics. Certara named the University of […]
Company Announcements Analytik Jena closed AJ USA in April. Xylem’s second-quarter sales for the Test portion of its Water Infrastructure division grew 58%, including $32 million in YSI sales. First-quarter sales declined 2%, excluding YSI, which had double-digit growth. The UK announced in August the establishment of the Medical Research Council–National Institute for Health Research […]
Company Announcements Leica Microsystems announced in July the establishment of direct operations to serve the US states of Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Montana and Alaska. In July, Asylum Research appointed Advanced Technological Solutions as its exclusive distributor in Israel. Product Introductions Nanosurf introduced in June the NaioSTM (scanning tunneling microscope) for nanoeducation. The successor to the […]
Company Announcements Tecan inaugurated in the spring Tecan Australia. Tecan announced in June a comarketing agreement with Reinnervate to develop automated solutions based on their respective Freedom EVO liquid handling workstations and Alvetex Scaffold 2D cell culture technology. Tecan announced in September the intent to comarket a new automated low-volume, high-sensitivity microfluidic ELISA based on […]
Company Announcements Under a strategic partnership announced in May, Mettler-Toledo will bundle its density, refractive index and pH instruments with Konica Minolta Sensing’s CM-5 or CR-5 spectrophotometers to provide a system for quality monitoring in the flavors and fragrances industry. In July, Tornado Medical Systems and Arjae Spectral Enterprises announced a plan to merge the […]
Company Announcements Danaher’s second-quarter sales (see IBO 7/31/12) for its Environmental segment’s water quality businesses grew in mid-single digits, led by North American municipal markets, partially offset by lower demand in China and flat European demand. Within the Life Sciences & Diagnostics segment, sales for existing life sciences businesses grew in the low single digits […]
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