Company Announcements Endress+Hauser established a joint venture in Saudi Arabia with Anasia (Abudawood Group), with which it has collaborated for 10 years. The joint venture’s sales center operates from three locations and has 35 employees. In February, Sartorius Stedim Biotech signed a private-label agreement with Trace Analyzers, giving Sartorius exclusive rights to market, distribute and […]
Company Announcements BioServ Biotechnologies acquired the majority of Ocimum Biosolutions Inc.’s assets in February (see IBO 12/15/11), according to thedeal.com. Harvard Bioscience’s Biochrom subsidiary acquired AHN Biotechnologie, a German manufacturer of plastic consumables lab products, in February. The purchase is expected to add $2.5 million in annual revenue. In February, BellBrook Labs announced that Thermo […]
Product Introductions HORIBA Scientific introduced the Aqualog benchtop fluorometer, which simultaneously measures absorbance spectra and fluorescence excitation–emission matrices, for the faster measurement of colored dissolved organic matter in water. X-Rite released NetProfiler 3.0 to verify, optimize and certify handheld and benchtop spectrophotometers used at locations worldwide on a regular basis. It now includes embedded profiling […]
Company Announcements Brooks Automation announced its January the acquisition of the Celigo Cell Cytometer product line from Cyntellect for up to $9.2 million. The acquisition includes the majority of employees. Thermo Fisher Scientific announced in January a collaboration with De Novo Software to provider FCS Express 4 Image Cytometry software users with access to data […]
Company Announcements Freeman Technologies established a US subsidiary in January. Dynisco announced in February the purchase of the assets of China’s Shanghai Hao Ying Measurement and Control Technology, which will make and sell products under the Hao Ying brand and Dynisco brand names. Brookfield Engineering Laboratories and Indian distributor Amkette Analytics opened an advanced application […]
Company Announcements Fluidigm in February appointed AH diagnostics as its exclusive Scandinavian distributor. Life Technologies named Asuragen a Certified Service Provider for Ion Torrent’s Personal Genome Machine. Pacific Biosciences’ 2011 sales rose 19.2% to $33.9 million (see page 12), as it sold 48 instruments to 45 customers. The company’s backlog was comprised of 16 instruments. […]
Company Announcements In December 2011, Gilson launched the PIPETMAN M Multichannel, a new electronic and motorized extension of the PIPETMAN M family. It was designed for use with 96- and 384-well microplates and is available in 8 and 12 channels for volume ranges of 1–20 µL and 20–200 µL. BaltCap completed in December 2011 a […]
Company Announcements Earlier this year, Fluke, a Danaher business, acquired India-based TTL Technologies, a distributor of test and measurement products, analytical instruments and laboratory products. Sigma-Aldrich appointed Jan Bertsch as executive vice president and CFO effective March 5. Previously, she was vice president, controller and principal accounting officer at BorgWarner. Sigma-Aldrich opened packaging and quality […]
Company Announcements Microsaic Systems announced the CE marking of its 3500 MiD MS system. Microsaic Systems CEO Alan Finlay stepped down in December 2011 and was temporarily replaced by Chairman Eric Yeatman until a replacement is found. Thermo Fisher Scientific agreed in January to comarket PREMIER Biosoft’s SimGlycan software for the characterization of complex glycans […]
Company Announcements Life Technologies named Rhenium its principal distributor in Israel. MP Biomedicals appointed Todd R. Nelson, PhD, as president and CEO in December 2011. He was formerly CEO of eBioscience. Avacta acquired Aptuscan, a developer of affinity protein scaffolds, in January for £1.5 million ($2.3 million). Under a license and supply agreement, Hologic will […]
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