Company Announcements Spark Holland appointed Separations Analytical Instruments and Sercolab as value-added partners for the Benelux region in fall 2010. Spark Holland named iBiosys Solutions as a value-added partner for the UK and Ireland. Roche and Fluidigm entered into a copromotion agreement in October 2010 for their respective sequencing and amplicon sample preparation platforms. Caliper […]

Company Announcements Tecan and Luminex entered into an OEM agreement in October 2010 to develop an automated newborn-screening solution that will combine Tecan’s Freedom EVO liquid handling platform and HydroFlex washer with Luminex’s xMAP technology and LX 200 instrument. Effective January 1, Frederic Vanderhaegen, previously head of Tecan’s Detection business unit, took over the Life […]

Company Announcements Sanyo North America’s Biomedical Solutions Division opened a new production assembly line in Sanyo E&E’s Tijuana factory in September for assembly of the Japanese-made parts into insulated ultra-low temperature freezes for North American orders. VWR Scientific officially opened its new corporate headquarters at the Radnor Corporate Center in Radnor, Pennsylvania, in October. The […]

Company Announcements Sensor and sensor-based systems manufacturer Measurement Specialties announced in September the acquisition of Pressure Systems, a provider of pressure sensing instrumentation for aerospace research and hydrostatic water-monitoring systems, from Esterline Technologies for $25 million in cash. YSI announced in November the appointment of Mark W. Matson as vice president of Operations and COO. […]

Company Announcements Staffan Lindstrand, partner at HealthCap, resigned from Biotage’s Board in October. HealthCap sold its shares in Biotage in August. In November, Waters launched the Centers of Innovation Program to support scientific innovation in the fields of health and life science research, sports science, food safety, clinical research and environmental protection. The company announced […]

Company Announcements Life Technologies signed an exclusive license agreement for Novici Biotech’s ErrASE, a DNA error–correction kit. Life Technologies plans to integrate the technology into its synthetic biology offerings and retains rights to sublicense it. Life Technologies signed a strategic licensing agreement in November for exclusive rights to produce and supply Biopredic International’s cryopreserved HepaRG […]

Company Announcements Dani and JEOL (Europe) BV announced an exclusive distribution agreement or the Benelux for their respective Master-TOF MS and JMST100GCv. INFICON’s third-quarter Emergency Response & Security sales declined 43% to CHF 4.3 million ($4.2 million) due to lower North American sales. Third-quarter revenue for the Agilent Micro GC business (see IBO 3/31/10) was […]

Company Announcements AB SCIEX announced a joint technology development project with the University of Melbourne to improve drug metabolism studies of biopharmaceuticals. The project is focused on developing a standardized testing methodology based on the QTRAP 5500 and TripleTOF 5600. In November, AB SCIEX formed a direct sales organization in Korea. Former distributor Life Science […]

Fluorotechnics suspended trading of its shares on the Australian Stock Exchange on October 1. Fluorotechnics announced in October that it sold Gel Company for $150,000 in cash. OpGen completed a $17 million Series B equity financing in September, led by jVen Capital. In October, NanoString Technologies appointed Barney Saunders, PhD, chief commercial officer. He previously […]