Company Announcements Anton Paar opened its 13th subsidiary in Zofingen, Switzerland, in January. In 2009, sales for Corning’s Life Sciences segment grew 12.3% to $366 million (see IBO 3/31/10) to make up 7% of company sales. The increase was due to the acquisition of Axygen (see IBO 9/30/09), but existing life science product volumes declined. […]
Product Introductions Accelrys released a new version of the Pipeline Pilot Analytical Instrumentation Collection for integrating NMR data into scientific workflows containing other data, such as images, chemistry and text. Automation of analysis tasks is supported by an out-of-the-box integration with Modgraph Consultants’ NMRPredict. Active Spectrum announced its new Micro-ESR series of online and portable […]
Company Announcements Cepheid’s 2009 product revenues increased 0.6% to $170.6 million (see IBO 1/31/10). Adjusted net loss was $5.0 million, compared to $7.1 million the year before. Clinical and Industrial sales increased 28.5% and 24.1% to make up 70% and 12% of sales. BioThreat and Partner sales declined 30.8% and 70.3% to make up 15% […]
Company Announcements Phenomenex voluntarily dismissed its complaint against Thermo Fisher Scientific (see IBO 12/31/09). UK-based Hichrom acquired Beckman Coulter’s Ultrasphere HPLC column product family. Chiral Technologies Europe signed a distribution agreement with Hichrom for the UK. Armen Instruments sold its flash chromatography business to Interchim in January. BAC BV added a new bioprocess affinity chromatography […]
Company Announcements ATLAS Biolabs GmbH joined Roche NimbleGen’s certified service program for targeted enrichment. In February, RainDance Technologies named S. Roopom Banerjee president and CEO. Recently, he was director of Healthcare Investment Banking at Leerink Swann. Former CEO Christopher McNary now serves as COO. RainDance Technologies partnered with Ambry Genetics for sequence enrichment and targeted […]
Company Announcements ZyGEM opened a European support office in Bemmel, the Netherlands. Innova Biosciences appointed Genetimes Technology and NeoBioscience Technology as Chinese distributors. In March, Polyplus-transfection SA signed an agreement with metabion GmbH to manufacture and commercialize its Zip Nucleic Acid oligonucleotides for research and in vitro diagnostics applications. Lonza Cologne AG will exclusively distribute […]
Company Announcements Thermo Fisher Scientific will add 104 jobs over three years to its Asheville, North Carolina facility, which manufactures cold-storage equipment, centrifuges and ovens. Gerresheimer’s Life Science Research reported 2009 sales declined 5.8% to €87.4 million ($121.4 million), and fell 11.9% excluding currency effects, to make up 9% of revenue. Adjusted EBITDA fell 27.4% […]
Company Announcements BioTools opened its first international subsidiary in Surrey, UK, in January. CAMO Scientific partnered with Shimadzu Scientific Instruments, which will provide its Unscrambler multivariate data analysis software to FT-IR customers. David M. Cohen resigned from X-Rite’s Board in March and was replaced by Bradley J. Coppens, managing director of OEP Holding. FOSS A/S […]
Company Announcements BioNanomatrix named Chairman Edward L. Erickson president and CEO, replacing Michael Boyce-Jacino. Revenues for Scientific Digital Imaging for the six months ended October 31, 2009 grew 7.0% to £3.42 million ($5.5 million). Operating profit fell 72.2% to £75,000 ($0.1 million) (see IBO 1/31/10). Synoptics sales declined. Life Technologies announced plans to dedicate $100 […]
Company Announcements DeCODE Genetics sold Emerald BioStructures and Emerald BioSystems to Beryllium in November 2009 for an initial payment of $3 million and an earn-out payment. Emerald BioStructures founder Lance Steward, PhD, MBA, was named CEO of both companies. HighRes Biosolutions named Andy Zaayenga as director of Business Development. BioTek Instruments established a direct sales […]
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