Company Announcements Inficon’s 2008 Emergency Response & Security sales rose 58.5% to $27.9 million to make up 11% of company revenues. Inficon’s first-half Emergency Response & Security revenue declined 49.0% to $7.4 million due in part to delayed shipments. Lower European and military sales were partially offset by an increase in environmental sales in Asia. […]

Company Announcements DNR Bio-Imaging Systems named Berthold Technologies a distributor. Innovative Biosensors entered into a manufacturing and development agreement with Thermo Fisher Air Quality Instruments for its BioFlash Biological Aerosol Collection, Detection and Identification System. Thermo will also have a sales, marketing and distribution license under the Thermo Scientific brand in certain markets. In August, […]

Company Announcements The Agilent Foundation announced in July a collaboration, including scientific and financial support, with the Ideker Laboratory at the University of California, San Diego to develop new leukemia identification methods. Sartorius AG named Reinhard Vogt, who is in charge of Marketing, Sales and Services, and Jörg Pfirrmann, who is in charge of Finance, […]

Company Announcements Microsoft announced that it is no longer selling Rosetta Biosoftware’s Rosetta Resolver, Syllego and Elucidator software (see IBO 6/15/09). These products’ capabilities will be integrated into its Amalga Life Sciences platform. Microsoft named Les Jordan, technology strategist for the Life Sciences Industry Unit, director of the BioIT Alliance in June. The formation of […]

Company Announcements Anton Paar GmbH announced that it will not participate in Pittcon 2010, but will take part in Analytica next year and Pittcon in 2011. Teledyne Tekmar partnered with FernCreek Technologies in June for distribution in the Pacific Northwest region of the US. Halma Health and Analysis’s sales for fiscal 2009 ended March 31 […]

Company Announcements Nano-photonics firm Moxtek and Philips Research are collaborating to develop a wire-grid glass microarray chip for improved accuracy that would not require a washing step and would perform hybridization and detection in parallel. Under an OEM agreement, InforSense is providing data analysis and visualization functionality for febit’s Geniom flexible microarray platform. Susan D. […]

Company Announcements Process Analysis and Automation and Matrical announced a strategic partnership. Tecan and innovates are jointly marketing their respective Freedom EVO cell culture workstations and Cellavista cell detection devices. Tecan expanded its collaboration with pION to include solutions for drug permeability and solubility screening. MDS Analytical Technologies’ SpectraMax L microplate luminometers received Dual-Luciferase Reporter […]

Company Announcements ZyGEM signed exclusive distribution agreements with Shanghai Sangon Biological Engineering Technology & Services for China and SolGent for South Korea. The company also agreed to codistribute products from Integrated DNA Technologies, Quanta Biosciences, Biometrica and Porvair Services in New Zealand and certain parts of Australia. Rubicon Genomics incorporated ZyGEM’s enzymatic nucleic acid extraction […]

Company Announcements Under a resale agreement announced in June, LEAP Technologies will be able to incorporate PerkinElmer’s UHPLC and HPLC technology into front-end automation systems for MS within the US and Canada. In July, Eksigent Technologies announced plans to increase its manufacturing capacity by 40%. In August, W. R. Grace & Co.’s Grace Davis Discovery […]

Company Announcements Hach announced that starting in January 2009 its Hach Ultra business was “aligned” with Hach Lange, with all products now sold under the Hach Lange brand. Aqua Diagnostic appointed three new distributors: ManSci for Canada and the US, John Morris Scientific for Australia and New Zealand, and FKV for Italy. ASA Analytics named […]