Company Announcements YSI named Man (Waylon) Cheung to the newly created position of director of Asia Pacific Region. He was most recently key accounts manager for Emerson Process Management in China. Product Introductions Mettler-Toledo released a portable kit specifically for USP conductivity measurements, featuring the SG7 SevenGo Pro Portable conductivity meter and InLab 740 USP […]

Company Announcements Proxeon appointed Mårten Winge CEO in 2006. He joined the company from Olink Bioscience. Cenix BioScience GmbH, Applied Biosystems and the Biotechnology Center of the Technische Universität Dresden established a joint facility to develop tools and methods to enable more detailed and probative analyses of the cellular functions of therapeutically relevant genes. Applied […]

Oakdale, MN 1/5/07—Dyneon, a subsidiary of 3M, has acquired 3M’s Bioanalytical Technologies business, including the Empore solid phase extraction product line, effective January 1. 3M Bioanalytical Technologies previously operated as a separate operating unit within 3M. Based in Oakdale, Minnesota, Dyneon is a suppler of fluoropolymers and has 800 employees.

In January 2005, India achieved compliance with the World Trade Organization’s Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights, which, among other things, protect drug patents. Last September, Biocon’s BIOMAb-EGFR became the first new drug to be developed, tested and taken through approval by an Indian company. However, of India’s estimated 20,000 drug firms, few are developing […]

Poissy, France 1/17/07­—Environnement SA has acquired the assets of Becker Messtechnik, a developer of instruments for the continuous sampling and monitoring of dioxins. “The acquisition of Becker Messtechnik, which was moreover, one of our suppliers and which we therefore know particularly well, will strengthen our technological expertise in pollutant measuring,” said Environnement SA Chairman François […]