Company Announcements Alpha Technologies Services, a Roper Industries company, signed an exclusive distribution agreement with AFA Technologies (Instruments) Shanghai for China, effective October 1, 2006. ADMET entered the Indian market with its universal testing machines, as well as other products, in October 2006. It sells direct and through representatives. In fall 2006, Q-Sense AB, the […]
Company Announcements Ingersoll Rand Security Technologies agreed to jointly market and sell HiEnergy Technologies’ SIEGMA explosives detection and confirmation system. RAE Systems integrated its chemical and radiation product lines into MDI Security Systems’ ONE Unified Technology platform. Thermo Fisher Scientific’s Santa Fe, New Mexico radiation detection equipment manufacturing facility will cease operations in March, according […]
Chelmsford, MA 2/5/07—Magellan Biosciences has sold Tek-Cel, a provider of laboratory sample management and storage solutions, to Hamilton, which sells laboratory robotics, chromatography and fluid subsystem products. Financial details were not disclosed. Hamilton is expected to keep TekCel’s headquarters in Hopkinton, Massachusetts and to grow Hamilton’s East Coast presence. Magellan President and CEO Dr. Robert […]
With 15 of the 23 Laboratory Instrument Sales Index companies reporting calendar year-end results, fourth quarter 2006 revenues grew an estimated 10.5% to $4,131 million. Fourth quarter operating profit growth rebounded from a year ago, improving 8.0% to $707 million. However, operating margin dropped 40 basis points to 17.1% of sales. The five largest instrument […]
While President Bush’s proposed budget for FY08 would increase the total federal R&D investment by 1.4% to $143.0 billion, federal support of basic and applied research would decline to $55.4 billion, a 2% drop from the FY07 budget. Not including NASA, the total budget increase for nondefense R&D agencies is only 0.8%, below the national […]
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