Recently, a number of announcements have highlighted the growing presence of instrument companies in the contract services market. Although not a new development, instrument companies’ presence in this market is expanding, as they seek to capitalize on the increased outsourcing of specialized lab services. The new services provide a variety of technologies and applications, and […]
This month, ensuing renewed concerns over subprime mortgages and the credit crunch, the Dow suffered the second-biggest decline of the year, falling 2.8% on August 9. In the four-day trading period ending August 16, the Dow, S&P 500 and NASDAQ declined 5.6%, 6.1% and 6.2% to four-month lows of 13,846, 1,408 and 2,451, respectively. From […]
Santa Clara, CA 8/23/07; 8/27/07—Agilent Technologies has announced that Chris van Ingen, president of its Bio-Analytical Measurement business (BAM), will retire on October 31. “I leave Agilent with a great sense of accomplishment,” stated Mr. van Ingen. “The past few years have been very exciting ones for us, with ongoing success in our current markets […]
Woburn, MA 8/28/07—Nova Analytics, a supplier and integrator of electrochemistry products, has announced that it acquired Global Water Instrumentation. Based outside of Sacramento, California, Global Water Instrumentation was established in 1990 and manufactures a wide variety of water testing instruments, including flow meters, pH meters, dissolved oxygen meters and conductivity meters. Chris McIntire, president and […]
MSA introduced the portable BIOSENSOR 2200R biological agent detector. Smiths Detection launched the Bio-Seeq Plus, which includes a new thermal cycler and runs six tests in parallel. Smiths Detection introduced the handheld Hazardous Gas and Vapor Identifier, featuring ion mobility spectrometry, photoionization detection and Taguchi gas sensors. Bruker Daltonics released CBRN (Chemical, Biological Radiation, Nuclear) […]
In May, Affymetrix opened a manufacturing facility in Singapore. ChannelNewsAsia reports that the facility will manufacture 30% of the company’s products and has a staff of 124. Affymetrix appointed John C. Batty CFO and executive vice president in June. He previously served as senior vice president of finance and CFO of Credence Systems. In July, […]
East Hills, NY 7/19/07; 8/2/07; 8/20/07—Pall announced in early August that its Audit Committee determined that the company will be required to restate its annual and quarterly results for some or all of fiscal years 1999–2006. The decision is related to Pall’s July announcement of an inquiry into “the possible material understatement of US income […]
Fluid Imaging Technologies introduced the new FlowCAM particle analysis instrument, featuring 23 measurement parameters. PAC introduced the OptiDist distillation analyzer. Instron released the Dynatup 9250 impact tester, which is especially suited for finished-product applications. Instron’s Wilson Instruments launched the Minuteman ELT Automation Series for Tukon microindentation, Knoop, Vickers and Rockwell hardness testing. ATS RheoSystems released […]
KSV Instruments named new distributors: Massanalys Nordic AB for Sweden; dpUNION Instrumentação Analítica e Científica for Brazil and Arquimed SA for Chile. Fauske & Associates named PT. Haes Brothers its exclusive Indonesian distributor and Scientific & Medical Products its exclusive Irish distributor. In June, MTS Systems named Laura B. Hamilton president and COO. She had […]
BIOBASE GmbH and DNASTAR’s software achieved Affymetix GeneChip compatibility. In June, Illumina made available the open-access iControlDB genotyping-control repository. OGT launched the CytoSure Syndrome Plus and Chromosome X exon specific CGH arrays for cytogenetics.
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