Due to the impending landfall of Hurricane Humberto in the United States, oil refineries in the affected region went off-line, sending oil prices over $80 per barrel for the first time in history. Although the price has since fallen, this and related incidents will no doubt continue to generate interest in both traditional and alternative […]
In May, XRF Scientific appointed Terry Sweet as managing director. In July, SII NanoTechnology announced it had established a new sales and service base in Neu Isenburg, Germany, for its X-ray fluorescence (XRF) business. It also tripled the size of its Shanghai, China plant and established new sales and service locations in Shenzhen, Zhongshan, Huizhou […]
As IBO’s annual review of publicly listed contract testing lab companies shows, it was another year for revenue growth at the world’s largest laboratory service companies serving a diversity of industries. The pace of consolidation appeared to slow, but global expansion continued. The activities of three major contract testing companies, Campbell Brothers ALS, Eurofins and […]
Laboratory Corporation purchased laboratory automation provider Protedyne. TTP LabTech appointed Matthew Cook as commercial development manager to further develop its custom automation business. CyBio AG established a Japanese subsidiary in April. In July, CyBio AG and MACHEREY-NAGEL GmbH announced they will jointly develop applications to automate MACHEREY-NAGEL’s kits on CyBio systems. CyBio AG reported first-half […]
Total IBO International Instrumentation Sales Index revenues for calendar year 2006 grew 7.1% in converted US dollars to $3,026 million, while operating profits jumped 35.3% to $654 million, leading operating margin to improved 450 basis points to 21.6% of sales. First-half 2007 Index sales improved 3.7% over the first half of 2006 to $1,576 million, […]
Precision System Science licensed Hitachi’s bead array technology for commercializing new capillary bead tips. Digilab BioVisioN GmbH licensed GenWay Biotech’s Seppro IgY technology for proteomic sample preparation and will become the Official European Seppro Center. In July, Sigma-Aldrich promoted Gerrit van den Dool to the newly created position of vice president of Sales and Dr. […]
According to a report published this month in the Archives of Internal Medicine, serious and fatal adverse drug events (ADEs) reported to the FDA’s Adverse Event Reporting System (AERS) have more than doubled in the period 1998–2005. Established in 1998, the AERS receives ADE reports from the FDA and drug manufacturers. Serious ADEs increased by […]
In August, the US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) announced new rules for the patenting process, which will take effect on November 1. Under the new rules, patent submissions can not include more than 25 claims, and inventors will only be able to file two new “continuing applications,” which allow inventors to add further claims […]
Last month, Forfás—Ireland’s board for enterprise, trade, science, technology and innovation—published the first findings of its survey of R&D in the higher education sector (HERD) for the academic year 2006 (September 2005–August 2006). HERD spending reached €600.6 million ($730.2 million) in 2006, and has risen 10.5% on average since 2004. HERD spending reached 0.40% of […]
In June, Agilent appointed Neil Cook, PhD, as vice president and director of the Molecular Technology Laboratory at Agilent Laboratories. He will also serve as the R&D/technology manager for the Life Sciences and Chemical Analysis business. Most recently, he was vice president for research and business development and chief scientific officer for PerkinElmer Life and […]
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