Waltham, MA 10/3/07; New York, NY 10/3/07; 10/9/07—On October 3, the company announced the acquisition of Priority Solutions International from majority owner Arsenal Capital Partners for an undisclosed sum. Priority Solutions International provides third-party logistics to the pharmaceutical and healthcare industries and had 2006 revenues of around $95 million. “This acquisition brings tremendous logistics expertise […]
Incubators are among the most basic pieces of laboratory equipment and are installed in most laboratories. They maintain an isolated, controlled environment for in vitro studies or for growing biological samples. Although incubators perform a seemingly simple function, their features have become more reliable and sophisticated. There are a myriad of incubators available, each with […]
Activotec launched the SFT-250 Supercritical Fluid Extraction/Reaction Processing System. Waters launched VanGuard Pre-Columns, which are capable of routine use at pressures up to 15,000 psi. Viscotek released the Tetra Detector GPC system, combining refractive index, UV, viscometry and low-angle light scattering detectors. Shimadzu Scientific Instruments released the Shim-pack XR Series of HPLC columns, which employ […]
Second quarter revenues for IBO’s Lab Equipment/Consumables Sales Index grew 10.0% to $804 million, and operating profits jumped 18.0% to $222 million, leading operating margins to improve 190 basis points to 27.6% of sales. At publication time, 11 of the 12 Index firms had reported results, with estimates made only for Diploma. Biohit Oyj’s second […]
In July, Illumina introduced the Infinium HumanHap550-Duo BeadChip, a two-chip format for greater throughput and lower cost per sample, priced at $290–$370 per sample, depending on volume. Illumina launched the Infinium HumanLinkage-12 Genotyping BeadChip, available for $90 per sample. Roche NimbleGen introduced four-plex eukaryotic gene expression microarrays and services in September. In September, Affymetrix officially […]
Carl Zeiss MicroImaging GmbH acquired Clarient’s equipment business and related assets, consisting of the ACIS and Trestel Instruments Systems for clinical tissue-based cancer diagnostics, for $11 million in cash in March. Dako Denmark A/S will assist in marketing the systems. In July, Carl Zeiss SMT moved its North American headquarters from Thornwood, New York, to […]
The landscape of the generics industry is changing due to a number of high-profile mergers. Mylan Laboratories, a generics manufacturer based in Pennsylvania, jumped to third place in sales ranking among generic firms after purchasing a controlling stake in the Indian generic Matrix Laboratories in January and acquiring the generics division of Merck KGaA in […]
Affymetrix and Partners Healthcare extended their translational research collaboration (see IBO 12/15/06) with a contract array manufacturing supply agreement. Affymetrix and IPSOGEN will collaborate to develop and market in vitro diagnostic tests. Empire Genomics, a molecular karyotyping platform technology company, licensed a number of Affymetrix’s patents covering the manufacturing, use and sales of microarrays and […]
The government has submitted its 2007 Comprehensive Spending Review (CSR07), which sets its spending plans for 2008–09, 2009–10 and 2010–11. Of CSR07’s allocations to the Department for Innovation, Universities and Skills, research funding will total £5.6 billion ($11.4 billion) for 2008–09, £5.9 billion for 2009–10 and £6.3 billion for 2010–11. Funding for the Department for […]
FEI introduced the Expida 1255S wafer DualBeam system for STEM sample preparation. FEI released the Vitrobot Mark IV cryo sample preparation tool. FEI released microValidator software for scanning electron microscopes and X-ray microanalysis systems used for automated particle and phase search analysis. It is compatible with EDAX and Bruker systems. FEI introduced the Nova NanoSEM […]
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