InfrAegis launched the ia55000 nuclear and radiation detection systems for portable and mobile applications. ICx Technologies launched SafeAir for indoor monitoring for chemical, biological and radiological threats. ICx introduced the Fido PaxPoint Liquid Explosives Detector. Smiths Detection launched the HI-SCAN 6040aTiX multiview X-ray inspection system for the detection of explosives and liquid substances in carry-on […]

Decision Sciences exclusively licensed Los Alamos National Laboratory’s Muon Tomography technology for detection of nuclear and other weapons in car and vehicles. Full-scale production is expected to begin in early 2008. Smiths Detection LiveWire exclusively licensed Argonne National Laboratory’s PROTECT warning system that integrates chemical sensors and security cameras. Bm-t Beteiligungsmanagement Thüringen GmbH and Erfurt […]

Amsterdam, The Netherlands 11/15/07; London, UK 11/21/07—In a sign of deteriorating market conditions for new issues, Avantium Technologies and CambridgeSoft have delayed planned initial stock offerings. Avantium Technologies, a supplier of systems for high-throughput experimentation, announced that it withdrew its planned November 16 IPO on the Amsterdam stock exchange (see IBO 10/31/07) due to “adverse […]

Sydney, Australia and Kirchentellinsfurt, Germany 11/13/07—Fluorotechnics, a manufacturer of fluorescent labels and stains for research, biotechnology and diagnostics, has acquired ETC Elektrophorese-Technik for an exchange of shares. ETC develops and manufactures electrophoresis consumables and equipment for diagnostics, quality control and identification of species.

The calendar-year third quarter was yet another quarter of robust growth for major analytical instrument companies, driven by food and environmental testing in foreign markets and steady industrial spending. Five of the nine analytical instrument companies whose financial results are shown in the tables on pages 10 and 11—Agilent Bioanalytical Measurement (BAM), Bruker BioSciences, PerkinElmer […]

This month, several agreements between major instrument industry players and smaller, “niche” manufacturers were announced. The smaller companies in these partnerships should benefit from their larger partners’ sales and distribution networks. For the larger firms, the agreements provide a variety of opportunities, including the chance to offer integrated products and approach applications with entirely new […]