Hitachi High-Technologies Life Science’s revenue for fiscal 2007 ended March 31 rose 9.3% to ¥933 billion ($8.1 billion) (see IBO 6/30/07) to account for 9.8% of company sales. Operating profit increased 39.4% to ¥123 billion ($385.3 million). Sales of liquid chromatographs and DNA sequencers increased. Hitachi High-Technologies opened a branch office in Moscow, Russia, in […]
The Cancer Biomarkers Collaborative (CBC), a joint project of the American Association for Cancer Research, the FDA and the National Cancer Institute (NCI), is one of a number of collaborations designed to integrate biomarkers into drug development. The CBC will draft guideline recommendations for the FDA’s Critical Path Initiative in the following areas: collecting biospecimens […]
The Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) predicts that prices for industrial commodities, measured by the EIU’s Industrial Raw Materials (IRM) index, will rise by an average of 12% this year. These high prices have not affected demand, partially because prices of all commodities have risen, making substitution less likely. An even greater driver of demand is […]
The quartz crystal microbalance (QCM) is a very sensitive instrument for measuring mass, capable of measuring nanogram quantities of substances deposited on specially prepared quartz crystals, which are typically disk-shaped. Quartz is used due to its strong piezoelectric response: vibrations in the crystal create electrical pulses and vice versa. As with the quartz crystal in […]
In April, YSI acquired the environmental division of AMJ Equipment, its southeastern US selling partner, which has been renamed AMJ Environmental. Sensicore appointed Kenneth Ogan, PhD, former vice president of technology for Danaher’s Environmental Water Quality Group, as vice president of R&D and Douglas Reed, formerly with Agilent, as vice president of Sales.
Rheineck, Switzerland 6/20/07—Hach Lange has completed the acquisition of Züllig AG, a provider of online measurement solutions, as of June 12. Founded in 1913, Züllig AG specializes in control and automation solution for waste and drinking water plants. Hach plans to maintain Züllig’s Swiss headquarters.
IO Informatics appointed Robert Stanley, cofounder and CTO, president and CEO in April. VelQuest integrated its GMP Electronic Notebook System, designed for QA/QC applications, with Symyx Technologies’ electronic lab notebook applications, which are designed for R&D. Thermo Fisher Scientific granted Sage-N Research a sublicense to sell the SEQUEST search engine products. Agilent integrated EMC’s NetWorker […]
New Delhi, India; Mumbai, India 7/25/07—Indian news sources report that RFCL, an Indian supplier of laboratory products and services, has acquired Wipro Biomed, an OEM partner and distributor of research and clinical products, from software company Wipro. The transaction price was not disclosed. Wipro Biomed consists of three businesses: the Life Science Group, Diagnostic System […]
IBO published its annual analytical and life science instrument industry forecast for 2007 in mid-January (see IBO 1/15/07). While we only had preliminary estimates of the industry’s 2006 performance, it was clear that the year was better than 2005. Still, a fair amount of uncertainty remained about our 2007 forecast, not the least being the […]
Spartacus Consulting introduced LabPortico ASP and Enterprise, online customer service tools for laboratories. Labtronics released Nexxis ILAB for the collection of information from lab informatics systems and instruments. Labtronics introduced LimsLink CDS 4.0. In May, Agilent released OL ECM Workgroup, an enterprise content management software package designed for smaller labs. Pricing begins at $21,000. Accelerated […]
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