Jena, Germany 2/19/09 and 2/23/09—Analytik Jena AG has acquired a majority of CyBio AG by increasing its stake in the company from 5.48%, purchased on February 19, to 51.19% purchased on February 20 at the price of €1.10 ($1.41) per share as part of a voluntary offer to Cybio shareholders. The acquisition will add CyBio’s […]
Company Announcements Dionex acquired Caliper Life Sciences’ AutoTrace Solid Phase Extraction Workstation product line for in November 2008 for $5 million. AutoTrace had 2007 sales of $3.1 million. Asemblon, a provider of self-assembled monolayer chemistries, signed an international distribution agreement with VWR International in January. Pamela Forbes Lieberman joined VWR International’s Board in January. She […]
At this year’s Pittcon, IBO sat down with executives from four major analytical instrument providers to discuss current market conditions and strategies. Each executive acknowledged that this was a difficult time for the instrument market. As Dr. Rohit Khanna, vice president of Worldwide Marketing for the Waters Division of Waters Corporation, stated at the company’s […]
According to a survey by the Japanese Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications, for the fiscal year ended March 31, 2008, R&D spending in Japan grew 2.6% to ¥18,943.8 billion ($164.7 billion). Respondents consisted of 10,488 companies, 1,200 nonprofits and 3,500 universities. Companies, nonprofits and universities accounted for 73%, 8.9% and 18.1% of R&D spending, […]
Edman degradation is a process for protein sequencing first discovered by the Swedish biochemist Pehr Victor Edman in 1950. The technique is characterized by cycles. In a full cycle, the N-terminus of a given peptide is labeled with the reagent phenylisothiocyanate, forming a cyclic compound. Under acidic conditions, the labeled amino acid is cleaved from […]
Company Announcements Sigma-Aldrich agreed to exclusively distribute research quantities of SouthWest NanoTechnologies’ SWeNT CG 100, SG 65 and SG 76 single-wall carbon nanotubes through its Aldrich division. In January, Sigma-Aldrich acquired the antibody-based Seppro affinity depletion technology and a library of 7,000 avian-derived antibodies from Genway Biotech. In December 2008, bioMerieux acquired PML Microbiologicals, a […]
Chicago, IL 3/9/09—Bruker BioSpin has acquired PERCH Solutions, a provider of NMR software for proton NMR prediction, spectral analysis and molecular modeling. Established in 2002 and based in Kuopio, Finland, PERCH software is part of several Bruker BioSpin NMR software products. “Many of PERCH’s market segments and applications overlap with those of our NMR small […]
Company Announcements Hamilton Sundstrand Applied Instrument Technologies established a sales and marketing office in Moscow, Russia, in November 2008. Emerson Process Management opened a 12,500-square-meter Asia Flow Technology Center in Nanjing, China, in November 2008 for flow metering and measurement. Yokogawa opened a sales and service office in Dublin, Ireland, in December 2008. Process control […]
The American Chemistry Council (ACC) has reduced its forecast for US chemical output in 2009. In December 2008, the ACC predicted a 3.1% decline, excluding pharmaceutical chemicals, which has now been revised downward to an 8.7% decrease. Total US chemical production is expected to decline 5.7% in 2009, after falling 3.5% last year. US production […]
According to China’s Vice Heath Minister Chen Wenjun, the nine departments cooperating under China’s newly approved Food Safety Law will be headed by the Health Ministry (HM). In addition to coordinating the activities of the nine departments, the HM will deal with food safety emergencies, including food safety monitoring and evaluation. Food manufacturers will be […]
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