Shimadzu is Japan’s largest analytical instrument maker and the world’s sixth largest analytical instrument company (see IBO 4/15/08). On May 29, Shimadzu President and CEO Shigehiko Hattori presented the company’s financial results for the fiscal year ended March 31 (fiscal 2007). He noted the adverse effects of a stronger yen on company sales growth and […]
The 56th American Society for Mass Spectrometry Conference on Mass Spectrometry and Allied Topics (ASMS) was held at the Denver, Colorado, convention center from June 1 to June 5. The ASMS meeting continued its trend of increasing attendance, which was up close to 2% to 6,569. The number of exhibitors dropped by 12 to 171 […]
The National Institutes of Health’s (NIH) 1000 Genomes Project research consortium will help to further develop and refine next-generation DNA sequencing, as discussed in the January 31 issue of IBO. On June 11, the NIH announced that the three largest providers of next-generation sequencing technology will formally take part in the Project. Applied Biosystems, Illumina […]
Company Announcements Nacalai USA and Nano-C are developing an industrial-scale HPLC technology for the production of fullerenes and their chemical derivatives. Waters is integrating its Empower 2 software with ESA Bioscience’s Corona Charged Aerosol Detector. Hitachi High-Technologies and Waters agreed to develop and distribute an interface for Waters’ Empower 2 software and Hitachi’s LC systems. […]
Waltham, MA 6/2/08—Thermo Fisher Scientific has acquired Chemito Technologies’ Analytical Technologies and Environment Instrumentation divisions, which together have approximately $10 million in annual revenues. Headquartered in Mumbai, India, Chemito is the country’s largest supplier of life science instruments and environmental monitoring applications, according to Thermo. The company also manufactures analytical instruments, including GCs and atomic […]
Bergisch Gladbach, Germany 6/9/08—Miltenyi Biotec GmbH has purchased Medic Tools AG, which sells the Dispomix homogenization system. The companies collaborated to develop the gentleMACS Dissociator. “The additional expertise of Medic Tools enables Miltenyi Biotec to further engage in development projects in the area of sample preparation,” stated Miltenyi Biotec CEO Dr. Boris Stoffel. “We offer […]
Company Announcements SPEX SamplePrep is now the exclusive US distributor of Katanax Automated Electric Fluxers. Skyray Instrument entered the US market in March with four instruments, including the portable Pocket-II x-ray fluorescence spectrometer (XRF). Thermo Fisher Scientific added an optical emission and X-ray spectroscopy product demonstration center to its Training Institute in West Palm Beach, […]
From its beginnings as a manufacturer of modular laser devices, to its branching out into custom molecular spectroscopy products, to providing Original Equipment Design (OED) and OEM products, B&W Tek has been evolving from the outset. The company manufactures UV-Vis, NIR and Raman systems for laboratory and process applications. Sean Wang, PhD, B&W Tek’s CEO, […]
San Diego, CA 6/5/08; Washington, DC 6/9/08—Beckman Coulter and Orchid Cellmark have filed a patent infringement suit against Sequenom in the US District Court of the Southern District of California. The suit alleges that Sequenom’s iPLEX products for SNP genotyping infringe three patents exclusively licensed to Beckman Coulter by Orchid Cellmark: US Patent No. 5,888,819 […]
IBO has selected Waters’ new Xevo triple quadrupole LC/MS as the best new product from this year’s ASMS meeting. While this new benchtop system certainly has a modern look, consistent with its name, it is the collision cell technology on the inside that made IBO take notice. The Xevo’s novel collision cell design enables it […]
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