Foster City, CA 7/1/08—Applera completed the spin off of Celera on June 1 (see IBO 2/29/08) and changed its name to Applied Biosystems.
Midland, MI 7/10/08; Philadelphia, PA 7/10/08—Specialty chemicals firm Rohm and Haas has agreed to be acquired by Dow for $78 per share in cash, a 48% premium to the stock’s 60-day average closing price, in a deal valued at $15.3 billion. Both Rohm and Haas and Dow are suppliers of resins for ion exchange chromatography. […]
Pharmaceutical R&D spending in Europe rose 5.0% to an estimated €26.0 billion ($35.6 billion) in 2007, according to the European Federation of Pharmaceutical Industries and Association’s (EFPIA) 2008 Edition of “Pharmaceutical Industry in Figures.” R&D as a percentage of sales for EFPIA members was 18.5%, similar to 2006’s figure of 18.6%. The EU pharmaceutical industry […]
Symbion Systems creates process control software for controlling and linking laboratory and process analytical instruments, with a focus on spectroscopy. Founded in 2002 as a sister company of Axiom Analytical, which has supplied spectrometers to chemical process manufacturers for more than 25 years, Symbion’s beginnings were rooted in previously developed business relationships. In addition to […]
Waltham, MA 7/1/08—Thermo Fisher Scientific has acquired Open Biosystems, which provides RNAi, gene expression and protein detection products. Open Biosystems specializes in short-hairpin RNA (shRNA) and viral vector systems for delivering shRNA into living cells. The company had 2007 revenues of $14 million. Marijn E. Dekkers, president and CEO of Thermo Fisher Scientific, stated, “The […]
The estimated value of the Indian analytical instruments market for 2009 is $940 million. Among the nine categories of analytical technique cited by IBO in its forecast issue (see IBO 1/15/08), separation instrumentation (initial system, aftermarket, and service sales for HPLC, GC, ion chromatography, low pressure LC, capillary electrophoresis and other techniques) and life science […]
Venlo, The Netherlands 7/1/08—QIAGEN NV has purchased Corbett Life Science for $66 million in cash, $4 million in restricted common stock, and milestone payments and other contingencies worth up to $65 million over four years. The purchase includes 82.5% of outstanding stock and the exercise of an exclusive purchase option for the remaining 17.5%. Headquartered […]
In the first of IBO’s twice yearly report on new litigation among analytical instrument and laboratory product providers, we take a look at new patent infringement cases, as well as update the latest developments in other cases. Two cases are scheduled to come to trial in the next few months, patents related to microarray technology […]
Company Announcements ABB Switzerland merged its analyzer and software businesses for the cement and minerals industries in March, forming the Collaborative Production Management unit, which encompasses Expert Optimizer, Knowledge Manager and SpectraFlow solutions. Analytical NanoTechnologies acquired the Newton Galley Sampler manufacturing division of the Newton Industrial Group for £247,000 ($480,000). The Galley Sampler is a […]
Company Announcements Agilent announced the acquisition of the Blos bead nitrogen/phosphorous detector technology in March. In April, OI entered into an agreement with DANI Instruments SpA to sell DANI’s sample introduction and detector accessories. Sales began in May 2008. OI entered into a one-year value added resellers (VAR) agreement with Agilent Technologies effective June 1, […]
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