The Russian government plans to spend $2.7 billion by 2015 to revitalize the country’s chemicals industry. The Industry and Trade Ministry program will produce 200 projects in the chemicals sector and 10,000 new jobs. Closely linked to the 2007–2015 State Armament Program, the funding will primarily go toward the development and production of carbon-fiber composites, […]
Analytical instrument makers have two choices about how to sell their products: directly or through distributors. The choice is especially important for sales in other countries. Although selling directly ensures more control over the sale, direct contact with the end-user and a full percentage of the sale, it also requires substantial investment and greater resources. […]
According to data gathered from the US clinical trials registry for phases II–IV studies between October 2005 and September 2007, six major therapeutic areas accounted for 68% of all protocols and 74% of all sites. In order from most to least activity, these six areas were oncology, central nervous system (CNS) disorders, cardiology, infectious diseases, […]
In the second quarter of 2008, revenues for IBO’s Laboratory Sales Index grew 13.7% to $4,624 million, compared to growth of 13.3% in second quarter of 2007. Operating profit climbed 20.4% to $747 million, and operating margin climbed 90 basis points to 16.2% of sales. While several companies, such as Affymetrix, Harvard Bioscience and Tecan, […]
According to a survey of 255 companies conducted by Japanese financial newspaper Nikkei Shimbun and published in July, R&D investment by Japan’s private sector totaled JPY 12.5 trillion ($113.16 billion), a 6.9% increase. Of the companies surveyed, 32.9% plan to increase R&D spending by more than 10% within the next five years. Fifty-five percent of […]
Over the past 14 years, the annual IBO Design Awards have showcased the best in analytical instrument industrial design. Industrial design encompasses the appearance and form of an instrument. The industrial design is a fundamental part of a product, helping determine how the end-user will evaluate, use, maintain and value a product, and, indirectly, how […]
Company Announcements Affymetrix extended its Collaborations in Cancer Research Program to North America, forming alliances with 15 cancer researchers. Affymetrix named AltheaDx as an authorized service provider. Thermo Fisher Scientific collaborated with protein microarray firm Gentel Biosciences to shift microarrays to a new 96-well configuration and ELISA-like format. Thermo sells the product under the SmartPlex […]
Gold Award IBO’s 2008 Gold Award for portable instrument industrial design goes to GE’s total organic carbon (TOC) analyzer, the Checkpoint. According to Steve Poirier, vice president of Marketing and Sales for GE Water and Process Technologies, the main goals of the design was to create a product that was lightweight, had a small footprint […]
Company Announcements In June, BioForce Nanosciences named NanoAndMore a US distributor. Cogenics, Roche’s 454 Life Sciences and Limagrain Verneuil entered into a collaborative agreement to develop solutions for large-scale crop SNP discovery, under which 454 will sequence 2GB of the wheat genome. Caliper Life Sciences gained limited access to certain optical imaging technologies owned by […]
The outsourcing of drug development and manufacturing to India and China by US companies is escalating because of the high rate of patent expirations. The weak US dollar is also causing foreign investors to pull their money out of India and, in turn, weaken the rupee. India’s larger pharmaceutical companies are reaping the inadvertent benefits […]
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