Waltham, MA 4/15/10—Thermo Fisher Scientific has acquired Proxeon A/S, a supplier of products for proteomics analysis, including nanoflow LC systems, columns, ion sources and bioinformatics software. In 2009, Proxeon generated revenues of $10 million. The company is headquartered in Odense, Denmark, and has nearly 40 employees. “By offering a high-performance solution that addresses the need […]
Instrument companies appear to be gearing up to expand their microarray offerings into regulated markets. So far this year, three companies have made announcements regarding FDA 510(k) submissions of their cytogenetic microarray products. And just this week, PerkinElmer purchased a provider of clinical cytogenetic microarray testing services (see page 2). The news illustrates the rapid […]
Waltham, MA 4/14/10; Washington, DC 4/14/10—PerkinElmer has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Signature Genetic Laboratories, a diagnostic genetic testing company, for $90 million in cash. Based in Spokane, Washington, with 120 employees, Signature performs diagnostic cytogenetic testing of chromosome abnormalities associated with physical and developmental disabilities. Its offerings include microarray diagnostic technology for […]
Fremont, CA 4/1/10—Bruker has created a Chemical Analysis Division within its Bruker Daltonics subsidiary. The Division will include the ICP-MS, lab GC and triple quadrupole GC-MS product lines that Bruker plans to acquire from Agilent (see IBO 3/15/10). Collin D’Silva, a Bruker board member until this month and former CEO of Transgenomic, will manage the […]
Paoli, PA 4/8/10—AMETEK has acquired Imago Scientific Instruments, a manufacturer of 3D atom probes. “Imago Scientific Instruments significantly broadens our technical capabilities in differentiated, high-end analytical instrumentation and is an excellent addition to our CAMECA advanced elemental analysis business,” stated AMETEK Chairman and CEO Frank S. Hermance.
San Diego, CA and Santa Clara, CA, 4/5/10—Publicly held informatics companies Accelrys and Symyx Technologies have entered into a merger agreement. Under the agreement for the tax-free, all-stock merger, Symyx shareholders would receive 0.7802 shares of Accelrys common stock for each Symyx share, and each company’s shareholders would own 50% of the combined company. The […]
Malvern, UK 4/9/10—Malvern Instruments has acquired the assets of Reologica Instruments AB, a manufacturer of rheology systems. Sweden-based Reologica went into administration on March 23. “Reologica Instruments has been involved in the design and manufacture of rheometers and associated accessories for more than 20 years and there is a wealth of knowledge in the business. […]
In a year destabilized by capital constraints, lower R&D spending and order delays, a new leader emerged as the largest provider of analytical and life science instruments and aftermarket products, based on IBO’s annual calculation. Life Technologies, which resulted from the merger between Invitrogen and Applied Biosystems (see IBO 6/15/08), further expanded its leadership in […]
Within the field of physical testing, there is a fairly wide range of specific instruments devoted to particular measurements of the strength, hardness or other physical characteristics of materials and components. At the most theoretical level, physical testing involves the application of a stress, and the measurement of the resultant strain on the sample. In […]
Company Announcements BioTools opened its first international subsidiary in Surrey, UK, in January. CAMO Scientific partnered with Shimadzu Scientific Instruments, which will provide its Unscrambler multivariate data analysis software to FT-IR customers. David M. Cohen resigned from X-Rite’s Board in March and was replaced by Bradley J. Coppens, managing director of OEP Holding. FOSS A/S […]
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