Company Announcements Following the acquisition of 95% of GENEART’s shares, Applied Biosystems GmbH agreed in November 2010 to pay €14.60 ($20.06) per share for minority shareholders’ shares (see IBO 4/30/10, 6/15/10). Contract research organization Domainex will collaborate with Sigma-Aldrich to use its Combinatorial Domain Hunting technology to produce soluble domains of a number of proteins […]
Particle size analysis is one of a number of critical parameters that must be monitored at various stages of pharmaceutical and biopharmaceutical manufacturing. With high single-digit growth, global demand for process particle size analysis instrumentation for the pharmaceutical industry will be more than $30 million by 2012. The vendors that dominate the laboratory particle size […]
PerkinElmer’s EnSpire Multimode Plate Reader is the first benchtop detection platform to utilize a combination of optical label-free technology and labeled assays for the identification and characterization of potential new therapeutic targets. The EnSpire uses Corning’s Epic label-free technology, as well as absorbance, fluorescence intensity, luminescence and PerkinElmer’s Alpha technology. Achim von Leoprechting, vice president […]
Company Announcements CETAC Technologies, a provider of sample preparation products for elemental analysis, acquired CDS Analytical, a GC injection systems firm, in November 2010. In December 2010, FLSmidth announced an offer to acquire ESSA, a provider of laboratory equipment for mining, for AUD 38.7 million ($38.4 million). As of January 17, FLSmidth had acquired 53.66% […]
Company Announcements Spark Holland appointed Separations Analytical Instruments and Sercolab as value-added partners for the Benelux region in fall 2010. Spark Holland named iBiosys Solutions as a value-added partner for the UK and Ireland. Roche and Fluidigm entered into a copromotion agreement in October 2010 for their respective sequencing and amplicon sample preparation platforms. Caliper […]
Company Announcements Tecan and Luminex entered into an OEM agreement in October 2010 to develop an automated newborn-screening solution that will combine Tecan’s Freedom EVO liquid handling platform and HydroFlex washer with Luminex’s xMAP technology and LX 200 instrument. Effective January 1, Frederic Vanderhaegen, previously head of Tecan’s Detection business unit, took over the Life […]
The Chinese government plans to spend more to improve county-level quality inspection centers to certify food hygiene, said a senior official. There are 2,862 county-level quality inspection centers in China, and only 1,100 have the ability to administer food-safety tests, according to Wu Jinsheng, director of the technology department at the General Administration of Quality […]
In November 2010, the German government approved an €11.6 billion ($15.7 billion) spending budget for the Federal Ministry of Education and Research for fiscal 2011. The amount marks an increase of 7.2%. About €910 million ($1.2 billion) of the budget is designated for the Pact for Higher Education, an initiative to increase the number of […]
A new EU bill drafted by the European Commission regarding food contact plastics has been approved by the EU Council of Ministers. Under the proposed law, companies must test whether materials used to make plastics that come in contact with food are safe. Unless the European Parliament unexpectedly opposes it, the bill should become law […]
Commissioned by GE and managed by StrategyOne, the GE Global Innovation Barometer surveyed 1,000 executives in 12 countries, who are involved with their companies’ innovation processes. Among respondents, 95% agreed that innovation was the main component of a more competitive national economy. Eighty-eight percent indicated that the best way to create jobs in their country […]
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