Company Announcements In May, Russian state company RUSNANO sold its 27.6% equity stake in Advanced Technologies Center, the provider of the FemtoScan scanning probe microscopes (SPMs) and atomic scales, to NPP CPT. Sales for Carl Zeiss’s Microscopy business grew 1.6% to €310 million ($413 million) in the fiscal half year ending March 31. Carl Zeiss […]
Hillsboro, OR 8/20/12; Tokyo, Japan 8/21/12—Hitachi High-Technologies and FEI have settled their Japanese patent dispute related to focused ion beam technology for electron microscopes. Under the agreement, FEI will make a one-time payment of $15 million, Hitachi High-Technologies will dismiss its pending claims and the firms will cross license patents. Having previously recorded a $5.4 […]
Santa Clara, CA 8/27/12—Agilent Technologies has acquired the assets of Aurora SFC Systems, a provider of products for supercritical fluid chromatography (SFC), for an undisclosed amount. For the past two years, Agilent has sold the company’s technology as part of its SFC and Hybrid SFC/UHPLC systems and as an upgrade option to selected HPLC systems. […]
Franklin Lakes, NJ 8/27/12; Oxford, UK 8/29/12—BD (Becton, Dickinson and Company) has purchased Sirigen Group, a developer of polymer dyes for flow cytometry and other technologies, for an undisclosed amount. BD stated that the company’s technology has the potential to create novel dyes that are four to ten times brighter than conventional dyes. “We believe […]
Darmstadt, Germany 8/22/12—Merck KGaA has agreed to acquire Germany-based Biochrom, a producer and marketer of cell culture media and buffer solutions, for an undisclosed amount. In 2011, Biochrom had sales of €13 million ($18 million = €0.72 = $1) and 60 employees. Biochrom will join Merck Millipore’s Process Solutions business unit, adding liquid cell culture […]
Sales growth slowed in the calendar-year second quarter for US publicly held analytical instrument and laboratory product businesses, as European and industrial sales weakened. In addition, the strengthening of the US dollar against the euro negatively affected results. Quarterly revenues for the eight businesses discussed on pages 9–11 grew 3.1% (see table, page 9). Excluding […]
Glycoscience assists in the development of new drugs and biofuels, but for greater benefits, advances in the field must occur, according to Transforming Glycoscience: A Roadmap for the Future, a report released earlier this month by the National Academy of Sciences. The report evaluates the current state of glycoscience research, notes its contributions and limitations, […]
Cleveland, OH 8/22/12—Parker Hannifin has acquired SciLog, a provider of single-use technologies and systems for the biopharmaceutical market, including sensor technology for process monitoring and control. “The addition of SciLog perfectly complements our existing core strengths in filtration and disposable assemblies for the biopharmaceutical market,” commented Dr. Mike Brailsford, general manager of Parker Hannifin’s Process […]
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