Demand for portable gas analyzers that incorporate IR sensors has gradually grown into a sizeable market. Technological improvements now allow for the combination of multiple types of sensors into easily portable instruments. The potential implementation of carbon dioxide emission regulations is likely to be the largest driver of demand. IR-based portable gas analyzers typically use […]
Montreal, Canada–based SCP Science is a firm that transitioned from providing consumables to providing instrumentation as well. George Feilders, president of SCP Science, founded the 140-employee firm in 1980. In 1999, the firm began manufacturing its first microwave digestion system, the DigiPREP digestion system. “Our focus is atomic spectroscopy, and our product range represents those […]
New figures released this month by the Turkish Statistics Institute show that Turkey’s domestic R&D grew 20.4% in 2011 to TRY 11,154 million ($6,374 million = TRY 1.75 = $1), following a 14.6% increase in 2010. Labor, “other current costs” (non-capital materials and supplies, administrative costs, indirect service), instruments and equipment, and land and buildings […]
Company Announcements ATCC agreed in August to distribute a select set of Horizon Discovery’s panels of X-MAN isogenic cell lines to academic and nonprofit customers as part of or in conjunction with its Tumor Cell Panels for non-commercial research. EMD agreed in August to distribute Plasticell’s single-application osteogenic medium, which is serum free and xeno […]
Company Announcements GE Analytical Instruments expanded its direct service into Italy in June. XRF Scientific named CFO and COO Vance Stazzonelli CEO in August. Product Introductions Dynasil introduced the LPXpro Lead Paint Analyzer, which delivers readings in two seconds. XG Lab launched the portable ELIO detection head for its energy dispersive–X-ray fluorescence (ED-XRF) system. It […]
Company Announcements Agilent Technologies and South Korea–based Samsung Medical Center entered into a collaboration agreement in July. The Department of Laboratory Medicine & Genetics Research will use the 6530 Q-TOF LC/MS and 6430 Triple Quadrupole LC/MS systems to analyze clinical samples and develop novel clinical assays. In August, Thermo Fisher Scientific entered into a Technology […]
Company Announcements In August, Danaher acquired Hangzhou Dingli Environmental, a Chinese distributor of Hach products for online water quality instrumentation. In September, Pall announced that its New England Life Sciences Center of Excellence in Westborough, Massachusetts, will open in spring 2013. The 113,000-square-foot facility will provide a range of process solutions. Existing operations in Northborough, […]
For some of the acquisition reported in IBO over the last year, purchase prices were not available at the time of the announcement. The table below shows the prices for acquired companies that were later disclosed in regulatory filings or company reports. Bio-Rad Laboratories also disclosed in its third-quarter regulatory filing that it paid $5 […]
France’s Minister of Higher Education and Research Geneviève Fioraso reinstated the country’s Operation Campus program in October. The program was first announced in 2007 to increase the competitiveness of French universities (see IBO 7/15/08). Under the plan, pôles de recherche et enseignement supérieur (centers for research and higher education), clusters of universities, grandes écoles (“higher […]
India’s chemical industry was valued at $108.4 billion in 2010. The chemical and petrochemical sectors account for about 3% of the country’s GDP and are expected to have grown 8.0% and 12.6%, respectively, from 2007 to 2012 under India’s 11th Five-Year Plan. In 2011, chemical production increased 6.6% to 8.0 million metric tons (mmt). Production […]
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