Demand for laboratory and portable IR and NIR spectroscopy systems for the analysis of fuels and oils has become an important part of the molecular spectroscopy market. The market consists of both general purpose IR and NIR systems, as well as dedicated fuel and oil analyzers based on these techniques. A number of factors will […]
Company Announcements INFICON Emergency Response & Security revenue rose 56.3% to $28.6 million in 2012 to make up 10% of company sales, driven by North American and Chinese sales. Product Introductions Shimadzu introduced the HS-20 Series of headspace samplers for analyzing volatile compounds in a difficult matrix. It consists of the Loop model for static […]
Company Announcements Pacific Biosciences 2012 revenue declined 23.3% to $26.0 million (see IBO 3/31/13), with Product revenue accounting for 77%. The number of systems delivered fell 52% to 23, bringing the total installed base to 71. The US, Asia and Europe accounted for 44%, 31% and 25% of revenues, respectively. As of December 2012, cash […]
Company Announcements DKSH signed an exclusive agreement with Normalab in November 2012 to provide market expansion services for the petrochemical sector in Malaysia, Australia and New Zealand. NETZSCH appointed Dietmar Bolkart as chairman effective January 1. He jointly heads the company with Dr. Hanns-Peter Ohl and replaces Dr. Otto Max Schaefer. In December 2012, Malvern […]
Company Announcements Microtissues signed a supply and distribution agreement with Sigma-Aldrich for its 3D Petri Dish. Sigma-Aldrich agreed in February to distribute Olink Bioscience’s Duolink In Situ products for research. In January, Evotec acquired Cell Culture Service for €1.2 million ($1.6 million) in cash. Link Technologies named Zirench Technology as a distributor for China and […]
Company Announcements Halma acquired in January Hong Kong’s Thinketron Precision Equipment, its Chinese subsidiary Baoding Longer Precision Pump and US subsidiary Langer Instruments for £23.7 million ($37.6 million) and deferred consideration. Longer Pump manufacturers and markets peristaltic, syringe and gear pumps used in lab, medical and industrial applications. Halma announced that its Health & Analysis […]
Atomic Spectroscopy Bruker’s N8 Horizon instrument was introduced in November 2012. The N8 has a brilliant microspot source with a 0.5 mm spot size, and a sample holder that can be configured for small-angle and grazing incidence XRD. The standard Vantec area detector can also be augmented by an optional linear detector to provide wide-angle […]
In March, Brazil announced the BRL 32.9 billion ($16.7 billion) Inova Empresa Plan for innovation, which provides R&D funding for 2013 and 2014. Seventy-three percent of the funding is allocated to seven strategic pillars: agriculture and agribusiness, energy, oil and gas, health, defense, information and communication technology, and environmental sustainability. Funding is available through four […]
The Higher Education Funding Council for England, the main source of research funding for UK universities, announced that grant funding for the 2014 academic year totals £4,472 million ($6.8 million) for 129 universities and colleges. For recurrent grants, the funding consists of £2,325 million for teaching, £1,558 million for research and £160 million for knowledge […]
In March, Argentina’s government unveiled Innovative Argentina 2020, a plan for R&D for the energy, industry, health, agribusiness, social development, and environment and sustainable development sectors. The strategy targets an increase in R&D investment as a percentage of GDP from 0.65% to 1.65% by 2020, which the government said requires private-sector spending to rise from […]
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