With the addition of Oxford Instruments and details of Shimadzu’s financial results, first quarter IBO Laboratory Sales Index revenues are now estimated to have grown 0.6%, 1.9% excluding currency, to $5,905 million (see IBO 5/15/13). Operating profit declined 2.9% to $1,215 million, and operating margin contracted 60 basis points to 18.1% of sales. For the […]
Company Announcements Diba named Kinesis the exclusive distributor of its OmniSep columns. In April, ASI and Chromatan announced an exclusive agreement to combine development, sales, marketing and manufacturing efforts to bring Continuous Countercurrent Tangential Chromatography, a continuous single-use and column-free purification technology, to market. Shimadzu announced in April that Waters Empower chromatography data system (CDS) […]
Company Announcements NETZSCH Instruments North America formed a collaboration with the DOE’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory to develop an isothermal calorimeter to test the performance and safety of large-format Li-ion batteries. In April, Izon Science announced a distribution agreement with HORIBA Scientific for France. Malvern Instruments and NETZSCH Grinding & Dispersing announced in April a […]
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