San Diego, CA 7/31/13; Washington, DC 7/31/13—Accelrys has announced that it will reduce its workforce by approximately 80 employees, or 12%, as part of a restructuring program to reduce costs and realign operations to focus on growth opportunities. The program includes the abandonment of a portion of one of the company’s facilities in San Ramon, […]
San Diego, CA 7/23/13—Illumina has acquired Advanced Liquid Logic (ALL) for an undisclosed amount. ALL provides “digital microfluidics” technology based on electrowetting that precisely manipulates small droplets with sealed disposable cartridges to perform complex lab protocols. “For our research customers, ALL’s technology will further streamline the industry’s simplest NGS [next generation sequencing] workflow, while for […]
Company Announcements INFICON’s first quarter Emergency Response & Security sales fell 35.5% to $5.5 million to make up 8% of company sales due to low shipments to Asia. In June, IonSense and Cerno Bioscience announced the integration of their respective DART GSX system and MassWorks software. The companies will comarket the product. Under an OEM […]
In 2012, chemical spending by the world’s top 50 chemical firms fell 1.8% to $961.8 billion, following a 13.7% increase. BASF, Dow Chemical and Sinopec maintained their positions as the largest chemical firms, although the firms’ sales were down 21.7%, 2.1% and 98.6%, respectively. Total operating profits from the 46 firms that reported them fell […]
Company Announcements Takashi Nishijima, director and senior vice president of the Industrial Automation Platform Business, was named representative director and president of Yokogawa Electric, effective April 1. SICK acquired in April Ação Solucão, its Brazilian distributor. Ação Solucão has more than 30 employees. SICK’s 2012 revenues rose 7.6% to €971.3 million ($1,245 million) (see page […]
Electrophoresis has been around for most of the last century, but only during the past decade has the technology expanded its throughput capabilities. Traditional systems had sample throughout capacities that ranged from as little as four to as many as 16 wells/combs. However, with the new breed of higher-throughput systems, these capabilities have increased to […]
Company Announcements Takashi Nishijima, director and senior vice president of the Industrial Automation Platform Business, was named representative director and president of Yokogawa Electric, effective April 1. SICK acquired in April Ação Solucão, its Brazilian distributor. Ação Solucão has more than 30 employees. SICK’s 2012 revenues rose 7.6% to €971.3 million ($1,245 million) (see page […]
In June, China’s State Council approved the Ministry of Environmental Protection’s Airborne Prevention and Control Action Plan. China’s government will fund the 2013–2017 Plan at CNY 1,700 billion ($277 billion). Details of the Plan are not finalized, but allowable amounts of particulate matter that measure 2.5 µm or less in diameter, known as PM 2.5 […]
Investments slated for the 400 hectare (1,000 acre) Skolkovo technology center under construction near Moscow, Russia, may be in jeopardy due to a recent political dispute. President Vladimir Putin has reversed a decision by Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev that mandated state firms fund MIT’s Skoltech institute at over $900 million. Russia’s Investigative Committee is examining […]
This month, the European Commission (EC) outlined a funding plan for research partnerships as part of the Horizon 2020 program. Pending approval by the Council of the EU and the European Parliament, funding contributed by Horizon 2020, industry and member states will total €22,579 million ($29,709 million) over seven years. The plan includes joint funding […]
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