In February 2012, the Chinese government revised its National Ambient Air Quality Standard, including for the first time limits on PM2.5, specifying a 24-hour average value and an annual mean value for concentration limits. This transformed the Chinese market for PM2.5 monitors, with government mandates driving purchase and deployment of real-time monitors. PM2.5, defined as […]
Santa Clara, CA 10/14/14—Agilent Technologies has announced that it is closing its NMR business because the business has not met growth or profitability objectives. Agilent entered the NMR market in 2010 with the acquisition of Varian (see IBO 7/31/09). “Today’s announcement represents a difficult decision necessary to drive improved profitability,” stated Agilent President, COO and […]
ICP–OES or ICP is a common atomic- spectroscopy technique for environmental analysis of water and other samples. To get the atoms in a sample to emit their characteristic frequencies of light, the sample is ionized by plasma generated by the instrument via electromagnetic induction. The plasma torch consists of a radio frequency (RF) coil wrapped […]
In September, Avacta Life Sciences began shipping Affimers from its online catalog, following shipment of its custom line over the summer. Affimers are small proteins engineered as alternatives to antibodies. Priced comparably to antibodies, 40 are currently available through Avacta’s website. Alastair Smith, PhD, chief executive of Avacta, told IBO, “Affimers are not restricted in […]
Company Announcements In June, John Wiley & Sons acquired SimBioSys, a provider of scientific-software tools that facilitate the drug-discovery process and a pioneer in the field of computer-aided retrosynthetic analysis. Cresset appointed CloudScientific as a Chinese distributor in July. Syapse raised $10 million in Series B financing, led by Safeguard Scientifics. Simulations Plus agreed in […]
Company Announcements Trinean named Chris van Ingen, a director at Bruker, Promega and ProteinSimple, to its Board in May. Sigma-Aldrich SAFC Commercial’s solid-state R&D business, Pharmorphix, entered into a collaborative technology agreement with BioTools. Rabo Capital acquired Kipp & Zonen, a provider of instruments for measuring solar radiation and atmospheric properties, in May. CEO Ben […]
Company Announcements Repligen agreed to acquire in June the business of Refine Technology, including the Alternating Tangential Flow system, for $24.5 million in cash, stock and contingent milestone payments. The purchase is expected to add $3.5–$4 million in revenue for the remainder of 2014. In June, Repligen appointed Nicolas M. Barthelemy to its Board. Most […]
Company Announcements Digital Surf acquired Image Metrology in July. Bitplane, an Oxford Instruments company, named Carl Zeiss Microscopy as a US distributor for the Imaris image-processing software. FEI’s second quarter sales grew 6.5% to $237.0 million (see IBO 7/31/14), including 1.4% growth from acquisitions. Currency decreased sales by 0.2%. Adjusted operating profit rose 14.1% to […]
Company Announcements Avacta appointed Cosmo Bio as a Japanese distributor of custom Affimer services and catalog-reagent sales. In July, Phenomenex announced the spin-off of Neoteryx, which will provide Volumetric Absorptive Microsampling technology for the collection, handling and analysis of biological fluids. The first product, the Mitra Microsampling Device, collects 10 µL of fluid in seconds […]
The South Korean National Science and Technology Council’s 2015 budget has raised R&D funding by 2.3% to $12.3 billion as part of an initiative for more public-private partnerships. The nation’s R&D budget accounted for 1.14% of GDP in 2013. A major investment area for the increased R&D funds, basic research, will gain 4.2% to reach […]
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