Over the past few decades, MS has developed into a vibrant and diverse market. The instruments’ ability to rapidly and accurately detect and identify molecules in a sample has made their underlying technology a gold standard in applications from proteomics to environmental testing. The technology requires a number of subsystems to work in concert: a […]
To augment IBO’s coverage of quarterly financial results, IBO will now provide sidebar summaries of results for companies not in the Sales Indexes. Third quarter FEI sales grew 4.2%, 3.5% organically, to $218.5 million (see page 12), with acquisitions contributing 0.9% and currency lowering sales 0.2%. Industry sales grew 3.3%, 1.7% organically, to account for […]
Hach’s SL1000 Portable Parallel Analyzer (PPA) is a handheld device for water-quality testing. It was developed with the capabilities that customers most commonly wanted in instruments for field testing—testing more parameters in less time, eliminating error and performing tests more easily. The PPA has inputs for two probes and slots—each with a pump—for four Chemkeys, […]
The purchase prices of certain acquisitions are not announced initially but are later announced in SEC filings. Below are acquisitions whose price was subsequently disclosed.
Company Announcements JH Technologies and Leica Microsystems expanded their regional coverage for industrial, educational and forensic customers in August to include Southern California. McBain Systems will expand their service capability and continue to serve as the Leica regional service organization for the Western US. Thermo Fisher Scientific named AXT as a distributor of its Nano-scale […]
Company Announcements Sphere Fluidics secured in June $2.3 million in the first close of a new investment fund to develop its Cyto-Mine single-cell analysis system. BioFluidix and cytena partnered to develop single-cell printing technology. In August, News-Gazette.com reported that Sony Biotechnology will close the 22-person iCyt Mission Technology site in Champaign, Illinois, and move the […]
Company Announcements In September, ChromaCon entered into a licensing and technical collaboration agreement with LEWA, granting LEWA license rights to its intellectual property for twin-column–bed chromatography. Microsaic Systems signed an OEM agreement with Gilson. Shipments are expected to start in the first quarter of 2015, with volumes increasing to 50 per year. Product Introductions W. […]
Company Announcements Abcam established direct service in Australia and New Zealand in August. In September, Abcam announced that Peter Keen will not seek reelection to its Board. Abcam entered into an exclusive license, supply and distribution agreement with Australia’s Children’s Cancer Institute for multidrug-resistance protein 4 inhibitors, Ceefourin 1 and Ceefourin 2. Nirmidas Biotech raised […]
Company Announcements As part of its 2014–17 medium-term management plan, Takara Bio announced fiscal 2017 sales targets for its Research Reagents business of ¥18,708 million ($184 million) and ¥2,681 million ($26 million) for its Scientific Instruments business to make up 74% and 11% of Bioindustry segment sales, respectively. GTCR completed its acquisition of Cole-Parmer (see […]
Germany’s federal and state governments will allot €25.3 billion ($31.6 billion) to special programs in research and higher education over the next six years. Most of it will be for universities. The federal government and states continue to provide about €20 billion to universities by 2020 to offset rising student numbers. The budgets of four […]
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