At Pittcon, IBO took the opportunity to talk to executives at four of the analytical-instrument and laboratory-product industry’s largest companies, PerkinElmer, Shimadzu Scientific Instruments (SSI) (the US-based division of Japan’s Shimadzu), Thermo Fisher Scientific and Waters, to discuss challenges and opportunities for both their businesses and the instrument industry in general. Asked about challenges this […]

This year, Pittcon was held in New Orleans, Louisiana, from March 7 to March 12. Unfortunately, the location did not appear to help attendance. According to the preliminary figures available as of March 9, total attendance was down 15.8% from last year, when the location was Chicago, Illinois (see IBO 3/31/14), to 13,683. The number […]