Tewksbury, MA 2/12/16—Thermo Fisher Scientific has acquired INEL, a French-based real-time XRD supplier. Financial details were not provided. “INEL offers a range of XRD instruments, from simple benchtop instruments for routine applications to sophisticated platforms for analysis of nano-materials, pharmaceuticals, coatings and other advanced materials,” commented Michael Shafer, president, Chemical Analysis at Thermo. INEL will […]
Andover, MA 2/23/16—MKS Instruments, a provider of instrument, subsystems and process control solutions, has agreed to acquire Newport, a supplier of advanced technology products, for $23 per share or approximately $980 million in cash. This is a 52.9% premium over Newport’s closing price on February 22. The combined company will have $1.4 billion in pro […]
San Diego, CA 2/23/16; San Diego, CA 2/23/16; Oxford, UK 2/24/16—NGS company Illumina, the University of Washington and the UAB Research Foundation have filed patent infringement suits against Oxford Nanopore Technologies with the US International Trade Commission and the US District Court for the Southern District of California. The suits allege infringement of US Patents […]
A majority of large publicly held instrument and lab product companies ended 2015 on a strong note, benefiting from sustained demand from biopharmaceutical customers and steady growth in applied markets. Nevertheless, currency effects along with weak industrial markets continued to dampen organic top line growth. Moreover, several companies were negatively impacted by fewer selling days […]
The eighth annual Association for Mass Spectrometry: Applications to the Clinical Laboratory conference (MSACL) was held in Palm Springs, California, from February 21 to February 25, its first year outside of San Diego, California. Selected presentations on Thursday evidenced both optimism about MS’s future in clinical diagnostics and the need for greater progress. The conference […]
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