Emerson and TopNIR help refiners maximize opportunity crude value and avoid fuel blending losses

Alliance creates industry's first complete solution for optimizing crude blending operations AUSTIN, TEXAS - Emerson Automation Solutions and TopNIR Systems, one of the world's leading providers of blend analysis technology, today announce the industry's first complete blending solution that includes online crude characterization. This same technology is also used to improve performance in the product [...]

Nanolive introduces world’s first holo-tomographic fluorescent microscope

One year after launching its unique 3D Cell Explorer (the first microscope able to look inside living cells without harming them, in 3D and real time), the EPFL spin-off reaches a new fundamental milestone for cell biology and microscopy and releases its latest pioneering product: the 3D Cell Explorer-fluo. The holo-tomographic technology proper of the [...]

GTCR COMPLETES SALE OF COLE-PARMER TO GOLDEN GATE CAPITAL

Deal Represents GTCR’s Leaders Strategy at Work – Successful Corporate Carve-out Followed by Organic Growth and Strategic M&A CHICAGO, IL  GTCR, a leading private equity firm, announced today that it has completed the sale of Cole-Parmer Instrument Company (“Cole-Parmer” or the “Company”) to Golden Gate Capital. Founded in 1955, Cole-Parmer is a global manufacturer and [...]

VWR Acquires EPL Archives, Inc.

Acquisition will Expand VWRCATALYST Services Portfolio RADNOR, Pa. -- VWR (NASDAQ: VWR), the leading global independent provider of product and service solutions to laboratory and production customers, announced today that it has acquired EPL Archives, Inc., an international biorepository services organization that supports customers across the entire regulated product research, development and commercialization lifecycle by providing archive [...]

BIOKÉ and ACEA Announce a xCELLigence Partnership in the BeNeLux Countries

LEIDEN - BIOKÉ, a business unit of Cell Signaling Technology Europe (CST Europe), and ACEA Biosciences, Inc., a high performance cell analysis platforms manufacturer, announced their partnership to exclusively distribute ACEA’s xCELLigence® Cell Analyzer in the BeNeLux countries (Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg), effective immediately. The xCELLigence Real-Time Cell Analysis (RTCA) systems maximize the physiological relevance of data extracted from [...]

New products for thermal desorption – Markes releases new catalogue

Markes International (Llantrisant, UK) has announced the release of a new edition of its "Thermal desorption tubes, accessories and spares" catalogue, containing the latest information on its product range. The 2017/2018 edition of the ever-popular catalogue contains everything needed by the TD analyst to ensure successful VOC and SVOC monitoring, from sorbent tubes and starter [...]

ERWEKA introduces the new USP 4 DFZ ll

ERWEKA introduces the new Flow-Through Cell Tester USP 4 DFZ ll. The DFZ ll offers a wide range of available cell types The new ERWEKA Flow-Through Cell Tester DFZ II can be used for various applications thanks to its wide range of available cell types, e.g. for testing poorly soluble products or low-dose formulations with [...]

Fabric Genomics Enters Strategic Partnership with Veritas Genetics

OAKLAND, Calif. & DANVERS, Mass. & PHOENIX-- Fabric Genomics, a global computational genomics company, and Veritas Genetics, the global leader in genetic sequencing and interpretation, announced today at the ACMG Annual Clinical Genetics Meeting that they have entered into a technology partnership. The goal of the collaboration is to accelerate Veritas’ myGenome product for personal [...]

Swift Biosciences Launches New Assay for Faster, More Efficient Routine Screening of the CFTR Gene

Accel-Amplicon™ CFTR Panel presented at the 2017 American College of Medical Genetics Annual Meeting (ANN ARBOR, Mich.) Swift Biosciences today announced the commercial release of its Accel-Amplicon CFTR Panel. This panel will offer research laboratories a more comprehensive, next-generation sequencing (NGS)-based approach to interrogate the coding region and select introns within the Cystic Fibrosis Transmembrane [...]

AkzoNobel rejects second unsolicited proposal from PPG

Proposal fails to recognise value of AkzoNobel and neglects to address significant risks and uncertainties, including extensive anti-trust concerns Akzo Nobel N.V. (AKZA.AS; AKZOY) AkzoNobel today announces it has rejected a second unsolicited, non-binding and conditional proposal of 20 March from PPG Industries Inc. for all of the issued and outstanding ordinary shares in the [...]

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