Specac looks forward to a bright future outside Smiths Group

Specac International Limited announces that today, members of its executive team have partnered with Venture Capital Trust company, The Foresight Group to purchase the company from Smiths Group plc, owners of Specac since 1997. Specac Managing Director, David Smith says, “Specac’s growth in recent years has been achieved through its focus on high quality, high [...]

Agilent Technologies and Scion Instruments Agree to Enable Each Other’s Instruments in Their Chromatography Data Systems

SANTA CLARA and FREMONT, Calif.-– Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE: A) and Scion Instruments today announced a gas chromatography instrument control agreement. This exchange agreement provides customers the freedom to operate instruments from both manufacturers in each company’s chromatography data systems. The companies will exchange development documentation and royalty-free licenses of driver software for the integration [...]

LGC and IBP expand co-operation to accelerate Marker-Assisted Selection

LGC and the Integrated Breeding Platform (IBP) expand their partnership, using LGC’s proprietary technologies to accelerate crop breeding for registered users of the IBP. This expanded agreement builds on the achievements made by the IBP’s predecessor, the Generation Challenge Programme (GCP). In 2009, the GCP selected LGC as its preferred genotyping outsourcing service provider. Since [...]

Syrris Atlas Calorimeter benefits process scale-up

A Syrris Atlas Calorimeter is proving advantageous to the Kyushu works manufacturing technology department of Nippon Steel & Sumikin Chemical Co., Ltd. in Japan, aiding scale-up of new product processes. Mr. Kenji Umeda from theProduction & Technical Department explained: “Our department performs mass production studies for new product development, supporting the company’s business of manufacturing [...]

IDT’s San Diego, California, Manufacturing Facility Receives ISO 14001 Certification

San Diego, CA -— Integrated DNA Technologies (IDT), the world leader in oligonucleotide synthesis, announces that its San Diego, California, manufacturing facility has attained ISO 14001:2004 certification for its environmental management systems. Now, both of IDT’s US manufacturing sites (Coralville, IA and San Diego, CA) have ISO 14001 certified environmental management systems. The Coralville facility [...]

Release of the New X-ray Photoelectron Spectrometer JPS-9030 – The definitive XPS for high-speed, high-precision depth profiling

JEOL Ltd. (President Gon-emon Kurihara) has completed the development of the X-ray Photoelectron Spectrometer (XPS) JPS 9030, with sales scheduled to start on April 10, 2015. Product development background In recent years, there has been a growing demand to perform high quality surface analysis quickly, easily and reproducibly on any kind of sample for any [...]

BioTime Licenses Beckman Research Institute of City of Hope to Manufacture Clinical Grade Stem Cells

ALAMEDA, Calif. -- BioTime, Inc. (NYSE MKT: BTX) today announced a nonexclusive License Agreement between BioTime’s subsidiary ES Cell International Pte Ltd (ESI) and Beckman Research Institute of the City of Hope(BRICOH, Duarte, CA) through which ESI’s clinical-grade human embryonic stem (hES) cells will be manufactured and provided to BRICOH’s clinical collaborators, including medical research [...]

Foresight announces £2.6 million Management Buy Out (MBO) into scientific instrument accessories business Specac

Foresight Group LLP (Foresight) is pleased to announce the investment of £2.6m on behalf of the Boards of Foresight VCT, Foresight 3 VCT and Foresight 4 VCT, as part of a total investment of £2.775 million into scientific instrumentation accessories business, Specac International Limited (Specac). Specac, based in Orpington, Kent, is a leading manufacturer of [...]

Agilent Technologies Announces Resolution to U.S. FDA Warning Letter for Dako Denmark

SANTA CLARA, Calif. -- Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE: A) today announced that its subsidiary, Dako Denmark A/S, has received a close-out letter from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration with respect to the warning letter issued Aug. 21, 2013. The FDA informed Dako Denmark that it has completed its evaluation of Dako's corrective actions and [...]

IDBS and ChemAxon partnership harnesses leading biology and chemistry expertise

Boston, US, Budapest, Hungary & London, UK -– Today at Bio-IT World Conference & Expo 2015, IDBS announces a strategic technology partnership which sees ChemAxon’s industry-leading chemical sciences software integrated into IDBS’ E?WorkBook and ActivityBase. The addition of these advanced chemical indexing and web rendering capabilities from ChemAxon complement IDBS’ deep-domain biology expertise and bolster [...]

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