MOCON Increases Quarterly Dividend

MINNEAPOLIS -- MOCON, Inc. (NASDAQ: MOCO) announced today that on February 28, 2013, its Board of Directors declared a quarterly cash dividend of eleven cents ($0.11) per share, payable on May 17, 2013, to shareholders of record on May 3, 2013. This is a five percent increase over the previous rate of ten and one-half [...]

Quantachrome’s Newest Analyzers Showcase at Pittcon Exposition

Quantachrome Instruments will be showing its latest generation porous materials characterization instruments at Pittcon® 2013, the annual conference and exposition focused on laboratory science, to be held in Philadelphia, March 17 – 21, 2013. Quantachrome is a leading manufacturer of laboratory instruments for the characterization of porous materials and powders which are sold to academia [...]

AMETEK Names Tom Marecic as Senior Vice President and General Manager – Electronic Instruments Group

Berwyn, PA, -- AMETEK, Inc. (NYSE: AME) today announced that the Board of Directors has elected Tom Marecic as Senior Vice President and General Manager, Electronic Instruments Group. Mr. Marecic has served as Vice President and General Manager, Process & Analytical Instruments Division since 2006. “I am pleased to announce the promotion of Tom to [...]

Life Technologies & IMEGEN Develop Fast and Accurate Full Solution Horse DNA Test for Meat Products

GLASGOW, United Kingdom, -- Life Technologies Corporation (NASDAQ: LIFE) today announces that it's developed the RapidFinder™ Equine ID Kit in conjunction with the Instituto de Medicina Genomica (IMEGEN) that detects the presence of equine DNA extracted from meat samples. The kit is optimized for its use in all Applied Biosystems Real-Time PCR Instruments. "As global [...]

TAP Biosystems Launches New Plate Heater for Cell-based Applications

Cambridge, UK: TAP Biosystems, a leading supplier of innovative cell culture systems and consumables for life science applications, today introduced its new Plate Heater, designed specifically for cell biologists that require accurate and precise temperature control for plates in laminar flow hoods. The new Plate Heater, which can be ordered directly from TAP’s e-commerce site [...]

Redd&Whyte Appoints HighRes Biosolutions as New US Distributor

Redd&Whyte has announced it has appointed HighRes Biosolutions, a leading developer of flexible laboratory automation systems, as US distributor for its Preddator low-volume microplate dispensers. The appointment will provide US researchers with rapid access to, and support of, unique technology for achieving consistent results and reducing assay costs, by dispensing low-volumes of difficult reagents into [...]

IDT and SGI-DNA Broaden Their Collaboration to Provide Synthetic DNA Products up to 2 Mbp

CORALVILLE, IA AND LA JOLLA, CA -- Integrated DNA Technologies, Inc. (IDT) and SGI-DNA announce an expanded partnership to develop, manufacture, and market a variety of synthetic DNA products. IDT is the world’s leader in custom oligonucleotide synthesis and SGI-DNA is a newly formed subsidiary of Synthetic Genomics, Inc. (SGI), which focuses on genomic-driven solutions [...]

Dividend Proposal by the Board of Directors

Aubagne | Goettingen, – At yesterday’s meeting, the Board of Directors of Sartorius Stedim Biotech S.A. resolved to submit a proposal to the Annual General Shareholders' Meeting (AGM) on April 16, 2013, to pay a dividend of €1.10 per share for fiscal 2012. Compared with a year earlier, dividends per share would increase by 10.0% [...]

Lake Shore to Launch THz Materials Characterization System at APS March Meeting, Booth 800

Lake Shore Cryotronics will announce its new continuous wave terahertz materials characterization system at the American Physical Society March Meeting 2013. The conference, which will take place March 18 to 22 in Baltimore, is the largest physics meeting in the world, focusing on research from industry, universities, and national labs. The Lake Shore product, slated [...]

MOCON Adds Expert to GreenLight® Food Safety Business, Expands European Marketing Efforts

MOCON, Inc. (NASDAQ: MOCO) is increasing European marketing efforts for its GreenLight® food safety line with the addition of an industry leader to its team. Henk van der Meer has joined MOCON as a microbial detection consultant. Van der Meer has held several senior food safety diagnostic positions throughout his career, including 23 years as [...]

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