Carl Zeiss Continues on Track to Further Growth and Investment
December 13, 2012
Stuttgart, Germany, -- The Carl Zeiss Group ended fiscal year 2011/12 (reporting date: 30 Sept. 2012) with a two percent increase in revenue. Revenue totaled EUR 4.163 billion and therefore surpassed the previous year's figure (prior year*: EUR 4.084 billion). Earnings (EBIT) totaled EUR 420 million (prior year*: EUR 608 million). Particularly strong year-on-year growth [...]
Inert Pipette Tips Critical to Safe Food Manufacturing
December 13, 2012
Oakland, California —— For food manufacturers, clean equipment is vital to safe food production. To address manufacturers’ concerns about labware safety, METTLER TOLEDO has introduced Rainin BioCleanTM pipette tips. These 100% inert tips help ensure safer ingredients, critical to product safety and consistency. This in turn helps to reduce costs associated with reworked batches and [...]
Higher Productivity Liquid Handling
December 13, 2012
INTEGRA has announced that it will be displaying liquid handling systems and consumables designed to increase your productivity at SLAS 2013 - one of the world's largest laboratory automation and screening trade shows. Visitors to SLAS Booth 520 will have the chance to see and discuss INTEGRA's latest liquid handling products including a new handheld [...]
Lyncean Technologies Inc. sells Compact Light Source to Munich biomedical-imaging research center
December 13, 2012
Palo Alto-based Lyncean Technologies, Inc., today announced its first sale of a Compact Light Source, a miniature synchrotron X-ray source employing state-of-the-art laser-beam and electron-beam technology. A Lyncean "Compact Light Source" (CLS) was purchased by researchers from the newly-formed Center for Advanced Laser Applications (CALA) in Germany, a joint project of the Ludwig Maximilians University [...]
December 13, 2012
Milford, Mass. –– At a ceremony at Indiana University’s Bloomington campus, Waters Corporation (NYSE:WAT) welcomed the Laboratory of Biological Mass Spectrometry and Professor David Clemmer, the Robert and Marjorie Mann Chair of Chemistry and the Associate Dean of Sciences in the College of Arts and Sciences into its Centers of Innovation Program. Waters honored Professor [...]
ASTM D975-12 Standard Specification for Diesel Fuel Oils Now Includes ASTM D7345
December 13, 2012
Houston, TX., USA –– ASTM recently published its latest version of the ASTM D975-12 Standard Specification for Diesel Fuel Oils, which included an alternate distillation method, ASTM D7345. This alternate method achieves significant response time improvements compared to the conventional ASTM D86 method. PAC, a leading global provider of advanced analytical nstruments for laboratories and [...]
1st Detect Awarded U.S. Patent for Novel Mass Spectrometer Ion Trap Control Technology
December 13, 2012
Austin, Texas, --Detect Corporation, a subsidiary of Astrotech Corporation (Nasdaq:ASTC), announced today that the United States Patent Office (“USPTO”) has allowed the issuance of a key patent for the company’s unique method to miniaturize the electrical circuitry for a mass spectrometer ion trap used for chemical analysis and detection. “We are extremely pleased that the [...]
Ametek Launches Model 292B Portable Btu Gas Chromatograph
December 13, 2012
PITTSBURGH, PA – AMETEK Process Instruments—a leader in online analytical instrumentation with the industry’s most extensive product line—has introduced the Chandler Engineering Model 292B portable gas chromatograph for the determination of the energy content (BTU) of natural gas. The AMETEK Model 292B natural gas chromatograph is designed as a truly portable analyzer. The Model 292B [...]
PANalytical becomes distributor for OBLF product line
December 13, 2012
Almelo, the Netherlands: Underlining the long standing relationship between the two companies, PANalytical and OBLF jointly announce that a formal agreement has been signed for the exclusive distribution of OBLF’s optical emission spectrometers by PANalytical in Finland, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, the Netherlands, Belgium, Luxemburg, United Kingdom, Ireland, France, Spain, Portugal, Italy, South Africa, USA, Canada [...]
Schrödinger Receives Additional Equity Investment from Bill Gates
December 13, 2012
Schrödinger, Inc. announced today that it has received an additional investment of $20 million from Bill Gates. "Schrödinger has ambitious plans for expanding their software platform that will make drug discovery significantly more productive and efficient,” said Gates. Dr. Boris Nikolic, a Scientific Advisor to Mr. Gates, will join Schrödinger’s Board of Directors. “The success [...]
