GE’s Ralph Exton to Serve as Board Member for the Water Environment Federation, Continuing the Work of Long-Time Member Paul Schuler

GE (NYSE: GE) today announced the appointment of Ralph Exton to serve as a member of the 2012-2013 Board of Trustees for the Water Environment Federation (WEF), an international organization of water quality professionals headquartered in Alexandria, Va. Exton has extensive experience in various leadership, business and international roles and has more than 25 years [...]

Carl Zeiss Optronics becomes Cassidian Optronics

Cassidian has acquired a majority shareholding in what was previously Carl Zeiss Optronics GmbH from Carl Zeiss AG. Cassidian now holds a 75.1 % stake in the new company, which has its headquarters in Oberkochen, Germany, while Carl Zeiss AG holds 24.9 %. All of the optical and optronic activities previously carried out by Carl [...]

Tornado Medical And Arjae Spectral Merge To Create Tornado Spectral Systems

TORONTO, Ontario and ITHACA, New York – The merger of Tornado Medical Systems (TMS) and Arjae Spectral Enterprises (ASE) has been approved by the shareholders of both companies.  The new entity, Tornado Spectral Systems, unites a common business culture and complimentary intellectual property and will continue to lead the industry with innovative optical spectroscopy products for [...]

Richard Pollard promoted at Dunedin-based photonics manufacturer

Dunedin, FL – Ocean Optics, has appointed Richard Pollard to the position of company President. Pollard’s promotion follows the move of former President Kevin Chittim to positions on Ocean Optics’ board and as Divisional Acquisition Executive for Ocean Optics’ parent company, Halma plc. Pollard joined Ocean Optics in 2006 as Vice President, Operations, and was [...]

FDA grants CLIA-waived status to CoaguChek XS Plus system for PT/INR

Roche (SIX: RO, ROG; OTCQX: RHHBY) announced today that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted CLIA-waived status to the CoaguChek® XS Plus system, a point-of-care anticoagulation monitor that offers connectivity and data management tools to help healthcare professionals manage PT/INR (blood clotting time) testing. The waiver means that the monitoring technology may [...]

Accelrys Strengthens Leadership Team with Appointment of New Senior Vice President of Marketing, Product Management and Corporate Development

SAN DIEGO, -- Accelrys, Inc. (NASDAQ: ACCL), a leading provider of scientific innovation lifecycle management software, today announced that it has appointed former Siemens executive Leif Pedersen as its senior vice president of marketing, product management and corporate development. Pedersen joins Accelrys as the company expands its breadth of scientific innovation lifecycle software into multiple [...]

Implant Sciences Ships Follow-On Order to Japan for Protection of Nuclear Power Plant

Implant Sciences Corporation (OTCQB: IMSC), a high technology supplier of systems and sensors for homeland security and defense markets, today announced it has shipped its Quantum Sniffer™ QS-H150 handheld explosives trace detector for the protection of a nuclear power facility in Japan. This customer has repeatedly purchased explosive trace detectors from Implant Sciences due to [...]

GE Healthcare Life Sciences and NetBio launch DNAscan Rapid DNA Analysis System for forensic applications

Chalfont St. Giles, UK and Waltham, MA USA –– GE Healthcare Life Sciences, a business unit of GE Healthcare (NYSE: GE) and NetBio, a leading technology provider in the emerging field of rapid DNA analysis, announced today the launch of DNAscan™ Rapid DNA Analysis™ System, a fast, rugged and easy-to-use DNA analysis instrument for forensic [...]

SDIX Sells Food Safety and GMO Businesses to Romer Labs for $13.5 Million

NEWARK, Del.--SDIX™ (NASDAQ: SDIX), a leading provider of biotechnology-based products and services, today announced it has entered into an agreement to sell the assets of its Food Safety and GMO businesses to Romer Labs for $13.5 million. Following this transaction, the Company will concentrate on its Life Science business. Romer Labs is acquiring the intellectual [...]

Phenomenex Introduces 5-micron Kinetex® Core-Shell Media

Torrance, CA - Phenomenex Inc., a global leader in the research and manufacture of advanced technologies for the separation sciences, announces the addition of a 5-micron particle to its Kinetex core-shell product line. As the largest diameter particle in the family, Kinetex 5-micron core-shell columns deliver better performance than 3- or 5-micron fully porous offerings, [...]

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