NSG Micro Focus Cell Blows Away the Competition
May 1, 2012
NSG Precision Cells, the leader in the cuvette industry is proud to announce the new trail-blazing Micro Focus Cell. After years of study and development the company presents a ultra micro cuvette that provides scientists and researchers an easy and cost effective solution to the intense demands of today’s laboratory. With over 50 years of [...]
Anton Paar Launches New Generation of Multiwave Line of Microwaves
May 1, 2012
New regulations for elemental analysis of food, pharmaceutical, and consumer products as well as improvements in analytical techniques such as ICP-MS and ICP-OES, are revealing the limitations of legacy digestion techniques; quality trace elemental analysis begins in sample preparation. Engineered to go beyond sample digestion, the Multiwave PROprovides comprehensive safety features and gives the analytical [...]
Robert R. Mandos, JR. Elected Executive Vice President & chief Financial Officier
May 1, 2012
Berwyn, Pa.,-- AMETEK Inc. (NYSE: AME) today announced that the Board of Directors has elected Mr. Robert R. Mandos, Jr., as Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, effective July 1, 2012. Mr. Mandos currently serves as Senior Vice President and Comptroller of AMETEK. He replaces John J. Molinelli who has announced his retirement after [...]
Pouschine Cook Announces Sale of Doe & Ingalls
May 1, 2012
New York, NY – Pouschine Cook Capital Management, LLC, a New York City-based private equity firm announced today the sale of Doe & Ingalls Management, LLC to Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. (NYSE: TMO). Based in Durham, NC, Doe & Ingalls is a premium provider of specialty production chemicals and customized supply-chain services to the life [...]
AVIA Biosystems Awarded $1.25 Million Grant from the NIH
April 30, 2012
Falmouth, Mass. -- AVIA Biosystems announced today that it has been awarded a $1.25M Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) grant from the National Institutes of Health. The award supports the development of instrumentation to measure the stability of biotherapeutics. AVIA Biosystems will design, develop, manufacture and sell new laboratory instrumentation for the bioanalytical and biophysical [...]
April 30, 2012
BEDFORD, Mass. and SAN DIEGO,-- Hologic, Inc. (NASDAQ: HOLX) and Gen-Probe Incorporated (NASDAQ: GPRO) today announced that their Boards of Directors have unanimously approved a definitive agreement under which Hologic will acquire all of the outstanding shares of Gen-Probe for $82.75 per share in cash, or a total enterprise value of approximately $3.7 billion. The [...]
April 30, 2012
LAKE FOREST, Ill -- IDEX Corporation (NYSE: IEX) announced today that it has acquired ERC from MH Capital Partners II, L.P. (“MH Capital”). ERC is a leader in the manufacture of gas liquid separations and detection solutions for the life science, analytical instrumentation and clinical chemistry markets. ERC’s pioneering products include in-line membrane vacuum degassing [...]
April 30, 2012
Despite deep experience and heavy investment in their manufacturing and quality control processes, Nidar were unable to identify the cause of the problem which resulted in significant waste, downtime, energy usage and re-work costs. Because chocolate manufacturing is a complex process with many variables, Nidar required more powerful analytical tools than traditional Statistical Process Control [...]
April 30, 2012
Germantown, MD, and Hilden, Germany,— QIAGEN N.V. (NASDAQ: QGEN; Frankfurt Prime Standard: QIA) today announced that Cardinal Health (NYSE: CAH) has extended its portfolio of laboratory offerings to select U.S. hospitals to include QIAGEN automated laboratory systems and test kits for molecular diagnostics. Cardinal Health, a leading health care services company, will distribute QIAGEN’s molecular [...]
Eureka Genomics Launches a Novel Custom Genotyping Service
April 30, 2012
HERCULES, CA, April 30, 2012. Eureka Genomics (EG) has launched a custom service for the detection of a moderate number of markers in a large sample number of samples; a low cost, low density marker assay (LDMA). This platform addresses the gap between traditional array technologies and multiplex PCR and is designed for the customized [...]

