Carl Zeiss: Revenue Tops Four Billion Euro Mark for Very First Time
December 14, 2011
Stuttgart - Carl Zeiss ended fiscal year 2010/11 (reporting date: 30 September 2011) with a clear increase in revenue and earnings over the prior year: with a total of EUR 4.237b, revenue topped the four billion euro mark for the very first time (prior year: EUR 2.981b). Earnings (EbIT) totaled EUR 607m (prior year: EUR [...]
December 14, 2011
The prerequisites for the completion of the sale of Biohit Oyj's liquid handling business to Sartorius Lab Holding GmbH have been met; the companies completed the sale on 14 December 2011. Upon the sale's completion, Biohit's liquid handling business transferred to Sartorius. The parties signed the sales contract on the sale of the liquid handling [...]
GnuBIO Begins Beta System Builds and Strengthens Supplier Relationships
December 14, 2011
CAMBRIDGE, Mass.--GnuBIO, Inc. (GnuBIO), www.gnubio.com a pioneer in the Desktop DNA sequencing market, announced today that it has initiated the build of its beta system. Using innovative approaches, the company has enhanced many technical capabilities found only in its droplet-based DNA sequencing system – including advances in molecular biology, real time informatics and optics - [...]
GE Healthcare and M+W Group form strategic alliance in vaccines, insulin and biopharmaceuticals
December 14, 2011
Chalfont St Giles, UK and Stuttgart, Germany – GE Healthcare, the healthcare business of GE (NYSE: GE) and M+W Group, a leading global engineering, construction and project management company, announced today that the companies have formed a strategic alliance aimed at overcoming the lack of key biopharmaceuticals, especially in emerging nations. The alliance, which will [...]
Gene Logic Appoints Burrill as Strategic Advisor
December 14, 2011
Gaithersburg, Maryland - Ocimum Biosolutions, Inc. (d/b/a Gene Logic) today announced that it has retained Burrill & Company, Inc. as its strategic advisor. Burrill will assist the company in evaluating strategic alternatives related to Gene Logic and its assets, which could include a sale of its US-based company, operations or its assets. Burrill is actively [...]
Arrayit Corporation to Spin-Off Arrayit Diagnostics, Inc. to Shareholders
December 14, 2011
SUNNYVALE, Calif.--Arrayit Corporation has approved the spin-off of its majority owned subsidiary, Arrayit Diagnostics, Inc. Arrayit Corporation will distribute to its existing shareholders its 78.18% interest in Arrayit Diagnostics as a stock dividend. The stock dividend distribution date and further details are expected to be announced early in the first quarter of 2012. Since July [...]
SpectraFluidics Inc. Receives $1.3M Award from Transportation Security Administration
December 14, 2011
SANTA BARBARA, Calif.-- SpectraFluidics Inc., a company that specializes in developing and manufacturing vapor trace chemical detection technology, was recently awarded a $1.3 million contract from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, Transportation Security Administration (DHS/TSA). The scope of the award is to develop and validate a vapor detection system that quickly and efficiently detects [...]
Agilent Technologies Names Gooi Soon Chai Senior Vice President, Order Fulfillment and Supply Chain
December 14, 2011
SANTA CLARA, Calif. -- Agilent Technologies Inc. A +0.02% today announced that Gooi Soon Chai has been appointed senior vice president, order fulfillment and supply chain, effective immediately. In this position, Gooi now leads a new, centralized organization created to help Agilent leverage its strength in manufacturing, procurement and logistics across the company's three business [...]
CEA-Leti and Caltech Alliance for Nanosystems VLSI Announce First Startup
December 13, 2011
PARIS, Jean-Lou Chameau, president of the California Institute of Technology, and Laurent Malier, CEO of CEA-Leti, today announced the launch of Analytical Pixels (APIX), the first startup to emerge from their Alliance for Nanosystems VLSI. APIX will design, manufacture, and bring to market analysis systems based on a new concept of miniaturized chromatography. By applying [...]
December 13, 2011
LOS ANGELES, Universal Detection Technology, a developer of early-warning monitoring technologies that protect against biological, chemical, and radiological threats, announced today that that it has entered into an agreement with Honeywell India (a unit of Honeywell International) to develop a radiation detector which would display radiation data collected via Bluetooth to a smart phone. The [...]
