MILFORD, Mass.--Waters Corporation (NYSE: WAT) today announced that it has entered into a definitive merger agreement to acquire the outstanding capital stock of privately held Massachusetts-based NuGenesis Technologies Corporation for approximately $43 million, subject to the satisfaction of certain conditions contained in the merger agreement. The transaction is expected to be completed in the first [...]

Quebec, Canada-R/D Tech Inc. announced the acquisition of the Panametrics ultrasonic NDT business from General Electric Company. This transaction includes assets located in the Panametrics facility in Waltham, MA, USA, as well as assets located in sales offices in the United Kingdom, Germany, Italy, Spain, Benelux and Japan, and involves the transfer of a total [...]

Austin, TX-Emerson Process Management and Andover Control’s systems Integration Services (SIS) Group have formed an alliance aimed at extending both companies’ automation technology and service offering in the pharmaceutical and life science industries. This alliance will jointly pursue FDA-regulated automation business worldwide that requires an integrated approach to validation of process and facility management systems [...]

Orrville, OH-Emerson Process Management has augmented the accurate, continuous measurement of its new Rosemount Analytical MLT Multi-Component Gas Analyzer with built-in FOUNDATION™ fieldbus communications technology. A Component of PlantWeb® digital plant architecture, this enhancement of the analyzer further powers Emerson’s PlantWeb to deliver predictive information to operators and maintenance personnel: they can view the process [...]

High Performance GC columns at an excellent price! Phenomenex introduces a new line of high performance GC columns with identical phase characteristics to all the standard columns. The advanced new polymer technology results in extremely temperature-stable, highly inert capillary columns. Method transfer is fast and uncomplicated. All Zebron columns are individually tested and available in [...]

New pre-charged Ni Sepharose High Performance medium offers highest binding capacity on the market today Piscataway, NJ - A new affinity chromatography medium announced today by Amersham Biosciences, the life sciences business of Amersham (LSE:, NYSE:, OSE: AHM), offers optimized purification of His-tagged proteins. Ni Sepharose(tm) High Performance provides better protein binding capacity, negligible Ni [...]

System dramatically increases analytical HPLC throughput and resolution Livermore, California: Eksigent Technologies, a leader in the field of microfluidics, today announced that its Express™ HPLC system will be introduced at Pittcon 2004, to be held March 7-12 in Chicago. The Express system is a fully integrated HPLC system that combines advances in gradient delivery and [...]

Eksigent's direct pumping nanoscale HPLC system is now available with the added convenience of automated 2-dimensional separations Livermore, California -- Eksigent Technologies, a leader in the field of microfluidics, today announced the introduction of its NanoLC-2D Proteomics System. The NanoLC-2D System is the first HPLC (High Performance Liquid Chromatography) system to incorporate fully automated 2-dimensional [...]

New capabilities include Thermo Xcalibur® software integration and rapid sample injection Livermore, California -- Eksigent Technologies, a leader in the field of microfluidics, today announced that it will debut its upgraded NanoLC-1D Proteomics System at the Association of Biomolecular Resource Facilities Annual Meeting, February 28 - March 2 in Portland, Oregon. The NanoLC System is [...]

PALO ALTO, Calif., Jan. 8 -- Varian, Inc. (Nasdaq: VARI - News) today announced its new line of atomic absorption (AA) spectrometers. The AA280 series comprises two innovative and easy-to-use systems: the Fast Sequential (FS) model and the Zeeman model. The AA280 Fast Sequential (FS) system combines Varian, Inc.'s patented FS design with eight- lamp [...]