June 15, 2006
Paoli, PA – AMETEK has acquired Land Instruments, a maker of infrared temperature measurement, combustion efficiency and emission monitoring instrument, from a private investor group led by private equity company 3i. Headquartered in Dronfield, UK, Land Instruments has annual sales of approximately £22 million ($41 million). “Land Instruments is an excellent addition to our high-end [...]
Sigma-Aldrich Files Suit for Infringement of RNAi Patents
June 15, 2006
St. Louis, MO; Huntsville, AL- Sigma-Aldrich and Oxford BioMedica have filed suit in US District Court against Open Biosystems. The suit alleges that Open Biosystems’ products, including the Lentiviral shRNAmir Library, infringe two patents covering lentiviral-based systems for the delivery of foreign DNA to mammalian cells that Sigma-Aldrich exclusively licensed for research use from Oxford [...]
Symyx Acquires Lab Automation Company
June 14, 2006
Santa Clara, CA 6/14/06—Symyx Technologies has acquired Autodose SA, a Swiss maker of precision powder dispensing equipment for CHF 8.5 million ($6.9 million)in cash and additional considerations up to CHF 7.7 million. AutoDose will become a subsidiary of Symyx and will serve as its European headquarters. “This acquisition underscores our commitment to serving the European [...]
AMETEK Acquires SPECTRO Analytical
June 14, 2006
Paoli, PA ; Kleve, Germany -AMETEK has acquired SPECTRO Beteiligungs GmbH, the holding company of SPECTRO Analytical Instruments GmbH & Co. KG, for approximately €80 million ($98 million) from a group led by German Equity Partners BV. With annual sales of around €85 million ($104 million) and over 22,000 instruments shipped, SPECTRO designs and manufacturers [...]
Invitrogen and Solexa Collaborate to Supply Reagents for Next Generation Sequencing Technology;
June 13, 2006
CARLSBAD, Calif. & HAYWARD, Calif. & CAMBRIDGE, United Kingdom--Invitrogen Corporation (Nasdaq:IVGN), a provider of essential life science technologies for disease research and drug discovery, and Solexa, Inc. (Nasdaq:SLXA), a provider of next-generation genetic analysis systems, announced a collaboration through which Invitrogen will supply many of the reagents for Solexa's sequencing, gene expression, and small RNA [...]
Strategene and Takara Settle PCR Suits
June 12, 2006
Shiga, Japan: La Jolla, CA-Takara Bio and Stratagene have settled their patent disputes regarding enzyme blends used in PCR technology. Financial details were unavailable. “We believe that there are a number of competitors selling products that are covered under our patent portfolio. It is our intention to make limited licenses available and recognize resulting licensing [...]
Eksigent and Phenomenex Establish HPLC Marketing and Technology Alliance
June 12, 2006
Dublin, California, - Eksigent, a leading provider of capillary HPLC systems and Phenomenex, Inc., one of the world's largest manufacturers of HPLC columns, announce a strategic marketing and technology collaboration to develop columns optimized for capillary HPLC systems. Under the agreement, Phenomenex will offer a line of capillary HPLC columns that are tested and optimized [...]
June 6, 2006
DANVERS, Mass.---Cell Signaling Technology, Inc. (CST), announced that it has entered into a new partnership agreement with Bio-Rad Laboratories, Inc. (AMEX: BIO and BIOb), a multinational manufacturer and distributor of life science research products and clinical diagnostics. Under the new agreement, CST will develop antibodies for kinase activation and protein phosphorylation assays that will be [...]
Pharmaceutical equipment provider and optical sensing specialist join forces to develop TDLAS
June 5, 2006
BOC Edwards Pharmaceutical Systems and Physical Sciences Inc. (PSI) have signed a joint agreement to develop tunable diode laser absorption spectroscopy (TDLAS)-based technologies for pharmaceutical processing equipment. The two companies, who have already successfully completed a pilot project with a global pharmaceutical company in the US, are incorporating TDLAS into freeze-drying equipment. The result is [...]
June 5, 2006
BOSTON---PerkinElmer, Inc. (NYSE: PKI), a global leader in Health Sciences and Photonics, announced the acquisition of United Kingdom-based Clinical & Analytical Service Solutions Ltd. (C&A), a scientific equipment asset and managed maintenance company serving the pharmaceutical, biotechnology and healthcare markets. C&A, which generated revenues of approximately $7.5 million in 2005, will become an integral part [...]
