MKS Offers Network Centric RGA Automation Platform
May 31, 2005
MKS Instruments, Inc., (Nasdaq: MKSI), a leading provider of process control technologies for improving productivity in semiconductor and other advanced manufacturing processes, is pleased to introduce TOOLweb® RGA, a sensor automation platform for RGA control and communication. TOOLweb RGA monitors process integrity and tool performance in real-time, identifies process excursions, and generates alarms and targeted [...]
First sales in Japan for Freeman’s FT4 Powder Rheometer
May 31, 2005
Freeman Technology has made the first sales of its FT4 Powder Rheometer into Japan. In January this year, the company entered into a distribution agreement with the Sysmex Corporation (Kobe, Japan) whereby Sysmex gained exclusive distribution rights in Japan for the FT4 Powder Rheometer. Nine systems have now been shipped, with the first destined for [...]
May 31, 2005
Emerson Process Management announced the acquisition of Tescom Corporation. Tescom is a manufacturer of precision pressure control regulators, valves, and systems with manufacturing operations in Elk River, Minnesota and Selmsdorf, Germany. The company was founded in 1916 and has 350 employees. Tescom serves a wide variety of global markets, including testing, instrumentation, and laboratory markets [...]
May 26, 2005
The Chief Executive of Spectris plc, Hans Nilsson, has resigned. The Board wishes to acknowledge the positive contribution made by Mr Nilsson to the strategic positioning of the business for growth. To take full advantage of this positioning, the Board considers that a change in management style is now needed, with a different balance between [...]
Malvern introduces new at-line particle size analyzer package
May 25, 2005
Malvern Instruments has introduced a new at-line particle size analyzer package for dry powder processes. The new Malvern Insitec APS (At-line Powder Sizer) is designed to enable powder processors to make automated measurements close to the process line. The at-line approach - using a rugged and proven industrial particle size analyzer capable of measuring large [...]
Leading biomedical research center standardises genome sequencing operations on Genetix QPix2XT
May 25, 2005
Genetix Ltd. (Mew Milton, UK) announces today that the Broad Institute (Cambridge, MA, USA), a world leading biomedical research centre, has chosen the Genetix QPix2XT – a high specification colony picking system – for the standardisation of its genome sequencing operations. Building on their experience with Genetix QBot systems, the Institute now owns nine Genetix [...]
LabVantage Solutions announces the availability of the Sapphire™ BioBanking Solution
May 25, 2005
Bridgewater, NJ May 17, 2005. LabVantage Solutions Inc., a leading provider of browser-based laboratory information management solutions tailored for the life sciences industry, announces the availability of the Sapphire™ BioBanking Solution. Built in conjunction with the original developers of the widely-recognized Spectrum™ repository management tool, the solution offers a complete, out-of-the box sample management and [...]
Malvern opens new facilities at German HQ
May 25, 2005
Malvern Instruments has opened an extended suite of offices, applications laboratories and associated customer support facilities at the headquarters of its German subsidiary in Herrenberg. These new developments will enable the company to accommodate an expanded Malvern team in Germany and to provide enhanced applications and technical support to its process and laboratory systems customers [...]
Sales growth in Japan for Malvern Insitec on-line particle size analyzers
May 19, 2005
Sales of Malvern Instruments range of Insitec on-line particle size analyzers have grown significantly in Japan in the last six years. According to Craig Howarth, business director for Malvern Process Systems, this sustained sales growth is being driven not only by the quality and applicability of the instruments themselves, but by the major challenges faced [...]
Understand the Impact of Nutrients with Long-term In-situ Nitrate Monitoring from YSI
May 16, 2005
YELLOW SPRINGS, OH, -- YSI Environmental offers the YSI 9600 Nitrate Monitor, a leading-edge instrument for continuous monitoring of nitrate levels in water. The 9600 is the first in a series of nutrient monitors from YSI. Instruments such as the YSI 9600 will help professionals better understand the impacts of nutrients on their particular water [...]
