Investment in US refineries is on the upswing due to increased profitability. Driven by higher oil prices, rising demand and years of underinvestment, US refining margins remain healthy. According to Wood Mackenzie, US demand for gas is forecasted to outpace supply over the next three years due, in part, to shutdowns of refineries, as upgrades […]
Company Announcements Datacolor and China Textile Information Center partnered to provide training and color certification programs in digital color management. TeraView appointed Dr. Barrie Thorpe, formerly executive vice president of Operations for AstraZeneca, and Dr. Andrew Carr, formerly director of Amersham, to its Board in 2006. Perten Instruments set up a fully owned Chinese subsidiary […]
Waltham, MA 3/20/07; Dusseldorf, Germany 3/20/07—Thermo Fisher Scientific and Gerresheimer have announced a joint venture to manufacture glass labware for scientific laboratories. Gerresheimer will hold a 51% in the joint venture, which will be named Kimble/Chase Life Scienceware and will be based in New Jersey. Kimble/Chase Life Scienceware will include Thermo Fisher Scientific’s Chase Scientific, […]
Atomic Spectroscopy Bruker AXS also unveiled some important x-ray components, such as the XFlash SDD detector that is now standard on the S2 Ranger and the new version of the MicroStar x-ray source. The MicroStar Ultra can provide a flux of 80 billion x-rays per square millimeter per second, similar to the performance of some […]
Company Announcements Affymetrix promoted James Gibson, vice president of accounting and corporate controller, to principal accounting officer in December 2006. In January, Illumina signed a collaborative agreement with the Mayo Clinic to codevelop molecular diagnostic tests for the study of complex diseases. Partek’s Genomics Suite achieved GeneChip-compatible status for analysis of SNP association studies using […]
Company Announcements Labtronics named Axion Control Systems a reseller of its LimsLink Suite. Labtronics appointed Katálysis as an authorized distributor of the LimsLink Suite for Brazil. In March, Symbion Systems partnered with Labtronics to offer solutions combining Symbion’s DX, RX and LX spectroscopic data software and Labtronics’ LimsLink. LabVantage Solutions established an office in Mumbai, […]
IMS Health reports that 2006 global pharmaceutical sales grew 7.0% to $643 billion, with “specialist-driven” products accounting for 62% of market growth. Sales in India and China increased 17.5% and 12.3% to $7.3 billion and $13.4 billion, respectively. Latin American sales grew 12.7% to $33.6 billion, and Asian-Pacific and African sales increased 10.5% to $66 […]
College Station, TX 3/23/07—William W. Botts, president and CEO of OI Corporation, has resigned following the completion of an investigation by a special committee into the company’s stock option practices (see IBO 1/31/07). The special committee reviewed stock option grants issued between 1985 and 2006 and found incidences of misdated option grants, the issuance of […]
Sales of semiconductor equipment rose 23.1% last year to $40.47 billion, according to Semiconductor Equipment and Materials International (SEMI). Sales of wafer processing equipment, assembly and packaging equipment, and test equipment increased 26%, 14% and 21%, respectively. Japan, the largest market, accounted for 22.7% of spending, while sales in China, the fastest growing region, increased […]
Simulated moving bed chromatography (SMB) is a variation of conventional liquid chromatography, which provides continuous chromatographic separations, as opposed to batch separations, which account for the majority of chromatography systems. For the most part, the use of SMB in the laboratory is tied to a narrow scope of industrial applications, for which it offers a […]
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