Jena and Itzehoe, Germany 11/6/07—Analytik Jena AG has announced that it acquired a 70% share in eBiochip Systems GmbH for an undisclosed amount in October. EBiochip produces electronic biochips for research and diagnostics. “We believe this technology to be an interesting and competitive alternative to other systems available on the market in the growth sector […]
Northbrook, IL 11/14/07—IDEX has agreed to acquire Nova Technologies (NTC) from Nova Holdings for $158 million. Nova Technologies provides metering technology and flow monitoring services to the water and wastewater markets and has annual revenues of $70 million. “NTC’s expertise in flow measurement solutions enables the continued enhancement of our market-based water platform within the […]
The calendar-year third quarter was yet another quarter of robust growth for major analytical instrument companies, driven by food and environmental testing in foreign markets and steady industrial spending. Five of the nine analytical instrument companies whose financial results are shown in the tables on pages 10 and 11—Agilent Bioanalytical Measurement (BAM), Bruker BioSciences, PerkinElmer […]
Under a comarketing agreement, Sigma-Aldrich Research Specialties is selling Hy-Energy’s PCTPro-2000 gas sorption analyzer and related materials, and Hy-Energy is selling Sigma-Aldrich’s hydrogen storage materials. Horiba plans to expand its share of the Japanese particle size analysis market from 30% to 50% by 2010 and nearly double its share of the global market to 30% […]
Farfield Scientific launched the Cellulose AnaChip, developed in collaboration with YKI, featuring a mimetic surface for cotton-based fabrics and pap. Seno Medical Instruments introduced the Imagio small animal functional imaging system based on opto-acoustics technology. Arcxis Biotechnologies released the Lysix Workstation 808 for the extraction, isolation and purification of nucleic acids from tissue and cell […]
Fullerton, CA and Glostrup, Denmark 11/19/07—Beckman Coulter has agreed to acquire Dako Denmark A/S’s flow cytometry instrumentation business for an undisclosed sum. Based in Fort Collins, Colorado, with a staff of more than 200, the business includes the MoFlox XDP cell sorter and the nine-color CyAn research flow cytometer. “We are enthusiastic about the opportunity […]
Crowborough, UK 11/8/07—Servomex, a Spectris subsidiary, has acquired Contrôle Analytique. Based in Quebec, Canada, and founded in 1995, Contrôle Analytique provides specialized gas analyzers and GCs for trace measurements in high purity gases.
Anapol Geratetechnik AG named Cemtrex the exclusive distributor of its portable emission analyzers in North America and India. Leister Process Technologies’ Axetris Microsystems business, an OEM provider of MEMS-based sensors and micro-optical components, acquired IR Microsystems SA, a developer of diode laser–based detection technology. In August, Emerson Process Management acquired Decision Management International, a provider […]
The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) recently published its evaluation of innovation in Chile. Although Chile has one of the most successful economies in Latin America, R&D spending totaled only 0.68% of GDP in 2004. R&D in Chile is typically funded by the government and conducted at universities. The business sector plays a […]
Thermo Fisher Scientific launched the TurboTox GC/MS Productivity Solution for drugs of abuse testing. It consists of the DSQ II single quadrupole GC/MS, ToxLab 2.0 software, and methods and consumables. AC Analytical Controls introduced the AC All in One Biodiesel analyzer, featuring an Agilent 7890A GC. Phenomenex introduced Zebron ZB-5Msi GC columns for separation of […]
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