Fluid Imaging Technologies’ FlowCAM (flow cytometer and microscope) is a unique product with considerable potential. The company, located in Yarmouth, Maine, grew out of founder Chris Sieracki’s work at Bigelow Laboratories for Oceanographic Sciences. The FlowCAM was first developed in 1996 and the company was started in 1999. For oceanographers, the FlowCAM offers a number […]
Columbus, OH 11/1/07—Mettler-Toledo has announced that CEO Robert F. Spoerry will retire effective January 1, 2008, and has named Olivier Filliol as CEO and president. Mr. Filliol currently runs the company’s Global Sales, Service and Marketing operations, its Chinese operations and is division head of the Process Analytics business. Mr. Speorry will become executive chairman.
Nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) is considered one of the “big guns” of the analytical instrument industry, with annual sales rapidly approaching the $1 billion mark. While one may be impressed by the sheer size of NMR systems with high-strength magnets, the probe, which provides the means to interface the sample with the instrument, is an […]
Palo Alto, CA 11/5/07—Varian has acquired Analogix, a developer of flash chromatography instruments and consumables, for $11 million in cash, plus assumed net debt. Future price payments could total $4 million over three years depending on milestones and financial performance. “The acquisition of Analogix is strategic to the advancement of Varian’s goal to grow applications-based […]
Paris, France 9/27/07; 11/5/07—Air Liquide has purchased the assets of Scott Specialty Gases, a supplier of mixed and pure high specialty gases to the analytical, medical and electronics markets, as well as gas handling equipment and gas delivery systems. Based in Plumsteadville, Pennsylvania, Scott Specialty Gases has annual sales of around $88 million and employs […]
Lonza’s Bioscience division, consisting of its Cell Therapy, Rapid Testing Systems, Media, and Cell Discovery and Molecular Biology businesses, reported CHF 82 million ($66.9 million) in sales and EBIT of CHF 12 million ($9.8 million) for the first half of 2007. Media, and Cell Discovery and Molecular Biology sales were lower than expected. CellSystems Biotechnologies […]
Santa Clara, CA 11/7/07—Agilent Technologies has definitively agreed to purchase Velocity11, a provider of liquid handling and laboratory robotics for the life science market. Financial terms were not disclosed. “Velocity11 is a market leader in lab automation with a solid reputation for innovative technology, quality products and superb customer service,” commented Nick Roelofs, vice president […]
It was another year of largely bolt-on acquisitions for major analytical instrument companies. The only pure-play instrumentation deal worth more than $1 billion was Madison Dearborn’s acquisition of VWR International (see IBO 5/15/07). However, acquisitions for companies in which laboratory instruments or associated products are one segment of the company’s many businesses yielded two deals […]
Waters released the MassTrak Immunosuppressant Kit, designed to quantify the immunosuppressant tacrolimus in kidney and liver transplant patients by LC/MS/MS. Platypus Technologies launched the Oris Cell Migration Assay. MBL International released the CoralHue Fluo-chase kit for visualization of protein-protein interactions. Sigma-Aldrich introduced the LentiExpress shRNA-based system for RNAi screening in an Optimization Plate format consisting […]
This year’s product safety controversies have affected manufacturers, regulators, consumers and laboratories alike. Manufacturers have increased product testing, while new regulatory efforts, by both governments and industry, have renewed calls for reform and scrutiny of the current system in multiple countries. Although it is too early to ascertain the exact effect of these efforts on […]
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