The 2007 EU Industrial R&D Investment Scoreboard shows aggregate R&D spending by 2,000 of the world’s top companies rose 10% in fiscal 2006 to €371.6 billion ($464.5 billion). R&D expenditures by the 1,000 non-EU companies surveyed rose 11.1% to €250.5 billion ($313.1 billion), compared to 7.7% in 2005. R&D spending for the 1,000 EU companies […]
China is already the world’s leading producer of drug raw materials, and it is beginning to make its first steps into the generics market. This summer, Zhejiang Huahai Pharmaceutical, a pharmaceuticals firm based in Linhai, became the first Chinese company to be approved to export drugs to the US. Huahai’s generic version of nevirapine—an AIDS […]
DataApex appointed Gallery Science a Premium Partner, and thus a wholesaler to other distribution channels, for North America and the Caribbean Islands. In June, Eksigent named Bionoetikos as a distributor for its NanoLC HPLC product line in Southeast Asia. In July, Eksigent signed a distribution agreement for its NanoLC product line with Nova Analítica for […]
Holliston, MA 10/11/07—Harvard Bioscience has acquired Panlab for $5.0 million in cash. Panlab manufactures and distributes life science instruments, primarily for the neuroscience research market. “With the acquisition of Panlab, we are able to expand our distribution channels by establishing a subsidiary in Spain. In addition, the acquisition provides us access into a segment of […]
The history of London, England’s laboratory product exhibitions is long and varied. There used to be a very successful lab exhibition and scientific conference in London called The British Laboratory Week, or Lab Week for short (fancy that, a whole week). Some 20 years ago, a competing event was launched and the British lab scene […]
The landscape of the generics industry is changing due to a number of high-profile mergers. Mylan Laboratories, a generics manufacturer based in Pennsylvania, jumped to third place in sales ranking among generic firms after purchasing a controlling stake in the Indian generic Matrix Laboratories in January and acquiring the generics division of Merck KGaA in […]
The steel industry has grown strongly over the past five years and is expected to continue its growth, driven primarily by the Chinese market. Although there are some fears that China might become a large-scale importer of steel, these worries are counterbalanced by the belief that China’s steel will feed domestic demand. Another factor behind […]
The government has submitted its 2007 Comprehensive Spending Review (CSR07), which sets its spending plans for 2008–09, 2009–10 and 2010–11. Of CSR07’s allocations to the Department for Innovation, Universities and Skills, research funding will total £5.6 billion ($11.4 billion) for 2008–09, £5.9 billion for 2009–10 and £6.3 billion for 2010–11. Funding for the Department for […]
Protein Discovery named eight distributors for its PPS Silent Surfactant reagent product for MS membrane protein sample preparation: ProteoMass Australia (Australia and New Zealand), American Health and Medical Supply International (China), Professional Biotech (India), Precision Technologies (Indonesia, Malaysia and Singapore), Labogen (Italy), AMR (Japan), Chubu Science (Japan) and GenDiscovery Biotechnology (Taiwan). In July, QIAGEN NV […]
Luminex and Exiqon A/S launched the FlexmiR MicroRNA Mouse/Rat Extension Panel and the FlexmiR MicroRNA Control Set. Kinovate Life Sciences, a subsidiary of Nitto Denko, introduced CarriGene Plates, reagent-precoated transfection plates for in vitro delivery of plasmid DNA to mammalian cells. DiscoveRx released more than 50 PhosphoQuest ELISA assays for detection of functional kinase research […]
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