In May, XRF Scientific appointed Terry Sweet as managing director. In July, SII NanoTechnology announced it had established a new sales and service base in Neu Isenburg, Germany, for its X-ray fluorescence (XRF) business. It also tripled the size of its Shanghai, China plant and established new sales and service locations in Shenzhen, Zhongshan, Huizhou […]
Malaysia has steadily been working to establish itself in the global biotech industry through government and private enterprise efforts. The future heart of the Malaysian biotech industry will be BioValley, a biotech zone south of Kuala Lumpur. To date, the government has invested $26 million in BioValley and it is expected to be operational by […]
GE Healthcare introduced illustra plasmidPrep Midi Flow and Mini Spin plasmid DNA purification kits, illustra blood genomicPrep Mini Spin and Midi Flow genomic DNA purification kits, and illustra GFX PCR DNA and Gel Band Purification kits. QIAGEN launched the QIAplex PCR multiplex assays, consisting of the ResPlex I, ResPlex II and StaphPlex Panels, which allow […]
Foster City, CA 9/7/07; New York, NY 9/7/07—-Applied Biosystems announced that the US District Court for the District of Connecticut granted its motion for summary judgment and dismissed all remaining claims in the patent infringement case brought by Enzo Biochem against Applera, Applied Biosystems’ parent company. In the lawsuit, filed in 2004, Enzo Biochem, Enzo […]
Waltham, MA 9/5/07; Baltimore, MD 9/6/07—Thermo Fisher Scientific has acquired the instrument sales business of Davis Inotek Instruments, excluding its related calibration services. The business provides test, measurement and process control instruments through catalogs and e-commerce. It generated 2006 revenues of $30 million. Rebranded as Davis Instruments, the business will join Thermo Fisher’s Cole-Parmer customer […]
Chris van Ingen, president of Agilent’s Bio-Analytical Measurement unit, which is also known as Chemical Analysis and Life Sciences (LSCA), has spent close to 30 years working in the analytical instrument industry. On the occasion of the announcement of his retirement from Agilent at the end of Agilent’s fiscal year on October 31 (see IBO […]
A new report by the American Chemistry Council (ACC) shows that the pace of the global chemicals industry is slowing. Global production on a year-over-year basis grew 4.7% in the first quarter, and is up 4.9% excluding pharmaceuticals. Chemical production this year is expected to increase 4.7%, up slightly from the 4.5% growth of 2006. […]
Thermo Fisher Scientific launched the XL3 800 Series Alloy Analyzers, the third generation of NITON handheld XRF analyzers. Thermo Fisher Scientific introduced a new kit for the coupling of GC to its ICP-MS ELEMENT 2 and ELEMENT XR for elemental speciation analysis of volatile compounds. Thermo Fisher Scientific released an entry-level version of its ARL […]
Founded in 2001, the Canadian firm GenoLogics is based in Victoria, British Columbia, and develops laboratory information management systems (LIMS). The company’s first product was a LIMS for proteomics that grew out of a collaboration with the University of Victoria Genome BC Proteomics Center. As Tanis McSween, manager of marketing communications, explained, these collaborations gave […]
Precision System Science licensed Hitachi’s bead array technology for commercializing new capillary bead tips. Digilab BioVisioN GmbH licensed GenWay Biotech’s Seppro IgY technology for proteomic sample preparation and will become the Official European Seppro Center. In July, Sigma-Aldrich promoted Gerrit van den Dool to the newly created position of vice president of Sales and Dr. […]
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