Sunnyvale, CA 2/5/08 and 2/25/08; Houston, Texas 2/7/08—Publicly held Integrated Media Holdings (IMHI) has acquired TeleChem International for 35 million shares, or approximately 64.4% of the outstanding shares, following a 1 for 30 reverse stock split. TeleChem operates under the name Array It and provides cost-effective microarray systems and products. “The business combination with IMHI […]
Gentelligent launched BasePro 1.0, a downloadable, add-in, Excel-based software for handling DNA, RNA and protein data. Advanced Chemistry Development released ACD/Labs 11, featuring updates for many of its products, including ACD/IntelliXtract for LC/MS componentization. Applied Biosystems released GeneMapper ID-X software for the automation of the routine review of forensic DNA data. Timeless Medical Systems released […]
Norwalk, CT 2/29/08—Applera has announced its Celera subsidiary, one of the company’s two tracking stocks, along with Applied Biosystems, will pursue a possible spin-off from Applera to become a separately traded public firm (see IBO 8/15/07). Celera provides diagnostic products and services. Holders of the Celera tracking stock would receive Celera shares in a one-for-one […]
Grant Instruments is manufacturing the OVG-4 vapor generator for Owlstone Nanotech. Twenty-two units have been sold as of October 2007. In December 2007, Binder GmbH announced the establishment of an independent subsidiary in Asia, based in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, with eight employees. Binder aims to grow its Asian business to 35% of sales by 2013. […]
Last year, China purchased more than $1.5 billion in analytical instrumentation. As one of the fastest growing markets for laboratory instrumentation, China is a focus of major investments by foreign instrument companies, which are rapidly building their sales and marketing, service and manufacturing capabilities in the country. China is also home to a large domestic […]
Paoli, PA 2/11/08—AMETEK has purchased Newage Testing Instruments, a manufacturer of hardness testing equipment. Newage will join AMETEK’s Measurement and Calibration Technologies division. AMETEK Chairman and CEO Frank S. Hermance stated that Newage’s “hardness testing equipment and technology complements our Lloyd Instruments universal materials testing machines and broadens the range of materials testing solutions we […]
Caluire, France and Pensauken, NJ 2/1/08—Setaram, a provider of thermal analysis and calorimetry systems, has acquired Hy-Energy, a manufacturer of gas sorption instruments for clean energy applications. “The integration of Hy-Energy with Setaram further strengthens Setaram Instruments’ North American operations and provides us with a physical presence on the West Coast, closer to many of […]
Biomotif AB entered into an agreement to distribute Analytica of Branford’s MS systems. Caprotec Bioanalytics GmbH, a developer of Capture Compound MS technology for targeted isolation of protein or protein classes, received €6 million ($8.8 million) in January in two rounds of financing. Thermo Fisher Scientific announced the integration of Matrix Science’s Mascot search engine […]
The January 31 issue of IBO reported on the analytical technologies used for biofuel research and production. In December 2007, a white paper on internationally compatible biofuel standards was published by a tripartite task force made up of biofuel experts, including those from Brazil’s National Institute of Metrology, Standardization, and Industrial Quality (INMETRO), the European […]
Battelle and R&D Magazine estimate that federal support of R&D in 2008 will increase 2.46% to $102 billion. Industry support will increase 3.61% to $235.7 billion, 3.58% to $2.6 billion, and 3.23% to $1.4 billion with respect to the industrial, academic and nonprofit sectors. Academic R&D spending is predicted to rise 3.70% to $13 billion. […]
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