Company Announcements JEOL USA named Boeckeler’s RMC Products Division, a microtome manufacturer, as a distributor of its Cross Section Polisher sample preparation tool. More than 4,000 units of the Polisher have been sold worldwide. Carl Zeiss opened an SGD$30 million ($22 million) demonstration facility in Singapore in March. Carl Zeiss SMT opened its new 53,000 […]
Symbion Systems creates process control software for controlling and linking laboratory and process analytical instruments, with a focus on spectroscopy. Founded in 2002 as a sister company of Axiom Analytical, which has supplied spectrometers to chemical process manufacturers for more than 25 years, Symbion’s beginnings were rooted in previously developed business relationships. In addition to […]
When scientists bring up the subject of liquid chromatography (LC), complexity and high cost are two things that immediately come to the mind. While LC has proven to be a very useful analytical technique in the laboratory, as well as being advantageous in selected preparative and production-scale applications, it is an extremely involved technique that […]
France has selected the 10 project locations that will receive increased funding as part of President Sarkozy’s Operation Campus plan to raise the international visibility and status of French universities. In total, the projects encompass 39 universities, 17 schools and 650,000 studies. The projects are located in: Bordeaux, involving the Center Research and Higher Education […]
The 31st meeting of the Codex Alimentarius Commission (Codex) was held from June 30 to July 4 in Geneva, Switzerland. The Codex, an organization formed by the World Health Organization and the United Nation’s Food and Agricultural Commission, sets food standards designed to be used as references for countries in creating their own guidelines. Thirty […]
The estimated value of the Indian analytical instruments market for 2009 is $940 million. Among the nine categories of analytical technique cited by IBO in its forecast issue (see IBO 1/15/08), separation instrumentation (initial system, aftermarket, and service sales for HPLC, GC, ion chromatography, low pressure LC, capillary electrophoresis and other techniques) and life science […]
China has proposed new patent laws that may make filing a patent in the country harder, but challenging a domestic patent easier. One of the new laws would require a foreign firm to file a Chinese patent first for any invention originating in the country. Many other countries have a similar requirement. However, the penalty […]
Company Announcements Precision System Science, reagent company Diagenode SA and Nippon Gene announced plans to develop an automated epigenetic system. Claire M. Fraser-Liggett, PhD, and Steven St. Peter, MD, resigned from Helicos Biosciences’ Board in May. Helicos BioSciences named Stephen P. Hall senior vice president and CFO in May. He was formerly CFO of TriPath […]
The chemical sector may be particularly vulnerable to conditions created by the credit crisis, according to some observers. Private equity companies have purchased many chemical companies in the past five years, resulting in a highly leveraged industry. UK-based Ineos Group’s ratings outlook was recently downgraded by S&P. Rising costs for petrochemicals, oil and commodities have […]
In the first of IBO’s twice yearly report on new litigation among analytical instrument and laboratory product providers, we take a look at new patent infringement cases, as well as update the latest developments in other cases. Two cases are scheduled to come to trial in the next few months, patents related to microarray technology […]
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