Palo Alto, CA 4/13/08—Varian’s Polymer Laboratories business has acquired the assets and products of Precision Detectors. Financial details were not provided. Precision Detectors manufactures laser light scattering detectors for use with HPLC, gel permeation chromatography (GPC) and size exclusion chromatography systems. “Polymer Laboratories have used light scattering detectors from Precision Detectors for many years in […]
Company Announcements Febit partnered with Prognosys Biosciences to offer a new Genome-to-Array Service. Febit appointed Michelle Lyles, PhD, to the new position of vice president, Marketing and Sales, in March. Previously, she was director of Sales at Sigma-Aldrich’s Research Biotechnology Business Unit. Transgenomic appointed David P. Pauluzzi, a consultant at Water Street Healthcare Partners, to […]
Issaquah, WA 5/5/08—Applied Precision LLC has been sold to its management team and Telegraph Hill Partners, effective April 29. The new company, Applied Precision, Inc., will continue to offer its DeltaVision microscopy-based imaging products as well as OEM products, including the arrayWoRx scanner platform and precision control solutions. CEO and Chairman Ron Seubert will remain, […]
Company Announcements In February, Covidien announced that it plans to divest its Specialty Chemical division, which includes the Mallinckrodt Baker laboratory chemicals business. In fiscal 2007, Specialty Chemicals revenue totaled $422 million. The company expects to complete the sale by year end. Ace Glass signed a multiyear agreement with VWR to become a core supplier […]
Norwalk, CT 5/9/08—By July 1, Celera will separate from Applera by means of a redemption of all the outstanding shares of the Celera tracking stock (see IBO 2/29/08). Celera will list on the NASDAQ Stock Market.
Franklin Lakes, NJ 5/13/08—Becton, Dickinson and Company (BD) have acquired all of the outstanding stock of Cytopeia. Based in Seattle, Washington, Cytopeia develops and markets flow cytometry cell sorting instruments, including the Influx cell sorter. Financial terms were not disclosed. “This strategic acquisition brings new technologies and capabilities that will enhance BD’s ability to address […]
New York, NY 5/9/08—Enzo Biochem has acquired BIOMOL International for $15 million in cash, $3 million in unregistered stock, and earn outs over two year. BIOMOL is a provider of more than 3,300 products for the areas of signal transduction, lipid research, apoptosis, neuroscience and drug discovery with a research focus in functional proteomics. Based […]
Company Announcements Crosslinks BV joined InforSense’s Open Partner Network. LabWare’s 2007 revenues increased over 14% to $70 million and the company signed over 75 new customers. CAMO Software AS opened an Australian office in Sydney in March. Symyx Technologies joined the Microsoft BioIT Alliance. Agilent will distribute an embedded version of Accelrys’ SciTegic Pipeline Pilot […]
Company Announcements Partec GmbH opened a North American office in Mount Laurel, New Jersey, in January. Nikon Instruments opened a cellular imaging center at France’s National Center for Scientific Research. It is the seventh such center set up by Nikon. In January, Leica Microsystems acquired Cell Analysis, a developer of imaging software for histopathology. In […]
Despite economic upheaval and cost concerns, instrument and laboratory product company executives are optimistic about future sales growth, according to the latest IBO Business Climate Survey, which was conducted this month. Fifty-nine percent of the 22 executives surveyed by IBO expected that instrument sales industry wide would “increase moderately” in the next six months. This […]
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