US President Barack Obama’s fiscal 2010 budget proposal includes a 0.4% increase in R&D spending over the fiscal 2009 enacted level to $147.6 billion. Funding for basic research would increase 3.4% to $30.9 billion, and spending for development would rise 0.2% to $84.1 billion. Funding for applied research would decline 2.2% to $28.1 billion. R&D […]
There were 356 responses to the 2009 Food Processing R&D survey. The most important target for R&D this year for 48% of those surveyed was new product development, up from less than a third of respondents last year. For 30%, existing product improvement was the most important target. However, according to 63% of respondents, product […]
According to the World Steel Association, global steel demand will decrease 14.9% in 2009. This is in addition to the drop in output and profits currently plaguing the steel sector. In 1997, the last time demand for steel declined, demand fell 2.7%. The last double-digit decline was in 1945. Global steel production and consumption is […]
In what a number of publicly traded analytical instrument companies called their toughest quarter ever, the first quarter of calendar-year 2009 was a challenging environment for sales of analytical and laboratory instruments and even, in some cases, laboratory consumables. Revenues in reported currencies for 10 of the 11 companies profiled on pages 9–11 declined during […]
The crystal ball is very cloudy, according to the results of IBO’s Spring 2009 Business Climate Survey. Twice a year, IBO surveys executives at analytical and life science instrument and laboratory product companies to gage their expectations for business conditions in the short term, and to gain their opinions on current issues affecting the market. […]
Company Announcements PerkinElmer is developing an interface for Agilent’s EZChrom Elite chromatography data systems to control the Clarus family of GCs. It will be available in July. Under a strategic alliance announced in February, Markes International’s thermal desorption systems (TD) and accessories are now available as OEM items through Agilent and are supported by Agilent. […]
St. Louis, MO 5/14/09—Emerson Process Management has acquired Scientific Instruments’ on-line wet chemistry analyzers product line for an undisclosed price. The product line includes silica, sodium, phosphate and hydrazine monitors that are used to control plant processes in the power and water treatment markets. The product lines have become part of Emerson’s Rosemount Analytical division. […]
San Diego, CA 5/5/09—Illumina, a supplier of genomic analysis instrumentation and consumables, has filed a patent infringement suit against microarray firm Affymetrix. Filed in the US District Court for the Western District of Wisconsin, the suit alleges that Affymetrix’s GeneChip HT Array Plate and HT Array Place Scanner infringe Illumina’s US Patent No. 7,510,841 (Methods […]
Company Announcements In March, BioOptics closed a $3 million Series A financing round, led by Boulder Ventures. In conjunction, COO Richard Whitcomb was promoted to president and CEO. In March, NextGen Sciences sold its electrophoresis business, consisting of the a2Deoptimizer automated gel casting unit and the optigels large-format precast gels, to Sigma-Aldrich for $560,000 in […]
Company Announcements Fluxion Biosciences announced exclusive distribution agreements with IUL Instruments GmbH for Germany and Austria, and with EuroClone for Italy, Spain, Portugal and countries in Eastern Europe and Northern Africa. PerkinElmer announced a collaboration with IDBS for the integration of their respective Columbus image data-management system for high-content screening (HCS) and AcitvityBase XE screening […]
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