Wetzler, Germany and Delhi, India 11/14/11; Delhi, India 11/14/11—Leica Microsystems and AB SCIEX, two Danaher Life Sciences businesses, have announced acquisitions from Labindia Instruments, the companies’ Indian distributor. AB SCIEX has acquired Labindia Instruments’ MS business, including customer relationships, personnel and application support facilities. Labindia has distributed AB SCIEX’s MS systems in India for 15 […]
Held in Long Beach, California, from October 31 to November 4, was the BioProcess International, a conference and exhibit organized by IBC Life Sciences. Focused on biologics manufacturing, the presentations for each day were grouped according to four tracks and largely featured case studies. For example, on November 1, the day IBO attended the show, […]
Following a broad rebound in merger and acquisition (M&A) activity in 2010, consolidation among analytical instrument and laboratory product–related companies continued at a prevalent pace this past year. Danaher, Thermo Fisher Scientific and PerkinElmer highlighted this year’s M&A market, together spending roughly $10 billion on pure-play acquisitions, of which roughly half were financed through new […]
The number of EU food safety notifications grew 7.8% from 2009 to 2010 to reach an all-time high of 8,582, according to the Rapid Alert System for Food and Feed’s (RASFF) 2010 Annual Report. The RASFF is the EU’s network for informing member states and the European Commission of food and feed risks. The number […]
San Jose, CA 10/19/11—Measurement instrument firm Endress+Hauser has acquired a stake in Finesse Solutions, a developer and producer of sensors, hardware and software for bioprocess engineering. Skymoon Ventures, the previous majority shareholder, will hold an equal stake to Endress+Hauser and the company’s staff of about 50 will maintain their ownership stake. “Biotechnological procedures will play […]
UV/Vis/NIR spectroscopy is a subset of the half-billion dollar UV/Vis spectroscopy market and is used widely across applications in the semiconductor and electronics industry. Despite the fact that only a handful of vendors dominate the market, the applications for which UV/Vis/NIR is used are experiencing strong growth that will help to drive growth in demand. […]
This month, Life Technologies introduced the QuantStudio 12K Flex Real-Time PCR System, a new PCR platform for real time and digital PCR. The system will ship in the first quarter of 2012 at a price, depending on configuration, of $90,000–$190,000. The system runs PCR experiments via five interchangeable blocks: 96-well plates, fast 96-well plates for […]
Company Announcements In June, Molecular Devices filed suit against BioTek Instruments in Massachusetts District Court, alleging that the company published and disseminated product comparison materials that were false and misleading. In its answer, BioTek denied the allegations and counterclaimed the same allegations against Molecular Devices. Douglas Scientific announced it June that HighRes Biosolutions will integrate […]
Company Announcements In September, Matthew Malenfant, senior vice president and president of VWR North America, Lab Distribution and Services, resigned. In September, Avantor Performance Materials opened an electronics laboratory in Chupei City, Taiwan. In October, RURO partnered with Angelantoni Industrie to integrate their respective FreezerPro software and Smart Freezer line of ultra-low temperature robotic freezers. […]
Company Announcements Axel Semrau agreed in July to distribute ThalesNano’s products in Germany. Product Introductions In June, Uniqsis introduced a Gas Addition Module for its FlowSyn and other continuous flow reactors. In June, CEM introduced the Discover SPS Plus microwave peptide synthesizer with a cycle time of less than 10 minutes. In July, Biotage released […]
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