Company Announcements In March, Halma acquired Wagtech’s Water Technology Division for £3.0 million ($4.9 million). The Division, which supplies water test kits and arsenic test kits, was merged with Palintest. Esco named XQ Lin CEO in March. He previously served as president of the North American subsidiary. Biohit announced in March a net sales target […]
Company Announcements First-quarter Roche Applied Science revenue declined 12%, down 3% in local currencies, to CHF 198 million ($211 million) due to a large one-time order a year ago. Custom Biotech sales grew 13%, Genomic Analysis sales increased 1%, Other revenue fell 10% and qPCR & Nucleic Acid Purification sales fell 16%. Europe/Middle East/Africa and […]
Company Announcements Nobel Laureate Paul Berg, PhD, retired from Affymetrix’s Board in May. In March, Gentel Biosciences acquired the SilverQuant trademark from Eppendorf. Gentel acquired the rights to the array-based chromogenic detection technology in 2008 for use in protein-detection assay applications. In June, Microarrays Inc. named three new exclusive distributors: Cambio for the UK and […]
Company Announcements FEI and CEA-Leti announced in March a three-year agreement to characterize advanced semiconductor materials for the 22 nm technology node. Research will focus on the use of holography to improve the sensitivity of dopant profiling and the use of nanobeam diffraction techniques to measure changes in strain and other crystallographic parameters. In March, […]
The continuing resolution (CR) to fund the US federal government through the end of fiscal year (FY) 2011 is $38.5 billion below the FY10 level. President Obama signed HR 1473 into law April 15 (see IBO 4/15/11). It is regarded as a CR instead of an appropriations bill, and therefore was not supplemented with clarifying […]
IBO has selected Thermo Fisher Scientific’s Orbitrap Elite as the product of the show for this year’s ASMS meeting. While Agilent’s 7200 Q-TOF GC/MS further expands the GC/MS market and Thermo Fisher Scientific’s Q-Exactive will undoubtedly have a strong impact on the mid-range LC/MS market, the Orbitrap Elite offers a dramatic performance improvement to what […]
China is expected to become the world’s second-largest pharmaceutical market in 2015 due to macro-developments including socio-economic changes and a modernized health care infrastructure. However, the top 10 Western drug companies in the market each have only a single-digit market share. Domestic drug companies number more than 5,000 and are primarily focused on generics manufacturing […]
Egypt’s cabinet gave the green light to establish the Zewail City of Science and Technology by a unanimous vote in May. Approval for the $2 billion City, which will be comprised of a university, graduate research and industrial institutions, and a technology park on 100 hectares of land in the Cairo suburb of Sheikh Zayed, […]
Revenues for the food and drink industry accounted for 12.9% of the EU’s manufacturing sector in 2009, making it the largest sector in terms of sales, according to the Confederation of the Food and Drink Industries’ (CIAA) “2010 Data & Trends of the European Food and Drink Industry” report. In 2009, the sector’s sales fell […]
Two of the eight chemicals added to the 12th “Report on Carcinogens” are used every day. The report, from the NIH’s National Toxicology Program, cited repeated exposure during manufacturing as much riskier than normal exposure. Consumers were advised not to come in contact with either formaldehyde, a known carcinogen, or styrene, a probable carcinogen. Questionable […]
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