If executive compensation plans are designed to reward financial performance and increase shareholder returns, then fiscal 2010 was an exemplary year. In fiscal 2010, total median compensation for the 55 executives at 40 analytical instrument and laboratory product companies in the four IBO Stock Indexes (see IBO 4/30/11) soared 34.3% to $2,761,689. For those same […]
Instrument and laboratory product company executives’ expectations have improved from last fall but are not where they were a year ago, according to the results of IBO’s Spring 2011 Business Climate Survey. IBO’s biannual business climate surveys gauge executives’ outlook for industry sales and opinions about economic issues and market trends. Twenty-eight executives were surveyed […]
The quest to identify the ideal measure of water quality is an evolving saga and involves various analyses, such as dissolved oxygen, total organic carbon (TOC), chemical oxygen demand (COD) and biological oxygen demand (BOD). Developing reliable, easy-to-use instrumentation for such measurements is a challenge, but one that makers of COD analyzers are increasingly up […]
Revised attendance figures released by Pittcon in early April indicated that total 2011 attendance increased 1.9% to 17,199. This figure compares to the 1.3% increase reported in IBO last month (see IBO 3/31/11). The number of attendees, excluding exhibitors, media and undergraduate students, was down a marginal 0.3% to 9,599 to make up 56% of […]
North Brunswick, New Jersey–based company Distek, which focuses on dissolution products and services, unveiled at Pittcon 2011 its Symphony 7100 dissolution test, which is scheduled to begin shipping in June at an introductory price of $19,625 (see IBO 4/15/11). Distek’s Global Sales and Marketing Manager Jeff Seely told IBO that the concept of the product […]
Company Announcements Agilent and Sage Science signed a comarketing agreement in February for Agilent’s 2100 Bioanalyzer and Sage Science’s Pippin Prep DNA size-selection system. Life Technologies introduced a fourth $1 million challenge in its Life Grand Challenges Contest: to sequence the genome and all RNA content derived from a single cancer cell using the 5500 […]
Company Announcements In January, RainDance Technologies closed a Series D financing round of $37.5 million, coled by Mohr Davidow Ventures and new investor Quaker BioVentures. Precision System Science entered into a supply and distribution agreement with IntegenX for its SX-8G Compact Automated Nucleic Acid Extractor, which will be cobranded as the Apollo 324. In February, […]
Company Announcements SPECTRO Analytical Instruments GmbH formed a strategic marketing alliance with SII NanoTechnology in February to market its ICP-OES and ICP-MS systems in Japan. SPECTRO will continue to support its existing Japanese customers through its subsidiary. In February, PANalytical acquired the XRF laboratories in Keyworth, UK, from the British Geological Survey (BGS). The labs […]
Company Announcements GenomeQuest and Ingenuity Systems integrated their respective Sequence Data Management platform and IPA software. Analytik Jena’s AJ Blomesystem subsidiary, a LIMS supplier, acquired a 55% share in comicon, which develops software modules for lipid chemistry for food analysis. CLC bio will participate in the EU’s COGANGS (Comparative Genomics and Next Generation Sequencing) project […]
In early April, India became a member of the OECD Mutual Acceptance of Data (MAD), an agreement that allows results of nonclinical safety tests performed on chemicals and chemical products in adherence to OECD Test Guidelines and Principles of Good Laboratory Practice to be shared with other member countries. MAD members include all OECD countries, […]
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