Chalfont St. Giles, UK 4/28/11—GE Healthcare has agreed to acquire Applied Precision for an undisclosed amount. Applied Precision supplies cellular imaging technology for the cell biology and biomedical research sectors, including high-resolution and super-resolution microscopy instruments with software and data visualization tools. The company has 130 employees and recorded 2010 revenues of $37 million, with […]
Familiar names dominate the first of IBO’s twice yearly review of patent litigation among analytical instrument companies. DNA sequencing technology has given rise to a new set of infringement suits. In addition, other life science techniques and XRF are the focus of new litigation. New Suits Affymetrix and Illumina are at it again following the […]
The first of IBO’s biannual new laboratory roundup indicates that companies are trying to strengthen their position in foreign markets by expanding their lab presence in Asia, most notably in India and China, to serve customers both locally and globally. In addition, the table on page 6 highlights plans for new academic, forensics and nonprofit […]
The American Chemical Society (ACS) held its 241st National Meeting in Anaheim, California, on March 27–31. The technical program featured over 9,000 papers. Attendance was 14,023, down 22.4% from the spring 2010 conference held in San Francisco, California, which had the second-largest attendance ever. IBO attended a presentation by Simon J. Teague, PhD, principal scientist, […]
While instruments that measure the size and distribution of individual particles in a powder form a significant market, there is also an interesting but smaller market for instruments that measure the bulk properties of powders. These measurements are largely motivated by problems in industrial processing, where the behavior of powders passing through hoppers and bins, […]
Agilent Technologies, ITT and Merck KGaA each completed major analytical instrument or laboratory product acquisitions within the last year. IBO spoke with each company about the challenges related to and new opportunities resulting from the acquisitions. Merck completed its $7.0 billion purchase of Millipore in July 2010 (see IBO 2/28/10). According to Jon DiVincenzo, head […]
Since it was founded in 1994, Advanced Chemistry Development (ACD/Labs) has aimed to provide its customers with desktop and enterprise solutions to efficiently manage the substantial amount of information generated in R&D. The company’s offerings include analytical data management and interpretation software, nomenclature software, and physicochemical property and ADMET prediction tools. ACD/Labs has grown from […]
Company Announcements Pyrolyzer maker Frontier Laboratories opened its first US office in October 2010 in Antioch, California. The company is working with Diablo Analytical to assist its existing US distributors, Quantum Analytics and Shimadzu. Shimadzu announced in January that its GC-2010 Plus and GC-2014 systems can now be controlled in a Waters Empower Software environment. […]
Company Announcements NT-MDT announced that its US sales of scanning probe microscopes increased threefold in 2010. Sales in Europe grew more than 35%. Daniel McGee was named president of Carl Zeiss Nano Technology Systems’ North American operations in February. JPK Instruments appointed Lotis Korea as its exclusive Korean distributor and KL Analytical as its exclusive […]
Company Announcements In 2010, sales for Roche Diagnostics Applied Science were flat at CHF 868 million ($835 million), but grew 4% in local currencies, to make up 8% of Roche Diagnostics revenue. Genomic Analysis, Custom Biotech and Other sales grew 17%, 13% and 4%, respectively, but qPCR & Nucleic Acid Purification sales fell 12%. Asia-Pacific […]
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