Mountain View, CA and Shenzhen, China 9/17/12; Washington, DC 11/13/12; Washington DC, 11/21/12; Washington DC 11/25/12; Washington, DC 11/27/12—Publicly held Complete Genomics, a provider of DNA sequencing services, has rejected an offer by Illumina to acquire the company. On November 20, Illumina submitted a $3.30 per share unsolicited offer for the firm. In September, Complete […]
Egham, UK 11/26/12—Spectris has agreed to acquire Analytical Spectral Devices (ASD) for $14 million, excluding debt and cash. In addition, a contingent consideration of up to $19 million will be payable based on sales through December 2015. ASD is a provider of NIR instrumentation solutions and application expertise for materials measurement and research. “ASD’s successful […]
Major publicly held instrument and laboratory product businesses continued to weather a slow growth environment in the calendar-year third quarter. Revenues for the eight businesses whose quarterly results are detailed on pages 9–11 grew 2.0%, including approximately 4.2% organic growth (see table, page 9). This compares with reported sales growth of 3.1% last quarter, with […]
Even excluding American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) funding, US university spending on R&D continued to grow in fiscal year 2011 (FY11) (ending June 30, 2011). Without ARRA funding, university spending on R&D would have grown 4.0% to $60.9 billion, according to the NSF’s Higher Education Research and Development (HERD) Survey. Including ARRA funds, university […]
Demand for portable gas analyzers that incorporate IR sensors has gradually grown into a sizeable market. Technological improvements now allow for the combination of multiple types of sensors into easily portable instruments. The potential implementation of carbon dioxide emission regulations is likely to be the largest driver of demand. IR-based portable gas analyzers typically use […]
Montreal, Canada–based SCP Science is a firm that transitioned from providing consumables to providing instrumentation as well. George Feilders, president of SCP Science, founded the 140-employee firm in 1980. In 1999, the firm began manufacturing its first microwave digestion system, the DigiPREP digestion system. “Our focus is atomic spectroscopy, and our product range represents those […]
New figures released this month by the Turkish Statistics Institute show that Turkey’s domestic R&D grew 20.4% in 2011 to TRY 11,154 million ($6,374 million = TRY 1.75 = $1), following a 14.6% increase in 2010. Labor, “other current costs” (non-capital materials and supplies, administrative costs, indirect service), instruments and equipment, and land and buildings […]
Company Announcements ATCC agreed in August to distribute a select set of Horizon Discovery’s panels of X-MAN isogenic cell lines to academic and nonprofit customers as part of or in conjunction with its Tumor Cell Panels for non-commercial research. EMD agreed in August to distribute Plasticell’s single-application osteogenic medium, which is serum free and xeno […]
Company Announcements GE Analytical Instruments expanded its direct service into Italy in June. XRF Scientific named CFO and COO Vance Stazzonelli CEO in August. Product Introductions Dynasil introduced the LPXpro Lead Paint Analyzer, which delivers readings in two seconds. XG Lab launched the portable ELIO detection head for its energy dispersive–X-ray fluorescence (ED-XRF) system. It […]
Company Announcements Agilent Technologies and South Korea–based Samsung Medical Center entered into a collaboration agreement in July. The Department of Laboratory Medicine & Genetics Research will use the 6530 Q-TOF LC/MS and 6430 Triple Quadrupole LC/MS systems to analyze clinical samples and develop novel clinical assays. In August, Thermo Fisher Scientific entered into a Technology […]
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