Company Announcements Endress+Hauser established a joint venture in Saudi Arabia with Anasia (Abudawood Group), with which it has collaborated for 10 years. The joint venture’s sales center operates from three locations and has 35 employees. In February, Sartorius Stedim Biotech signed a private-label agreement with Trace Analyzers, giving Sartorius exclusive rights to market, distribute and […]
The financial crisis in Greece has made an already dire situation even more difficult for researchers. Greece receives €3 billion ($4 billion) annually in structural funds from the EU. But only about 5% of this amount, which constitutes the majority of the country’s national research funding, goes toward research. Last year, the European Commission reduced […]
Product Introductions HORIBA Scientific introduced the Aqualog benchtop fluorometer, which simultaneously measures absorbance spectra and fluorescence excitation–emission matrices, for the faster measurement of colored dissolved organic matter in water. X-Rite released NetProfiler 3.0 to verify, optimize and certify handheld and benchtop spectrophotometers used at locations worldwide on a regular basis. It now includes embedded profiling […]
The “Nature Publishing Index 2011 Asia-Pacific” reveals that Japan leads the region in the number of scientific publications. The Index encompasses articles, letters and brief communications published in Nature and its 17 research journals in the 12-month period prior to the Index’s March release. There were 856 scientific publications attributed to Asia Pacific in that […]
On April 17, the EPA released final standards for the reduction of air pollution from natural gas wells that use hydraulic fracturing, or “fracking.” Well operators have until January 2015 to employ techniques to trap natural gas that seeps from wells, so it can be used or sold. In 2009, about 1.1 million US wells […]
Firms responding to AusBiotech and Grant Thornton’s second annual Biotechnology Industry Position Survey plan to spend a collective $610 million on R&D this year. The survey, conducted in January, questioned 50 CEOs at Australian life science and biotech companies. Participating CEOs at 82% of firms anticipate that their businesses will expand this year. Although just […]
Domestic and foreign R&D spending by members of the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America (PhRMA) declined 2.4% in 2011 to an estimated $49,476 million. Domestic spending fell 5.3%, but foreign R&D rose 9.2% to make up 78% and 22% of R&D spending, respectively. As a percentage of sales, total R&D was 16.7%. Sales by […]
Worldwide clean energy spending grew 6.5% in 2011 to $263 billion. Lower clean energy technology prices and increased spending helped the total installed clean energy capacity grow 17.3% to 565 GW. The Group of Twenty (G-20) countries made up 95% of total clean energy spending. China’s investment in clean energy technology grew just 1.1% but […]
In IBO’s first look this year at instrument and laboratory product firms’ patent infringement litigation, familiar names abound. New Litigation Last month, Illumina was named the defendant in a patent infringement suit brought in Delaware District Court. The initial complaint named only Columbia University as the plaintiff. An amended complaint filed in April listed Intelligent […]
Radnor, PA 4/27/12—VWR International has agreed to acquire basan Germany, a distributor of products and related services for clean rooms in Europe and Southeast Asia. Financial details were not disclosed. The company also distributes its own basan brand of consumables. “Basan’s well-established reputation in cleanroom products and services combined with their strong product and application […]
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