Company Announcements Halma acquired in January Hong Kong’s Thinketron Precision Equipment, its Chinese subsidiary Baoding Longer Precision Pump and US subsidiary Langer Instruments for £23.7 million ($37.6 million) and deferred consideration. Longer Pump manufacturers and markets peristaltic, syringe and gear pumps used in lab, medical and industrial applications. Halma announced that its Health & Analysis […]
Atomic Spectroscopy Bruker’s N8 Horizon instrument was introduced in November 2012. The N8 has a brilliant microspot source with a 0.5 mm spot size, and a sample holder that can be configured for small-angle and grazing incidence XRD. The standard Vantec area detector can also be augmented by an optional linear detector to provide wide-angle […]
In March, Brazil announced the BRL 32.9 billion ($16.7 billion) Inova Empresa Plan for innovation, which provides R&D funding for 2013 and 2014. Seventy-three percent of the funding is allocated to seven strategic pillars: agriculture and agribusiness, energy, oil and gas, health, defense, information and communication technology, and environmental sustainability. Funding is available through four […]
The Higher Education Funding Council for England, the main source of research funding for UK universities, announced that grant funding for the 2014 academic year totals £4,472 million ($6.8 million) for 129 universities and colleges. For recurrent grants, the funding consists of £2,325 million for teaching, £1,558 million for research and £160 million for knowledge […]
In March, Argentina’s government unveiled Innovative Argentina 2020, a plan for R&D for the energy, industry, health, agribusiness, social development, and environment and sustainable development sectors. The strategy targets an increase in R&D investment as a percentage of GDP from 0.65% to 1.65% by 2020, which the government said requires private-sector spending to rise from […]
The EPA proposed a rule to lower air pollution from vehicles. The Tier 3 Motor Vehicle Emission and Fuel Standards will reduce the sulfur content of gas to 10 ppm on an annual average basis starting in 2017. The vehicle emission standards will be phased in, affecting vehicle models produced between 2017 and 2025. The […]
The Obama Administration announced plans for the Brain Research through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies (BRAIN) Initiative, for which the president will request $100 million in funding for fiscal 2014. The Initiative will seek to develop technologies to image individual brain cells and neural-circuit interactions with the goal of improving the treatment of brain disorders. The budget […]
A survey by Booz & Company of drug company executives, experts and its own staff concluded that a tailored approach to local markets is needed for pharmaceutical firms in emerging markets. In 2016, emerging markets are forecast to account for 30% of the $1,190 billion worldwide pharmaceutical market, up from 20% in 2011. Among emerging […]
The US federal government’s primary science R&D agencies must deal with less funding for fiscal 2013 (FY13) (October 2012–September 2013) in the wake of the finalized budget. The budgets for most science R&D agencies are cut by an automatic 5.0% as part of the sequestration (see IBO 3/15/13), in addition to any reductions from FY12 […]
Fourth-quarter 2012 IBO Lab Equipment/Consumables Sales Index revenues grew 2.1%, 3.4% excluding currency, to $4,316 million. Operating profit advanced 0.4% to $735 million. Operating margin declined 50 basis points to 17.9% of sales. Full-year 2012 Index sales grew 1.6%, 2.6% excluding currency, to $16,472 million. Adjusted operating profit rose 2.7% to $2,889 million. Operating margin […]
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