Santa Clara, CA 11/3/14; Santa Clara, 11/20/14—Agilent Technologies has announced that beginning with the current quarter, the first quarter of its fiscal year 2015, it will report in three new divisions: the Life Sciences and Applied Markets Group (LSAG), the Diagnostics and Genomics Group (DGG), and the Agilent CrossLab Group (see IBO 9/30/14). “The organization […]
The calendar-year third quarter produced mixed financial results for the revenues of major publicly held analytical instrument and laboratory-product businesses. Growth in selected clinical and pharmaceutical end-markets offset continued weakness in industrial end-markets and China. Companies forecast little change for the next quarter. Revenues for the seven businesses whose results are detailed on pages 9–11 […]
This month, Eurostat released the first estimates of 2013 R&D expenditures of the 28 EU member states. Also provided was a breakdown of expenditures by sector, and R&D intensity (R&D expenditure as a percentage of GDP) for each country. The report of R&D intensity is the first using the new European System of Accounts (ESA). […]
Over the past few decades, MS has developed into a vibrant and diverse market. The instruments’ ability to rapidly and accurately detect and identify molecules in a sample has made their underlying technology a gold standard in applications from proteomics to environmental testing. The technology requires a number of subsystems to work in concert: a […]
To augment IBO’s coverage of quarterly financial results, IBO will now provide sidebar summaries of results for companies not in the Sales Indexes. Third quarter FEI sales grew 4.2%, 3.5% organically, to $218.5 million (see page 12), with acquisitions contributing 0.9% and currency lowering sales 0.2%. Industry sales grew 3.3%, 1.7% organically, to account for […]
Hach’s SL1000 Portable Parallel Analyzer (PPA) is a handheld device for water-quality testing. It was developed with the capabilities that customers most commonly wanted in instruments for field testing—testing more parameters in less time, eliminating error and performing tests more easily. The PPA has inputs for two probes and slots—each with a pump—for four Chemkeys, […]
The purchase prices of certain acquisitions are not announced initially but are later announced in SEC filings. Below are acquisitions whose price was subsequently disclosed.
Company Announcements JH Technologies and Leica Microsystems expanded their regional coverage for industrial, educational and forensic customers in August to include Southern California. McBain Systems will expand their service capability and continue to serve as the Leica regional service organization for the Western US. Thermo Fisher Scientific named AXT as a distributor of its Nano-scale […]
Company Announcements Sphere Fluidics secured in June $2.3 million in the first close of a new investment fund to develop its Cyto-Mine single-cell analysis system. BioFluidix and cytena partnered to develop single-cell printing technology. In August, News-Gazette.com reported that Sony Biotechnology will close the 22-person iCyt Mission Technology site in Champaign, Illinois, and move the […]
Company Announcements In September, ChromaCon entered into a licensing and technical collaboration agreement with LEWA, granting LEWA license rights to its intellectual property for twin-column–bed chromatography. Microsaic Systems signed an OEM agreement with Gilson. Shipments are expected to start in the first quarter of 2015, with volumes increasing to 50 per year. Product Introductions W. […]
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