Radnor, PA 11/7/14—VWR has acquired Integra Companies and STI Components for an undisclosed amount. Integra Companies supplies single-use connectivity solutions, including tubing, hoses and gaskets for high-purity environments to the biopharmaceutical, food-processing and microelectronic industries in the Northeast US. STI Components provides high-purity fluid-handling components and custom-engineered solutions for the biopharmaceutical, food-processing and microelectronic industries […]
Boston, MA 11/10/14; Boston, MA 11/12/14—The US District Court for Massachusetts has dismissed PerkinElmer’s 2012 suit against Agilent Technologies (see IBO 3/31/12) with prejudice and without costs, after a joint stipulation of dismissal by the parties. The complaint alleged patent infringement of two MS-related patents by Agilent and breach of a sublicense agreement due to […]
Minneapolis, MN 11/4/14—Life science tools firm Bio-Techne has agreed to acquire CyVek for $60 million in cash, in addition to a potential earn-out payment of up to $35 million and an additional potential earn-out of up to $100 million. The acquisition’s closing follows CyVek’s fulfillment of certain milestones (see IBO 4/15/14). Based in Connecticut with […]
Hercules, CA 11/3/14; Washington, DC 11/3/14; Washington, DC 11/3/14—Life science and diagnostics products firm Bio-Rad Laboratories has fully resolved the US Department of Justice (DOJ) and SEC investigations into violations of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act. The violations occurred between 2005 and 2010, were related to Thailand, Vietnam and Russia, and involved both life sciences […]
In the second of IBO’s biannual reviews of new analytical-instrument and laboratory-product patent litigation (see IBO 4/30/14), the focus is on settlements and dismissals. Among the long-running disputes that have been resolved are cases involving Agilent Technologies and Illumina. New Suits GE Bio-Science filed suit against Bio-Rad Laboratories in the US District Court for the […]
Merck KGaA’s acquisition of Sigma-Aldrich for $17.0 billion ($16.3 billion net of cash) (see IBO 9/30/14) ranked among the top 10 of all US acquisitions announced year to date and set a new record for the instrument and lab-product–related industry. This transaction illustrates the continuance of consolidation for scalability and product depth among lab-consumable and […]
The one thousand companies that spent the most on R&D in fiscal 2014 (ending June 30) increased spending by 1.4% to $647 billion. Revenues rose 3.7% to $18.4 trillion. Spending as a percentage of revenue dropped to 3.5%. The top 100 companies’ expenditures made up only 1% of the annual increase in spending, compared with […]
Supercritical fluid chromatography (SFC) is used for small-molecule analysis and the separation of chiral compounds, enantiomers and other low-molecular-weight compounds. SFC differs from traditional LC in that its mobile phase is carbon dioxide, which necessitates a completely pressurized flow path. This pressure must be maintained with automated back-pressure regulators, and the units can be bulky […]
Company Announcements Emulate launched in July a $12 million Series A financing to commercialize its “Organs-on-Chips” platform. The Boston Business Journal reported in July that PathoGenetix, which was developing its Genome Sequence Scanning technology for pathogen detection in food, filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy. In August, Blacktrace Holding, which owns Dolomite Microfluidics and Syrris, licensed […]
Company Announcements Agilent Technologies agreed in June to distribute Cerno Bioscience’s MassWorks calibration and analysis software with all Agilent GC/MSD systems. The technology increases the mass accuracy of Agilent’s single-quadrupole GC/MSD to enable unknown-compound identification. In August, Agilent Technologies and Shimadzu released each other’s GC instrument control for their respective chromatography data systems (CDSs). INFICON’s […]
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