Purmerend, Amsterdam 7/1/14—Midmarket buyout firm AAC Capital has acquired a majority interest in Hobré Instruments from Parcom Capital. Hobré’s management team has also invested in the firm. Hobré designs and manufactures online analyzers, sample systems and turnkey systems for the oil and gas, and process industries. The company has annual revenues of €20 million ($27 […]
Bergisch Gladbach, Germany 8/14/14—Miltenyi Biotech, a provider of products and services for biomedical research and cellular therapy, has acquired Lentigen’s lentiviral-vector–manufacturing business and related assets, including intellectual property and process technologies. The purchase price was not disclosed. “It is our goal at Miltenyi Biotec to become the major supplier of lentiviral vectors for cell and […]
Berwyn, PA 8/5/14—AMETEK has purchased Amptek, a provider of x-ray detectors for XRF systems, electronics for nuclear and spaceflight instruments, and gamma-ray detectors. Financial details were not provided. Amptek has annual revenues of $30 million. “Its products and technology nicely complement our existing materials-analysis capabilities,” stated AMETEK Chairman and CEO Frank S. Hermance. “They also […]
Jena, Germany 8/13/14; Jena, Germany 8/14/14—Analytik Jena has agreed to acquire Bruker’s ICP-MS business and assets (see IBO 7/31/14) for an undisclosed amount. The business generated $12 million in revenues in 2013. “With the acquisition of the ICP-MS business from Bruker, we expect to close an important technological gap and will be in position to […]
In July, the Chinese National People’s Congress released a new draft of updates to its Food Safety Law (see IBO 11/15/13). The changes to the law could have widespread impact, given the country’s growth due to investment and its role as a global food producer. By region, Chinese demand is the fastest growing in the […]
Scanning near-field optical microscopy (SNOM or NSOM) is a form of scanning-probe microscopy (SPM) that provides light-based imaging of surfaces at better resolution than traditional light microscopy. With light microscopy, diffraction limits resolution to roughly 250 nm. SNOM instruments can have resolutions an order of magnitude greater, down to about 10 nm. In SPM, piezoelectric […]
Company Announcements Freeslate integrated Wyatt Technology’s DynaPro Plate Reader II into its Biologics Formulation System. Fiscal second quarter sales ending March 31 for Brooks Automation Life Science Systems (LSS) climbed 38.4%, 15.3% excluding the acquisition of Matrical (see IBO 7/31/13), to $12.6 million to account for 10% of company sales (see IBO 5/31/14). Including the […]
Company Announcements In April, IDBS integrated its ELN for life sciences with Neural ID’s Intelligent Waveform Solution for automated biosignal recognition and analysis. IDBS partnered with Rancho Biosciences in April, enabling the companies to provide mutual customers with manual data-curation services for IDBS’s E-WorkBook products in the translational and clinical-research arenas. Ayasdi announced in April […]
FOSS 2013 sales rose 1.2%, 6% organically, to DKK 1,760 million ($313 million) (see IBO 3/15/14). Nanounity agreed to distribute HybriScan Technologies’ Raman spectrometers, which are designed for integration with SEMs. In April, Trinean entered into a manufacturing and supply agreement with Sony DADC for the production of disposables for storage and microcuvette analysis. Product […]
Company Announcements Clontech Laboratories, a subsidiary of Takara Bio, partnered with Vectalys in May to combine its Living Colors fluorescent protein and Tet-On 3G technologies with Vectalys’s expertise in providing ready-to-use lentiviral particles as vectors for gene delivery. The initial product offering will include somatic-cell–reprogramming kits used to generate iPSCs. Horizon Discovery entered into a […]
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