Company Announcements Human Longevity (HLI) announced in April a 10-year agreement with AstraZeneca to sequence and analyze up to 500,000 DNA samples from clinical samples. The insights will be added to HLI’s Knowledgebase. Takara Bio USA and Integrated DNA Technologies announced a collaboration to support low-input targeted RNA sequencing. TATAA Biocenter agreed to distribute Lexogen’s […]
Company Announcements Nature reported in May that antibody supplier Santa Cruz Biotechnology had agreed to pay $3.5 million for the violation of the US Animal Welfare Act. The settlement also cancels the company’s license to sell, buy or import animals and its registration to operate as an animal research facility. DefiniGEN, a provider of stem […]
Company Announcements The Irish Times reported in April that Merck KGaA opened a €55 million ($63 million) manufacturing and R&D facility at its site in Cork, Ireland. The facility will produce specialty membrane and chromatography media products. BIA Separations named Nilsan Nishotech Systems as a new distributor for India. In June, protein chromatography firm Practichem […]
Company Announcements Lab equipment and manufacturing solutions provider SP Industries purchased in March PennTech Machinery, a provider of complete vial handling solutions. In April, OpenGate Capital and Thermo Fisher Scientific mutually stipulated to the dismissal with prejudice of OpenGate’s suit against Thermo Fisher (see IBO 5/31/13). In April, Esco Ventures established Esco Ventures Labs, a […]
The industrial process for converting a liquid solution or slurry into a dry powder is known as spray drying. A typical spray dryer operates by dispersing liquid feed in the form of a mist into a cylindrical chamber, where a stream of hot gas can dry the droplets in a split second. Although the vast […]
The rate of productivity growth, as measured by sales per employee for instrument and laboratory product companies, more than doubled in FY15 compared to the previous year, and grew slightly above the average 3.2% growth rate from FY10 to FY14. Based on currency-neutral sales, the average sales-per-employee ratio for the 19 companies in the table […]
The 44th International Symposium on HPLC 2016 was held at the San Francisco, California, Marriott Marquis from June 19 through June 24. The event included a series of short courses, tutorials, poster sessions, vendor technical workshops, and an exhibition featuring suppliers of HPLC systems, columns, software, components and consumables. The venue continues a tradition of […]
Based in Vermont, BioTek Instruments has over 400 employees. Its instrumentation is found in over 125,000 labs. Thirty percent of employees are located outside the US, and the company has 11 subsidiaries worldwide and 70 distributors. BioTek’s development in many ways mirrors the development of the drug discovery instrumentation market, from the heyday of big […]
Goettingen, Germany 6/28/16; Albuquerque, NM 6/28/16—Pharmaceutical and lab equipment supplier Sartorius has acquired IntelliCyt for $90 million in cash, including $5 million in future tax savings. Based in Albuquerque, New Mexico, with 55 employees, IntelliCyt provides cell screening platforms for drug discovery applications. IntelliCyt’s revenues are expected to increase approximately 34% in 2016 to more […]
Santa Clara, CA and Boston, MA 6/27/16—Agilent Technologies has agreed to acquire substantially all the assets of iLab Solutions for an undisclosed amount. Based in Boston, Massachusetts, with close to 70 employees, iLab provides lab management services to universities, research hospitals and independent institutes. iLab offerings consist of web-based core facility management services, such as […]
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