Industry News
Rainin Program Plants a Tree if You Recycle
April 18, 2013 7:00 am | by METTLER TOLEDO | News | CommentsMETTLER TOLEDO subsidiary Rainin Instrument has launched a new program to encourage its customers to reuse the heavy-duty cardboard return kits it sends to those who request mail-in service for their pipettes.
Thermo Fisher to Buy Life Technologies for $13.6 B
April 15, 2013 1:13 pm | by Thermo Fisher Scientific, Inc. | News | CommentsThermo Fisher Scientific and Life Technologies Corp. have signed a definitive agreement under which Thermo Fisher will acquire Life Technologies for $76.00 in cash per fully diluted common share, or approximately $13.6 billion, plus the assumption of net debt at close.
Shimadzu Scientific Instruments Makes Record Gift
March 4, 2013 7:00 am | by Shimadzu Scientific Instruments | News | CommentsA new $7.5 million gift from Shimadzu Scientific Instruments to The Univ. of Texas at Arlington will support one of the most significant installments of advanced scientific equipment in the U.S., propelling the university to new heights of discovery and innovation.
Alliance Combines Metrohm, FOSS NIRSystems
February 15, 2013 2:29 pm | by Metrohm | News | CommentsMetrohm and FOSS have entered into a strategic alliance strengthening the two companies’ leading positions in their respective key markets.
Covaris, HORIBA Instruments Form Strategic Relationship
February 14, 2013 7:00 am | by Covaris, Inc. | News | CommentsCovaris, Inc., a company for focused acoustic technologies for the life sciences, is pleased to announce the establishment of a marketing alliance with HORIBA Instruments.
Specialty Coating Systems Announces AS9100C Certification
February 13, 2013 7:00 am | by Specialty Coating Systems | News | CommentsSpecialty Coating Systems is pleased to announce the company has achieved AS9100 Revision C certification for its Parylene coating service centers in Austin, Texas and Singapore.
Ellsworth Adhesives Acquires Adhesive Methods and Technology
February 12, 2013 7:00 am | by Ellsworth Adhesives | News | CommentsEllsworth Adhesives, a distributor of adhesive products and dispensing equipment, announced that it has acquired Tennessee-based distributor, Adhesive Methods and Technology.
NETZSCH, NREL Partner to Develop Li-Ion Battery Testing Instrumentation
February 6, 2013 7:00 am | by NETZSCH | News | CommentsTemperature has a strong impact on performance, safety and life of batteries, therefore understanding and control of temperature is necessary to successfully operate lithium ion batteries, particularly for electric drive vehicles that are critical for a lowering dependence on imported oil and air pollution.
Fera, Waters Open International Food Safety Training Laboratory
January 23, 2013 8:09 am | by Waters | News | CommentsA major new international food safety training facility, aimed at improving compliance with EU food import standards, is being launched.
Videos Show How to Open Micro Bags, Clean a Laboratory Blender
January 22, 2013 8:44 am | by Seward Ltd | News | CommentsA new series of videos acts as an easy guide to make opening micro bags and cleaning laboratory blenders less stressful.
Biofuels Center Expands Sector Development Capabilities with $1.14 M Investment
January 18, 2013 8:37 am | by Biofuels Center of North Carolina | News | CommentsBiofuels Center of North Carolina will award $766,256 to a consortium of partners led by AdvantageWest Economic Development Group to fortify the biofuels sector and trigger its expansion in the region. The project partners will invest a 50 percent matching contribution of $383,128, for a total project investment of $1,149,384.
Dow Opens Innovation Center to Advance Computing, Informatics Applications
January 17, 2013 8:12 am | by Univ. of Illinois Urbana-Champaign | News | CommentsAs part of its mission to solve challenging problems through innovation, The Dow Chemical Company announced a partnership with the Univ. of Illinois to open the Dow Innovation Center, a research facility located at the Univ. of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.
Mockett Announces Design Competition Winners
January 16, 2013 8:29 am | by Doug Mockett & Company | News | CommentsDoug Mockett & Company’s 28th Annual Design Competition winners have been announced.
B&W Tek, Inc Announces New Director of Analytical Services and Support
January 10, 2013 8:29 am | by B&W Tek, Inc. | News | CommentsB&W Tek, Inc., an advanced instrumentation company producing optical spectroscopy and laser systems announces Katherine Bakeev as the new Director of Analytical Services and Support at their headquarters in Newark, Delaware.
Amgen to Acquire deCODE Genetics
December 11, 2012 8:15 am | by Amgen | News | CommentsAmgen and deCODE Genetics announced that the companies have entered into a definitive agreement under which Amgen will acquire deCODE Genetics.
$2.1 M Grant to Berkeley Advances Dark Energy Research
December 5, 2012 8:34 am | by Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory | News | CommentsA $2.1 million grant from the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation to the Univ. of California at Berkeley, through the Berkeley Center for Cosmological Physics (BCCP), will fund the development of revolutionary technologies for BigBOSS, a project now in the proposal stage designed to study dark energy with unprecedented precision.
DOE Supports Batteries, Energy Storage Hub
December 4, 2012 8:12 am | by Pacific Northwest National Laboratory | News | CommentsPacific Northwest National Laboratory is part of a team led by Argonne National Laboratory that will receive $120 million from the Department of Energy to establish a new batteries and energy storage research hub called the Joint Center for Energy Storage Research.
CoolLED Establishes Customer Support Business
December 3, 2012 8:34 am | by CoolLED Ltd. | News | CommentsCoolLED Ltd. announced the formation of CoolLED USA. The business will promote and support CoolLED’s LED products to users in the USA and Canada.
Foster Wheeler Biokinetics, G-Con Manufacturing Announce Global Collaboration
November 30, 2012 8:42 am | by Foster Wheeler Biokinetics, G-Con Manufacturing | News | CommentsFoster Wheeler Biokinetics announced that they have signed a global collaboration to offer highly advanced and flexible production platforms for the biopharmaceutical manufacturing industry.
WITec Expands Presence in Canada
November 29, 2012 8:39 am | by WITec | News | CommentsWITec selected Spectra Research Corporation (SRC) as new sales representative in Canada.
Bird Precision Celebrates 100 Years
November 27, 2012 11:22 am | by Bird Precision | News | CommentsBird Precision began producing ruby ring jewels for the Waltham Watch factory in 1913.
$100,000 Grant for Greener Solvent Research Issued
November 27, 2012 8:43 am | by ACS | News | CommentsThe ACS GCI Pharmaceutical Roundtable, a partnership between the American Chemical Society’s Green Chemistry Institute (ACS GCI) and member corporations in the pharmaceutical field, is accepting proposals for a one-year, $100,000 grant supporting research in the development of greener solvents that can be used in the pharmaceutical industry.
HORIBA Europe Opens State-of-the-Art Research Center
November 26, 2012 8:29 am | by HORIBA Europe | News | CommentsHORIBA Europe inaugurated its new research and technology center at the Saclay Technopole.
Agilent Opens X-ray Diffraction Facility in Poland
November 20, 2012 4:12 pm | by Agilent Technologies Inc. | News | CommentsAgilent Technologies Inc. announced it has opened a new X-ray diffraction manufacturing facility in Wrocław, Poland. The state-of-the-art facility gives Agilent significantly greater manufacturing capacity and enhanced R&D capabilities compared with the company’s old facility.
Ventana CEO Headlines Congressional Briefing on Patient Safety, Cancer
November 20, 2012 8:19 am | by Ventana Medical Systems, Inc. | News | CommentsVentana Medical Systems, Inc. announced that a Congressional Briefing in Washington this week explored critical patient safety issues related to tissue slide processing that often get overlooked in US clinical and anatomic laboratories.
