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Analytical instruments company Thermo Electron has completed the
acquisition of InnaPhase, a supplier of Laboratory Information
Management Systems (LIMS) for the pharmaceutical and biotechnology
markets, for approximately $65 million...
Pipetting technology company CyBio has posted half year sales of
€4.5m, down slightly on the €4.6m in 2003. This muted sales
performance is attributed to the differing development of business
in CyBio's sales regions.
UK chemicals group Croda said strong demand for its marine and
plant-derived oils in the personal care and healthcare sectors
lifted sales and helped improve first half operating profits.
Dutch group DSM, one of Europe's top three ingredient suppliers to
drug makers, increased sales of pharma products during the second
quarter but continued losses from the antibiotics market halved the
Life Sciences operating...
UK filtration specialist Domnick Hunter has made a foray into the
US market with the purchase of a Californian company specialising
in filtration for the biopharmaceutical, food and beverage and
chemical industries.
Germany's KGaA has announced plans to sell off its laboratory
distribution business VWR International and operate as a smaller,
higher-margin business focused on pharmaceuticals, chemicals and
liquid crystals.
UK-headquartered separations company Whatman is to sell its filter
cartridge business to Graver Technologies of the US for $2.1
million (€1.7m) in cash, continuing a string of divestments as it
copes with a decline in revenues.
UK company Medisys has confirmed that it will move ahead with the
launch of its Futura safety syringe product on its own and should
be filling customer orders in the second quarter of 2004.
A new low-calorie sweetener which tastes just like table sugar and
is suitable for use in pharmaceuticals and other health care
products is now available from Biospherix, a subsidiary of US firm
Spherix Incorporated.
Inamed has signed up Bayer BP for its computer-controlled AKITA
inhaler, designed to improve respiratory treatment by tailoring the
delivery of inhaled drugs.
Amersham will no longer act as a distributor for Epoch Bioscience's
MGB Eclipse range of probe systems after failing to meet sales
targets, according to the latter company.
Amersham Biosciences has launched a new range of ultrafiltration
cassettes, under the Kvick brand, which it claims "help to speed up
bioprocessing timelines by offering an easy way to separate,
concentrate and diafilter biological...
US company PerkinElmer was presented with the 2003 Analytical
Instrumentation Company of the Year award by market research
company Frost & Sullivan in a ceremony last night.
US biopharmaceutical company Scolr, latterly known as Nutraceutix,
is to ship the first order for its patented controlled delivery
product Glucosamine/Chondroitin to Europe.
UK developer of medical diagnostics devices Osmetech continued the
strategy to build on its healthcare diagnostics business with the
acquisition this week of the Atlanta-based 'OPTI' product line of
blood gas analysers owned...
