SPT Labtech announces acquisition of Apricot Designs

20 January, 2021 Apricot Designs’ product breadth further expands SPT Labtech’s liquid handling portfolio and advances leadership in the automated instrumentation market SPT Labtech, a global leader in the design and development of automated instrumentation and consumables for life science applications, announces the acquisition of Apricot Designs Inc., headquartered in Covina, California. Apricot Designs has... Read more

ITW to Acquire MTS Test & Simulation Business From Amphenol

Company Release – 1/19/2021Download the PDF version PDF Format (opens in new window)PDF 112 KB GLENVIEW, Ill. and WALLINGFORD, Conn., Jan. 19, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Illinois Tool Works Inc. (NYSE: ITW), a global multi-industrial manufacturing leader, and Amphenol Corporation (NYSE: APH), a leading global provider of high-technology interconnect, antenna and sensor solutions, today announced that they... Read more

Streamlining Process Scale-Up with the New Eppendorf BioFlo 720 Bioprocess Controller

Hamburg, January 14, 2021 Streamlining the transfer of an upstream bioprocess from research to production scale is critical for reducing biologics development costs and time to market. Eppendorf, a leading life science company, introduces the BioFlo 720, a bioprocess control station for applications at pilot/production scale using single-use bioreactors. With it, Eppendorf now offers one of... Read more

Oxford Nanopore and NVIDIA collaborate to partner the DGX AI compute system with ultra-high throughput PromethION sequencer

Tue 12th January 2021 Oxford Nanopore Technologies and NVIDIA are collaborating this year to integrate the NVIDIA DGX Station A100 into Oxford Nanopore’s ultra-high throughput sequencing system, PromethION.  Partnering the NVIDIA A100 Tensor Core GPU technology with the PromethION device aims to deliver the world’s most powerful sequencer that supports real-time analyses at scale, and... Read more

Announcing SciAps DACH

JANUARY 12, 2021COMPANY, LIBS, NEWS & PRESS, XRF SciAps, Inc. a Boston-based company specializing in handheld analytical instrumentation, is pleased to announce that Mr. Vito Angona has joined the company in the role of Managing Director, Germany, Austria and Switzerland (the “DACH” countries). SciAps will be opening a German-based subsidiary SciAps Germany in Krefeld, just outside of Dusseldorf.... Read more

Dr. Robert Plank becomes new President of HORIBA Europe GmbH

01/12/2021 |   Press Release In addition to the Automotive segment, the new president of HORIBA Europe GmbH Dr. Robert Plank is now also responsible for the Process & Environmental, Scientific and Semiconductor segments HORIBA today appointed Dr. Robert Plank as the new President of HORIBA Europe GmbH with effect from January 1st, 2021. Previously leading the group’s... Read more

MilliporeSigma Acquires AmpTec to Expand mRNA Capabilities for Vaccines, Treatments and Diagnostics

Adds to MilliporeSigma’s lipid manufacturing expertise, providing an integrated offering across mRNA value chain AmpTec’s differentiated polymerase chain reaction (PCR)-based technology has shown to have advantages over other technologies for mRNA manufacturing Diagnostics business focused on producing customized long RNAs and DNAs for in vitro diagnostics, complements existing MilliporeSigma portfolio Burlington, Massachusetts, January 7, 2020 — MilliporeSigma today... Read more

Sartorius to acquire Novasep’s chromatography process equipment division

Göttingen, January 6, 2021 Proposed transaction builds on both companies’ strategic R&D partnership  Strengthens Sartorius position in downstream bioprocessing The life science company Sartorius today announced it has entered into an agreement through its subgroup Sartorius Stedim Biotech to acquire the chromatography process equipment division of Novasep. The parties agreed not to disclose the purchase... Read more

HORIBA Scientific announces an enhanced OEM RAMAN Spectral Engine with a new Deep-cooled VIS-NIR CCD for reliable process analytical measurements

01/06/2021 Affordable Raman engine for high volume OEM customers with unmatched detection limit PISCATAWAY, NJ January 6, 2021 – HORIBA Scientific, global leader in OEM Gratings, Miniature spectrometers and Scientific Camera systems and solutions, just announced its new CiCi-Raman engine designed for high volume OEM industrial customers. The CiCi-Raman-785 is a high performance spectrometer featuring an aberration-corrected... Read more

Carlyle to Acquire Major Stake in Rigaku Corporation

By partnering with Carlyle, Rigaku seeks fulfilling its global growth ambitions and going for an IPO in the coming years Tokyo, Japan, January 6, 2021 – Rigaku Corporation (“Rigaku”), Japan’s leading manufacturer of X-ray analysis, measurement and testing instruments, announces today that global investment firm The Carlyle Group (NASDAQ: CG) and Mr. Hikaru Shimura, President and CEO... Read more