Spectris Appoints New Non-executive Director

Spectris plc (‘Spectris’) (LSE: SXS), the productivity-enhancing instrumentation and controls company, today announces that Karim Bitar has been appointed to the Board as a Non-executive Director with effect from 1 July 2017. Karim is currently Chief Executive of Genus plc, an agricultural biotechnology pioneer. Prior to joining Genus, Karim worked for more than 15 years... Read more

New Chromogenic Coliform Agar (ISO) for Water Testing Offers Easy to Read Results in Samples with Low Level Bacterial Contamination

BASINGSTOKE, England–(BUSINESS WIRE)–To help microbiology laboratories comply with the EU Core Directive for Quality of Water for Human Use (98/83/CE) and have confidence in reporting accurate results, the new Thermo Scientific Chromogenic Coliform Agar (CCA) (ISO) formulation is compliant with the ISO9308-1:2014 standard, cited in the Directive, and is easy to read because of the... Read more

Greiner Bio-One North America, Inc. Launches Innovative Mobile Application To Improve Phlebotomy Safety

Greiner Bio-One North America, Inc. would like to announce the launch of a new mobile application that will assist in the education and training of users on the safety features of the VACUETTE® Safety Blood Collection Set. The mobile application, named the APPlause Virtual Trainer, walks users step-by-step through the process of activating the safety... Read more

New Family of Zebron GC Columns for Fast Highly Selective FAME Analysis

Torrance, Calif. (March 14, 2017) – Phenomenex Inc., a global leader in the research, design and manufacture of advanced technologies for the separation sciences, introduces a trio of Zebron™ GC columns specially developed for the analysis of fatty acid methyl esters (FAME) in food. Identification and measurement of these compounds in food products such as... Read more

Bio-Rad Intends to Propose Three New Independent Directors

HERCULES, Calif. — March 13, 2017 — Bio-Rad Laboratories, Inc. (NYSE: BIO and BIOb), a global provider of life science research and clinical diagnostic products, today announced that management intends to propose Jeffrey Edwards, Gregory Hinckley and Arnold Pinkston for election to its Board of Directors at the Company’s 2017 Annual Meeting of Stockholders. Norman... Read more