Instrument Business Outlook

1. The bottom line.
The Bottom Line Data from recent industry financial reports. Dollar amounts in millions. Company Period Ended Sales Chg. Op. Prof. Alpha Innotech 2Q 30-Jun $3.2 ...
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2. EU Industrial R&D Scoreboard: oil & gas R&D grows.
According to the European Commission's latest release of its annual EU Industrial R&D Investment Scoreboard, R&D spending growth accelerated in 2005. The Scoreboard compiles R&D ...
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3. 3M acquires Biotrace.
St. Paul MN 10/4/06 -- 3M has announced an offer to acquire Biotrace International for 52 million [pounds sterling] ($98 million), or 130 pence ($2.46) ...
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4. Q2 operating profit decline for Life Science Index.
With all 20 companies in IBO's Life Science Sales Index having reported their calendar year 2006 half-year results, the Index grew 5.3% in the second ...
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5. Thermo Electron.
Thermo Electron released the EQuan environmental water monitoring package for use with LC-MS/MS.
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6. X-Rite.
X-Rite released the noncontact VeriColor Spectro spectrophotometer for in-line color measurement for plastic manufacturers.
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7. Applikon Analytical named five new distributors.
Applikon Analytical named five new distributors: Metrohm France, MAS Instrumentos for Mexico, OMC Envag for Poland, Doga for Turkey and Metrohm UK.
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8. Cambridge Research & Instrumentation (CRi) and Invitrogen will jointly...
Cambridge Research & Instrumentation (CRi) and Invitrogen will jointly promote the use of CRi's Maestro small animal in vivo fluorescence imaging system with Molecular Probes' ...
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9. LumaSense Technologies acquired Innova AirTech Systems A/S in July.
LumaSense Technologies acquired Innova AirTech Systems A/S in July, entering the trace gas sensing market. Innova AirTech Systems' technology is based on inflared photoacoustic and ...
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10. NuGEN.
NuGEN released the WT-Ovation Pico RNA Amplification System, utilizing a whole transcriptome amplification approach with as little as 500 picograms of total RNA input, and ...
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