LGC Acquires Maine Standards Company
LGC, an international life sciences and measurement company, has announced that it has acquired Maine Standards Company, the leading provider of calibration verifi cation materials for clinical laboratories in the US. The acquisition bolsters LGC’s growing portfolio of reference materials and profi ciency testing (PT) schemes for the clinical market.
Euan O’Sullivan, Managing Director of LGC’s Standards Division, said: “We are delighted to welcome Maine Standards Company to LGC. Our two organisations represent a highly complementary commercial and cultural fi t, with a common commitment to developing products of the very highest quality for the benefi t of our customers. We look forward to working with Maine Standards Company to complete its leading portfolio of calibration verifi cation materials for the US market, whilst using our global network to
expand sales of these products internationally. We also see exciting opportunities to combine our distinctive analytical capabilities to develop new products for our mutual customers.”
Tom Happe, Founder and President, Maine Standards Company, said, “Since its creation in 2000, Maine Standards Company has sought to provide its customers with the highest quality products and services and has developed an unparalleled range of calibration verifi cation materials. We are delighted to be joining LGC, as our combined capabilities will enable us to more easily address the growing global market for our products, at the same time as assisting in our ongoing new product development activities.”
Maine Standards Company will continue to operate from its recently opened, purpose built facility near Portland, Maine, under LGC’s ownership.
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Photonis USA Expands Electron Multiplier Product Offering
Photonis USA, a leading electro-optic manufacturer, announced that it has reached an agreement with MasCom Technologies GmbH of Bremen, Germany to stock and resell a wide selection of discrete dynode electron multipliers designed for use in Inductively Coupled Mass Spectrometer instruments (ICPMS). The agreement adds to Photonis’ extensive line of electron multiplier products.
Photonis is a market leader in electron multipliers for analytical instruments. The company focuses on a co-design and development partnership with most major manufacturers of analytical instruments, including mass spectrometers, surface science, focused ion beam, scanning electron microscope, residual gas analysers and ion mobility spectrometers. Photonis USA currently offers over 150 models of electron multipliers, including complete detector assemblies using single-channel (Channeltron®) and multi-channel electron multipliers. These models support a wide range of current production and legacy instruments across a variety of mass spectrometry techniques including TOF, Q-TOF, MALDI- TOF, LC-MS, GC-MS and Ion Trap in addition to ICPMS.
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Haier Biomedical Announces the Acquisition of Labtech International’s UK Cold Chain Business
This acquisition allows us to provide more support to our UK customers directly as well as providing greater vision of the needs of our customers to our research and development teams. In this way we can be confi dent of supplying our customers with continued improvements year on year.
Dr Brian Page, CEO of Labtech International said, “we have been selling Haier Ultracold freezers to our customers in the UK for more than 6 years now and we have been very impressed with Haier’s commitment to service, quality and product improvement. We are very pleased to have Haier Biomedical continuing to increase their resources and support for our UK customers.”
Paul Young Haier Biomedical, the Dr Brian Page subsidiary of Haier, an international
manufacturer with annual sales of $25 billion, is pleased to announce the acquisition of Labtech International’s UK cold chain business. The details of the acquisition have not been announced.
Paul Young, CEO of Haier Biomedical said: “We are very pleased to have acquired the UK cold chain business from Labtech.
Haier Biomedical have been developing and pioneering low energy ultra cold freezers as well as expanding their portfolio of products in recent years. The closer relationship with customers in the UK will permit the company to identify even more benefi ts which can be engineered into the products by its R&D and engineering teams, while the company can also focus on building increased local support.
For further information on this acquisition, please contact Richard Jafrato, General Manager, Haier Biomedical UK Ltd.
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Rainin TerraRack™ wins Green Apple Environment Award
Mettler Toledo is proud to announce that its Rainin TerraRack™ line of pipette tip racks has achieved success in this year’s Green Apple Awards. The judges clearly recognised the environmental benefi ts of this innovative product range, which is designed to minimise the problem of plastic tip rack waste, selecting TerraRack from a fi eld of more than 500 entries to receive a Bronze Award for Environmental Best Practice. The award was presented to EU Market Manager Ian Eaton-Taylor at a ceremony held at the Houses of Parliament in London on Monday 16th November.
Isaac Kirton (left) and Ian Eaton-Taylor (centre) receiving the Green Apple Award for Mettler Toledo’s Rainin TerraRack
Empty conventional tip racks can take up a large amount of space and represent a signifi cant quantity of plastic waste. Where disposal rates are based on weight, they’re also a considerable expense. TerraRacks are composed largely of PETE (polyethylene terephthalate), an exceptionally strong polyester never previously used to construct pipette tips racks, which is easy to recycle
and in high demand as a post-waste commodity. They are 50% lighter than conventional tip racks, highly compressible when empty and completely recyclable, signifi cantly reducing their volume and disposal costs. The TerraRack shell is moulded as a single unit which a polypropylene tip deck snaps into, providing structural support with minimal weight. Every rack is presterilised, individually wrapped and sealed for maximum purity and the hinged lid and secure latch protect tips from damage and potential contamination between uses. For a weightier, more conventional tip rack feel, an optional re-useable TerraBase – made from autoclavable, chemically resistant translucent polycarbonate and with silicone feet – is available.
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Pall Wins Gold at the 2015 RoSPA Awards To be included
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Pall Corporation’s Ilfracombe manufacturing facility, located in Devon, UK, has won the gold medal in the 2015 edition of The Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents Occupational Health and Safety (RoSPA) Awards. The prestigious designation is given annually by RoSPA to recognise businesses or organisations working to reduce injury, improve health and safety as well as save lives of employees globally, regardless of sector.
“The RoSPA Awards encourage improvement in work health and safety overall,” said RoSPA Awards Manager David Rawlins. “Pall was awarded in 2015 specifi cally for exceptional health and safety management systems at its Ilfracombe facility. With each win, companies like Pall are helping to evolve occupational health and safety across the globe.”
“The safety of our 10,000-plus Pall associates comes fi rst,” Ken Camarco, Pall Senior Vice President of Global Operations and Business Systems, remarked. “It takes a true team to win an award like this and we applaud our associates at the Ilfracomb facility for achieving this tremendous recognition.”
Dating back over 59 years the RoSPA awards, open to any global business or organisation focus on achievements in occupational health and safety management systems, including workforce involvement and leadership.
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