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Agilent Technologies and A*Star’s Experimental Therapeutics Centre (ETC) have launched a drug-screening platform employing a library of over 300,000 chemical compounds and Agilent’s dual BioCel 1200 integrated system for HTS, including compound management, assay plate preparation and experiment replication.
“The location of Agilent’s technology platform within ETC’s newly set up Singapore Screening Centre will not only enhance our ability to produce proprietary drugs for Singapore, but also provide a platform with which to engage a diversity of biomedical research players from across the world,” said Dr Alex Matter, CEO of ETC. “We expect collaborations with top private sector partners such as Agilent will go a long way to accelerate the development of medical solutions.”
Opportunities Asia
By Heather Hobbs
With expansion a prime focus for businesses worldwide, many are looking towards rapidly establishing new regions of growth, particularly in Asia, Pacific Rim countries. This section of International Labmate will especially look at the success of both Asian and European companies with established premises or business partnerships, highlighting the opportunities that exist while realising potential for other companies to move into export markets
Agilent and A*Star Combined Therapeutics Initiative
The new platform will boost ongoing drug discovery projects at the Singapore Screening Centre, including a collaboration with Duke University and the National University of Singapore Graduate Medical School to screen for novel gastric cancer medicines; and another with DSO National Laboratories and A*Star’s Genome Institute of Singapore to discover anti-bacterial drugs using a novel whole animal-screening platform.
“ETC is a leading research institution in Singapore and we look forward to working closely with them to collectively drive drug discovery research,” said Yvonne Linney, Vice President and General Manager, Agilent Automation Solutions Group. “We continue to see growth and opportunities for automated solutions in both Asia and the pharmaceutical markets as a whole.”
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Asian Cleanroom Purchases will Reach $7.5 Billion in 2015
Purchases of Cleanroom hardware and consumables in Asia will reach $7.5 billion in 2015 and comprise over 60% of the global purchases. This is the conclusion reached in the latest revision to the online McIlvaine Cleanrooms: World Markets.
Asian hardware purchases in 2015 are projected to reach $2.9 billion up from $2.3 billion in 2011. The hardware includes cleanrooms, walls, floors, filters, HVAC, instrumentation and floors. It also includes cleanroom benches and mini- environments. Consumable purchases in Asia will reach $4.6 billion up from $3.7 billion in 2011.
Five of the ten top solar panel manufacturers are in China. The low costs of Chinese Solar Panels have made them capture almost 40% of the world’s market in 2010 up from almost 0% in 2005.
Solar cleanrooms do not have to meet the cleanliness of semiconductor fabs but they do have similar etching processes and
need to invest extensively in cleanroom hardware and consumables.
The flat panel displays are produced almost exclusively in Asia. Memory storage production which also requires cleanrooms is also concentrated in Asia.
By 2015 semiconductor manufacturing will be concentrated in Asia. At that time 74% of the production and 70% of the revenues will be generated in Asia. The McIlvaine Company forecasts that in 2015, 78% of the world’s semiconductor cleanroom hardware purchases will be for Asian chip fabrication facilities. By 2015 the cleanroom consumables purchases in Asia will be greater than those of the entire world in 2010.
The equipment and consumables are supplied by a mix of Asian and non-Asian companies. Many international suppliers have set up production plants in China to serve the Asian market. Hollingsworth & Vose started manufacturing in China some years ago and recently announced that it will be manufacturing in India as well.
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Gyros and GE Healthcare Life Sciences Expand Asian Distribution
Gyros AB, a leader in utilisation of microfluidic technologies to miniaturise and automate immunoassays, has announced that GE Healthcare Life Sciences has become sole distributor for the company’s nanoliter-scale immunoassay platform in China, Taiwan and Hong Kong.
Commenting on the announcement, Erik Walldén, CEO at Gyros, said: “The acceptance of our nanolitre-scale immunoassay platform continues to grow within the global biopharmaceutical industry. Expansion into the Asian markets through an experienced and respected network of distributors will ensure the highest possible standards of service and support for customers interested in our products, which we see as one of the key factors for commercial success in this region. Having recently signed with GE Healthcare
Japan, we are very pleased to extend our collaboration into China, Taiwan and Hong Kong through such a well-established supplier.”
Duncan Yu, General Manager, Life Sciences of GE Healthcare Greater China, added: “We are delighted to have signed this agreement with Gyros which will help us further expand our offering of value-added and innovative technologies to the rapidly growing biopharmaceutical industry in China, Taiwan and Hong Kong. The Gyros immunoassay platform offers manufacturers of biopharmaceuticals and vaccines the potential to make substantial improvements in productivity and is an excellent complement to our own extensive range of analytical technologies for the biopharmaceutical industry including Biacore™ and MicroCal™ systems.”
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Labsphere signs agreement with the National Lighting Test Centre, (Shanghai)
Labsphere has signed a cooperation agreement with National Lighting Test Centre, (Shanghai) through its distributor, Shanghai Alpha Lighting Equipment Testing Ltd.
The National Lighting Test Centre’s National Luminaries Quality Supervision Testing Centre is the first professional international laboratory for lighting equipment in China. Under this agreement, Labsphere supplied the centre with its Thermal/Optical/Electrical LED Measurement Systems (TOCS), to which the centre will apply its patent (Measurement Devices for LED Forward Voltage Drop and Junction Temperature Curve, Patent No: ZL2009 2 0212653.0) to correlate voltage drop with junction temperature. Additionally, the companies have agreed to actively share information pertaining to developing lighting trends and to cooperate in the launch of academic communications and activities.
The Labsphere LED TOCS enables measurement of optical properties as a function of temperature and operating current using a single instrument, complying with international standards and regulations; based on integrating sphere technology these can be used for 2pi and 4pi measurements. The basic TOCS system consists of an integrating sphere (50cm to 300cm in size), high resolution CCD spectrometer, light source, power supply and proprietary Labsphere TOCS software.
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Labsphere Joins LED Measurement Collaboration
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