Beckman Coulter Names Scott Garrett CEO

26-Jan-2005 - Beckman Coulter, Inc. announced that Scott Garrett has been named chief executive officer (CEO) of the corporation, effective February 21, 2005. Garrett, currently president and chief operating officer (COO), succeeds retiring CEO, John P. Wareham. Wareham will continue as chairman of the board ...

Restructuring Programmes at Whatman as Result of Schleicher & Schuell Aquisition

05-Jan-2005 - Whatman plc announced that the full review of the integration programme for Whatman and Schleicher & Schuell (S&S) has been completed, following the acquisition of S&S on 1 December 2004. As a consequence, the following exceptional charges will be recorded in the accounts of Whatman for the year ...

The Human Side of Science: What is the Archetypal Researcher Personality?

16-Dec-2004 - Arlington. Are there some personalities that are better suited than others to a scientific career? To provide insight into this issue, The Science Advisory Board created the first-ever psychological profile of life science researchers, the Scientific Personality Assessment (SPA). The SPA is meant ...

Schleicher & Schuell has been purchased by Whatman plc

12-Nov-2004 - As of November 30, 2004 Whatman will purchase Schleicher & Schuell MicroScience GmbH, Schleicher & Schuell BioScience GmbH and Schleicher & Schuell GmbH for 50.2 million Euro and including an estimated net debt on completion of Euro 4.4 million. Hahnemühle FineArt GmbH as well as DIA-Nielsen ...

Sigma-Aldrich Announced Launch of New Identity for its Fine Chemicals Business

26-Oct-2004 - Sigma-Aldrich Corporation announced a new identity for its fine chemicals business that ties together all the progress it has made over the past five years. The new brand, called SAFC, will also embrace recent acquisitions, Ultrafine and Tetrionics. The SAFC brand will have annual sales exceeding ...

Wiley-VCH Forms Publishing Partnership with Chinese Academy

13-Oct-2004 - The Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry (SIOC), part of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and Wiley-VCH announced today the signing of an agreement to publish the Institute's flagship journal, Chinese Journal of Chemistry, starting in January 2005. Within this partnership, SIOC and Wiley-VCH ...

LGC and CIA take major step to establish REACH Centre

LGC and CIA announce joint initiative to help chemical companies implement REACH regulations

03-Sep-2004 - LGC and the Chemical Industries Association (CIA), the UK chemical industry's leading trade association, announced a joint initiative to establish a UK REACH Centre. The aim of the centre will be to help prepare the chemical industry for new legislation, predicted to come into force within the ...

Waters Corporation Announces Vendor Agreement with Chromsystems

03-Sep-2004 - Waters Corporation has entered into a vendor agreement with Chromsystems GmbH in Munich Germany, which will manufacture chemistry kits for Waters to bundle with its mass spectrometers and LC/MS systems in supporting clinical research applications of LC-MS(/MS). The first kits are being developed ...

Millipore Opens New State-of-the-Art Manufacturing Facility

24-Aug-2004 - Millipore Corporation announced the official opening of its new $29 million state-of-the-art membrane casting manufacturing facility in Jaffrey, New Hampshire. Adjacent to Millipore's current device plant on Prescott Road, the 44,000-square-foot building will enable Millipore to increase ...

SCHOTT Is Now a Stock Corporation

02-Jul-2004 - As of July 1st, the Mainz-based company previously known as SCHOTT GLAS is a stock corporation (AG). With its entry into the Mainz trade register as "SCHOTT AG," the conversion process is now complete. The Carl-Zeiss-Stiftung (Foundation) shall remain the sole stockholder of SCHOTT AG. Stock ...