KNAUER now officially a place of the future

20-Nov-2024 - The Berlin-based manufacturer of high-tech laboratory instruments has now been awarded the “Zukunftsort Berlin Südwest” seal. Juri Effenberg, project manager of the “Regional Incubator Berlin Southwest”, presented Managing Director Alexandra Knauer with the glass sign at the company's ...

analytica expands its international network to the USA

US laboratory market with top growth forecasts

20-Sep-2024 - analytica is expanding its international network and will launch analytica USA in Columbus, Ohio, in fall 2025, to cover the North American market. The new offshoot of the world's leading trade fair for laboratory technology, analysis and biotechnology will take place at the Greater Columbus ...

ATS To Acquire Laboratory Solutions Provider Heidolph Group

14-Aug-2024 - ATS Corporation, a automation solutions provider, announced it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire all material assets from Heidolph Instruments GmbH & Co. KG and Hans Heidolph GmbH (together “Heidolph”), a manufacturer of premium lab equipment for the life sciences and ...

Hettich Group enters growth partnership with Bregal Unternehmerkapital

Investor to support further expansion, particularly in Asia and the USA

03-Jul-2024 - The Hettich Group, a third-generation family-owned life science equipment company, enters into a growth partnership with Bregal Unternehmerkapital GmbH. Centrifuges are the heart of every medical laboratory; they make a decisive contribution to diagnostics and therapy. The Hettich Group, based in ...

Limula raises CHF 6.2 million to develop automated cell and gene therapy manufacturing platform

Award-winning technology combines a bioreactor and a centrifuge into one single vessel for the first time

23-May-2024 - Over the last decade, several breakthrough Cell and Gene Therapy products have been approved in the USA and Europe to turn stem cells and immune cells into ‘living cures’, bringing hope to millions living with life-threatening conditions. However, these treatments remain out of reach for 98% of ...

ABB Robotics and Mettler-Toledo join forces to accelerate global adoption of flexible lab automation

Companies will redefining the limits of robotics in laboratories to accelerate innovation and address labor shortages

02-Feb-2024 - ABB Robotics and METTLER TOLEDO have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to offer an innovative solution that seamlessly integrates ABB’s robots with LabX™, METTLER TOLEDO’s laboratory instrument management software. The combined solution will enable greater levels of efficient and ...

analytica 2024: a guide to Laboratory 4.0

Greater efficiency through laboratory robots and artificial intelligence

18-Jan-2024 - A milestone on the path to Laboratory 4.0 has been reached in time for analytica 2024. With the Laboratory & Analytical Device Standard, LADS for short, a communication standard is now available that connects software systems and analytical and laboratory equipment from different providers.“ The ...

Hettich successfully completes acquisition of Kirsch Medical

05-Jan-2024 - In 2023, Hettich Group experienced its most lucrative year yet in its 120-year history. For the first time, the Tuttlingen-based company, specializing in centrifuges and incubators for clinical-medical applications across three European locations, significantly surpassed the 100 million euro ...

analytica 2024: On the path to the zero-carbon lab

More sustainability in the laboratory

13-Dec-2023 - From analytics in mini format with reduced solvent requirements to energy-efficient laboratory technology: at analytica, the Green Lab becomes reality. Exhibitors from all over the world will be presenting their innovations and sustainability concepts in Munich from April 9 to 12, 2024. “With ...

Fraunhofer IPA transfers rights to use laboratory robot KEVIN United Robotics Group

KEVIN can be flexibly and intuitively integrated into laboratory infrastructures and automates processes

17-Oct-2023 - United Robotics Group (URG) and the Fraunhofer Institute for Manufacturing Engineering and Automation IPA have signed a licensing agreement as part of their newly concluded technological partnership. The content of the agreement is the distribution and further development of the laboratory robot ...