Gulf Fiberoptics Adds New Div.
Gulf Fiberoptics, an Oldsmar, Fla.-based manufacturer of fiber optic products for the medical, industrial and visual illumination markets, has announced that it is adding a new photonics division. The...
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PerkinElmer Licenses SiPM Tech
Health sciences and photonics company PerkinElmer Inc. of Waltham, Mass., has signed a licensing agreement with Max Planck Innovation, the technology transfer organization of the Max Planck Society, f...
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Senate Confirms 14th NIST Director
The US Senate recently confirmed Dr. Patrick D. Gallagher as the 14th director of the Commerce Department’s National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) by unanimous consent. Gallagher ha...
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Thermo Funds Grant Program
Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc., of Waltham, Mass., announced the establishment of a grant program to award life science researchers more than $400,000 in RNA-interference (RNAi) reagents used to study ...
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Bruker Names New Officers
Bruker Corp., a provider of scientific instruments and solutions based in Billerica, Mass., announced that its board appointed Bill Knight as chief operating officer and Brian Monahan as chief financi...
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Carbon Design Receives Grant
Carbon Design Innovations Inc., a carbon nanotube device manufacturer located in Burlingame, Calif., has received a $390,000 grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Small Business Innovatio...
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AMD Lasers Forms Alliances
Indianapolis-based AMD Lasers announced strategic partnerships with 1-800-Dentist, Fortune Management and Cetylite Industries, in a move aimed at providing more value for dental professionals that pur...
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Bruker Announces Venture in India
Bruker Daltonics, based in Billerica, Mass., announced the establishment of Bruker LabMate Private Ltd., a life science mass spectrometry joint venture between Bruker Daltonics and LabMate Asia, with ...
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CDI Awarded Nanotech Patent
Carbon Design Innovations Inc. (CDI) of Burlingame, Calif., has announced that it has received a key technology patent for the fabrication of carbon nanotube devices. US Patent No. 7,601,650 was i...
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Infinite Optics Hires Sales Manager
Infinite Optics has hired Stan King as global sales manager. King, who recently returned to the US after spending four years in Europe managing electron-beam gun sales for Ferrotec UK in London, bring...
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Veridiam Names New CFO
Veridiam of El Cajon, Calif., announced that Robert Mazzacavallo has been named its chief financial officer. Veridiam is a contract manufacturer of high-precision fabricated assemblies and metal compo...
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PerkinElmer Names CMO
Waltham, Mass.-based PerkinElmer Inc., a maker of scientific products for health, safety and environmental quality, announced the appointment of Dr. Lapo Paladini to the newly created position of ...
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Morse to Advise Dynasil
Kenneth P. Morse, founding managing director of the MIT Entrepreneurship Center, has been hired by West Berlin, N.J.-based Dynasil Corp. of America to help commercialize its technology portfolio, the ...
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Micro Imaging Promotes Ricardi
Micro Imaging Technology Inc. of San Clemente, Calif., has promoted John Ricardi to executive vice president, a position created by its board. Ricardi, who is currently chief operating officer, will l...
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PerkinElmer, Corning Partner
PerkinElmer and Corning will partner to develop next-generation detection technologies for life sciences research, the businesses announced today. The agreement brings together Corning’s optical label...
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Jenoptik Optical Systems Formed
Jenoptik subsidiaries, Coastal Optical Systems and Liebmann Optical Company have merged to form Jenoptik Optical Systems Inc. The new company has 70,000 sq ft of optical manufacturing space and 100 em...
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Raydiance Sets Milestone
Petaluma, Calif.-based laser company Raydiance Corp. announced it has made a major breakthrough in manufacturing a wide variety of bioabsorbable materials with precise, micron-resolution feature sizes...
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Chroma Introduces New Subsidiary
Chroma Technology Corp., manufacturer of precision optical filters, announced the launch of 89 North, a wholly owned subsidiary. Located in Burlington, Vt., 89 North will develop products for the life...
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Byer to Chair Mobius Board
Mobius Photonics of Santa Clara, Calif., a producer of short pulsed fiber laser sources, has named company co-founder Robert L. Byer chairman of its board of directors. Byer is the 2009 winner of ...
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JPK Opens Offices in Japan
Berlin-based JPK Instruments, manufacturer of nanoanalytic instrumentation for research in life sciences and soft matter, announced the opening of their first offices in Japan, as well as the appo...
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Spectros Names Distributors
Spectros of Portola Valley, Calif., a developer of advanced molecular sensing and imaging devices for detecting ischemia and cancer, announced it has signed exclusive distribution deals for its T-Stat...
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Bruker Gets EPR Spectrometer Order
Bruker BioSpin of Karlsruhe, Germany, announced its first order for an Elexsys™ E780 system, the first commercial mm-wave 263-GHz EPR (electron paramagnetic resonance) spectrometer and its EPR d...
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Teradyne Pens Deal with Teseda
Teradyne, located in North Reading, Mass., announced the signing of an exclusive development agreement with Teseda Corp. to produce Scan Workbench, a next-generation portable scan debug and yield enha...
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Spectranetics Taps New Senior VP
Spectranetics Corp., a laser systems manufacturer located in Colorado Springs, Colo., announced the appointment of Jason Hein to the position of senior vice president, sales, marketing and product dev...
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Dilas Celebrates 15th Anniversary
Dilas, a diode laser company located in Mainz, Germany, is celebrating its 15-year anniversary. What started as a company of nine people in 1994 has grown to over 200 employees in manufacturing and re...
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First AFM Bioworkshop in Taiwan
Santa Barbara, Calif.-based Asylum Research, in conjunction with the National Health Research Institutes (NHRI), will host the first Taiwan AFM Bioworkshop to be held July 30-31, 2009 at NHRI, Zhunan ...
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NIST Using Optronic Light Source
Optronic Laboratories, located in Orlando, Fla., has delivered a specially designed version of its popular OL 490 agile light source to the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) in Gai...
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Imalux Names New President, CEO
Imalux Corp., a medical device company based in Cleveland, Ohio, announced the appointment of Michael Burke as its president and chief executive officer. He will also become a member of the company’s ...
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ILX Partners with Mirthe
ILX Lightwave Corp., a photonics instrumentation and test systems component company located in Bozeman, Mont., announced that it is now an affiliate member of the Center for Mid-InfraRed Technologies ...
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GE Opens $165M Facility in NY
In New York state over the weekend, senior leaders from GE Healthcare and GE Global Research joined state and local leaders and officials from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) for the grand open...
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Casper Promoted to CEO at Thermo
Laboratory equipment provider Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. of Waltham, Mass., announced that Executive Vice President and COO Marc N. Casper has been promoted to president and CEO, effective Oct. 15....
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Michelson Hires Imaging Scientist
Orpington, England-based optical coherence tomography (OCT) equipment maker Michelson Diagnostics Ltd. (MDL) announced the appointment of Dr. Florian Bazant-Hegemark as senior imaging scientist. B...
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RPMC to Sell Oxxius Lasers
RPMC Lasers Inc. of O’Fallon, Mo., has announced that it is the new North America distributor for Oxxius Inc.’s line of continuous-wave, diode-pumped solid-state (DPSS) lasers and laser diodes modules...
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Agilent, AFG to Collaborate
Santa Clara, Calif.-based Agilent Technologies Inc. and Anderson Forschung Group LLC (AFG) of Washington have announced a collaboration to develop quantitative peptide assays to speed protein biomarke...
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Kansas Chemist Wins PV Technology Grant
Kansas State University chemistry professor Ryszard Jankowiak has received a $380,000 grant from the National Science Foundation for research that could aid in the development of artificial photovolta...
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