Concept to Volume, a company specialized in analytical instrumentation for life sciences based on micro/nano fluidics technology platforms, reports that Bill Higdon joins its scientific advisory board
In 1975, Bill Higdon founded Santa Clara Plastics (SCP) and built it into the largest semiconductor wet bench manufacturer in the world.
After selling SCP in 1981, he started another semiconductor capital equipment company, Estek.
Working with the University of Rochester in New York, Estek developed a totally automated RCA batch cleaning, rinse/dry, and wafer sorting station.
Eastman Kodak purchased Estek in 1986.
Higdon returned to Silicon Valley in 1988 where he assisted in the turnaround of Optical Specialties (OSI), a line-width-measuring company.
In 1990, he bought into Microsensor Technology, (MTI Analytical Instruments) where he took the company from bankruptcy to one of the Bay Area's 100 fastest growing privately held companies.
MTI manufactured its own high-speed silicon sensors and microvalve arrays for their high-speed gas chromatography (GC) instruments.
In 1998, Hewlett Packard (HP) purchased MTI.
One year later HP created Agilent Technology and moved the company to Wilmington, DE.
The holder of eight patents, Higdon is co-founder of Mancef and has held the position of treasurer for two years.
He serves on the executive board of Mancef as well as on the boards of several other Silicon Valley companies C2V has the opportunity to capitalize on its proprietary fluidics technology platform Microdelta to provide the genomics, proteomics and security industry with the tools they need in order to move forward.
C2V's believes that technological progress as well as its scientific application requires alignment and partnering of instrumentation companies.
C2V brings its Microdelta platform into a reality for analytical instrumentation and to support the promising life science and security applications.
In line with C2V OEM strategy, C2V serves her partners with Mems modules and software tools.
C2V is focusing into the life sciences instrumentation area.
Key instruments and components are pico LC (liquid chromatograph)y, nano MS (mass spectrometry), micro electrophoresis and micro GC (gas chromatography).
The market introduction of the GCM2200 micro GC module is planned in the first quarter of 2005.
With the GCM2200, C2V will help its customers to considerably increase the speed and the effectiveness of their analysis process.
