Instrument News

June 2016 – content

Life Science News

JSR Micro takes majority share in diagnostics specialist

PerkinElmer sells US prenatal testing business

Takara in RNA sequencing deal

WaferGen to sell business to Japanese biotech company

Innova Biosciences expands headquarters

Singulex sells company stake to pharmaceutical company

Two microfluidic specialists to merge

Bio-Techne secures access to gene editing technologies

General Lab News

TFS boosts AI segment with purchase of EM company

AJ sells optical manufacturing site

Grace names buyers of chromatography column businesses

Revenues growth sparks expansion at Anton Paar

HPLC columns company stocks up with acquisitions

Distek celebrates 40^th anniversary

Biolin partners with DKSH for China

Agilent adds to ICP-OES offering

Process & hand-held instrumentation

TeraView signs new partner for Japanese market

Smiths Group to buy security market competitor

Eurocontrol receives equity investment

ASD established Australian service center

Sick continues growth in 60th year

Honeywell buys smoke detector company

Feature

Analytica bucks trend to remain largest analytical instrument show

Financials

Optimism for life science firms after a more solid quarter

Illumina limps into 2016 with below par sales and earnings

HBIO benefits from streamlining

Flat sales for Qiagen

Good growth for Integra Bio despite Asian weakness

Bio-Rad halts sales decline

Fluidigm looks to get back on track as growth returns

BD reports another drop in sales

Lab instrument firms top forecast in Q1 rebound

FEI tops Wall Street sales forecast

TSF returns to double-digit growth

Waters beats on sales and profit

Life science sales boost IDEX

MT comes in ahead of target despite weak EU sales

Corning LS returns to growth

Bruker returns to growth

Cuts in oil industry orders hurt process analysis firms

Ametek lowers guidance as process slump continues

Grace drops to a loss on costs

Teledyne misses on sales as oil-sector slump continues

MKS ahead of forecasts in Q1

Acquisition boosts Honeywell ACS

Roper fails to meet sales targets

Appointments

December 2014 – content

Life Sciences

HBIO increases stake in electrophysiology market

BioNano funds to support commercial expansion

Bio-Techne to buy remainder of immunoassay company

SIAL to buy IVD antibody firm

Devicor to be bought by Leica Biosystem

ELA to run together with Biotechnica and Labvolution

PerkinElmer acquires NZ software business

Premier Biosoft signs further co-marketing partner

Hamilton Storage partners for ultra-low temperature

General Laboratory

KNF wins design award for first rotary evaporator

Perten agrees to acquisition offer

Hirschmann celebrates 50^th anniversary

VWR buys system integrators

Analytik Jena opens Indian office

Keysight spun off from Agilent

XRF Scientific to buy drift monitors business

JDSU to split into two independent companies

SPEX Group celebrates various anniversaries

Process & hand-held instrumentation

Eurocontrol to expand portfolio of EDXRF technologies

In-Situ celebrates 10 years at current HQs

BaySpec introduces portable MS

Features

Instrumentation market strengthen, but risks remain

Financials

Illumina leads the way in strong quarter for NGS firms

Cepheid continues to build momentum in Q3

Fluidigm narrows 2014 target

Illumina grows turnover by more than a third

Luminex lowers forecast

HBIO ups guidance on acquisitions

WaferGen raises funds with stock

Weak local demand hits producers in Japan and China

Nikon confirms guidance despite weakening markets

Techcomp stumbles as Chinese authorities delay spending

Olympus tops profit forecast

Skyray sales drop once more

HORIBA holds firm on guidance

Process firms top forecast for earnings in Q3

AMETEK grows process sales by 25%

Xylem impresses on earnings

Newport confident despite miss

FLIR Detection returns to growth in Q3

Honeywell ACS up on acquisitions

Roper beats on earnings despite top-line miss

Appointments

September 2014 – content

Life Sciences

Miltenyi buys virus vector specialist

Tecan buys immunoassay firm

Roka Bioscience prices IPO

Siemens divests its microbiology business

Bruker buys 3D fluorescence microscopy company

AYOXXA wins series B funding

Malvern Instruments buys resonant mass measurement product

Waters invests in two ambient ionisation methods

Douglas Scientific signs distributor in Europe

DNAe to become provider of diagnostics products

InSphero signs deal about 3D cell culture

Phenomenex spins out biological sampling company

General Laboratory

AJ adds ICP-MS business to existing elemental analysis portfolio

Two nanoimaging software companies merger

AJ losses quadruple

Brookfield Engineering still going strong after 80 years

Rigol opens manufacturing site in Suzhou

System Scale becomes Perten distributor

Portable NMR developed

Process & hand-held instrumentation

H2Scan becomes OEM supplier to Servomex

Morpho claims breakthrough with SourceID

Teraview opens Asian office                                                                       

Financials

Life science firms beat forecasts in second quarter

New sequencing instrument put Illumina over the top

Fluidigm posts strong sales

New products drive Danaher Life Sciences

Cepheid lifts guidance as demand spikes

HBIO posts first sales gains in two years

WaferGen continues to grow

Mixed fortunes for lab instrument makers

VWR plans IPO after Europe drives stronger quarter

Bruker halves guidance after major restructuring

Shodex column sales slip

Waters beats as pharma picks up

JEOL soars in fiscal 2013

Process analysis firms drive growth with acquisitions

FLIR Detection returns to profit despite weak demand

Xylem raises guidance

Acquisitions make Ametek exceed its guidance

Another strong quarter for Newport

Honeywell up on acquisitions

US and China drive growth for Danaher Environmental

Features

Japanes market rides high on growth in 2014

Chinese exports double in five years

Appointments

August 2014 – content

Life Sciences

Edge Biosystems taken over by private equity firm

Concept Life Sciences builds laboratory service enterprise

Techne buys in instrument expertise for protein analysis

Syapse raises series B funding                                               

Retrogenix opens first foreign office

Singulex partners for development of immunoassay platform

Sphere Fluidics files for patent protection

CRB peptides to be marketed via BIONET catalogue

IDT acquires mutation detection technology

Biochrom and Gilson partner in ELISA automation

DefiniGEN wins funds                                                                      

General Laboratory

Bruker admits defeat in gas chromatography market

Acquisition expands SP Industries’ laboratory equipment portfolio

Thermo Fisher divests lab equipment sales business

PicoQuant expands internal production

Markes merges with its MS business ALMSCO

GOW-MAC launches two next generation instruments

XEI appoints distributor for German-speaking countries

Genevac consolidates sales channels

Shimadzu partners with Dectris for XRD detectors

Process & hand-held instrumentation

Nova Instruments invests in NDT technologies

SICK expands activities in South America

Repligen buys cell retention company

Features

TTP Labtech back in profit after strategic redirection

First quarter hiccup as instrument markets ice over

Back to square one as US export rebound evaporates

Financials

Life science firms not strong international markets

Luminex beats on earning, but assay revenues drop

Eurofins grows impressively

Addtech’s instrument sales spike

WaferGen sales skyrocket in Q1

BD up on instrumentation and emerging markets

Qiagen finds its instrument sales sliding in Q2

Japanese lab firms benefit from yen devaluation

Shimadzu sails over guidance

FEI earnings plunge on costs

Japan continues to drive growth for Olympus

Horiba earnings drop on cost

Corning LS earnings stumble

IDEX sales almost flat in quarter

Process firms benefit from industrial rebound

Newport strong as markets continue to recover

E+H sales disappoint

Parker-Hannifin grows steadily as demand environment improves

Morpho grows in detection

SPX falls on weak pump sales

Mocon earnings plunge

Single-use sales put Pall ahead

Appointments

March 2014 – content

Life Science

Wafergen buys NGS library preparation business

Analytical Instruments in the new Thermo Fisher Scientific

Acquisition to make Fluidigm “single-cell technology powerhouse”

GE HLS and TFS deal not completed yet

Maverix raises funds for NGS informatics platform

Agilent enters into detector agreement

OriGene to develop antibodies for ISB

CIL enters into marketing agreement with CRO

Illumina claims sequencing milestone

General Laboratory

FEI buys rock imaging and analysis specialist

Horiba acquires fluorescence spectroscopy assets

Agilent names spin-off company

Spinnovation moves operations

Can an OEM deal re-invigorate BCI’s DLS offering?

Andor gives in to OI’s advances

Richardson Gratings publishes handbook and signs distributor

XRF specialist bought by OI

SiliCycle buys reactor product line

VWR continues regional expansion

Process & hand-held instrumentation

SciAps to launch handheld LIBS instrument

­­Olympus expands NDT concern with Canadian acquisition

Lumense raises funds for sensor manufacturing

Repligen sells drug compound

Features

Bottom falls out of the M&A market in 2013

Growth slows for EU instrument sector

Financials

Life science firms grow despite funding squeeze

Affymetrix returns to the black after earnings fail to impress

Legal costs his Bio-Rad in Q4

PBC gain on Roche deal

New product and applied markets drive Danaher

Illumina ends its stellar year with a flourish

Qiagen meets targets for 2013

Cepheid gains as sales impress

Instrument firms soar in target-beating Q4

Thermo Fisher gains on outlook

MT beats as European market improves

Waters satisfies in a stronger Q4

Agilent shares dip on soft guidance

FEI ends the year with record sales

Bruker sails over targets in Q4

IDEX beats on earnings in Q4

Process firms optimistic as industrial sector recovers

Teledyne breaks the billion dollar barrier for instrument sales

Detection drops to loss on costs

HHT ups guidance on strong markets and weak yen

Newport sees final quarter pickup

Ametek looks to growth ahead

Danaher maintains growth

Margins lift Grace’s bottom line

Appointments

February 2014 – content

Life Sciences

Interscience expands manufacturing facility

BioNano Genomics raises further funds

Izon relocates global headquarters

HBIO cuts worldwide staff numbers

GE to buy life science products lines from Thermo Fisher

GenapSys raises funds to commercialise NGS platform

TTP Labtech acquires fluorescence lifetime assets

DNAnexus wins $15m funding

Tute Genomics wins funds

Instem purchase image analysis company

General Laboratory

Spectro widens focus beyond machine condition monitoring

Anton Paar buys expert in surface properties testing

Artel expands with software acquisition

CSC becomes distributor of viscometer family

Fritsch opens second Chinese office

Mocon opens certified laboratory

Newport wins unnamed OEM customer

Process & hand-held instrumentation

Pall buys in single-use bioprocess business

E+H opens sales operations in Africa and Middle East

Block Engineering in OEM deal for oil & gas

Applikon celebrates anniversary

Market Feature

Recovery predicted on stronger markets in Q3

Financials

Life sciences markets buoyant for instrument firms

Olympus confident after rebound in Japanese LS sector

Acquisitions boost Eurofins

PBI marketing push drives sales

US medical devices tax takes bite out of BD

Luminex hit by order delays

Transgenomic remains in the red

WaferGen raises much-needed capital

Trading conditions improve for lab instrument companies

Shimadzu raises forecast seeing strength in several markets

PerkinElmer back in the black

Horiba benefits from weaker yen and semicon rebound

Acquisition drives Corning

Skyray returns to solid growth

Oxford Instruments sees stronger demand ahead

Accelrys drops to a loss in Q3

Process firms see signs of industrial market rebound

Roper cuts guidance and warns of sluggishness ahead

Eurocontrol turns a profit

Stronger orders give Pall hope of industrial recovery

Weak ETD shipments hit Implant

Olympus up on domestic rebound

SPX benefits from cost cuts

Appointments

July 2013 – content

Life Science News

Active Motif buys gene regulation expert

Cellectricon launches Discovery Services division

BioFire wins additional funding

NanoString aims for $86 million IPO

ViroCyt closes $5 million funding round

Life Tech makes second Korean acquisition

Blacktrace founded as "ecosystem of brands"

WaferGen launches new SmartChip product                               

Tecan completes R&D project for OEM partner

BioTek expands direct presence in Asia

General Lab News

Trajan expands with two consumable acquisitions

Kinesis to solely sell new Diba column line

IONICON and IONIMED combine

Acquisition to make Sotax market leader in dissolution testing

XRF Scientific buys labware unit

Headwall expands European sales activities

Ruling in favour of Malvern upheld on appeal

IonSense and Cerno team up

Process & hand-held instrumentation

Seacoast prepares launch of mini GC

Prozess Technologie signs two partners

Repligen investment pays dividends

Feature

Instrument News Leaderboard 2013

Financials

Economy and funding cuts hold back life science firms

Sartorius maintains guidance in the face of weaker growth

Integra still held back by currency effects

Merck Millipore finds its margins hit by costs

US sequestration hits Harvard

Eppendorf doubles growth on acquisition

Cepheid remains in the black

Transgenomic losses up on costs

Sluggish markets stunt many laboratory firms

OI continues to grow despite soft industrial demand

Techne sales down in fQ3

Tosoh’s Specialty sales dip in fiscal 2013

VWR turns a profit in the face of sluggish

Nikon warns of continued weakness in instrument markets

Showa Denko sales dip in Q1

Industrial process control giant warn of headwinds

Intevac Photonics maintains growth after selling Raman unit

Mesa benefits from Bios buy

AHL results tempered by two weak quarters

HAPSITE sales slump in Q1

ABB returns to growth

Eurocontrol reduces losses despite top-line decline

Honeywell turns in flat quarter

Appointments

October 2012 – content

Life Sciences

Merck buys cell-culture media specialist

Danaher further expands its diagnostics interest

Life Tech in companion diagnostics deal

Roper acquires clinical information systems Sunquest

BGI to acquire its own NGS platform

BD buys polymer dyes company

Synthetic Genomics buys patent portfolio

Sony DADC in partnership with its parent

Agilent signs two MS co-marketing deals

Bluechiip signs evaluation and early access customer

Correction to Silverquant technology ownership

Stemgent expands stem cell research portfolio

General Lab

Block Engineering signs distributor

Agilent buys SFC assets to offer single-vendor solution

Phenomenex completes Wibby buy with subsidiary foundation

FEI Buys 3D Visualization Software Company

Brandywine Photonics wins first foreign distributor

Microsaic and Biotage launch MS-flash chromatography

Hybrid launches mixed-field analyser

Acal to concentrate on specialist electronics and photonics

Wyatt holds Light Scattering Colloquium

Linkam celebrates 30^th anniversary

VWR makes three more acquisitions

Process & hand-held instrumentation

Tribogenics raises funds for X-ray source development

Modcon finds US representative

Parker expands expertise in biopharma manufacturing

SpectraFluidics Inc launches OEM product

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Features

EMC2012: combined show proves a major draw

US Trade figures show spending pressures

Financials

Exchange rates hold back US life science firms

Sartorius raises guidance

WaferGen cuts sales staff

Bio-Rad down on currency

Strong Swiss Franc hits Integra

GE flat as European headwinds bite

Harvard maintains guidance

Record turnover for Transgenomic

Sequenom misses on sales

Laboratory instrument firms disappoint on outlook

IDEX lowers guidance

MT flat as markets soften

Thermo tops estimates in Q2

Materials drive growth for FEI

Corning profit hit by acquisition

PerkinElmer confirms target

Judges Scientific sinks to a loss

Weak European demand hits many process firms

SPX Flow Technology boosts organic growth

KLA turns in flat quarter

Implant Sciences suffers

Spectris grows despite worsening environment

INFICON up on strong security markets

Intevac photonics sales slump in the double-digits

Xylem lowers guidance

Appointments

August 2012 – content

Life Science

Denator completes sixth round of financing

Luminex buys late-stage PCR platform

Thermo Fisher continues expansion of diagnostics portfolio

SIAL buys buffer provider

Agilent completes Dako deal

Avacta combines operations in single site

WaferGen cuts positions in commercial redirection

Knome launches early access programme

General Laboratory

Spectro relocates headquarters

First sales partner for nanoLiter

Verder Group buys Carbolite

Brechbühler doubles size of company

Porvair adds two companies to Microfiltration

AJ invests in foreign markets and subsidiaries

Leybold Vacuum expands sites in Asia

Edwards changes location of IPO

Two new distributors signed by Advion

Thermo Fisher sells laboratory furniture business

LGC invests in US expansion

FEI buys Korean partner

Waters starts work on MS HQs

Leica takes on direct distribution in NW US

Process & hand-held instrumentation

Princeton Security sold by management

Xylem buys MJK Automation

Sartorius expands in Puerto Rico

Feature

Instrument markets suffer from uncertain economy

Financials

Funding cutbacks still hold back life science firms

Gerresheimer grows despite European weakness

Weak US cannot hold back Merck Millipore

Biotage returns to growth

Competitive pressures hit Roche’s sequencing instruments

Gen-Probe ahead of targets

Emerging markets keep laboratory firms growing

Stronger growth puts Analytik Jena back in the black

Shimadzu earnings slide as European weakness hits sales

Skyray’s profit plunges on costs

Horiba raises guidance

Tosoh grows on overseas demand

Eurozone troubles worry process firms

Medical analysis demand drives HHT

Pall hit by weak lab demand and supply chain problems

Dynasil drops to a loss on costs

Strong US demand drives Parker

Mocon earnings slide on acquisition costs

Appointments

January 2012 – content

Life Science

Agilent buys two companies for life science sample prep

Proteros moves into new facility

Corning buys in cell culture and bioprocess expertise

Affymetrix to expand into flow cytometry

NanoString closes $20 million funding round

Labcyte and Roche collaborate

Horizon enters into partnership agreement with Promega

General Lab

Netzsch to celebrate 50^th anniversary

Nanoliter seeks investment partner for IBF commercialisation

Mitegen signs distributors

New premises for Anatune

Analytik UK signs two new suppliers

Axel Semrau and CTC in software joint-development agreement

Optics Balzers offers additional filter portfolio

Process & hand-held instrumentation

Pall expands process monitoring with ForteBio purchase

ATMI takes full control of SDS product line

Financials

New markets vital for life science firms

Qiagen benefits from growth plans

Resignation of sales VP puts brakes on PBI

Biotage held back by weak dollar

Emerging markets drive GE growth

WaferGen changes tack

Lab firms warn of though times ahead

Shimadzu sees economy worsening

Acquisitions boost Andor

HORIBA flat despite strong demand for instrumentation

AJ falls to a loss on costs

Bruker lifts guidance again

Process firms up on new region demand

Analogic to close two locations as cost-cuts continue

Restructuring custs hit Pall’s bottom line

Invensys benefits from emerging market demand

Instrument sales drive Mesa in the second quarter

Market features

Earthquake ends blue period for Japan

Global instrument export maintain growth track

Appointments