Instrument News

July 2016 – content

Life Sciences

Greiner Bio-One stops diagnostics R&D

Luminex to acquire diagnostics firm

Oxford Nanoimaging wins funding for product launch and beyond

Tax incentives for 908 Devices further support expansion

Eppendorf in ELN collaboration

Practichem wins Angel investment

Desktop Genetics enters synthetic genomics partnership

Bioquell reaches milestone after transformational year

General Laboratory

Bruker buys automated mineralogy software assets

Further share holding increases at m-u-t AG

Eurofins expands Japanese presence

Danaher to split in July 2016

Xylem expands direct sales team in North America

Two partnerships for eMolecules

ARC in supply agreement for Polyarc® reactor system

PANalytical seeks boost in China market through partnership

FOSS reports record growth

Process & hand-held instrumentation

Bachtel Group buys stake in gas monitoring company

Tribogenics signs distributors, wins funding

Acal BFi signs European distribution deals

Feature - Trade Data

Chinese instrument market continues to slow in 2015

Financials

Currency less of a problem for European Life Science firms

Roche turns in double-digit growth

Gerresheimer hits a wall in Q1

Merck ups Life Science forecast on Sigma acquisition

Bioprocess drives Sartorius

Growth returns to GE Healthcare

Strong organic growth for Biotage

Broad-based growth for Luminex

Japanese cuts in research spending hits local firms

Budget cuts put Nikon off target

JEOL’s growth hits a brick wall

Olympus falls short of guidance

Eppendorf sails over expectations in its 70^th year

Shodex posts another drop

Tosoh plans bioscience investment

Skyray earnings on target in Q1

Headwinds hold back Europe’s process analysis firms

Microsaic falls short on OEM sales

ABB expect near-term uncertainty

Weak markets leave E+H dissatisfied with progress

Halma grows strongly last year

Inficon sees glimmers of hope

Appointments

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

May 2015 – content

Life Sciences

Magellan sold to diagnostics company

Twist Bioscience acquires software expert for synthetic genomics

Exiqon receives takeover offer from life science specialist

Single-cell Western blot start-up finds buyer

10x Genomics raises $55m in C round

WuXi buys first European subsidiary

General Laboratory

WR Grace sells flash chromatography assets, stops chromatography columns manufacturing

Trajan acquires laboratory automation specialist

Pharma Test acquires fibre-optic expert

Freeman moves to expanded Chinese office

Judges buys fibre tester company

Nanomechanics enters distribution agreements

Process & hand-held instrumentation

Snowy Range becomes majority owned by Alpine company

GE Healthcare expands cell culture production

Financials

Life science supplies hope for green shoots ahead

Molecular testing and sequencing revenues drive Roche

Harvard delays earnings filing

Exchange rates boost Biotage

Sartorius more than doubles earnings as biopharma blossoms

Dollar boosts Gerresheimer

Qiagen disappoints as instrument sales decline

BS Life Sciences hit by currency

Japan’s instrument sector benefits from weak yen

Porvair’s revenues plunge as large projects business declines

Tosoh weak as China market slows

Skyray grows in double-digits

Shimadzu maintains guidance despite economic clouds

Nikon creeps back into profit

Horiba sees double-digit plunge in fourth quarter earnings

Olympus hit by research caution

Weak energy sector proves costly for process firms

Parker Hannifin exceeds guidance although markets remain tough

Xylem misses due to currency

Mocon struggles against energy sector slowdown

Danaher hit by Chinese delays

Newport holds onto bottom line

ABB hit by energy sector spending

Features

US instrument sector holds firm on research spending

Appointments

April 2016 – content

Life Sciences

Nova Capital finds buyer for last Barloworld business

Affymetrix joins TFS after last minute intervention

Agilent invests in NGS technology

Alpha MOS to move into metabolomic diagnostics

Gyros to merge with peptide synthesiser company

Illumina pulls out the litigation bludgeon again

General Laboratory

Perten Instruments buys milk and dairy testing specialist

SP Industries buys vial handling firm

Liquidation of Pelican Scientific complete

Postnova opens UK subsidiary

TE Instruments signs partner for Americas

Advanced Instruments celebrates 60th anniversary

Kinesis global distributor for uHPLC connections

Process & hand-held instrumentation

Hellma purchase to create leader in PAT probes

ED-XRF in precision agriculture

NAS launches new web marketplace

Features

Atlanta 2016 – will Pittcon stay relevant

New instruments and innovation on the exhibition floor

EU trade soars in a spectacular rebound year

Financials

Tough markets and strong dollar hinder US firms

Brooks LSS remains in red despite solid revenue growth

Bio-Rad held back by currency

Luminex ahead of targets in Q4

Another drop in sales for Fluidigm

Illumina misses on earnings due to costs and currencies

Affymetrix misses on sales

US firms negotiate currency headwinds in 2015

FEI closes the year strongly as results top forecasts

MT tops Wall Street forecasts

Thermo Fisher beats on sales and earnings

Strong dollar continues to weigh down Corning Life Sciences

Final-quarter rebound for VWR

Acquisitions for process firms to offset energy sector

Energy sector drives down Teledyne

Honeywell looks at acquisitions

Grace gain wiped out by currency

Ametek weighted down by currency and oil sector slump

Roper falls short of Q4 targets

MKS beats even as results plunge

Strong growth for security and threat detection sector

Luna Innovations back in the black after closure of API merger

Implant Sciences turns a comer

Dynasil returns to profit

Acquisition drives growth for Comet’s security business

Smiths Detection profit up on cuts

FLIR ups trance detection sales

Analogic slips on screening orders

Appointments

March 2016 – content

Life Sciences

Twist Bioscience accused of misappropriating trade secrets

NanoCellect wins funds for cell sorter

Unchained makes biggest acquisition so far

Funding for bioinformatics

AB Sciex signs co-marketing with sample prep technology company

Two organ-on-a-chip companies achieve milestones

Sophia Genetics signs strategic partnership

Rubicon Genomics enters distribution agreement with BCI

Partnership automates microsampling workflow

Agreements for 10x Genomics

AES wins European partner

General Laboratory

Elementar expands into Asia with direct office in Japan

TFS expands powder diffraction capabilities with company purchase

Judges moves into LED market with acquisition

AMETEK buys rheometer veteran

MKS expands into optical components with purchase

Spectris adds clean-room services company

Process & hand-held instrumentation

Cemtrex buys industrial installation services firm

City Technology celebrates anniversary

MyDx signs stock purchase agreement

MKS renames its software business

Features

The Pittcon Editors' Awards - two decades of rewarding innovation

M&A activities in 2015 show substantial industry consolidation

Export growth halves for Japan in 2015

Strong dollar drives down US exports in 2015

Appointments

February 2016 – content

Life Sciences

PositiveID buys mobile labs company

PierianDx wins funds for expansion

Microarray pioneer sells up to TFS

Beckman Coulter to sell genomics services business

Neogen buys rodenticide product lines

Florida Institute backs agrigenomics start-up

Charles River to acquire specialist CRO

ACEA raises fund to push clinical pipeline

Protein Metrics opens two new operations

General Laboratory

Specac moves into new US offices

E+H attempts 100% ownership of AJ

LECO launches German demonstration lab

New MS centre for Shimadzu China

Park Systems raises funds in IPO

Shimadzu celebrates anniversary of Indian partnership

OI takes OES service in US in-house

XRF Scientific buys European distributor

VWR buys pre-packed kits distributor

SETi acquires rival in UV LED

Tribogenics launches sub-$10,000 XRF system

3M expands filtration portfolio

Process & hand-held instrumentation

Kromek in partnership with radiation detection firm

Puridify wins investment to accelerate commercialisation

JUMO China moves into new offices

APMT in licensing agreements for PAT technologies

Implant Sciences sees demand skyrocketing

GE HLS partners with Emerson

Financials

Mixed results for life science instrument makers

Qiagen falls short of forecasts

bioMérieux tops 2015 guidance

Nanosphere beats guidance

Zeiss sees weak microscope sales

Eurofins expands aggressively

Addtech report stable lab sales

Analytical chemistry and the strong dollar drive Biotage

Japan’s firms see expert surge but local sales stagnate

Olympus grows earnings with cuts

Mettler-Toledo outperforms in Q3

US healthcare sector rebound drives Shimadzu

Bruker tops forecasts

Agilent beats on earnings

JEOL returns to profit

Techcomp benefits from GC lines

OI offloads non-core units

China’s manufacturing slowdown hits process firms

Halma grows strongly in all regions

EU airport sales boost implant

Renishaw struggles against manufacturing slowdown in China

Mocon slips on oil and strong dollar

HHT beats on analyser sales to China

Currency holds back Diploma

Features

US exports continue to shrink in 2015

Appointments

January 2016 – content

Life Sciences

AxioMx to be acquired by antibody specialist

Roche to buy microbiology diagnostics specialist

Meridian takes minority share in tools company

Transgenomic leaves instruments and reagent business

Corning buys pharmaceutical glass tubing business

LGC changes equity investment owner

Sygnis signs NGS distributors, grants licence to TFS

Human Longevity makes first acquisition

Thermo Fisher expands Baltic lab

PTI and PSL drop litigation

General Laboratory

OI disposes of Omicron by creating joint venture with Scienta

EquipNet opens new Brazil office

Trillium acquires cryogenic pump business

Verder expands Scientific Division

Tescan opens direct office in Brazil

Process & Hand-held Instrumentation

Ovizio wins funding to finance expansion

Rigaku signs distributors for petroleum testing portfolio

FLIR buys video surveillance specialist

Yokogawa invests in offices                  

Financials

Weak markets and strong dollar hit US life science firms

Brooks Automation continues life science acquisition spree

Merck LS moves into new era

Currency troubles as BD ends transformative year

Bio-Rad cuts guidance in half as revenues nosedive

Currency holds up Gerresheimer

Japanese instrument firms pick up steam in Q3

US demand keeps Horiba on track

Skyray navigates heavy weather with acquisitions and product R&D

SDK invests in Shodex for growth

Tosoh grows LC packing exports

US security firms held back by weak spending climate

Dynasil refocuses security unit on materials sciences

Restructuring costs and payment delays hit Analogic’s earnings

FLIR doubles sales of security trace detection instruments

HAPSITE slump begins to improve

Morpho continues to climb

Features

Single-digit growth for instrument sector in H1 2015

Appointments

December 2015 – content

Life Sciences

IntelliCyt wins new financing

Lophius raises funds of undisclosed size

OriGene buys antibody specialist

Brooks LS buys sample management company

Two acquisitions complete

SIAL buys biological pathway research tool

DGT signs robotic laboratory service partner

Chinese NGS instruments launched

Tute Genomics buys genome interpreter

Luxendo closes series A round

Ultivue wins funding for high resolution microscopy method

General Laboratory

Oerlikon to sell vacuum business

Xylem buys hydrographic survey company

PhenoLogix moves into own plant

Honeywell purchase clears way for SIAL acquisition

Adam Equipment opens German office

LUM opens Chinese JV company

Process & handheld instrumentation

Axsun becomes independent again upon equity investment

Astrotech launches new miniMS

Scott Safety buys gas detection company

LumaSense celebrates anniversary

TeraView wins “major” funding

Features

Biotechnica introduces format and schedule changes

German companies anticipate continues growth in 2015

Financials

US life science instrument players fall short in Q3

Illumina misses once again due to weak benchtop sales

Affymetrix drops to a loss

Fluidigm beats forecasts despite headwinds

Luminex increases sales guidance

Cepheid’s losses triple

HBIO drops to a loss in quarter

Strong dollar and weak market hold back US lab companies

Thermo Fisher raises guidance as sales come in ahead of targets

Corning LS weathers weak climate

FEI’s third quarter profit halves

IDEX improves margins as sales drop

VWR falls short of currency

Waters beats on sales & earnings

Persistent headwinds spark fears of industrial slump

Honeywell still waiting for industrial sector rebound

Roper impresses on earnings

Ametek lowers guidance as demand climate worsens

SPX Flow plunges to a loss in its first independent quarter

Newport beats in last quarter

Teledyne instrument sales drop

PH warns of industrial order fall

Appointments

November 2015 – content

Life Sciences

Tecan acquires smaller neighbour to boost OEM business

Lumora business sold to IVD company

Neogen buys culture media specialist

ADNAS acquires DNA mass-production capability

Akadeum raises funds

BD expands cytometry capabilities with single-cell technology

Ginolis buys assembly service company

Biodesix to use Biognosys’ HRM-MS technology

Desktop Genetics raises funds for gene editing method

Brooks LS signs tagging deal

Roche buys two assets for its NGS business

Neogen in marketing deal with Illumina

General Laboratory

Bruker to purchase semicon metrology business

Union Park builds NIR analyser business through purchases

MOCON merges subsidiary into parent company

EAR adds new instrument lines

Dectris signs supply agreement with major XRD manufacturer

VWR acquires solvent company

Spectro Analytical opens demonstration lab

Park Systems and JEOL partner

Process & hand-held instrumentation

Bruker enters handheld LIBS market

Eurocontrol experiences delays in GIF sale

Funds for improved automated cell-culture

Teledyne buys X-ray technology business

Financials

Strong dollar still a problem for US life science firms

Sartorius raises guidance again as biopharma soars

PBC misses on sales in Q3

Acquisitions dwarf organic growth at Danaher LS&D

Roche driven by Ariosa purchase

Sluggish markets for GS Healthcare

Japanese firms report strong demand in many markets

Horiba ups guidance on chip spending rebound

SDK triples chemical earnings

Shimadzu soars both internationally and in Japan

Nikon spends its way to a loss

JEOL remains in the red in fQ1

Olympus returns to profit

Strong US dollar has chilling effect on process firms

Grace ups earnings guidance, bus Q3 sales disappoint

ABB hit by strong US dollar and weak oil

Acquisitions likely as Xylem invests in its business

Newport cuts costs as profit drops

Environment strong for Danaher

Feature

EU export top €4 billion as growth doubles

Appointments

October 2015 – content

Life Sciences

Agilent acquires bioenergetics measurement company

Biametrics raises series A funding

Roka Biosciences sees revenues increase following IPO

Stratec growth rates slow, enters OEM agreement with Artel

PositiveID secures strategic financing

SIAL acquisition nears completion

Chiral Technologies buys DNA purification company

Scienion in further collaboration

Tecan collaborates for automated SPE

MoBiTec remains EGT distributor                                                  

General Laboratory

Tescan purchases specialist software developer

MTS Systems buys Swedish testing instrument distributor

Adam Equipment moves US headquarters

Markes opens second US office

Transgenomic sell IC columns business

Process & hand-held instrumentation

Rigaku breaks into market for handheld LIBS

SciAps closes new funding round

Bioprocess competitors in OEM agreement

Xenemetrix becomes distributor for RTA products                                 

Features

JASIS 2015 – still dominated by Japanese visitors

PEFTEC – a new instrument show for petrochemical industry

Japanese export growth halves in H1 of 2015

Financials

Exchange rates both a blessing and a curse in Europe

Eurofins ups guidance after acquisition bonanza

Soaring dollar continues to drive Gerresheimer in Q2

Tecan sees devaluation effects

Qiagen beats forecasts

Mixed markets for laboratory analysis firms

Analytical demand roars back for Pfeiffer

PerkinElmer beats forecast in Q2

Judges Scientific drops to a loss on acquisition charge

MT blames lower guidance of weakness in China, Russia and Brazil

Accelrys boosts Dassault in Q2

Europe’s security detection sector struggles on

Stagnant demand halves HAPSITE

Acquisitions drive Spectris

Record sales for Renishaw

Smiths Detection cuts R&D spending as turnover tumbles

Strong dollar and weak oil hit Mocon

Appointments