Instrument News

January 2015 – content

Life Sciences

Danaher expands dental business by selling assets

Further funds for Tute Genomics

Data analysis firm raises funds

BioSilta relocates global headquarters to UK

Takara Bio invests in gene therapy business

50^th anniversary at Integra Bioscience

Sygnis signs distributor for commercial first product

Neogen buys additional distributor

AstraZeneca buys tumour imaging diagnostics firm

PSS to supply three different systems to two partners

General Laboratory

Verder combines two German furnace businesses

Agilent creates new services and consumables group

MOCON renames German subsidiary

Laser Quantum buys ultrashort pulsed laser firm

E+H buys further stake in AJ

Sartorius finds buyer for industrial weighing division

Spectris acquires seismic monitoring business

Process & hand-held instrumentation

MAST signs research and development deals

Yokogawa opens process analyser business in Malaysia

Acquisition of Austin AI not completed to deadline

Cemtrex revenues up on company purchase

Features

US laboratory market returns to growth in 2014

Financials

Life science instrument markets remain weak in Q3

Bio-Rad agrees to pay $55m to settle bribery case

PSS massively reduces loss

GE Healthcare benefits from stronger US demand

Affymetrix returns to profit as sales beat targets

BD beats despite flat Biosciences

Nanosphere sees cash dwindle

Rebound in drug sector boosts lab instrument makers

Thermo Fisher lowers guidance

Astrotech’s future is grounded

Waters up as pharma rebounds

FEI earnings plunge on costs

IDEX overshoot guidance on sales

VWR returns on profit after IPO

Corning’s earnings sink

Diversification key for Europe’s security firms

Halma loses ground in two sectors

Leybold growth subdued

Morpho looks outside defence for growth

Detection still holding back Smiths

HAPSITE on track for record years

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

November 2014 – content

Life Science

BD expands into NGS sample preparation

LabCorp buys NMR-based IVD assets

Horizon Discovery makes second acquisition since public listing

Cellectricon quits instrumentation sales

Neogen acquires competitor

Brooks expands LSS with purchase of storage consumables firm

Microsaic announces name of second OEM partner

General Laboratory

Bruker finds Chinese takers for eliminated GC assets

Agilent gives up on NMR business

Magritek receives further funds

LUM opens French laboratory

VWR IPO experiences weak interest

Linkam in collaboration with SWAXS developer

TIBCO to be acquired by private equity company

Lauda lands ‘strategic coup’ with acquisition of thermostating firm

CANNON Instrument buys viscometer specialist

Process & hand-held instrumentation

Mini MS attracts collaborations after space business is sold

Spectra Automation launched bioprocess manager

B&W Tek enters LIBS market

IDEX buys process valves specialist

Micromem awarded patent

Ultra adds radiation measurement company

Financials

Strong euro holds back Europe’s life science suppliers

bioMérieux offsets currency and China with BioFire

Sartorius maintains guidance

Merck Millipore falls short in a tough market

Gerresheimer sees glimmer of recovery in a stronger Q2

Zeiss warns of choppy water

UK-based lab firms find no plain sailing

Judges stock continues to dive as organic growth disappoints

SDI ends 2014 on a loss

Pfeiffer sees fall in spending from analytical instrument manufacturers

Dassault confirms outlook

Tosoh LC packing experts fallDouble-digit fall for OI earnings

Acquisitions add sparkle to process sector results

Parker Hannifin sees stock slip after target miss

Pall tops forecast again

Teledyne grows on acquisitions and cost-cuts

MKS beats on revenues as growth continues

Grace grows on acquisitions and currency in Q2

Features

Chinese market maintains inexorable growth

Appointments

October 2014 – content

Life Sciences

Bibby Scientific buys in PCR technology

Further funding for Oxford Nanopore

Illumina buys regulatory consulting company

Merck investment to make it a top three laboratory distributor

AstraZeneca to sell R&D facility near Manchester

Oxford Nanopore releases details of road ahead

NGS technologies approved in China

BioLegend buys antibody business

General Laboratory

Advion launches own HPLC system

MOCON starts joint venture for life science packaging consulting

FEI expands EM manufacturing in Brno

Microsaic signs manufacturing partner

Waters opens new MS headquarters

Hamilton Scientific buys further partner

ChemImage celebrates 20^th anniversary

PerkinElmer opens Italian HQs

Process & hand-held instrumentation

Cemtrex CEO tries quelling shareholder unease

Ametek adds two companies to EIG

MAST signs manufacturing partner

Financials

US life science instrument firms Q2 results

Brooks LSS braces for growth after product launch

PacBio demand picks up

Affymetrix lifts guidance as restructuring pays off

Bio-Rad held back by Asian headwinds in Q2

Strong instrument sales drive BD

US remains a problem for GE

Leading instrument firms look solid on sales in Q2

Thermo Fisher beats targets as integration continues

Agilent satisfies Wall Street as split with EMG nears

MT maintains growth in Q2

PerkinElmer misses on sales

Sigma-Aldrich sales flat

Threat analysis firms struggle to thrive in new climate

Inficon growns on security spending

ISC’s worries overshadow success

Analogic remains confident

Smiths Detection sharpens up its survival skills

Comet grows security business

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

July 2014 – content

Life Sciences

Sequenom sells mass spectrometer business

Transgenomic trades up

GE HLS to divest of life science microcalorimetry business

Essen receives investment

Roche buys NGS start-up and invests in another

Investments in sequencing remain “high risk”

General Laboratory

Spectris invests in sample prep company

Analis buys Belgian lab furniture company

Anton Paar opens new assembly center

SLS wins status of preferred UK public-sector supplier

S+H celebrates 150 years in scientific instrument market

Process & hand-held instrumentation

Applikon in partnership with process software company

Emerson opens Indo-China office

Watson-Marlow acquires tubing specialist

Features

Leaderboard shows stability in the face of 2013 turbulence

Financials

Exchange rate headwinds make life hard for EU life science firms

Sartorius hit by currency effects

HBIO blames weather as downward trend continues

Exchange rates hold back Merck Millipore

Record order lifts Brooks LSS

Another strong quarter for Biotage

Fluidigm remains in the red

Sluggish markets stunt many laboratory companies

Recovering industrial spending gives Nikon a boost

Leybold grows on process

AJ in the red as instrument sales falls

US headwinds offset stronger international demand at VWR

Pfeiffer’s analytical sales decline

LC remains strong at Tosoh

Industrial uptick bodes well for process analyser firms

Honeywell hopeful of industrial market pick-up in 2014

Intevac back in the black in Q1

Roper hits five-year peak on strong figures

Xylem maintains full-year outlook

HAPSITE sales remain strong

MKS warns of weaker orders ahead

Smiths Detection struggles in its Q3

Appointments

June 2014 – content

Life Science News

PerkinElmer closes US microarray genetic testing services

BioLife Solutions trades up to NASDAQ

Olympus seeks buyer for biopharma site

Protea Biosciences plans to sell European subsidiary

ProteinSimple plans public listing

Thermo Fisher invests in animal diagnostics

Circulomics wins grant for nucleic acid extraction method

Techne invests in immunoassay start-up

Oxford Optronix makes move on North American market

General Lab News

CambTEK expands distributor network into Asia

HiTek Power acquired by AEI

Carlyle Group invests in cold chain firm

SECOPTA moves into larger facility

Spectro Inc undergoes rebranding

Magritek appoints distributor for North America

Aquilant Scientific expands into dissolution testing

Astrotech to sell space operations

Nanalysis enters NMR co-marketing agreement

Process & hand-held instrumentation

Morpho to market DNA identification technology

Redlen wins investment for expansion

Financials

Illumina keeps on startling as NGS market fizzes

Danaher LS&D growth on Western demand

Cepheid expects higher losses

Illumina lifts guidance as Q1 growth tops targets

Bio-Rad held back by costs and “tepid” markets

Affymetrix growth slows in Q1

PacBio doubles revenues in Q1

Thermo and MT report stronger markets for lab sector

Order delays hold back Waters in Q1

Porvair grows Microfiltration sales

Eppendorf falls short in 2013 as markets worsen

Agilent maintains guidance despite sluggish Q2

Thermo Fisher impresses in Q1

MT beats as markets improve

No common trend for process firms in mixed quarter

Costs and weak spending drive FLIR Detection into the red

ABB disappoints in Q1

Acquisitions boost Ametek

Low single-digit growth for Danaher Environmental

Single large order drives HHT

Acquisitions drive Teledyne

Exchange rates hold back Spectris

Features

EU instrument sector feels the pinch in 2013

Appointments

May 2014 – content

Life Science News

JPK establishes Chinese office, elects US representative

Beckman expands with Chinese cytometer developer

Biolin sells dental diagnostics unit

IQuum to be acquired by diagnostics giant

ProteinSimple opens Japanese office

SQI raises funds through share placements

Bio-Rad moves into sequencing

AMSBIO moves US headquarter East

Sysmex and Merck Millipore enter agreement

Gyros signs Chinese partner

General Lab News

Teledyne acquires laser-based sample introduction technology

Leica companies sign Arquimed

­­Blue Scientific wins partner

Majority-acquisition of Neaspec

Lauda adopts new business structure, expands manufacturing

DANI sets up US office

Edwards takeover completed

Thermo Fisher discontinues combustion elemental analysers

Accelrys sees M&A tables turned on itself

Brechbühler takes on German market for Thermo Fisher OEA

Image sensor pioneer sold

Process & hand-held instrumentation

Sartorius takes stake in start-up firm

Ametek to acquire major metrology company

Applikon opens Chinese production site

Axiom launches new NIR probes                   ­

Features

Strong 4^th quarter indicates growth for 2014 in instrument sector

German industry expects growth despite weak 2013

A tale of two cities: Pittcon and Analytica in 2014

Financials

Japan helps and hinders Roche and Olympus

Currency slows a refocused Roche

Gerresheimer still down on US

Strong growth for Eurofins

Domestic market continues to drive Olympus life sciences

GE ambushed by weak US sales

Solid instrument sales for BD

Luminex misses on revenues in Q4

Weak yen hauls up the top-line of many firms

Techcomp boosted by purchase and depreciating yen

Shimadzu hit by charges

Weak yen lifes HORIBA despite continuing headwinds

Skyray profit halves on costs

Sigma sees US rebound this year

Accelrys misses on sales

In-field analysers gain as the economy strengthens

Pall beats on earnings in Q2

Roper returns to form in Q4

Smiths Detection falls short as squeeze continues

Parker looking for growth as climate improves

Olympus maintains momentum

Appointments

April 2014 – content

Life Science News

EKF Diagnostics expands with three acquisitions

OriGene makes further immunoassay acquisition

Brooks Automation invests in cryopreservation product company

RainDance completes E extension

SDI acquires IR camera business

Sample6 to launch food safety portfolio

Lab21 extends distribution agreement for rtPCR IVD

CovalX signs Chinese distributor

General Lab News

Raman assets add molecular spectroscopy capabilities to TSI

TA Instruments remains bullish in M&A

TA Instruments takes lion’s share of Waters acquisitions budget

E+H contemplates AJ delisting

Neaspec becomes majority-owned by nanopositioning specialist

Restructuring at m-u-t AG

CambTEK finds co-marketing partner

Process & hand-held instrumentation

B&W Tek enters into agreements for Raman products

Acquisition strengthens MKS in vacuum gauge market

OCT instrument wins PRISM award

Financials

Life science firms continue to navigate tough market

Brooks Automation sales continue to plunge in the new year

Merck hit by exchange rates

Tecan remains flat in 2013

Instrument launch propels Biotage to stronger Q4

Organic growth now priority for slimline HBIO

Sartorius up on Asia and acquisition

Biolin goes into red in 2013

Trading conditions remain weak for instrument firms

Weak analysis sales put AJ in the red

Acquisitions drive Judges

Purchases lift VWR despite weak sales volumes

Chip slump hold back Pfeiffer

Leybold Vacuum holds firm in 2013

Nikon sees trading improve

Process firms finish year strong as markets improve

Order delays hold back ABB in Q4

Acquisitions lift Honeywell

HAPSITE sales return strongly in the fourth quarter

Xylem posts cautious guidance for 2014

Newly streamlines Intevac looks ahead with confidence

Spectris ends year positively

Features

Pittcon Editors give top award to NIR mirror assembly

Ibsen and TellSpec to use DLP EVM

Lowering the entry barrier for MS

First commercial CE-LC interface

US finishes hardest year since recession

Appointments