Instrument News

January 2014 – content

Life Sciences

Illumina leaves qPCR market in restructuring

Biodesy starts commercial operation with fund raising event

Arrayit moves to new headquarters

PathoGenetix raises funding in preparation of product launch

Eagle raises funds for expansion

Ownership change at ImmunoChemistry

Biocartis ends partnership following fundraising

Swift Biosciences launches new library kit

NanoString launches nCounter in US

PerkinElmer distributes oncology tests

BD cooperates in microbial diagnostics

General Laboratory

AJ Japan instigates changes due to results

Dynasil sells product lines to pay down debt

Bibby Scientific consolidates UK manufacturing

Judges raises funds in support of further acquisitions

Avid Nano lowers sample volume requirement for DLS

Newport sells packaging business

Grace granted new FC patent

Porex sold to process filtration giant

Process & hand-held instrumentation

Hamilton buys biomass sensors business                                         

IST AG opens new headquarters

Advanced Sensors bought by PAC

Gas-Arc sold to US gas cutting and welding specialist

Financials

Bottom line problems for life science instrument firms

Sartorius maintains forecast in Q3

Currency puts brakes on Merck

Spending delays hit Brooks

Holm & Halby owner Addtech grows sales and profits

SurModics returns to growth after four difficult years

HBIO suffers again from GE cuts

Tecan adjusts guidance down

Cepheid raises forecasts

Japanese instrument firms benefit from weak yen

Techcomp growth on acquisitions

Academic sales slow for Techne

Restructuring puts VWR in the red

Tosoh grows in LC and reagents

Showa Denko returns to profit

Nikon misses on guidance

Problems in Japan drive AJ to loss

Defence spending still a problem for security firms

Smiths Detection bottom line hit by squeezed spending and charge

API benefits from Silonex buy

Honeywell lowers guidance

HAPSITE sales grow on North American demand

ABB grows strongly in Q3

Intevac Photonics sales dip

Weak yen boosts Hamamatsu

Features

Japanese markets strong as confidence returns

China’s instrument exports growth 61% in five years

Appointments

December 2013 – content

Life Sciences

Illumina strengthens bioinformatics offering

Singulex secures financing and debt facility

HBIO spins out medical device unit

Acquisition adds to Qiagen’s NGS bioinformatics portfolio

Illumina divests stake in NGS competitor

OpGen signs Japanese partner for chromosome mapping service

Merck Millipore in OEM agreement for microRNA assay

BGI buys Ion Torrent systems

Biosearch Technologies invests in IP and manufacturing expansion

Labcyte enters R&D collaborations

Beckman Coulter buys flow cytometry reagents

General Laboratory

IBEX Innovations lands OEM and licensing deal

Danaher combines particle-related instrument concerns

Oxford Instruments buys RMG, bids for Andor

Shimadzu establishes South American headquarters

Micromeritics buys in consulting and analysis expertise

E+H gains control of another quarter of AJ

Verder expands furnace portfolio

Romil celebrates anniversary

IMI to concentrate on industrial flow control business

Excelitas expands UV curing and illumination portfolio

Andor adds CCD camera specialist

Anasys launches second-generation instrument

Process & hand-held instrumentation

SciAps raises additional funds for new instrument introductions

Kromek goes public on AIM

Systech Instruments turns 30

Financials

Mixed fortunes for genetic analysis firms

Soft market and charges drive Bio-Rad into the red

New products drive Danaher

Affymetrix beats in Q3 as realignment continues

Illumina outperforms yet again

Sequenom improves losses

Qiagen outperforms estimates

Thermo Fisher performs strong

Agilent shares pop on results

Waters falls short once more

MT trims forecasts again

FEI confident despite weak quarter

Bruker stock drops on guidance­­

IDEX improves profitability

Stronger industrial markets lift process firms

Ametek remains cautious despite improving order rates

Costs hit Newport’s bottom line

Water markets and acquisitions boost Danaher

FLIR results disappoint in Q3

Xylem stock soars on earnings high

Instruments strong at Teledyne

Features

Exports shrink as US firms struggle in 2013

Appointments

November 2013 – content

Life Sciences

Sysmex acquires two German companies

Affymetrix sells off reagent business

Sartorius to buy microreactor specialist

RainDance opens new commercial options

Porvair in OEM agreement with industry giant

Oxford Nanopore expands IP, tops up funding

Google and Illumina take deliveries from ARRAYit

General Laboratory

Endress+Hauser takes control of laboratory instrumentation firm

SEAL Analytical acquires digestion systems firm

Gilson buys in preparative chromatographic assets

TA Instruments purchases rubber rheometer business

Spectro invests in portable analyser company

Acquisition to double Excelitas

Andor buys photonics specialist

Two charged particle microscopy experts combine

SGS makes two UK acquisitions

Galvanic sells for lower bid

Process & hand-held instrumentation

GE in OEM deal for handheld instrumentation                                 

Cemtrex signed as distributor by analyser developer

Rapid Micro Biosystems secures financing

Process analytics as service

Features

Instrument markets remain sluggish while global economy tilts towards recovery

Financials

Weakness in Japan and the US affects life science firms

BD hit by medical device tax and austerity in Europe and Japan

Strong earnings for Luminex

Transgenomic sales plunge

Biotage continues to struggle against currency and markets

Roche boosted by qPCR demand

GE Healthcare held back by Japan

Gerresheimer still feels US cuts

Oversea sales boost Olympus

Japanese lab firms benefit from weak yen

Shimadzu raises outlook as markets strengthen

Sigma hit by weal US demand

Horiba falls short of guidance for instruments in Q2

Life Tech misses on sales in Q2

Skyray sees growth slow

PE earnings slide on charge

Corning doubles earnings

Process firms optimistic about the year’s second half

Pall misses guidance due to ongoing industrial weakness

Mesa Labs hits by recall

Grace confirms guidance in Q3

Roper earnings hit by charge

New industrial products boost sales for Olympus

Parker-Hannifin raises outlook despite sluggish US demand

Spectris reports mixed trading conditions

Appointments

October 2013 – content

Life Sciences

Bruker buys in life science microscopy capabilities

Agilent prepares to separate into two businesses

Personalis opens UK office

Phalanx Biotech relocates US office

BioFire to sell up

Luminex to close Brisbane Office

Micronit expands cleanroom facilities

Gyros finds partner for immunoassay kits

Rigaku buys consumables business

Alfa Aesar expands life science portfolio

IDT expands manufacturing site

General Laboratory

Edwards to be swallowed by compressor giant

Accelrys buys chemical inventory management specialist

NanoSight finds ‘natural home’ with Malvern

Teledyne acquires camera specialist

Markes to open German office

Magritek receives investment boost

Agilent to buy Mexican distributor

AMS Systea launches new product line

Process & hand-held instrumentation

908 Devices raises additional funds

HORIBA enters process analytical markets with purchase

Brooks Instrument opens sales office

BaySpec signs new distributor

Financials

Western economies remain weak for life science firms

Strong Abcam boosted by acquisition

HBIO drops to a loss in Q2

Sartorius on track despite weak US spending

Brooks struggles as customers delay purchases

PBI losses double in Q2

Millipore hit by currency

Lab firms struggle against market headwinds

AJ falls into the red in the third quarter

Techne looks to China for growth

Judges returns to the black

Techcomp feels the chill of hardening Sino-Japanese relations

VWR sinks to a loss

Loss for Nikon as spending slows

Showa Denko chemicals flat

Funding cuts continue to plague process forms

Xylem hit by weakness in European markets

ABB maintains growth

Honeywell up in Q1

Intevac grows on Army contract

Hamamatsu flat in financial H1

Funding cuts hold back HAPSITE

Features – US Trade Data

Pessimism confirmed as US market shrinks

Appointments

September 2013 – content

Life Sciences

Intertek buys CRO
BIT acquires rest of manufacturing joint venture
Life Tech votes on acquisition
Protagen sells service business
Illumina acquires microfluidics expert to expand NGS offering
Brooks expands Life Science Systems
Waters acquires informatics partner
New partner for caprotec
Illumina and CGI settle patent cases
Integra creates UK sales team

General Laboratory

CETAC to be sold to instrument giant
Photonis creates digital imaging division
Bruker spent less on purchases
NanoSight adds DLS capabilities to NS500
CTC partners with Phytronix

Process & hand-held instrumentation

Servomex partners with optical gas sensor expert
Kromek makes second US acquisition
FLIR Systems acquires micro-optics assets
Krohne to market BTS spectrometer

Features

Lab markets suffer from sluggish economy and spending cuts in the first quarter

Financials

Life science firms impress in a strong second quarter
Illumina raises guidance after earnings spike and acquisition
Bio-Rad disappoints in Q2
Affymetrix stock jumps as sales and earnings beat targets
Qiagen punges to a loss on charge
Danaher sees growth improve in Q2
Sequenom slashes workforce
Many lab firms fall short of target in second quarter
Earnings slide on costs but Agilent tops Wall Street estimates
IDEX grows on acquisitions
FEI falls short on sales in Q2
Mettler-Toledo trims guidance as Asian markets remain weak
Thermo beats on earnings
Waters falls short once more
Bruker returns to growth
Process firms struggle against soft markets
Instrument sales boost Danaher Environmental in Q2
Mewport misses on sales in Q2
Acquisitions put Teledyne ahead of target
FLIR returns to operating profit
Ametek Lowers guidance as it warns of soft markets
Xylem’s stock plunges

Appointments

August 2013 – content

Life Sciences

Techne buys clinical device verification specialist

Judges purchases electrophysiology company

Leica Biosystems adds array probe specialist

TTP sees order bookings rise through R&D investment

Beckman Coulter to split off CE business

JEOL signs deal for MALDI data analysis

IonField partners with Tekon in China

General Laboratory

Carl Zeiss to purchase X-ray microscopy firm

Staff reductions at m-u-t America

Sartorius postpones sale of industrial weighing division

Waters reveals purchase prices

Hamilton Scientific buys New England representative

Kewaunee takes over Asian partner

FEI reorganises company structure

XEI Scientific signs Chinese representative

VWR buys three distributors in H1 2013

ZOEX in OEM deal with JEOL

Process & hand-held instrumentation

Gas analyser acquisition expands ABB’s measurement concern

Planned Canberra acquisition falls through

Financials

Applied markets help boost life science firms in Q1

Top and bottom line drop for Brooks Life Science Systems

Olympus LS sluggish for last fiscal year

Life Tech beats targets on eve of Thermo purchase

BD lifts guidance on strong US instrument sales

Fluidigm up on single-cell genomics

Eurofins grows on acquisitions

Nanosphere reaffirms guidance

Research cuts continue to haunt lab instrument firms

Agilent to cut jobs after earnings slump on costs

Skyray maintains growth in Q1

Shimadzu sees growth ahead

AJ disappoints in latest quarter due to weak analytical demand

Sigma-Aldrich optimistic

HORIBA sales down again in Q1

SDI looks to healthcare for growth

Weak demand environment for process analysis

Pall lowers forecasts as economic challenges continue

Teradyne sales sluggish in Q2

Spectris sees Q2 improvement

XRF Scientific’s restructuring shows positive results

Pfeiffer analytical sales slump

Dansensor acquisition drives up Mocon’s top line

Olympus NDT’s industrial sales slide

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

June 2013 – content

Life Sciences

Aushon Biosystems sets course for growth and expansion

Funding round for dPCR technology commercialisation

SensiQ starts shipping new SPR instrument

Rockland buys antibody line

Qiagen buys bioinformatics firm to further diagnostics ambitions

HBIO affirms spin-off plans

RTG raises funds, signs product integration deal

Cell sorting start-up bought by Miltenyi

Synthetic DNA manufacturers expand partnership

Beckman Coulter extends supply agreement

STRATEC topline up, but EBIT suffers

PacBio signs partners

Redd&Whyte appoint US partner

Evotec extends drug discovery alliance

General Laboratory

Research markets lead to stagnant H1 top line for Coherent

Binder celebrates 30^th anniversary

MOCON creates four business units

PID Analyzers’ technology celebrates 40^th anniversary

Horizon Technology moves into larger premises

Xylem rebrands some lines

Malvern invests in Brazil

Amended CEM peptide synthesis patent upheld by EPO

FEI achieves sales milestone

AJ opens Bangkok office

Process & hand-held instrumentation

Honeywell further expands gas detection interest

Finesse in co-marketing deal

ChromaCon receives equity investment

Halma buys data communication company

Features

No bottom in sight for the instrument sector

Financials

Charges drive many life science firms into the red

Illumina plunges to a loss after losing infringement case

Bio-Rad hit by research spending

Affymetrix losses triple on restructuring costs

Luminex slips to a loss on charges

Sequenom beats on sales in Q1

Mixed markets hold back Danaher

Qiagen earnings plunge on costs

Growth hard to find for lab firms as markets weaken

Thermo beats on earnings as it makes its biggest even acquisition

PerkinElmer cuts guidance

MT’s sales decline on weakness in Europe and Asia

Weak organic sales for IDEX

FEI tops expectations once more

Waters earnings spike on tax gain

Bruker lowers guidance

Weak markets hold back process analysis firms

Danaher notes weak sales of lab and process instruments

FLIR held back by US spending

Ametek responds to weak markets by controlling costs

Weak markets hit Newport

Xylem falls short as earnings plunge

Grace warns of weak economy

Teledyne grows strongly in Q1

Appointments

May 2013 – content

Life Sciences

Roche reorganisation to stunt life science sequencing business

Tecan sales suffer in Europe

Thermo Fisher buys Life Technologies

PacBio in dept financing round

Analytik Jena buys UV product company

Avacta launches compact Optim instrument

Agilent makes investment in gene synthesis firm

Life Tech buys distributor, expands facility

Leica businesses acquires Brazilian distributor

General Laboratory

Metrohm enters markets for NIR instrumentation

Hanna opens Swiss office

Analytik Jena increases stake in R&D and manufacturing firm

Successful year 2012 for Foss

Halma expands fluid technology interest

BAS closes UK laboratory

Knauer celebrates anniversary year with product launches

Izon signs distributor for French market

Microsaic signs OEM partner

Process & hand-held

908 Devices signs partnership with investment organisation

SciAps buys portable Raman analyser business

Intertek adds four more businesses

Xylem relocates headquarters

ForteBio purchase price revealed

Financials

Cuts in public research budgets hit life science firms

Gerresheimer hit by budget cuts

GE held back by weakness in developed markets

BD returns to growth on solid US instrument sales

Further slowdown from Biotage

General lab firms struggle against market headwinds

Horiba looks to growth in 2013

Corning Life Sciences revenues spike on BD acquisition

Skyray returns to growth in Q4

AJ dissatisfied with a small first quarter loss

Shimadzu lowers full-year guidance on weak markets

Weak markets hit process instrument firms in Q1

Pall offsets industrial weakness with strong life science demand

Roper beats on earnings and raises guidance

Supply issues continue to hit sales at API

Parker-Hannifin slips in a challenging climate

Appointments

April 2013 – content

Life Sciences

EKF Diagnostics to target companion diagnostics

HBIO to spin out business unit

Hologic sells Lifecodes business

NuSep divests proteomics data analysis software

OriGene raises series C funding

CGI acquisition finally completed                                                     

QIAGEN launches sample-to-result NGS workflow

IntegenX signs UAE partner

TAP Biosystems enters three cell culture agreements

Innopsys parters for RPPA

General Laboratory

CAMAG couples TLC with MS

Konik becomes Advion distributor for South America

Anton Paar looks back at decade of growth

Danaher sells its share of tools business

Shimadzu opens Taiwan office

API adds product lines through acquisition

EAR takes on handheld XRF

Analytik Jena opens French subsidiary

Phase Focus finds TEM partner for ‘virtual lens’                            

USPTO rules for Biotage in SNAP infringement claim

XEI Scientific awarded patent

Process & handheld instrumentation

SWS licenses out single-chip spectrometer

Xenemetrix launches XRF for marine vessels

Gasmet buys German partner

Features

Four start-ups win Pittcon Editors’ Awards 2013

Optofluidics - Overcoming limits of traditional optical tweezers

Senova - pH measurement for laboratories and cows’ stomachs

French and US research expertise underpin Apix

All-round interferometer for mobile applications

Philadelphia proves perfect home for strongest Pittcon in years

Trade data

Solid export growth for EU instrument firms

Financials

Government funding cuts hold back life science firms

Strong instrument sales and guidance give Qiagen a boost

Nanosphere doubles revenues

OEM sales boost Tecan

Harvard sales drop on sluggish market

Cepheid back in the black in Q4

Biotech demand boost Merck

Transgenomic drops to a loss

Currency effects and sluggish markets hit lab firms

VWR drops to fourth quarter loss

Techne hit by weak US demand

Global nanotool demand drives OI

Loss for IDEX on impairment charges

Showo Denko optimistic ahead

Tosoh grows instrument sales

Sigma hit by currency

Process firms navigate mixed markets

Stable analysis sales for Pfeiffer

Mesa boosted by Bios purchase

ABB sluggish, but orders benefit from project wins

Honeywell’s efforts to control costs pay off despite weak markets

Intevac to slash workforce

Newport plunges in to the red

INFICON grows strongly in Q4

Appointments