Instrument News

October 2025 – content

Life Sciences

Optibrium raises multi-million funding in retail bank deal

Europa Biosite sold to new investor

Bio-Techne sells Exosome Dx business after seven years ownership

Stellaromics’ Pyxa platform arrives in Europe

Single cell barcoding specialist acquired by 10x Genomics

Mission Bio raises unknown sum for Tapestri’s clinical adoption

Takara Bio to distribute Macherey-Nagel bioanalysis offering in Europe

MS discovery service provider acquires proteomics specialist              

DKSH and PacBio partner

General Laboratory

ILS expands into Southern California with new purchase

Mettler-Toledo buys vortex mixer and shaker family

Rigaku trebles manufacturing plant capacity

Exum wins Thermo Fisher as partner for Europe and China

HyperChrom GC integrated into SepSolve’s offering        

Process & hand-held instrumentation

Scientific Industries sells foundational vortex mixer line

908 Devices purchases precision machining partner

Capricorn and Florabio collaborate on cell media development

DT changes management structure

Financials

Labtech drives growth in AddLife’s first half

10x Genomics breaks even while growth contributed by licensing

Bio-Techne expects continued budget uncertainties                            

Currency headwinds and US government cuts affect Merck LS

PacBio sees encouraging quarterly growth against US funding headwinds

Laboratory segment declines organically at Porvair

Growth rate for 2024 down by three quarters at SLS Group

SII sees bioprocessing sales falling in first half

Elementar grows by a third in 2023 after overcoming EPR snags

Acquisitions and currencies prop up Bruker

Rigaku reduces full-year forecast on tariff threats and EUV slowdown

US sales decline despite Waters’ recovery in first half

Product inspection and process analytics get mention in MT’s first half

Varex fears tariff-impact on full year

Security sales at DT halve in first half

Recovery starts at Parker-Hannifin DI in fourth quarter              

Operating losses increase by 70% at 908 Devices

Exchange rates responsible for half of Yokogawa’s growth

Acquisitions help LS division of ATS

Appointments

September 2025 – content

Life Sciences

Illumina to buy SomaLogic after 18 months as part of Standard BioTools

Serva Electrophoresis joins LICOR bio

Nicoya adds to SPR offering with circular dichroism spectrometer veteran

Antibodies.com moves to new HQs

Bruker expands MS reach in metabolomics and microbiology

Bankrupt Synthego bought by US equity company

Twist spins out data storage assets with help of investors

Imagene AI raises funds

General Laboratory

Two more acquisitions continue SDI’s inorganic growth strategy

Köttermann owner changes equity-investment hands

Zeiss starts new microoptics segment

AnalytiChem rebrands latest acquisition Cherwell

Zeiss buys SPAD pioneer to advance microscopy sensitivity

MKS Instruments renames              

Process & hand-held instrumentation

Acquisition highlights Sensirion’s emission monitoring strategy

Veralto invests into equity company’s water fund

Wabtec completes purchase of Evident NDT business

Substantial licensing deal to change Kromek’s fortunes for next two years              

Emerson reverses segment divestment decision citing re-shoring trends

LK Metrology expands offering with two acquisitions

Financials

Record-breaking Twist Bio confirms full-year guidance

Bio-Rad LS grows on process chromatography              

LS to grow at low single digits in Danaher’s second calendar half

Weak Illumina spared worse by sequencing consumables success

Dassault LS sees signs of recovery

Analytics grows by 2% during Xylem's first half

Currencies responsible for Nikon HC’s single digit growth

Agilent back to growth in its new configuration

Organic growth for SDI in second half of fiscal year

Analytical Instruments weak at Thermo Fisher

Zeiss’ microscopy and NDT segment declines slightly

Köttermann continues growth at lower rates

Emerson MA business flatlines organically in the second quarter

Kromek halves sales and double losses on eve of turnaround deal

Nederman MCT faces weak markets in first half

Water quality ahead of product quality by growth at Veralto

Valmet Automation relies on purchase for growth

Solventum PF leads by organic growth in the first half

Appointments

August 2025 – content

Life Sciences

Waters and BD businesses agree transformative merger

Enzo Biochem’s agrees to acquisition by Battery Ventures

Cost-cutting measures at Eppendorf after second weak year

Pluto Biosciences raises $3.6 million for AI platform              

Halo Labs adds to Waters’ particle characterisation offering

Investment-fuelled CellBio Scientific adds biospecimen expert

Funding for iPSC specialist

Eppendorf sells Bio-ITech share to EHS platform developer

HP and Tecan launch dispenser

General Laboratory

Astrea acquisition prepared Biotage take-over by KKR

Horiba UK opens Analytical Solution Plaza

OI to sell NanoScience business after unit’s recovery              

ACD/Labs to sell ChemisTwin platform worldwide

Process & Hand-held Instrumentation

Activist investor forces further Honeywell spin offs              

PPT Group changes equity investment owner

Masco Group expands bioprocess offering with acquisition

IBAIA raises funds for four-sensor water quality testing platform

Financials

System destocking creates headache for Stratec              

Strong PS margin diluted by Dx segment at Bio-Techne

Signs of market stabilisation heartens Eppendorf

Takara Bio saved by currency translations

Profitability in view for Azenta

Analytical instruments markets make a recovery at Hamamatsu

ERWEKA in profit as part of Verder Scientific

OI recoups its quantum losses in latest fiscal year

Verder Scientific’s 2023 growth relies heavily on acquisitions

Growth rate down at Prior Scientific

Photonics demand for data centres buoys Halma

Destocking holds back Hellma in 2023

JÜKE Systemtechnik sees double-digit growth after pandemic blip

Recovery at Sensirion led by Medical and Industrial              

Berthold Technologies continues postpandemic growth              

Life Sciences division provides growth for Donaldson

Work-in-progress Honeywell meets high end of Q4 guidance

ABB’s Process Automation division weakens in the fourth quarter

Record sales at Mirion with N&S in the lead

Appointments

Instrument News – July 2025 – content

Life Sciences

Enzo Biochem explores strategic alternatives

BD pursues shareholder value with split of two LS units

Akoya and Quanterix amend merger agreement

Galatea Bio wins further funds to expand representative biobank

BMG Labtech expands software and optical filter capabilities

Trilobio raises funds to remove human error from LS research

Grenova closes growth capital round and expands into Europe

General Laboratory

Antylia Scientific changes equity investment owners after auction

Edinburgh Instruments launches analytical brand for industrial research

ILS strengthens position in US repair services market

DWK Life Sciences moves US HQs

Resonac software to improve SPM image resolution

Process & hand-held instrumentation

Büchi expands NIR portfolio with handheld scanner

Nynomic’s Avantes selects new Finnish distributor

DuPont expands bioprocess offering with purification resin

Feature – conference report

ASMS 2025 – Attendance down on last year

Financials

BD LS still down on Bioscienes weak instrument sales

Sales continue to fall at Enzo Biochem

Quanterix losses increase again

ONT back to growth after last year’s Covid hangover

Acquisition still contribute strongly to Mesa Labs annual growth

Reduced research funding hold back BMG Labtech

While semicon is stable, industrial markets present challenges for MKS

Sales flatline at XRF Scientific after four years of growth

Shimadzu reports record sales despite Chinese weakness

Reducing packaging and laboratory sales hold back DWK Life Sciences in 2023

Nabertherm anticipates no significant growth for 2024

HHT grows in fiscal year, but stagnates in Q4

Netzsch Analysis & Testing grows at 11%

Neurological growth at Renishaw is more than offset by declining Raman sales

Consolidation at E+H after three years of strong growth

Sick sees sales shrink in uncertain economic environment

Marine instruments excel at Teledyne in the full year              

Economic challenges finally catch up with Nynomic

Stanhope-Seta continues post-pandemic recovery

Appointments

June 2025 – content

Life Sciences

MaxCyte expands GCT offering with acquisition

HighRes buys dispensing expert Let’s Go Robotics

Organoid company to enhance Merck’s cell culture offering

Labviva opens European headquarters              

Standard Biotools adds to SomaLogic’s proteomics platform

Wildcat Lab to bring PulpFixin’s zero-waste lab solutions to Europe

Bruker makes majority investment in TDM specialist

Refurbished equipment provider makes second investor-backed acquisition

Qiagen opens APAC bioinformatics data centre NIB

General Laboratories

Dotmatics to be snapped up by Siemens’ DI division

Bridge12 sells EPR business to Bruker BioSpin

Foss expands manufacturing capacity with Danish site

Arquimed tops $60 million sales mark in 2024

Carlo Erba Reagents signs Th Geyer as exclusive distributor

Instrument training software company Envoke-Demos raises funds

Shimadzu opens US R&D site

Process & hand-held instrumentation

Abselion raises funds for at-line protein quantification

NDT systems manufacturer Yxlon renames

Ametek acquires specialist machining company

Food safety testing business acquires software company

Headwall signs food industry partner and makes fourth acquisition

Financials

Qiagen reports rising top lines after two weak years

Profitability still some way off in Standard Biotools’ merger year

Last quarter recovery results in enhanced forecast for Merck LS

Losses mount at Maravai as sales decline continues

Cytek grows organically in 2024

After sales stagnation, Foss reports 6% growth

Nanalysis’ service revenue doubles in 2024

Analytical instrument market stable for IDEX HST

Biotage back to organic decline in the last calendar quarter

Disposal more than offsets Q4 recovery at Avantor

No life science market recovery in sight at IMI

Delays in India hit Kewaunee’s international business

DT’s growth rate subdued on Medical sales decline

Indutrade pushed to growth by acquisitions

Comet buoyed by semiconductor market recovery

Semiconductor markets provide over half of Inficon’s 2024 sales

Getinge LS held back by weak biopharma

Appointments

Instrument News – May 2025 – content

Life Sciences

Advanced Instruments to merge with clinical diagnostics company

Calibre buys two life science specialists              

Sartorius buys 3D culture businesses for LPS segment

Bio-Techne to open EMEA customer centre

Four businesses expand DKSH’s Technology division                            

Fluidics specialist invests in cell culture start-up

Illumina faces ban from important Chinese market

General Laboratory

Three UK chemical and reference standard businesses purchased by Calibre

TCP Analytical receives funding for further expansion

AI-powered interface business targets material science R&D

Mettler Toledo acquires two US scales specialists

Thorlabs acquires laser partner              

Process & hand-held instrumentation

Smiths Detection to be split off in demerger or sale

Evident to sell its Inspection Technology division

Xylem buys majority share in Idrica

Limula launches automated cell therapy manufacturing platform

Financials

PacBio reduces workforce as sales fall by a quarter

Rightsizing at BICO results in second half growth

Second half strength prevents worse for Sartorius

Illumina remains under par in calendar 2024

Single-digit growth at Corning LS

Marked cooling of M&CS growth in Xylem’s full year

Rates of decline shrink at Pfeiffer Vacuum

Organic decline at Spectris with most markets struggling

DKSH sales flatline despite second half recovery

Scientific division grows in mid single digits at Horiba

Acquisitions alleviates sales decline at Judges Scientific

Asian weakness puts pressure on Edwards’ 2023 top line

Ametek expects destocking to abate in 2025              

SES at Leidos gets little mention for calendar 2024

Security and Interconnect drive Smiths growth in first half

MCT grows in mid- to high teens at Nederman

Acquisition buoys OSI Systems in first calendar half

MTE contributes quarterly growth to ITW              

Appointments

Instrument News – April 2025 – content

Life Sciences

Cmbio buys software platform off microbiome firm in liquidation

Singular Genomics sold to Deerfield after bidding process

Leica Microsystem purchases expert of fluorescent dyes ATTO-TEC

Vion adds bioassay specialist in equity-backed expansion

Life science procurement company raises $25 million

Cryo-EM services company buys protein manufacturer

Sphere Fluidics rebrands

General Laboratory

Verder Scientific opens new subsidiary in Iberia

Anton Paar opens new APAC techology centre in Malaysia              

C&M Scientific expands into England

Knauer and Labomatic sign co-marketing partnership

Bergman & Beving makes rare laboratory firm purchase

Lens specialist receives investment

Process & hand-held instrumentation

908 Devices sells bioprocess PAT offering to Repligen

Solventum to sell purification and filtration business to Thermo Fisher

Timegate Instruments expands global reach with distributors

Veralto buys UV treatment firm and takes stake in another

Nirrin awarded patent, launches atline analyser

Features

Pittcon 2025: Quiet in chilly Boston

SLAS 2025: Always sunny in San Diego

Financials

Fourth-quarter improvement informs Revvity’s 2025 forecast

MLab helps Roche Dx in 2024 recovery

IDBS sees revenues and pre-tax profit improve

HBIO’s performances worsens in 2024

Life Sciences remain weakest link at Danaher

US funding decisions result in cautious 2025 forecast at Tecan              

Trajan back to growth in first fiscal half, after weak prior year

VT performs worst of Atlas Copco’s four divisions

Covid cliff edge still impacts TFS during 2024

MT back to double-digit organic growth after six weak quarters

Bruker’s organic growth down by two thirds              

Growth in analytical division helps Rigaku in 2024              

Veolia’s WTS leads by growth in Water Technology division

Currency headwinds and Chinese weakness hampers Repligen progress

Analytics grows at half the rate than treatment in Veralto’s water quality division

Redwave purchase generates 908 Devices’ calendar growth

Appointments

March 2025 – content

Life Sciences

Standex snaps up freezer specialist for quarter of its annual revenues

Cube Biotech buys protein tag firm IBA Lifesciences

Acquisition to lead Quanterix to profitability

London-based DNA manufacturing firm expands customer base

Bio-Rad acquires multiplexing dPCR company Stilla

Takara Bio buys transcriptome spatial mapping company

General Laboratory

Equity-backed AAT makes two more European purchases

Agilent creates separate applied markets segment

JEOL and Kobe Steel buy superconducting wire firm

Restructuring, rightsizing and acquisition at SDI

Antylia to be auctioned off by equity investment owners

Process & hand-held instrumentation

Savillex buys bioprocessing and containment companies

Emerson to sell Safety & Productivity business

IRUBIS raises pre-series A funding              

Industrial Physics makes two acquisitions under new owner

DwyerOmega acquires PST in deal between equity companies

SepPure starts trial scheme                            

Features

TDA Instrument Industry Outlook for 2025:

Glimmers of hope after three years of decline

Financials

NGS and synthetic gene markets push Twist to record results

Neogen feels food price inflation

Standex Scientic mainly grows on purchase

Biopharma headwinds prevent Bio-Rad growth in 2024

Laboratory division flatlines organically at Porvair

AddLife Labtech buoyed by organic growth and acquisition

IQR back to single digit growth at Zeiss' full fiscal year

Nikon sees a delay of life science recovery

Semicon production and analytical instruments buoy JEOL in first fiscal half

Restructured SDI relies on acquisition to hold decline at bay              

Chinese weakness stymies Ingersoll Rand

Currency headwinds cancel out acquired revenues at OI

Good quarterly growth at Waters hints at 2025 recovery

Industrial businesses continue to decline at Parker Hannifin

Varex sees ongoing destocking and weak China business

Filtration sales grow organically at Solventum

Donaldson reduces long-term forecast on slowing biopharma market

Growth down for Emerson’s measurement and analytical businesses

Appointments

January 2025 – content

Life Sciences  

AMSBIO brings Europe Biosite’s acquisitions to six 

Microbiologics buys first foreign company

Limerston-backed Cormica makes US purchase 

CLS makes first acquisition since joining Limerston investment portfolio

Broken String enters R&D partnership

Research data orchestration specialist Seqera makes first acquisition

Technia acquires US consultancy rights for BIOVIA offering

CrestOptics signs deal with Leica Microsystems

General Laboratory

Coatings equipment and digitisation expertise targets of Judges latest acquisition              

Tescan and Shimadzu in co-marketing agreement

Advanced Materials segment to be spun-off by Honeywell

FIB sample preparation expert joins Tescan              

IMI pressure control business IMF bought by management with investment help

LabVantage makes two acquisitions over last 24 months

Nanalysis’ service business starts on five-year maintenance contract

Process & hand-held instrumentation

Brooks Instrument buys manufacturer of purity components                                          

Ion Science owner celebrates 25th anniversary at the helm

AI-based bioprocess QC company secures funding

Indicor makes acquisitions in production QA, data loggers and leak detection

Senseca acquires two further companies

Zeteo Tech in R&D collaboration

Financials

Robust underlying growth during ONT’s first half

Merger boosts Standard Biotools’ sales but deepens losses

Protein Sciences at Bio-Techne down in fiscal year

Covid hangover and pharma recession hits LGC

Biopharma spending and acquisition drive Mesa Labs' growth

Smart metering drives growth at Xylem’s MCS division              

All DKSH divisions report sales declines as Asia tanks

Labtech halves growth rate

Organic decrease at Judges Scientific during first half

Service revenues overtake product sales at Nanalysis

LSFC businesses still impacts IMI’s LT division

Chinese decline holds back Shimadzu’s Analytical instrument division

Kewaunee’s profitability increases markedly

Renishaw’s analytical sales see lower growth

Advanced Materials business drives Honeywell’s ESS division

Industrial Measurement back to growth at Vaisala

APAC is Alpha MOS’ largest market

Nynomic sees first half decline after false dawn prediction

Kromek reaches adjusted EBITDA profitability

Acquisition contributes most of Ion Science’s calendar 2023 growth

Appointments

December 2024 – content

Life Sciences 

Genovis sells antibody business to concentrate on SmartEnzymes

BioIVT expands biospecimen business                            

BioEcho’s DNA/RNA extraction method to expand Admera Health’s service capabilities

Hamamatsu launches light-sheet cytometer              

Evosep opens new headquarters, strengthens Sciex partnership

Quantum-SI signs major distributor and computer hardware partners

General Laboratory

Acquisition complements Kewaunee’s offering with safety cabinets

Thorlabs licenses QCL instrument from Sensirion

Microfiltration specialist Mott joins IDEX’ HST division

Four companies join Exosens following May 2024 IPO

Busch expands with two acquisitions in the last 12 months

MSE Supplies wins equity investment support

Gulf Scientific signs new partners

Process & hand-held instrumentation

Shimadzu enters deals for biopharmaceutical market

Indutrade buys cleanroom and forensics specialists

ORS and Inficon partner for internal leak detector maintenance

Teledyne buys select defence businesses from Excelitas              

NomadX launches earsly-access programme for SERS pathogen detector

Financials

LS sales continue to hamper Qiagen growth

Acquisition gives Stratec a leg up in the first half

Market weakness at Tecan to last for rest of year

Delayed recovery causes double-digit decline at Bio-Rad LS

End of destocking sees Corning LS growing in the second quarter

Stagnating revenues at Grant Instruments in 2023

Analytical product sales grow at GL Sciences

IDEX forecasts HTS markets recovery for 2025

Semicon downturn still overshadows MKS

Semicon and Analytik cause sliding sales at Pfeiffer

A year of two halves at Trajan as destocking complete              

Organic growth is back at Biotage

NA sales save Markes International’s bacon in 2023

Comet detects signs of semiconductor recovery

Growth at DT despite Medical performing poorly

Digital Imaging endangers Teledyne’s full-year revenue guidance

Acquisition helps 908 Devices to report growth in first half

Security and Energy continues strong growth at Inficon              

Appointments