Instrument News

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

September 2015 – content

Life Sciences

Oxford Nanopore raises £70 million

ViroCyt raises further funds

CLS makes fourth acquisition

Illumina buys long-time LIMS partner

Yokogawa buys label-free cell imaging company

Hamilton Storage establishes sales subsidiary

SCIENION announces R&D agreements

OpGen signs pathogen detection partnership

Link signs Japanese distribution partners

General Laboratory

Renishaw’s spectroscopy division moves to new facility

Peak Scientific moves to new Indian HQs

PI opens third US office

Cole-Parmer expands pump offering

Markes MS source make finals

Process & hand-held instrumentation

E+H goes direct in Finland

Idex buys microfluidics specialist

Danaher expands Hach Environmental

Financials

Genomics firms struggle to impress in Q2

Illumina stock nosedives after rare forecast miss

Cepheid disappoints on losses

Affymetrix beats again in forth consecutive profitable quarter

Fluidigm drops to a loss

HBIO returns to profit

Luminex beats in Q2

US lab instrument giants outperform in Q2

VWR sales drop on dollar strength

Idex beats Wall Street on sales

Waters beats on earnings in another strong quarter

Thermo Fisher ups guidance in Q2

FEI shares spike on performance

Corning LS hit by currency

US process analysis firms held back by strong dollar

Teledyne instrument sales slip despite acquisitions

Roper takes a hit on sales miss

Ametek maintains growth with acquisitions in Q2

Honeywell hampered by currency

FLIR Detection almost doubles

PH misses in its forth quarter

Features

US Instrument export plunge to a 5-year low

Appointments

August 2015 – content

Life Sciences

Protein Technologies sold to equity company

OpGen buys blood diagnostics company

Rangatira buys share in distributor

TTP Labtech narrowly misses sales goals

InSphero raises CHF20 million

Unchained Labs buys isothermal denaturation technology

908 Devices wins funds for life science market entry

Addtech makes first two medical technology acquisitions

Roper changes corporate name, invests in medical IT

BioNano signs Chinese partner

General Laboratory

Netzsch expands into rubber testing with acquisition

Micronit Microfluidics celebrates anniversary

Markes expands UK headquarters

Thermo Fisher to buy chemicals company

Transcat buys analytical instrument services company

Shimadzu opens R&D center

LUM GmbH expands international service network

Laser Components expands pyroelectric sensor manufacturing

Praxair buys packaged gas distributors

KJLC invests in European manufacturing

Process & hand-held instrumentation

Sartorius adds further cell culture specialists

AHL shareholders agree sale of water treatment business

Areva tries to sell Canberra once more

E+H UK revenues improve in 2014

Features

Another weak first quarter for the US instrument sector

Financials

Geography determines success as exchange rates bite

BD’s earning plunge on strong dollar and acquisition

Eurofins revenues spike in US

Fluidigm takes a hit after weak quarter

Bio-Rad hit by strong dollar

GE’s growth wiped out by currency

Biotage grows on exchange rates

Currency triples growth as Zeiss

Japanese firms hit by weak domestic spending

Nikon Instruments back in the black

SDK Chemicals doubles profit

Overseas demand lifts Olympus

Shimadzu doubles profit with cuts

Techcomp’s losses increase in Q1

LC sales remain weak for Tosoh

Eppendorf returns to growth

Skyray’s results continue to fall

US process firms struggle against soaring dollar

Parker-Hannifin beats on earnings but lowers guidance

Roper falls short on sales in first quarter

Pall beats forecast as Danaher deal is approved by shareholders

Xylem lowers its guidance

Overseas sales drive Analogic

SPX Flow spin-out on track

Higher losses for Implant Sciences

Appointments

July 2015 – content

Life Sciences

Bio-Techne to buy IVD control product company

Twist Bioscience funding successes after two years

ACD wins funds in series C round

SIAL acquisition clears further regulatory hurdles

NanoTemper opens second US office

Sygnis expands distributor network

Reagency signs first distributor

General Laboratory

Advion to be sold to Chinese IVD company

Knauer strengthens OEM division

Techcomp signs partner for GC and GC-MS in Japanese market

Phenomenex expands into Spain with acquisition

PS acquires Autosizer line

Process & hand-held instrumentation                             

Germany remains single biggest market for Sick product

PerkinElmer buys portable GC-MS company

Rigaku renames Raman division

Heuresis raises fund through share offering

HEL buys bioprocess probe firm

Features

Instrument News Leaderboard

Financials

Swiss firms have tough time as home currency soars

Currency lifts Merck on the eve of SIAL merger

Roche reports stronger Q1

Qiagen battles multiple headwinds in first quarter

Sartorius ups guidance

Currency drives up Gerresheimer

Exchange rates continue to hold back lab sector

MT outperforms but cautious in volatile market

Porvair slips on project business

Agilent misses on growth but maintains guidance

Pfeiffer ups analytical sales by 18%

Bruker hit by currency effects

Market and currency headwinds for process firms

Microsaic ramps up investment

Leybold Vacuum has tough Q1

ABB beats on earnings despite currency impact

Inficon finds the going tough

Stronger dollar buoys up Morpho

Mixed results for Halma

Appointments

June 2015 – content

Life Sciences

Agilent acquires genomics informatics specialist

Strand Life opens first foreign office

Danaher to buy filtration giant and split into two

GenoLogics opens US office

Oxford Instrument expands service division

Funds for NGS of immune cells

Hamilton Thorne buys PerkinElmer product line

QIAGEN in partnership with sequencing services provider

PacBio and RainDance partner for longer-read NGS

Cytena closes seed funding                                                    

General Laboratory

SFW Capital closes fund raising at hard cap

TA Instruments buys mechanical testing business

Cianflone finds equity firm buyer

Hichrom loses independence to distribution giant

VUV Analytics raises series A funds

Genevac changes distributorship in Germany

Spectro Analytical signs exclusive US distribution agreement

BWB Technologies in OEM agreement with CEM

LAUDA creates instrument subsidiary

CEM benefits from continued R&D investment

SpheriTide resin licensed for peptide synthesis

Process & hand-held instrumentation

908 Devices accelerates commercial strategy with new partner

Senscient’s 10^th anniversary year

Equilab signs new distributor

Features

Chinese instrument sector slows in 2014

Financials

Genetic analysis firms continue to outperform in Q1

New instruments drive Illumina over estimates again

Harvard disappoints

Cepheid returns to profit as sales jump by a quarter

Pacific Biosciences ups guidance

Luminex tops forecasts

Affymetrix remains in profit

Lab instrument firms plan ahead for currency pressure

Corning Life Sciences takes a plunge as dollar gains

Weak euro helps VWR with debt

Thermo Fisher cuts guidance

IDEX lowers earnings guidance

FEI beats on profit but sales droop

Waters powers ahead

Currency woes and weak markets hit US process firms

Ametek expects headwinds to wipe out growth in 2015

FLIR Detection sales spike

Newport crushes earnings target

Mocon flatlined by currency in Q1

Honeywell lowers sales guidance

Teledyne up on marine sales again

Grace slips on currency effects

Appointments

May 2015 – content

Life Sciences

LGC makes bid for qPCR market

GE Healthcare opens magnetic bead production in the UK

Caribou wins funding for gene editing technology

Protea acquires oncology CRO

Ambry nabs Progeny

Biametrics signs OEM partner for biomolecular interaction instrument

VWR expands life science offering

Biocartis enters partnership for sepsis test

General Laboratory

Rigaku buys Varian’s XRD business from Agilent

Quantachrome opens Chinese subsidiary

IDEX further increases seals business with purchase

Smiths Detection sells sample preparation business to management

Cobalt opens US subsidiary

Eppendorf launches CryoCube ULT freezer family

Exeter Analytical celebrates 21^st anniversary

DANI launched GCxGC modulator

Process & hand-held instrumentation

High pressure MS firm achieves commercial milestones

XGLab wins industry giant as US marketing partner

Pall buys BioSMB technology

Smiths Detection closes Danbury manufacturing

M+W Process Automation changes names

Features

Agilent Technologies: the Varian acquisition, five years on

Japanese instrument exports soar in 2014

Global instrument exports maintain growth track

Financials

Headwinds worsen for life science providers

Currency headwinds drive down Bio-Rad’s Q4 sales

GE Healthcare sees US rebound

Danaher posts low single-digit life sciences sales growth

Sartorius beats on acquisitions

Harvard turns a loss in Q4

Currency effects present challenges to lab suppliers

Show Denko taps Shodex HPLC for investment

Tosoh sees LC packing dip again

Strong analytical sales keep Agilent on target

VWR holds onto earnings in Q4 and 2014 after IPO

Flat sales for Horiba in Q4

Process instrument firms navigate uncertain waters

Roper earmarks $1 billion for strategic acquisitions in 2015

E+H boosted by AJ in 2014

Danaher triples sales of portable lab instruments

HHT falls short on sales but beats on earnings

Analogic sales continue to struggle

Mocon turns a loss due to charge

Appointments

April 2015 – content

Life Sciences

Seven Bridges UK wins funding

Roche tops up on biobank expertise

Integra Biosciences opens German office

MR Solutions to provide service for Agilent MRI scanners

Persomics raises first funds

Trinean droplet reader integrated with automation platform

Illumina signs distributor for Eastern Europe

A 42-plexed view on single cells

Adeptrix wins NSF grant

General Laboratory

Optan UVC LEDs poised to reduce system costs and size

Quantum Analytics to expand beyond US market

Corning buys hyperspectral imaging company

Holographics video characterisation of particles

Anton Paar in supply agreement for photon detector

SAMSI Instruments signed by two manufacturers

Park Systems partners for semicon manufacturing metrology

Process & hand-held instrumentation

Metrohm signs OEM partner for handheld Raman

MKS stocks up on gas analysis technologies

Features

Automatic workflow system wins Pittcon Editors’ Awards 2015

Third player in global SFC market

Biological pathways explored by MS

Changing the scientific laboratory mind set

EU holds onto exports but soars as a market

Financials

European life science instrument makers

Roche invests in sequencing in 2014

Eurofins adds 17 firms in 2014

Zeiss fails to improve its 4%

Process Solutions props up Merck Millipore in transitional year

Gerresheimer saves the best for last

Biotage sales soars on currency

European lab instrument firms outperform in Q4

Porvair soars on large project wins

Shimadzu returns to growth

MT turns in clean sweep of forecast beats in 2014

AJ boosted by AJ Engineering buy

OI benefits from Andor acquisition

Judges sales take an organic slide

Security screening firms diversify to find growth

Comet continues to see strong demand for security instruments

ABB sees uncertainty ahead

Smiths Detection keeps shaving off costs in a tough climate

Morpho Detection sales up in Q4

Inficon pours on growth in Q4

Spectris notes weak EU and China

Appointments

March 2015 – content

Life Sciences

Start-up buys Optim instrument business

Laboratory service joins bioMérieux

DNAe buys early-stage diagnostics company

Synoptics receives funding boost

Vivione buys immune-profiling expert                                  

Anatrace adds crystallisation expert

Nanion secures patch clamp automation patent

Certara buys AI-based writing service company

Affymetrix business signs UK diagnostics firm

General Laboratory

JPK moves into new HQs and opens first US office

Blacktrace adds reaction calorimeter company to Syrris

Grace to separate into two businesses

ADC/Labs celebrated 20th anniversary

Spectro Scientific buys condition monitoring business

First partner for miniMS                   

API to merge with Luna Innovations

Crawford Scientific expands services business with acquisition

Dani signs distributor for China and Vietnam

Process & hand-held instrumentation

Thermo Fisher stocks up on single-use bioreactor technology

Finesse opens office in China

Siemens enters into CEM agreement

Features

After the 2013 slump, M&A activities flourish during 2014

Volatile markets hold back US instrument sector in Q4

US instrument firms fail to grow exports in 2014

Financials

Life science markets buoyant for instrument firms

Illumina outperforms in a record quarter

Fluidigm impresses in Q4

Cepheid beats guidance

Affymetrix holds onto profits and beats on sales

Luminex tops estimates for income

Brooks LSS grows on acquisition

Strong dollar holds back US instrument firms in Q4

Thermo Fisher beats targets

Bruker disappoints

FEI held back by weak industrial sales and costs

Currency headwinds hit SIAL in Q4

Cost-cuts drive IDEX’ bottom line

Corning remains flat

Water beats on pharma sales

Process firms buffeted by negative currency effects

AMETEK boost near-flat growth with recent acquisitions

MKS exceeds expectations

Xylem warns of currency woes ahead in 2015

Grace sales hit by currency effects

FLIR Detection grows on DoD order

Honeywell growth hit by currency

Newport profit sinks on charge

Appointments

February 2015 – content

Life Sciences

Horizon Discovery continues acquisition spree

Arrayit sells its ovarian cancer diagnostics unit

Qiagen acquires NGS enzymes business

Roche buys NGS data informatics company

Abcam buys biomarker assay platform firm

HBIO adds specialist for patch clamp amplifiers

BioCision launches automated thawing system

General Laboratory

Dani Instruments buys IR detection specialist

Techcomp re-invests EI profit in expansion

Nanomechanics finds North American distributor

Teledyne invests in marine instrumentation firms

Judges Scientific buys educational research equipment company

SP Industries makes tuck-in acquisition

Arquimed appointed Agilent distributor

Merck gets antitrust clearance

Process & hand-held instrumentation

Emerson buys QCL specialist

Gasera to double revenues in 11^th year

Financials

Industrial biotech offers growth lifeline to LS firms

Bioprocess gives Merck Millipore a much-needed boost

Gerresheimer LS posts growth

Strong Krona doubles top-line growth for Biotage

Qiagen misses targets in Q4

Bioprocess demand puts Sartorius on track for growth

Eurofins over €1 billion for Q1-Q3

Major US instruments firms come up short in Q3

Agilent misses on earnings due to separation costs

Bruker cuts guidance again after Q3 miss

PerkinElmer misses again

MT tops forecast on EU strength

US academic sales boost SIAL

Process firms outperform

Parker-Hannifin raises guidance

Low orders hit ABB in Q3

Mocon maintains strong pace in Q3

SPX plans spin-out of Flow business

Pall impresses as acquisitions take it over the top

Marine acquisitions put Teledyne ahead of targets

Appointments

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