Instrument News

February 2023 – content

Life Sciences

ITP specialist’s acquisition to accelerate adoption of Bionano’s genome mapping

Shimadzu acquires diagnostics reagent company

Sartorius buys minority stake in bioprinting company

Cold-chain technology purchases expand Azenta’s portfolio further

LifeSpan turns into Absolute Biotech

Single-step extraction method receives growth funding

Belyntic sells peptide purification business to Mesa Labs

Bionano and Hamilton in sample prep partnership

Sapio gains investment of unknown size

General Laboratory

Commercial real estate services firm buys instrument maintenance company

Cloud infrastructure start-up raises series A funding

ATS Scientific expands portfolio with company purchase and distributorship

Purchase expands food quality lab’s scope to the UK              

Analytik Jena invests in German expansions

Two acquisitions broaden Pion’s offering into sample preparation and homogenisation

Quantum measurement specialist signs distributors in UK and Japan

Büchi Ibéria to also cover Portuguese market

Process & hand-held instrumentation

Emerson sells Climate Tech business to build pure-play automation company              

Smiths Detection opens UK lab for R&D and production

Financials

Mesa Labs’ organic growth dwarfed by contribution from acquisition

Rate of growth increases at Twist Bioscience, while losses deepen

Sharp reduction in Covid tests hits BD’s Life Sciences division

Covid-related sales declines hold back Azenta

Enzo LS segment grows in full fiscal year                            

Takara Bio improves full-year forecast on reagent sales boost

Electronics market weakness holds back MKS

Biological and industrial microscopes buoy Nikon in first half

Peak Scientific back to double digit growth in second pandemic year

Healthcare remains Shimadzu A&MI’s strongest end market

Diagnostics and semiconductor demand continues to drive HHT

LC resin shipments strong at Tosoh              

Process measurement and bioanalytics are growth drivers at Berthold Technologies

Varex’ Industrial compensates for Medical’s weakness              

Industrial and APAC drive growth at Sensirion

EAS recovers on eve of Emerson’s drastic restructuring

Specialty chemicals and gas detection lead at Honeywell

Sterile transfer products dominate Getinge’s LS segment growth

Mirion Medical compensates for Industrial’s revenue decline

Appointments

January 2023 – content

Life Science 

Biocare Medical moves into oncology field with acquisition

Bruker makes two neuroscience imaging acquisitions 

Microdosing company expands Hamilton nano- and pico-dispensing capabilities

Oligonucleotide producer to treble manufacturing capacity 

ONI enters research collaboration after momentous year

Malvern Panalytical to market DSF instrument in North America

Abcam complements antibody capabilities with licensing agreement

General Laboratory

Atlas Copco’s broadens cryostat offering for quantum research

Acquisition expands Irish footprint of SLS

Elemental Machines raises funds

Two firsts as Calibre expands into Benelux and Brazil

Agilent opens dissolution technology centre

Temasek buys testing and inspection specialist

Process and hand-held instrumentation

Process analyser distributor joins Nederman’s Gasmet business

Merck expands bioreactor line-up with acquisition

Financials

Maravai’s growth slows as mRNA vaccine demand wanes

First pandemic year impacts IDBS’ customer mix by geography

Life Sciences segment beats sister divisions at Dassault

Protein Sciences’ growth at Bio-Techne entirely organic

European growth propels SPT Labtech forward in 2021

Economic slowdown during 2020 hits Leica Microsystems’ sales and profits

Judges Scientific expects strong second calendar half

Strong pandemic recovery at Leybold during 2021

Markes recovers much of 2020 reductions

Skyray’s sales roller-coaster continues

Avantor battles Covid and currency headwinds

VT leads Atlas Copco by organic growth in second quarter

Third-party product and service revenues increase at Edwards in 2021

Nederman M&CT held back by geopolitical uncertainties

Roper’s divested Industrial businesses on course to beat 2021 results

Asian semiconductor markets drive increases at Syft Technologies

Alpha MOS’ recovery stalls

Appointments

December 2022 – content

Life Sciences

DNA Script strengthens distribution network in Middle East and South-East Asia

LGC expands Oxford site with manufacturing facility              

Zetta Genomics opens first foreign office

Cadence Systems snaps up OpenEye for $500 million

Investment supports Optibrium’s headquarters expansions in UK and US

Nabsys reveals reason for HHT’s funding generosity

Molecular Devices opens European Organoid centre

General Laboratory

Two more purchases benefit SDI’s Sensors and Controls division

MT expands liquid handling manufacturing

Thomas Scientific expands offering with cleanroom and microscopy supplier

Park Systems makes first ever acquisition

Scitara enters agreement with cloud-computing giant

IMI makes two additions to Precision Engineering division              

Agilent acquires polymer characterisation specialist PSS              

Process & Handheld Instrumentation

Microsaic wins two additional contracts

DeepVerge restructures to save on operational costs

Si-Ware ends year with Eurofins Agro deal

Novatech signs new supplier                            

Irish process characterisation company acquired by BCLS

Cellexus enters supply and manufacturing deals for single-use reactors

Sensirion launches GC family              

Financials

Sharp drop of sales at Stratec, though Smart Consumables revenues stable

Infrastructure investments decrease Abcam’s operating profitability

PSS sees 20% sales drop after three-year growth stint

LGC grows in high double digits without Covid sales in fiscal 2022

Paramit acquisition compensates for falling Covid-demand at Tecan

Pre-clinical product sales hold back HBIO

Sales at XRF Scientific reach new records

Adaptas acquisition lifts IMI’s Precision Engineering sales

Starna grows revenues by 29% during first pandemic year                            

Spectris’ H1 growth led by pharma and semiconductor sales

Preparative chromatography offers “large commercial potential” for Nanologica

Spectroscopy business drives Renishaw’s AI&MD division

Biotage’s record sales driven by pharmaceutical customers in the Americas

European markets shrink for Mettler Toledo              

Park Systems' generates 68% of 2021 revenues in second half              

DT’s sub-suppliers hit by “technical problems” in second quarter

Disposals and delays hamper AHL’s growth

Lockdowns make China ABB’s weakest market

Service revenues up dramatically as Microsaic focusses on engineering consultancy

Appointments

November 2022 – content

Life Sciences

Biognosys opens US office and laboratory facility

String of acquisitions round out CellCarta's CRO capabilities              

NGS library expert gains strategic investor 

Two US laboratory equipment and supplies manufacturers combine

Enzymatic DNA synthesis method gains funds

Fluidigm’s new manifestation tasked with restructuring to growth

Bio-Rad expands diagnostics qPCR offering

Private equity company builds automation business

Proteintech establishes new assay subsidiary

General Laboratory

Equity investment company to buy Olympus’ spun-out Scientific Solutions business

Cresset wins series C funding

Swedish site expands Hellma’s capacity for synthetic crystal production              

AGI enters high-pressure reactor market with Premex purchase              

Anniversary celebrations at WITec              

Refurbished lab equipment company expands with company purchase

Kwipped changes name to focus on financing software

Asynt launches new photoreactor

Process & hand-held instrumentation

Diploma sells remaining environmental monitoring assets

Daylight and Repligen partner to target biopharma PAT

OSI Systems expands Security division with acquisitions

Tunable IR sensor company receives minority investments

JRS enters distribution agreement for cell culture media

Merck restructures LS business and invests bioprocess facilities              

Financials 

Standard Biotools falls into the Covid-testing hole

Reduction in pandemic-related sales affect bioMérieux

Olink expects full-year growth of up to 53%

Core sales at LS drive Merck in 9th consecutive quarter

Currencies, dropping Covid-sales and supply constraints affect Bio-Rad

Qiagen suffers from Covid sales decline

Acquisitions contribute just about half of SDI’s reported growth

Pandemic results in uncertainties in Hellma’s core markets

Various headwinds hold back Bruker during first calendar half

Nanalysis not satisfied with first half performance

Helmut Fischer Holding drops to a loss in 2020

Both Trajan divisions benefit from acquisition drive

Test performs better than expected in Xylem’s second quarter              

Beijing Labtech reports single-digits growth in full year 2021              

Showa IEM battles with rising materials prices

Handheld systems sales dominate 908 Devices              

SD&G businesses at Leidos “dependent on international business”              

Smiths Detection continues to slide despite impending aviation recovery

Ultra Precision and Process grows strongly at Ametek EIG

Security’s slow recovery continues at OSI Systems

Appointments

October 2022 – content

Life Sciences

Nuclera Nucleics to move into new headquarters              

ALPCO expands offering and geographical reach through acquisition

OGT expands geographical reach

Albumedix acquisition to help Sartorius’ cell culture and vaccine interests

Titian Software becomes Battery portfolio company

EC prohibits Illumina’s acquisition of cancer testing firm

SomaLogic purchases method to integrate DNA-based devices onto silicon chips

Vizgen expands MERSCOPE platform

General Laboratory

Three acquisitions signal expansion plans for UK lab distributor

Recapitalisation of business championing plastic consumable sustainability

HTA at 30th anniversary

DKSH strengthens semiconductor business of its Technology unit with purchase

AddLife expands its offering in materials research with acquisition

Anton Paar celebrates centenary

Process & Handheld Instrumentation          

908 Devices acquires online bioprocess analyser company

Luna Innovations restructures with acquisitions and one divestiture

Financials

Lab division recovery at Sartorius driven by bioanalytical products

Pandemic microarray boom wanes at Illumina

Covid-related sales to halve in 2022 at Danaher’s Life Sciences division

AddLife Labtech drops revenues in first half on flagging Covid-sales

PacBio losses deepen on acquisitions              

Semiconductor demand buoys two of Horiba’s segments

DKSH Technology boosted by service business rebound

Growth reduces as Oxford Instruments fights currency headwinds

SLS Group benefits from acquisitions and strong domestic demand

Huber expects biopharma and materials research to drive 2021 growth              

“Rejuvenated portfolio” helps Waters to report growth against currency headwinds

Life science and instrument customers drive IDEX’ HST growth in first half

WITec topline dips slightly on even of acquisition

Nynomic sales stagnate on halving of pandemic demand

Automotive and security markets sluggish for Comet in first half

PreSens grows in single digits in first pandemic year              

Water quality businesses help Danaher EAS to reach double-digit organic growth

S&E declines by 8% in Inficon’s first half              

Ion Science grows sales by 9% in 2020

Appointments

September 2022 – content

Life Sciences 

Two investment companies acquire large-scale ULT storage company

MegaRobo raises $300 million in series C round

Joint equity-firm ownership results in synthetic biology shopping spree

EMS buys lucrative cryo-EM sample support lines

Singleron buys Proteona to expand single-cell capabilities and international reach

TFS and TransMIT enter co-marketing deal for MSI                                                                             

Digital SPR company acquires diagnostics device start-up

Biotium acquires extraction kits supplier

General Laboratory

Two specialists in refurbished instruments combine with global leadership ambitions

PerkinElmer to sell its applied, food and enterprise services businesses

Hanon Instruments celebrates 15th anniversary

Microscopy supplier latest acquisition target of Calibre Scientific

Hamamatsu expands offering with fibre laser capabilities

Process & hand-held instrumentation

Acquisitions expand Headwall’s scope following recapitalisation

Donaldson expands fledgling life science business

TFS buys FTIR gas analyser for indoor air monitoring                                                                             

Suez buys microbial monitoring company

Repligen expands with injection moulding specialist

Financials

Growth driver Laboratory buttresses profitability at Porvair

Annual expenses to reach 1.7x revenues at Twist

Lower Covid sales hit Corning LS

Takara expects waning Covid sales to reduce 2023 turnover                                                                              

Biopharmaceutical demand drives Mesa Labs’ organic growth                                                                        

Neogen grows topline on eve of transformational deal

PE Life Sciences business strong at eve of transformational split

Pandemic causes topline to slide at Köttermann

Halma sees double-digit rates in 80% of its businesses

Demand for Hamamatsu’s analytical back to normal

Zeiss IQR driven by demand for EM and industrial QC

Organic growth hampered by waning Covid-demand at Thermo Fisher

Pandemic buoys sales at Waldner’s laboratory segment

Triple headwind whammy create challenges for Kewaunee

Restructured Suez more than doubles operating profits

Growth rates reduce at Repligen in first half                                                                             

Geopolitical situation increases interest in Kromek’s products

Environmental instruments see weak growth at Teledyne

Following restructuring deals Luna Innovations expects 25% full-year sales growth

Industrial international weak at Parker Hannifin

Appointments

August 2022 – content

Life Sciences

 Halo Labs closes series C funding round

Exosome and lentivirus characterisation focus of Unchained latest acquisition

SPT Labtech sold on by equity company owner              

LGC sell drug discovery business to equity firm-backed CRO

Refeyn raises funding round for commericalisation of mass photometry

Meridian acquired by Korean Dx company as foothold in US market=

IonPath receives strategic investment from MS giant

BICO buys bioprinter start-up

General Laboratory

Judges Scientific latest purchase targets geological core analysis market

Trajan acquires GC consumables supplier              

Fritsch opens dedicated R&D centre

Equity investment fuels creation of new chemicals and standards group

Agilent buys AI software for GC-MS data analysis

Elemental Scientific buys data reduction software for trace elemental analysis

Process and hand-held instrumentation

Schneider sells process analyser assets to equity-backed group

Nederman buys energy saving technologies for industrial air systems                            

Swagelok celebrates 75th anniversary

Biopharma production is focus of Emerson’s latest acquisition

Fraunhofer NIR spin-off acquired by drug compounding expert

Kromek signs distribution partner for Americas

Features

Analytica 2022: Three technologies to watch

SICRIT: Ambient pressure MS source for inline VOC monitoring

Can gas chromatography be truly revolutionised?

Brave Analyltics develops light-induced, particle-by-particle PAT method

Financials

After two record years Integra Biosciences sees uncertainties ahead              

Greiner Bio-One stagnates at high level in 2021

Pandemic demand increases SPT Labtech’s focus on liquid handling

Vaccine demand provides superlative margins for Maravai

Sharp drop of profitability at Cytek

European growth compensates for NanoTemper’s weak Asian markets

LS Dassault remains a growth driver in 2021

Travel restrictions cited as Judges Scientific biggest hurdle in 2021

JEOL benefits from semicon boom and continuing recovery

Agilent sees growth in LC, LC-MS and spectroscopy

Pharmaceutical sales drive Shimadzu Analytical

Semiconductor growth rate reduces at MKS              

Schneider IA recovers from pandemic shock

European sales of analytical products drop at Emerson

Yokogawa stagnates organically

Recovery across all sectors and geographies at E+H

Industrial recovery buoys Sensirion

MCT grows moderately at Nederman

Appointments

July 2022 – content

Life Sciences 

Protein sequencer ups public listing status

NGS company fills war chest for instrument launch

HHT makes further investment in electronic genomic mapping specialist

Single-cell dispensing company to expand Bio-Techne’s CGT products

Miltenyi expands production capabilities with site purchase

General Laboratory

IonSense sold to high-end MS manufacturer

Olympus completes spin-out of Scientific Solutions business

Early anniversary gift for Lennox

Knauer makes first acquisition in 60th anniversary year

Syft wins funding to commercialise its product in life science markets

Ionicon reaches sales milestone

Acquisitions bolster Atlas Copco’s vacuum division

TOFWERK receives Bruker minority investment

Process & hand-held instrumentation

Roper sells industrial and process businesses to equity firm              

Union Park creates two new holding groups with four purchases

Bruker expands biopharma PAT capabilities with software specialist

Anniversary year at Focused Photonics

Brooks Instrument celebrates 75th anniversary

Sick AG acquires Croatian software specialist

Thermo Fisher opens new SU production site

Feature

How has Analytica weathered the Covid hurricane?

Financials

Revenues drop off sharply in second half at Stratec

BD Life Science reports waning sales on levelling-off pandemic demand

Operating earnings suffer at Azenta following semicon divestiture

Biopharma continues to lead Bio-Techne’s organic growth

Signs of recovery at Blacktrace

Entry into LNP market results in record year at Knauer

Olympus Scientific continues strong growth              

HHT phases out industrial automation business

Nikon Metrology back in profit

After the 2019 slump, Edwards grows strongly on semiconductor demand

Specialty division generates stable growth rates for Tosoh throughput fiscal year

SDK Chemicals’ growth rates amongst lowest

Avantor rides the waves of pandemic recovery and biopharma demand growth

Vacuum leads growth at Atlas Copco

Lauda unveils ambitious five-year growth target

Syft Technologies more than compensates for first pandemic-year sales decline

Alpha MOS sees dip in second-half growth rate

Focused Photonics sees sales dip

Siemens DI ups forecast

Roper’s industrial businesses remain below 2019 results

Inficon outlook “quite positive” after strong recovery in 2021

Separation and purification strong at 3M

Appointments

June 2022 – content

Life Sciences

Bio-Rad acquires digital PCR expert              

Two acquisitions for bioMérieux

Maravai expands nucleotide manufacturing capabilities

Qiagen acquires Polish recombinant protein expert              

IDBS expands offering with Skyland acquisition

Arrayjet establishes US office, launches new product family

Acquisitions expand Axion’s live-cell research instrumentation

Corning sells Genetest business to biospecimen start-up

Volta Labs tops up funding for NGS sample prep system

General Laboratory

Artel to become part of expands LS process company

Nanalysis expands into high-field NMR with acquisition

Exum Instruments wins funding round for laser ablation MS

MT expands bioprocess scale-up software offering

SLS comes through pandemic year unscathed

Chiron expands partner network in North America

Process and hand-held instrumentation

Alphasense becomes part of Ametek Mocon              

Picarro wins first equity investment from industrial CRDS customer

Ion Science steps into the breach

Bioprocess sampling platform bought by Merck              

Smiths finally closes the sale of its medical device segment

First phase of Sick AG’s NA headquarters expansion nears completion              

Detection Technology opens software-focussed hub in China

Sartorius partners for vaccine and biologics manufacturing              

Financials

Eppendorf breaks through barrier, while rate of growth reduces sharply

HBIO almost reaches profitability in 2021

10x Genomics up on product sales

Bioprocess solutions push Merck into overall double-digit growth              

Acquisition covers Tecan’s sharp second half pandemic-demand decline

PSS down by a fifth in first fiscal half

Horiba Scientific and P&E continue to grow in double digits

Laboratory division leads growth at Mettler Toledo              

Acquisitions expected to dramatically increase full fiscal-year revenues at Trajan              

XRF revenues buoyed by acquisition and high lithium costs

Revenues down at Specac in fiscal 2021

Foss generates sales growth after three fallow years

Pfeiffer AIRD’s recovery restrained in second half

Nanalysis doubles sales in post-pandemic recovery

Catch-up effects at Sick weakest in Process Automation

Varex Industrial has weak second quarter amidst general recovery

Honeywell’s Advanced Materials grows robustly during 2021

Ametek EIG driven by recovery in aerospace market and acquisitions

AHL suffers from economic climate in target markets

ABB’s process automation unit shows growth spurt in fourth quarter

SDL Technology secures full-year growth despite second half weakness

Appointments

May 2022 – content

Life Science News

 CDMS assets and IP acquired by Waters              

Arctic Circle enzyme business opens Oslo lab

Creoptix’ acquisition price revealed              

PacBio opens European headquarters

AddLife expands life science research portfolios with acquisitions

Genomenon raised series B funds

First acquisition completes Benchling’s early development offering

Sengenics launches protein array kit              

ONT signs Avantor as distribution partner

General Laboratory

Verder Scientific acquires Zeta potential product line

Wasatch and NikaLyte partner on SERS substrate testing

SDI expands its fume hood offering with acquisition

Krüss Instruments continues insourcing strategy

Xylem moves global headquarters, opens new German Analytics facility              

Process & hand-held instrumentation

Spectris sells one of its platform businesses

Advanced Holdings disposes of analytical companies

Features

Pandemic results in bumper M&A activities during 2021

Financials

 PacBio presents results of positive and negative superlatives

Research sales compensate ONT’s declining virus sequencing revenues

BioNano is back in its stride in 2021

 Covid-demand reduces, while acquisitions lift AddLife's full-year results

Sales decline expected for current year at bioMérieux

Bio-Rad LS feels the pinch of dwindling Covid sales

Biotage sustained by organic and analytical chemistry sales

PerkinElmer Dx drags group down on Covid demand

Spectris shrinks itself to profitability in 2021

Xylem Analytics down in Q4 after European “pockets of growth”                            

Top and bottom lines down drastically at Prior Scientific

Continuing strength in semiconductor production inspires Comet

Recovery in DT’s security business starts in second calendar half

Smiths Detection continues to report double-digit declines

Security sales decline impacts Leidos’ Civil segment in fourth quarter

OSI Systems’ Security sees sales delayed into second fiscal half

Appointments