Instrument News

April 2022 – content

Life Sciences

 Automation platform company joins Sartorius’ LPS division

Light-sheet microscope firm renames

Malvern Panalytical to add bioanalytical instrument company              

Bruker invests in columns, autosamplers and sample preparation tools              

MS sample prep company raises funds

Prolab pumps power Bruker’s uHPLC system

Two experts in nano-flow separations

Everlife expands reach in Malaysia and Singapore

General Laboratory

War stops OI acquisition in its tracks

Light measurement and light sources expand Ocean Insight’s capabilities

Carlyle Group sells lab distributor to equity firm

Nanologica signs credit line

TSS builds large independent US lab equipment service provider

KPM complements and completes NIR offering with acquisition

Anniversary celebrations at Phenomenex

Process & hand-held instrumentation

Yokogawa invests in three biomanufacturing control companies

Bioprocess sensor company receives funding

Gas monitoring and predictive maintenance firm adds two investors

E+H bundles Raman and TDLAS into new subsidiary

Financials

Vaccine manufacturing drives growth at Sartorius

Abcam’s own products lift top line

Robust growth at Porvair’s Laboratory segment enhanced by purchase

Acquisitions reduce impact on Danaher’s LS business in fourth quarter

DKSH’s Technology segment grows on acquisition

Analytical segment declines at Renishaw on shipping delays

Cost controls improve profitability during Grant Instruments’ calendar 2020              

Testing sales decline stymies last quarter growth at TFS

Nano leads by growth during Bruker’s calendar year

Handheld devices provide 70% of 908 Devices’ revenues              

Pandemic stops Berthold Technologies gro in its tracks

Getinge LS growth strongly in 2021

FLIR acquisition continues to skew Teledyne’s results

Rate of growth reduced at Danaher EAS during fourth quarter

Mirion increases revenues while losses mount

Appointments

March 2022 – content

Life Sciences 

Capital infusion, rebranding and management shake-up at Fluidigm

Insightful Science on the prowl again

Thermo Fisher acquires cytokine specialist

More additions to Calibre Scientific

Chemical company acquires microplate manufacturer

Roche purchases custom oligonucleotide supplier

New Mountain Capital buys majority share in ultrasonication expert

BBI Solutions acquires German IVD company

AI buys cell imaging company

Synthetic biology at heart of two recent KKR investments

Agreements for single-cell MS analysis

General Laboratory

Trajan makes acquisitions in autosampler and tissue microsampling markets

Thin-film production tool expert joins SDI

Spex buys NSI Lab Solutions

Halma combines three OEM businesses in rebranding exercise

Partnerships to benefit Kewaunee in domestic and international markets

Elemental Machines buys lab monitoring business

Process & hand-held instrumentation

Purolite snapped up by major water treatment and purification company

Bio-Techne agrees acquisition options for cell culture process company

Collaboration in bioprocess purification

Ceres wins virus sewage monitoring grants

Vision Engineering collaborates for industrial inspection market

ITW closes acquisition of MTS System’s T&S division

Zeiss buys US and German distribution and service partners

Feature

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Slower industry growth expected after 2021 recovery spurt

Financials

Volatile pandemic trends result in cautious forecast at Qiagen

Fluidigm’s Covid sales decline ahead of rebranding and capital infusion

Corning LS still buoyed by pandemic demand

Full-year sales at Illumina a third above 2019 results

Eurofins achieves 12% organic core revenue growth

Demand increase slows at Roche Dx

Measurement and weighing back to growth at A&D

SDI’s Atik business continues its exceptional growth

PPE sales keeps Camlab growing in 2020

Waters instrument sales up by 23% in the year

ZEISS’ IQR division recovery driven by NDT and microscopy demand

Material costs and logistic delays hit Kewaunee’s profitability

Varex Industrial beginning recovery in fourth quarter

Flow systems trumps filtration in PH’s first half

PreSens continues decade-long sales success

Siemens DI above 2019 results

Appointments

February 2022 – content

Life Sciences

Mesa Labs enters molecular diagnostics markets with acquisition

LI-COR gets investment-firm help for global growth

Neogen’s food safety stake to more than double through business combination

Stilla wins new supporters

Lumicks opens Chinese office to cover APAC markets

Cytek stocks up on cell analysis reagents through acquisition

AMSBIO opens EU office

General Laboratory

Pillar array column company bought by instrument giant

Krüss to sell directly in Spain

Ductless fume hood pioneer buys bio-safety cabinet producer

Facility brings together two of Metrohm’s acquisitions

Specs Surface bought by industrial investment firm

IKA continues global expansion with two new subsidiaries

Precision manufacturer expands with UHV specialist

Labviva raises fund and signs strategic partner

Process & hand-held instrumentation

Diploma sells CEM business to private equity company

Roper continues business transformation with three divestments

Semicon metrology specialist acquires analytical company

SP Industries joins process automation tooling company

Mirion achieves public listing through reverse merger

Inficon postpones Hapsite launch

Financials

Covid-related revenues define Takara Bio’s first fiscal half

Testing demand pushes Enzo Biochem to record results

CMT turnover recovery at HBIO in first half

Twist Bioscience guides for deepening losses on doubling R&D spend

Biopharma drives Mesa Labs’ half-year growth

Cytek eyes profitable 2021 in IPO year

Hitachi HT impacted by declining industrial solutions sales

Quantum technologies remain strong at Toptica while OEM laser sales decline

Recovery at Skyray continues into first half of 2021

Analytical Instrument drive Shimadzu in first half

Olympus SSD recovers led by industrial markets

Healthcare at Nikon turns a profit, while Industrial Metrology disappoints

Last quarter American recovery lifts Emerson’s Automation Solutions

Diploma’s environmental stake halved through disposal

Kromek on course for record full-year despite stunted recovery

Process Technologies slow to recover at Roper

Filtration continues to drive Repligen’s growth

Chemical and pharma chimes in recovery at Yokogawa process control

Appointments

January 2022 – content

Life Sciences

Acquisition moves Biotage into synthetic biology market

BICO spends $240 million on four purchases

Brooks Automation to sell off semiconductor business to equity company

Growth funding for Genesee Scientific

SCHOTT expands biosensor business with Applied Microarrays

Sphere Fluidics wins funds for international commercialisation

Pre-clinical imaging company acquired by Bruker

General Laboratory

Agilent transfers consumables sales from CrossLab business to LSAM division

Adaptas to become part of valve giant IMI

LUM enters distribution deal with bitumen characterisation expert

Can Gas Systems expands manufacturing capacity

Calibre’s latest acquisitions have a general laboratory focus

LabMinds wins funding for automated solution preparation instrument

Tescan celebrates 30th anniversary

CMOS camera specialist expands Excelitas portfolio for life science imaging

Shimadzu first licensee of Alpha MOS’ ‘odour’ database

TSKgel GPC columns celebrate 50th anniversary

Process & hand-held instrumentation

Repligen adds protein ligand expertise and hollow fibre manufacturing

Further additions to Halma’s E&A and Medical divisions

Micro-lightbulbs company joins Nynomic

Feature

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Financials

Bio-Techne sees ‘largest opportunities’ still ahead

Drop in Covid-test demand affects BD’ 2022 guidance

Gooch & Housego LS reduces operating margins in both halves of fiscal year

With Semiconductor assets to be sold, Life Science continues growth at Brooks

Last decade’s investments in oligo synthesis and PCR pays off for LGC

Lab closures stymie Blacktrace after divestiture

Good growth at OI despite recovery increasing supply chain and inflation woes

Beijing Labtech recovers in first calendar half

Bohui Innovations pretax losses treble

Pharma and chemical lead at Agilent in lumpy last quarter

North American and Chinese sales reduce at Judges Scientificl

Genevac increases top line ahead of pandemic year

Strong recovery at Halma despite operational challenges

Semicon demand spurs on MKS ahead of transformational acquisition

Peak Scientific further increases export ratio to 90%

Almost 50% sales increase in Nynomic’s first half 2021

Energy and environmental monitoring increases contribution at Inficon

Doubling top line at Alpha MOS in first calendar half

Appointments

December 2021 – content

Life Sciences

Fortis Life expands expertise in molecular biology with acquisition

Vector Labs in private-equity supported buy-out

Acquisition expands Rigaku’s footprint in pre-clinical imaging

Two funding rounds for NanoCellect

Thermo Fisher and Newomics expand multinozzle emitter array partnership

Fifth acquisition expands 10x Genomics into T-cell receptor field

Insightful makes two more acquisitions

General Laboratory

Nanalysis to acquire NA sales and service company

KEM looks back at 60 years in analytical instruments

Automation software expert acquired by Trajan Group

Ortiv opens lab facility in collaboration with Sotax

Nanosurf buys probe specialist

Universal access to lab data through Scitara’s DLX platform

Equity companies invest in ATS Scientific

Simulation specialist to boost Spectris’ HBK division

Menlo Systems opens Asian offices

Process & hand-held instrumentation

Avantor purchases two more businesses for bioprocess applications

NDC Technologies sold to Nordson after 25 years with Spectris

Single-use technology and NDT are focus of Indutrade acquisitions

SciAps signs US rental partner

Honeywell expands its software business into life science applications

Tosoh acquires remaining share of continuous chromatography expert

In-Situ expands equipment rental business with acquisition

Financials

Industrial demand high for bioMérieux’ products

All divisions turn a profit at Stratec’s first half

PSS on the slide again after pandemic demand drops

Dassault LS suffers currency headwinds

Covid-demand decline tests Fluidigm’s core resilience

Miltenyi grows in double digits during pandemic year

Roche Dx sees broader-based growth

Bioprocess revenues lead growth at expanding Avantor

Nanalysis on course for doubling sales in 2021

Spectris’ Industrial division continues to be ‘optimised’

Packing material sales increase in major export markets at Tosoh

Showa’s Chemicals unit continues double-digit growth

Xylem M&CS division slow to recover

Organic growth and sharp currency headwinds at Trajan

HST drives IDEX recovery, with analytical instrument demand strong

Starna Scientific continues growth despite economic shocks

Honeywell’s exposure to oil and gas industry continues to stunt growth

WTS and its American sales slow to recover at Suez

Revenues halved at AHL despite signs of oil and gas recovery

Appointments

November 2021 – content

Life Sciences

Ziath opens EU office to avoid Brexit complications

Bionano acquires bioinformatics firm to accelerate OGM adoption

Abcam plans major purchase and expands US footprint

Biobank makes two acquisitions

Caron acquires lab fume hood and enclosure company

Bio-Rad and 10x Genomics settle after legal stalemate

Nuclera buys digital microfluidics business from E Ink

General Laboratory

Photomultiplier acquisitions expand Tibidabo Scientific’s irradiation group

Solid state pH sensor company wins series A funding

Sens-Tech enhances new parent’s export revenues

Delayed opening of Markes new headquarters

Sedere expands ELSD partnership with Knauer

Bluecrux opens Dutch operations

Horiba and Shimadzu launch LC-Raman instrument

XRF Scientific acquires 50% of ore crusher company

Process & hand-held instrumentation

Two acquisitions expand Sartorius’ footprint in cell culture media

Four acquisitions benefit Ametek’s EIG segment

E+H founds JV for the detection of biological water contaminations

Financials

Recovery of lab activities and increased demand drive Abcam

Demand explodes at 10x Genomics after slow 2020

Top and bottom line go different ways at Bionano

Sartorius growth rate reaches zenith in first half 2021

PCR and Western blotting drives Bio-Rad’s Life Science segment

Analyser sales grow at Horiba in the first half

Bioprocess remains main driver for Mettler Toledo

Industrial recovery pushes Bruker beyond 2019 first-half results

Spectro Analytical sees double-digit sales decline in 2020

Markes drops by a quarter on pandemic restrictions and overstocking

First half recovery at Waters, 16% ahead of 2019 results

Strong organic growth and currency headwinds at Biotage

Robust capital equipment sales for XRF Scientific

Ametek EIG boosted by delayed Q2 US recovery

North America slow to recovery at Parker industrial

Steady recovery of Comet IXM’s markets

Appointments

October 2021 – content

Life Sciences

Abbott sells STARLIMS to equity company

Illumina buy Grail despite EC's ongoing in-depth investigation

PacBio expands into short-read sequencing market with acquisition

Leica Microsystems acquires AI-based visualisation and analysis software

Bruker co-founds spatial genomics business

SCIEX and Genedata sign R&D agreement

General Laboratory

Techcomp acquires majority stake in isotope MS business

Two additions for Atlas Copco’s Vacuum segment

Avidity launches updated laboratory water system

Renishaw widens Raman applications with automated focus-tracking

Process and hand-held instrumentation

Organic NIR detector developer raises funds

Sensmet raises funds for multi-metal OES detector

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Financials

Illumina guides cautiously for second half of 2021

UK virus testing contributes 42% of ONT’s 2020 revenues

Covid growth starting to moderate at Merck Life Science division

Pandemic drives Tecan despite greater future demand uncertainties

PacBio picks up from 2019 after last year’s washout

General recovery brings record order growth for Atlas Copco

Asia holds up for Leybold, while other markets tank

Edwards feels the 2019 semicon slump

Covid-demand rise on the wane for Thermo Fisher

Acquisition contributions beat organic growth at SDI

Teledyne sees double-digit organic growth on top of FLIR contribution

Life Sciences’ underlying sales boost Diploma

Acquisitions provide more than half of Leidos Civil division’s growth

Emerson’s Automation Solutions not back to organic growth yet

Schneider’s IA segment recovery catches up

Security returns to growth in OSI’s last fiscal quarter

ABB Process Automation sales start to grow organically in second quarter

Appointments

September 2021 – content

Life Sciences

Acquisitions aid PerkinElmer's life science and cell and gene therapy ambitions

Manufacturer of protein and nucleic acid building blocks to join Danaher

Olink raises $265 million for biomarker identification technology

Cytiva and Pall to invest in manufacturing expansion

Tecan expands contract manufacturing capabilities with purchase

Biobank makes acquisitions

Cellink opens new markets with three further acquisitions

Purchases tilts AddLife towards clinical markets

Axion BioSystems bought by equity company

MOBILion names first SLIM product NIB

General Laboratory

UV-vis spectroscopy instrument wins funding

Nanalysis buys NMR software developer

Xenocs sells minority share for commercial development support

ACD/Labs enters AI partnership

Orochem signs global sales partner

Knauer opens offices in Austria and Switzerland

Process & hand-held instrumentation

First purchase order for 1st Detect’s ETD device

Geographic expansion of 908 Devices’ network

E+H continued infrastructure investments through 2020

Danaher makes nine acquisitions in the first half 2021

Ion Science launches wearable single gas detectors

Sensirion invests in start-up to fuel future pipeline

Financials

Virus testing continues to fuel AddLife Labtech

NGS tools market drives Twist Bioscience

Life Science unit leads G&H performance

Non-Covid bioprocessing growth in low double digits at Danaher LS

Covid demand drops at Qiagen in second quarter

Gene therapy reaches historic low at Takara Bio

Organic growth returns to PST, while Ingersoll adds further acquisitions

Healthcare only growing division at Nikon

Camlab sees export growth prevent sharper sales drop

PerkinElmer DAS sinks to 38% of total turnover

Olympus SSD to trump after challenging fiscal year

Indutrade MST back to growth

Agilent revenue growth not fuelled by pandemic demand

Medical and consumer segments drive Zeiss

Kewaunee hit by higher material costs

908 Devices ups guidance despite dipping top line

Industrial segment drives Varex rebound

Reported Ion Science revenues grow pre-pandemic

Danaher EAS recovers against weak first half 2020

All DT divisions expected to grow in second half of 2021

Slow recovery at Kromek

Appointments

August 2021 – content

Life Sciences

NGS library preparation firm joins Twist Bioscience

Cryopreservation media company acquires UTL freezer business

Calibre Scientific buys additional German distributor

Analytik Jena sells two subsidiaries

NGS start-up raises over $400m in two years

Two life science companies receive Bruker investment

Automated plate handling business joins Porvair’s Laboratory division

NEB buys reagent lyophilisation specialist

DKSH expands Technology’s footprint in Korea

TwinStrand raises funds for Duplex Sequencing technology

General Laboratory

IonSense sees time rife to move MS out of the lab

Grace to be acquired, after incorporating API service business

HEL continues expansion with two regional US hubs

ELN company tops up funding round

SGS expands European analytical laboratory network through acquisitions

Fedegari Autoclavi acquires MEMS panel supplier

MKS purchases temperature sensor specialist

Process & hand-held instrumentation

Four acquisitions expand Cytiva’s bioprocess capabilities

E+H sensor business buys nucleic acid sample prep specialist

Features

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Financials

After successful 2019, Miltenyi Biotec forecasts strong 2020 growth

Eurofins sees net pandemic benefit of €550m

Dx drives Labcorp in 2020

Demand for plastic consumables go up at Porvair

Overall recovery at BD driven by pandemic demand in LS division

HBIO suffers from laboratory closures during 2020

Knauer experiences small pre-pandemic turnover dip

HST expected to make strong 2021 recovery at IDEX

No second half recovery for JEOL

Pandemic demand lifts Analytik Jena’s topline to record heights

Prior Scientific growth rate down after record 2019

CP business drives Grace MT`s Q4 recovery

Analytical instruments see record last-quarter sales at Shimadzu

Semiconductor boom prevents worse for Hitachi HT

Park Systems doubles growth rate year-on-year

Process control and sensor technology at E+H suffer 2020 decline

Pandemic lifts Sensirion into profit

Siemens DI recovers from 2020

Appointments

July 2021 – content

Life Sciences

Carlyle Group buys Tim Harkness’ assembled business

After successful 2020, RedShift Bio extends funding round

IsoPlexis buys sequencing patent portfolio

Two acquisitions add to PerkinElmer’s IVD and life science portfolio

Ginkgo Bioworks goes public via reverse merger

Spatial tissue biology company succeeds at public offering

ONT raises new investment ahead of planned stock market launch

Pre-commercial multiomics firm beats IPO target

Venture capital company sell precision dispensing company BioDot

Bio-Techne and 908 collaborate

General Laboratory

WITec to be bought by UK instrument specialist

Camera testing experts joins Nynomic

DKSH expands list of partners

Halma makes acquisitions for analysis and medical segments

Renishaw purchase price too high for potential takers

SFW Capital completes recapitalisation of dissolution testing specialist

Molex acquires optical fibre manufacturer

SalvoTech adds optical manufacturing expertise

Process & hand-held instrumentation

Sensirion expands gas analysis expertise with two acquisitions

USM project to pair gas sensors with mobile phones

Yokogawa to restructure

Financials

Pandemic demand spurs Integra Biosciences’ 2020 results

Akoya sees effects of pandemic ahead of IPO

Greiner Bio-One growth driven by pandemic demand

Simple Plex almost doubles sales at Bio-Techne

Brooks Automation’s LS divisions in growth mode

Mesa Labs still driven by GPT acquisition

WITec grows in single digits in 2019, while stagnating in 2020

Pandemic hits Nanalysis after first company acquisition

Binder meets prior-year’s profit margin

Academic strength more than offset by industrial weakness at OI

Foss improves profitability on flatlining reported sales

Renishaw's Raman line sees good growth

Pfeiffer sees lower 2020 sales, despite semicon boom

DKSH Technology reduces rate of decline in second half

Halma sees recovery starting in its second fiscal half

PPE demand continues to support Honeywell’s top line

Security segment’s sales declines drag OSI Systems down

SDL Technology recoups losses in second half

Smiths Detection grows air traffic revenues

Nynomic receives large laboratory automation order

Control segment continues to decline at Yokogawa

Appointments