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- Pfeiffer opens Asian site, invests in doubling US HQs - 2017-09-10
Pfeiffer Vacuum Technology AG (Asslar, Germany) has established a 6,000 sq ft facility in Kulim, Malaysia to house administration, sales [...] - Nor-Cal becomes part of major vacuum company - 2017-09-10
Nor-Cal Products Inc (Yreka, CA), a manufacturer of components for vacuum technology, has been acquired by Pfeiffer Vacuum Technology AG [...] - LUM opens Japanese operations - 2017-09-03
LUM GmbH (Berlin, Germany), a developer of technologies for particle characterisation, emulsion/suspension analysis and adhesive testing, has opened LUM Japan [...] - More from GENERAL LABORATORY
- Axion BioSystems cancels distribution deal with Nanion - 2017-09-20
Nanion Technologies GmbH (Munich, Germany), specialist for automated patch clamp systems, and Axion BioSystems Inc (Atlanta, GA), developer of a [...] - Two metabolomics companies combine - 2017-09-20
Metabolon Inc (Research Triangle Park, NC), a developer of metabolomics technologies, has acquired its smaller competitor Metabolomic Discoveries GmbH (Potsdam, [...] - Collaboration for long-read sequencing using EM - 2017-09-03
A partnership between ZS Genetics Inc (Wakefield, MA), developer of a next-generation sequencing (NGS) technology using electron microscopy (EM), and [...] - More from LIFE SCIENCES
- Chinese export growth continues to dwindle
After a weak 2015, in which Chinese instrument export growth dropped below the double-digits for the first time in years, last year saw an even worse performance for China’s instrumentation manufacturers, as growth dwindled into the low single-digits.
In calendar 2016, the sector exported analytical instruments worth C¥12.10 billion ($1.75 billion at C¥6.91 = $1) to customers outside China. Representing a gain of just 2% over the previous year, this was [...] - Japan sees export growth evaporate in 2016
Exports of analytical instrumentation from manufacturers based in Japan flatlined last year, as moderate positive growth in demand from many of its larger markets was wiped out by a flat or declining performance from its three most important trading partners.
According to the Japanese Ministry of Finance, analytical instrument exports in calendar 2016 were, at ¥437.84 billion ($3.87 billion at ¥113.14 = $1), essentially unchanged when compared with the previous year. [...] - More from FEATURES
