Instrument News – March 2024 – content
Life Sciences
B Medical to become self-contained third Azenta division
Equity investor combines three laboratory automation businesses
Calibre Scientific buys seven businesses in 40 days
Sequencing library preparation specialist buys data analysis company
Bruker to buy ptychography specialist Phasefocus
General Laboratory
HettichLab acquires refrigeration expert
Bruker purchases advanced Raman microscopy business
Hitachi transfers Healthcare business to Hitachi High-Technologies
Tibidabo acquires two specialist camera companies
Malvern Panalytical expands semicon metrology offering
Two LIMS developers merge to create GUS Lab
DKSH expands demonstration lab in China
Teledyne Labs signs first third-party supplier
Process & hand-held instrumentation
SOPAT aims for process particle characterisation leadership with acquisition
Change in reporting structure to give Indutrade “clear strategic focus”
Donaldson opens LS technical centre
Acquisition expands Bruker’s process Raman portfolio
Emerson buys ultrasonic flow meter expert
MT and LabWare achieve integration into Körber PAS-X MES
Financials
Biopharmaceutical instrument sales drop at Mesa Labs
Biosciences unit boosts BD’s Life Sciences division
Dassault LS leads by growth in first half
Covid-related sales hold back organic growth at Azenta
ONT grows on research sequencing
Maravai loses majority of revenues on vaccine-demand decline
Weak demand from analytical instrument market at Atlas Copco’s VT
Academic sales increase 19% at Hamamatsu
HHT continues to suffer declining semiconductor industry demand
Nikon sees growth in LS and industrial microscopy
HettichLab offsets most of pandemic top-line drop in 2021
Key instruments drive A&MI division at Shimadzu
NDT and microscopy up, while semiconductor demand begins to fall at Zeiss
Edwards margin decreases despite double-digit turnover increase
Donaldson LS held back by Disk Drive softness
Growth rate sharply down during Kromek’s first half
Parker Hannifin’s Industrial divisions decline organically
Measurement and Analytical businesses lead by growth rate at Emerson
Growth in oil and gas industry buoys Yokogawa top line
Industrial segment growth offsets Varex' Chinese weakness
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