July 2024 – content
Life Sciences
Alamar raises $128m in series C round
Custom assay developer buys biosample storage company
Industry veterans acquire protein-protein interaction technology from Fluidic Analytics
IDT signs partnerships and opens two operations
MOBILion attracts first European customer
General Laboratory
Menlo Systems expands US and Chinese operations
LUM expands representations in Asian markets
Dotmatics buys fluid dynamic simulation software company
Acquisition adds further fibre-optics characterisation capabilities to Judges Scientific
AGI buys flow reactor business Chemtrix
Axcend launches sample module to allow LC reaction monitoring
Process & hand-held instrumentation
Valmet completes purchase of Siemens’ process GC business
Ingersoll Rand buys containment system capabilities and starts LS platform
Viavi Solutions loses out in bid for telecoms specialist Spirent
Features
Analytica 2024: Back to pre-pandemic size
ASMS 2024: Return to robustness
Financials
AddLife Labtech sees strong organic growth diminished by Covid hangover
Stratec flatlining half-year revenues sign of recovery
Qiagen LS still held back by pandemic hangover and overstocking
Pandemic demand decline interrupts Eppendorf’s decade-long growth
Reduced pandemic demand sees Corning LS continue downward trend
Pfeiffer Vacuum sees sales to US analytical customers decline
PerkinElmer experiences single digit growth in 2023
Acquisitions help Horiba’s Process & Environmental segment
Reduction in life science demand sends Ingersoll’s PST into organic decline
HEL growth driven by extra-European exports
IDEX sees no positive inflection point for LS and analytical instruments in 2024
Organic revenues at new record level at Judges Scientific
Technology leads DKSH by organic and reported growth
Inficon S&E leads by growth rate in 2023
Gasmet and Neo Monitors push Nederman M&CT to record result
Beijing SDL Technology halved profits
Record year at Nynomic despite low 2023 growth
2023 growth at Valmet mostly from acquisitions
Alpha MOS sales halve in second half 2023
Appointments