Instrument News

Instrument News – April 2025 – content

Life Sciences

Cmbio buys software platform off microbiome firm in liquidation

Singular Genomics sold to Deerfield after bidding process

Leica Microsystem purchases expert of fluorescent dyes ATTO-TEC

Vion adds bioassay specialist in equity-backed expansion

Life science procurement company raises $25 million

Cryo-EM services company buys protein manufacturer

Sphere Fluidics rebrands

General Laboratory

Verder Scientific opens new subsidiary in Iberia

Anton Paar opens new APAC techology centre in Malaysia              

C&M Scientific expands into England

Knauer and Labomatic sign co-marketing partnership

Bergman & Beving makes rare laboratory firm purchase

Lens specialist receives investment

Process & hand-held instrumentation

908 Devices sells bioprocess PAT offering to Repligen

Solventum to sell purification and filtration business to Thermo Fisher

Timegate Instruments expands global reach with distributors

Veralto buys UV treatment firm and takes stake in another

Nirrin awarded patent, launches atline analyser

Features

Pittcon 2025: Quiet in chilly Boston

SLAS 2025: Always sunny in San Diego

Financials

Fourth-quarter improvement informs Revvity’s 2025 forecast

MLab helps Roche Dx in 2024 recovery

IDBS sees revenues and pre-tax profit improve

HBIO’s performances worsens in 2024

Life Sciences remain weakest link at Danaher

US funding decisions result in cautious 2025 forecast at Tecan              

Trajan back to growth in first fiscal half, after weak prior year

VT performs worst of Atlas Copco’s four divisions

Covid cliff edge still impacts TFS during 2024

MT back to double-digit organic growth after six weak quarters

Bruker’s organic growth down by two thirds              

Growth in analytical division helps Rigaku in 2024              

Veolia’s WTS leads by growth in Water Technology division

Currency headwinds and Chinese weakness hampers Repligen progress

Analytics grows at half the rate than treatment in Veralto’s water quality division

Redwave purchase generates 908 Devices’ calendar growth

Appointments

March 2025 – content

Life Sciences

Standex snaps up freezer specialist for quarter of its annual revenues

Cube Biotech buys protein tag firm IBA Lifesciences

Acquisition to lead Quanterix to profitability

London-based DNA manufacturing firm expands customer base

Bio-Rad acquires multiplexing dPCR company Stilla

Takara Bio buys transcriptome spatial mapping company

General Laboratory

Equity-backed AAT makes two more European purchases

Agilent creates separate applied markets segment

JEOL and Kobe Steel buy superconducting wire firm

Restructuring, rightsizing and acquisition at SDI

Antylia to be auctioned off by equity investment owners

Process & hand-held instrumentation

Savillex buys bioprocessing and containment companies

Emerson to sell Safety & Productivity business

IRUBIS raises pre-series A funding              

Industrial Physics makes two acquisitions under new owner

DwyerOmega acquires PST in deal between equity companies

SepPure starts trial scheme                            

Features

TDA Instrument Industry Outlook for 2025:

Glimmers of hope after three years of decline

Financials

NGS and synthetic gene markets push Twist to record results

Neogen feels food price inflation

Standex Scientic mainly grows on purchase

Biopharma headwinds prevent Bio-Rad growth in 2024

Laboratory division flatlines organically at Porvair

AddLife Labtech buoyed by organic growth and acquisition

IQR back to single digit growth at Zeiss' full fiscal year

Nikon sees a delay of life science recovery

Semicon production and analytical instruments buoy JEOL in first fiscal half

Restructured SDI relies on acquisition to hold decline at bay              

Chinese weakness stymies Ingersoll Rand

Currency headwinds cancel out acquired revenues at OI

Good quarterly growth at Waters hints at 2025 recovery

Industrial businesses continue to decline at Parker Hannifin

Varex sees ongoing destocking and weak China business

Filtration sales grow organically at Solventum

Donaldson reduces long-term forecast on slowing biopharma market

Growth down for Emerson’s measurement and analytical businesses

Appointments

January 2025 – content

Life Sciences  

AMSBIO brings Europe Biosite’s acquisitions to six 

Microbiologics buys first foreign company

Limerston-backed Cormica makes US purchase 

CLS makes first acquisition since joining Limerston investment portfolio

Broken String enters R&D partnership

Research data orchestration specialist Seqera makes first acquisition

Technia acquires US consultancy rights for BIOVIA offering

CrestOptics signs deal with Leica Microsystems

General Laboratory

Coatings equipment and digitisation expertise targets of Judges latest acquisition              

Tescan and Shimadzu in co-marketing agreement

Advanced Materials segment to be spun-off by Honeywell

FIB sample preparation expert joins Tescan              

IMI pressure control business IMF bought by management with investment help

LabVantage makes two acquisitions over last 24 months

Nanalysis’ service business starts on five-year maintenance contract

Process & hand-held instrumentation

Brooks Instrument buys manufacturer of purity components                                          

Ion Science owner celebrates 25th anniversary at the helm

AI-based bioprocess QC company secures funding

Indicor makes acquisitions in production QA, data loggers and leak detection

Senseca acquires two further companies

Zeteo Tech in R&D collaboration

Financials

Robust underlying growth during ONT’s first half

Merger boosts Standard Biotools’ sales but deepens losses

Protein Sciences at Bio-Techne down in fiscal year

Covid hangover and pharma recession hits LGC

Biopharma spending and acquisition drive Mesa Labs' growth

Smart metering drives growth at Xylem’s MCS division              

All DKSH divisions report sales declines as Asia tanks

Labtech halves growth rate

Organic decrease at Judges Scientific during first half

Service revenues overtake product sales at Nanalysis

LSFC businesses still impacts IMI’s LT division

Chinese decline holds back Shimadzu’s Analytical instrument division

Kewaunee’s profitability increases markedly

Renishaw’s analytical sales see lower growth

Advanced Materials business drives Honeywell’s ESS division

Industrial Measurement back to growth at Vaisala

APAC is Alpha MOS’ largest market

Nynomic sees first half decline after false dawn prediction

Kromek reaches adjusted EBITDA profitability

Acquisition contributes most of Ion Science’s calendar 2023 growth

Appointments

December 2024 – content

Life Sciences 

Genovis sells antibody business to concentrate on SmartEnzymes

BioIVT expands biospecimen business                            

BioEcho’s DNA/RNA extraction method to expand Admera Health’s service capabilities

Hamamatsu launches light-sheet cytometer              

Evosep opens new headquarters, strengthens Sciex partnership

Quantum-SI signs major distributor and computer hardware partners

General Laboratory

Acquisition complements Kewaunee’s offering with safety cabinets

Thorlabs licenses QCL instrument from Sensirion

Microfiltration specialist Mott joins IDEX’ HST division

Four companies join Exosens following May 2024 IPO

Busch expands with two acquisitions in the last 12 months

MSE Supplies wins equity investment support

Gulf Scientific signs new partners

Process & hand-held instrumentation

Shimadzu enters deals for biopharmaceutical market

Indutrade buys cleanroom and forensics specialists

ORS and Inficon partner for internal leak detector maintenance

Teledyne buys select defence businesses from Excelitas              

NomadX launches earsly-access programme for SERS pathogen detector

Financials

LS sales continue to hamper Qiagen growth

Acquisition gives Stratec a leg up in the first half

Market weakness at Tecan to last for rest of year

Delayed recovery causes double-digit decline at Bio-Rad LS

End of destocking sees Corning LS growing in the second quarter

Stagnating revenues at Grant Instruments in 2023

Analytical product sales grow at GL Sciences

IDEX forecasts HTS markets recovery for 2025

Semicon downturn still overshadows MKS

Semicon and Analytik cause sliding sales at Pfeiffer

A year of two halves at Trajan as destocking complete              

Organic growth is back at Biotage

NA sales save Markes International’s bacon in 2023

Comet detects signs of semiconductor recovery

Growth at DT despite Medical performing poorly

Digital Imaging endangers Teledyne’s full-year revenue guidance

Acquisition helps 908 Devices to report growth in first half

Security and Energy continues strong growth at Inficon              

Appointments

Instrument News – November 2024 – content

Life Sciences

Protein expression platform wins series C funding

Avantor to sell clinical trials services business

Expansion of Calibre continues                            

Acquisition adds biophysical characterisation to Bruker’s SPR offering

ThinkCyte raises further funds 

Dotmatics invests in software specialist for MsAbs development

Company purchase expands AddLife in the Iberian markets

Hoefer operations terminated prior to 2023 sale

General

Messe München to expand Analytica concept into US market              

Dotmatics purchases specialist for GC, LC and MS data analysis

ATG expands with two more acquisitions

Nikon relocates to new global HQs              

Peak Scientific moves into new markets with acquisition              

New HQ facilities for Anton Paar in Switzerland and the UK

Rigaku and Xenocs in cross-selling partnership

Process & hand-held instrumentation

E+H and Sick signs partnership and joint-venture agreement

LuminUltra buys Genomadix’ Legionella testing business

Merck purchases viral vector transfection expert

Arcmed and Argento to collaborate on protein column packing service              

Bruker makes PAT using NMR easier

Financials

Investment hesitance combines with Chinese weakness at Sartorius

Strong demand in industrial research for AddLife Labtech 

Dropping Covid demand and destocking continues at Merck LS

Software revenues source of growth for Revvity’s LS business

As sales drop further, HBIO focusses on managing costs

Destocking largely complete, though inflection point not reached at Avantor

Exports propel sales at IKA in 2021

Organic growth in the single digits during Bruker's first calendar half

Raman sales for material research help Horiba Scientific

Spectris loses 16% of sales in first calendar half

Instrument sales down 17% at Waters during H1

Leidos SES “ahead of plan for revenue”

Ametek down-revises full-year forecast as destocking continues              

Aviation continues to boost Smiths Detection in full year              

Double-digit growth in Security sales at OSI Systems

Solventum suffers standalone costs              

Appointments              

October 2024 – content

Life Sciences  

Fluent acquisition expands Illumina’s multiomics capabilities

Nagi Bioscience starts priority access programme              

Singular Genomics in bidding war

Bioinformatics, light sheet and antibodies expand Danaher’s LS division

Certara acquires cheminformatics specialist Chemaxon

Illumina wins ECJ decision on Grail jurisdiction

Spectris buys stake in protein screening company

Two Danaher businesses are fully integrated into Cytiva

Volta Labs ships first sample prep instruments

General Laboratory

Chromatography theme of five recent Calibre acquisitions

Asynt acquires photochemistry expert

Order decline at Atik Cameras forces SDI to restructure

Hamamatsu completes NKT Photonics deal after upping price by a quarter

SepSolve partners with HyperChrom

Process & hand-held instrumentation

Monolithic purification materials in Repligen’s acquisition crosshairs

Veralto sells Trojan’s Norwegian filtration business

Büchi distributes NeoSpectra handheld NIR

ABB expands its position in CEM with acquisition

Sensirion terminates condition monitoring start-up

Financials 

Reducing losses and record revenues at Twist

PacBio held back by purchase delays

Maravai experiences upward momentum in second quarter

Overstocking still holds back most of Danaher’s divisions

Instruments push Illumina into mid-single digit sales reductions

Laboratory’s weakness continues at Porvair

Industrial and scientific sales still in decline at Atlas Copco’s VT

Tosoh column packing materials sales decline in US and China

Electron microscopy and China provide growth for TFS

Nikon’s microscopy business held back in second half

SDI relies on purchases for growth

Spectroscopy and Analytics OEM at Halma continues to suffer from destocking

Analytical instruments and NDT take a hammering at Hamamatsu

Chinese weakness sees MT suffer              

Water treatment beats analytics in Veralto’s first half              

WTS drives record growth at Veolia Water Technologies

Getinge LS suffers sharp organic sales decline

Last quarter weakness curtails Yokogawa in fiscal year

Performance improvements in second quarter at Repligen

Sensirion back to sales growth

Appointments

Instrument News – September 2024 – content

Life Sciences

ONT expands nanopore expertise with first acquisition

Bruker buys minority stake in CRO 

Hitachi HT buys majority of whole-genome mapping company 

Agilent expands oligo and CRISPR capabilities with CDMO acquisition

EBI rakes in more funding as installed base nears 200

ONT receives equity investment from Novo and BioMérieux

General Laboratory

Heidolph Instruments to expand ATS’ Life Sciences division

Agilent Crosslab expands with system usage monitoring firm

Funding results in expanded elemental analysis consumables group              

Xylem Analytics builds new campus in Mainz

Portable HPLC developer bought by venture development company

JEOL launches adaptable EM for beginners and experienced users

Radwag opens two foreign offices

Process & hand-held instrumentation 

Spectris buys SciAps for missing hand-held offering and LIBS capabilities

Yokogawa expands flowmeter manufacturing to India with purchase

Donaldson purchases Italian fibre membrane fitration expert

Chromatan wins grant for columnless purification in biomanufacturing

Feature

HPLC 2024: review of product launches

Financials

Consumables drive ONT’s underlying growth

Plummeting reagent sales continue at Takara Bio

Pandemic demand drop hits Dassault’s LS unit

B Medical to hold back Azenta in the full year

Microbiology and Industrial Applications help bioMérieux grow

Enzo Biochem improves profitability after clinical lab sale

HHT’s new structure sidelines analytical segment              

Currency effects obliterate organic growth at Foss

Weakness in pharma and Chinese markets not boding well for Agilent

Domestic market boosts growth at XRF Scientific

No demand recovery in sight for IMI’s fluid control OEM market

Record sales at Nanalysis while losses deepen

Healthy growth at Prior Scientific

Strong Raman sales from EMEA customers for Renishaw

Flow & process control sales decline at Parker Hannifin                            

Double-digit organic growth at Emerson’s analytical unit

ITW’s TM&E segment hit by electronics slump

LS of Donaldson to grow at 20% in current fiscal year

ATS’ LS unit relies on acquisitions for annual growth

Cargo inspection provides growth for Varex in difficult H1

Appointments

August 2024 – content

Life Sciences  

Refeyn opens new US headquarters

Lightcast opens US innovation centre

TSCP companies Vector Labs and Absolute Biotech combine

Nikon opens additional US bioimaging lab

Leica Microsystems expands its offering in light sheet microscopy

Integra Bio continues to expand its network of direct foreign subsidiaries

Bio-Techne co-leads Spear Bio’s series A round

General Laboratory

Micromeritics agrees sale to create global particle characterisation leader 

Change of divisional structure at Oxford Instruments              

Battery Ventures combines two lab software companies

Shimadzu strengthens MVS capabilities with acquisition 

OI expands capabilities in hardness testing with purchase

Laboratory equipment veteran Heidolph starts insolvency proceedings

Process & hand-held instrumentation

Airmodus and APAQ Group further expand ENVEA

Fibre optics specialist expands Nynomic business

Partnerships expand NevadaNano MPS sensor’s commercial reach

PhovIR spins-out from university, MantiSpectra wins additional seed funding

Financials

Tecan sees organic growth with Covid demand subtracted

Goodwill impairment sends BICO’s bottom line deeper into the red

Acquired flow cytometry business keeps Cytek growing vigerously

Mesa Labs driven by acquisitions

75% reduction in mRNA products at Maravai

Spatial biology products drive 10x Genomics’ growth              

Scientific and Metrology drive JEOL’s growth

WITec reports 30% sales increase for fiscal 2022

Busch continues double-digit profit growth in 2021

OI sees export bans affect its Chinese quantum research business              

Semiconductor slump puts pressure on MKS’ top line

Key systems continue to drive Shimadzu’s analytical business

Bioprocess demand pushes down Avantor’s top- and bottom lines

Slow growth for Zeiss IQR division

Indutrade MST benefits from Palas acquisition in 2023

Sensing unit of Konica Minolta reports 16% decline

Low biopharma demand at SPS holds back 3M’s HC division

Security market recovery drives growth at DT

Process Automation contributes to ABB’s growth despite divestments

Materials and Process spurs on Honeywell’s PMT division

Appointments

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

June 2024 – content

Life Sciences

 BioLife Solutions sells Stirling Ultracold for nominal sum

 LIMS company buys verification software firm

Funding and partnership successes for Flagship Biosciences

 EU regulator approves Illumina’s plan for Grail divestment

DNA combing firm Genomic Vision enters receivership

NanoString snapped up by Bruker following bankruptcy turmoil

Complete Genomics establishes US manufacturing

General Laboratory

Spectris PMS acquires exclusive distribution partner              

Sample preparation group adds capabilities

ADDvise expands lab division with two more purchases

Lauda opens Singapore hub

Four smaller additions to Bruker CALID and BioSpin

Calibre acquires two UK laboratory equipment firms              

Process & hand-held instrumentation

Handheld and benchtop MS expert expands into FTIR

Acquisitions benefit Teledyne’s Instrumentation and Digital Imaging segments

Industry applications focus of Headwall’s new purchase              

Spectris completes portfolio rationalisation with Red Lion Controls sale

Spectaire receives minority investment

Financials

Weak sales at Illumina to continue in 2024

PacBio growth driven by its 2023 product launches

Sales decline in Life Science and Electronics at Merck

Hoefer divestment affects HBIO’s top- and bottom-line

Reagent sales grow at Revvity’s LS division

US market drives recovery at Xylem M&CS in 2023              

Peak Scientific doubles growth rate

Bruker continues double-digit organic growth trajectory

Hellma tops pre-pandemic sales in 2021

Starna steady despite challenging economic climate

Double-digit organic growth three years in a row at Spectris

Strong finish for Biotage thanks to Astrea acquisition

Demand for Veolia’s Water Technologies exceptionally high

Comet X-ray Modules buck trend

Teledyne’s environmental businesses show before unseen weakness

Pharma and bioprocess headwinds hold back 908 Devices

Stanhope-Seta grows sales by 25%              

Appointments