Ocimum auction “successful”

BioTek Instruments opens Shanghai and French office

Quanterix gets strategic investment

Febit renames to CBC

IntegenX raises $40 million

Roche makes hostile take over bid for Illumina

Sony DADC and Axela to develop immunoassay consumables

Takara licenses thermal cycler patents from Eppendorf

OpGen launches Genome-Builder software

General Laboratory

FEI buys Aspex Corp

Scitek Australia appointed Pfeiffer’s exclusive distributor

Agilent Technologies Expands Vacuum Products Portfolio

Labsphere appoints Canadian representative

Edwards to create technology centre in UK

Preproduction mini MS reaches selected customers

Accelrys buys further ELN developer

Process & hand-held instrumentation

LumaSense acquires Reliability Point

DASGIP acquisition adds to Eppendorf’s cell culture portfolio

Gasmet Technologies restructures

Features – End-user markets

Confidence wavers as economic malaise affects research spending

Finanicals

Weak research spending troubles life science firms

Acquisitions keep Techne on track

Cepheid stock lifts despite loss

Olympus down on exchange rate

Gen-Probe slips into the red

Merck Millipore maintains growth

Lab firms pick their way through chillier winds

NVE slips in a challenging quarter

JEOL lowers full-year forecasts

Biohit back in the black

Flat quarter for Corning Life Sciences

Waters beats targets in Q4

Firms see signs of strengthening chip sector

Diploma surges on strong hospital spending

Renishaw invests in growth

Teradyne ahead of targets

Instrument sales weaken at Intevac

Strong US demand drivers Parker

Appointments

Agilent buys two companies for life science sample prep

Proteros moves into new facility

Corning buys in cell culture and bioprocess expertise

Affymetrix to expand into flow cytometry

NanoString closes $20 million funding round

Labcyte and Roche collaborate

Horizon enters into partnership agreement with Promega

General Lab

Netzsch to celebrate 50^th anniversary

Nanoliter seeks investment partner for IBF commercialisation

Mitegen signs distributors

New premises for Anatune

Analytik UK signs two new suppliers

Axel Semrau and CTC in software joint-development agreement

Optics Balzers offers additional filter portfolio

Process & hand-held instrumentation

Pall expands process monitoring with ForteBio purchase

ATMI takes full control of SDS product line

Financials

New markets vital for life science firms

Qiagen benefits from growth plans

Resignation of sales VP puts brakes on PBI

Biotage held back by weak dollar

Emerging markets drive GE growth

WaferGen changes tack

Lab firms warn of though times ahead

Shimadzu sees economy worsening

Acquisitions boost Andor

HORIBA flat despite strong demand for instrumentation

AJ falls to a loss on costs

Bruker lifts guidance again

Process firms up on new region demand

Analogic to close two locations as cost-cuts continue

Restructuring custs hit Pall’s bottom line

Invensys benefits from emerging market demand

Instrument sales drive Mesa in the second quarter

Market features

Earthquake ends blue period for Japan

Global instrument export maintain growth track

Appointments

Life Sciences

Thorlab expands life science capabilities with Burleigh buy

Arrayjet enters into two agreements

Operations of bankrupt GRI continue in two companies

PerkinElmer completes Caliper acquisition

Abcam makes second acquisition

Funding enables expansion of Oxford Nanopore operations

Noblegen receives SBIR grant

Roche licenses DNA sensing patents

Ametek expands medical device business

Labcyte wins NIH funding, collaborates with Thermo Fisher

General Laboratory

Advion to break into MS market

Labindia divests business units to two Danaher companies

Till Photonics changes owner for €14.5m

Oxford Instrument buys MRI/CT service business

Inficon buys portable GC company Photovac

Nanoworld acquires MEMS plant

Process & hand-held instrumentation

Rigaku buys BaySpec Raman lines

Process instrumentation group established at Perten Inc

Satorius and GE Healthcare in licensing agreement

Conference Report

EAS 2011 – Can it survive in a pharma-free state?

Financials

Funding slowdown hits life sciences instrument firms

Sequenom stays on target

Bio-Rad feels economic pinch

Affymetrix takes $10 million loss

Familion buy lifts Transgenomic

Sluggish HBIO disappoints

No consensus on economy for lab instrument firms

VWR returns to profit in Q3

MT warns of slowing growth

OI reports healthy markets

Record profit again for FEI

Agilent falls short on sales

Orders pick up for makers of security instruments

HAPSITE sales up as orders return

Intevac slips again in Q3

ITT strong on eve of its split

Newport spends to avoid chip fall

SPX adds more flow technology

Market Feature

European growth slows in 2011 first half

inAppointments

Protea becomes publicly listed through reverse merger

Danaher ponders staff cuts at Beckman Coulter

Surmodics closes manufacturing site, remodels management team

SQI and Scienion terminate purchase agreement

Sartorius to buy liquid handling business from Biohit

Equity company buys major share in Olink

Attana and Layerlab enter distribution agreement

HP launches direct digital titration instrument

Bio-Rad invests in next generation PCR

Sony acquires Micronics

Merck and BGI in biomarker and genomics technology deal                       

General Lab News

Kinesis expands US offices, leaves MS joint venture

Bruker Nano Surfaces adds nanoindentation expertise

Nanosurf opens Chinese JV, moves to new HQs

Ionicon starts North American operations

Reflect Scientific in deal with USDA

PI acquires majority in precision positioning firm miCos

JEOL signs Chilean deal, opens Indian office

Process & hand-held instrumentation

Spectris in $500 million acquisition spree

Endress & Hauser buys stake in bioprocess sensor company

Feature

Instrumentation firms grow despite signs of wider economic stagnation

Financials

Life Science suffers from slowdown in research funding

Life Tech beats expectations, but earnings fall

Olympus slides

Asia puts Sartorius ahead

Cepheid raises guidance

Illumina cuts jobs as profit falls

Lab firms warn of weak research spending

Agilent raises forecasts again

Showa Denko flat

Thermo’s stock drops on forecast

FEI beats targets once again

More losses for VWR due to debt

Process firms cautious despite surging growth

ABB disappoints on marine sales

Orders fall at KLA

Another record quarter for Ametek

Parker Hannifin reports optimism

Acquisitions lift Honeywell

Appointments

Life Science

PacBio lays off 30% of staff

LGC buys genotyping assay developer

PerkinElmer acquires Caliper Life Sciences for $600m

Sartorius invests in Biohit

CMA acquisition expands HBIO’s animal testing capabilities

Merck Millipore expands stake in flow cytometry market

Dolomite launches single-cell micromanipulation chip

Thermo Fisher buys Intrinsic Bioprobes

Complete Genomcis in two sequencing partnership

Fluidigm pays for Life Tech’s PCR technologies                       

General Laboratory

Mettler Toledo continues to extend businesses

Hanna Instruments US moves into new facilities

TSI celebrates Silver Jubilee

Freeman moves to new headquarters

VWR makes acquisitions in Italy and China

Equity support furthers Perten expansion with TexVol deal

ChemImage wins funding for manufacturing facility

Skalar moves Indian office

Analytik Jena and Metrohm enter into strategic alliance

GSG becomes Prosolia distributor for German-speaking markets

Process & hand-held instrumentation

YSI acquisition ends employee-ownership model

Hamilton adds sensors to ARC family

GE Healthcare to acquire cell culture media business

Smiths Detection joins Security Manufacturers Coalition

Financials

US and Europe remain stagnant for life sciences

Biotage trails on sluggish markets

PacBio improves

Qiagen cuts guidance in Q2

Fluidigms sinks to a loss

Tecan raises local currency guidance

Currency effects hit EU lab firms

MT ups guidance as market pick up

Shimadzu grows on domestic recovery

Biohit optimistic despite weak Q2

HORIBA raises 2011 forecast

Judges bullish after record H1

Process firms hold steady

Pall impresses despite falling earnings

Parker Hannifin slips on forecast

Emerson Process keep growing

Microsaic seeks more OEM deals

MKS notes softening semicon market

Feature

US export growth slows in the first half

Appointments

Analytik Jena acquires stake in Dutch-based distributor

TAP signs SE Asian partners

Nexus to become core of Brooks Life Science unit

SQI Diagnostics to acquire Scienion for $15.3m

Biolin Scientific purchases patch-clamp company

Gyros expands Asian market reach

Novartis loses interest in Gen-Probe

BlueGnome in supply agreement with SciGene

Roche expands capabilities in cervical cancer testing

Gel Company and Biomerix in distribution agreement

Siemens enters two microbiology agreements

General Laboratory

PerkinElmer restructuring ups workforce

Next Instruments seeks new partners

XRF Scientific increases share in Canadian flux company

Ionicon signs Indian distributor

Chiral Technologies and Biotools collaborate ­­

Paraytec signs Malvern as first OEM partner

Process & hand-held

Senscient closes financing round of unknown size

PBS Biotech buys medical device manufacturer

Feature

PAI/12 report: Global process analyser sales to reach $2.9bn in 2016

2011 Leaderboard

Listing of 500 companies of the analytical instrument industry by their 2010 revenues

Financial News

Bottom-line problems for life science

Affymetrix cuts costs due to losses

Harvard down on research sales

Sequenom halves losses

Luminex shines as it beats targets

Bio-Rad benefits from launches

Lab firms bask in gains

PerkinElmer raises guidance

Alpha MOS drops

Thermo Fisher ups guidance

Bruker to cut as earnings slips

FEI stays on track

Government cutback hit

Princeton benefits from earthquake

Newport with impressive quarter

ICx sensor businesses fall to loss

Teledyne up on environmental sales

ITT grows on acquisitions

Appointments

Lab21 continues shopping spree

Luminex completes EraGen Biosciences acquisition

Magellan sells Trek Diagnostics to Thermo Fisher

Danaher acquisition of Beckman Coulter completes

Halo finds Japanese distributor

Cell Biosciences changes identity

Integra collaborates with InSphero in 3D cell culture equipment

Tecan announces OEM agreement with anonymous partner

Illumina and Sequenom in supply agreement

General Lab News

Newport plans two purchases

PerkinElmer buys X-ray detection company

Micromeritics expands in China

Halma expands photonics group with Avo Photonics

Process & hand-held instrumentation

ITT to absorb YSI in ‘merger’

Morpho Detection completes Syagen acquisition

Features

Emerging markets and strong chemicals sector drive growth for manufacturers

Spectaris companies cannot recoup 2009 losses

Financial News

Illumina wobbles despite revenue growth

Life Tech misses forecast

GE rises on emerging markets

Beckman buy drives Danaher in Q2

Biopharma keeps Pall on track

Horiba sees no analytical pickup

Shimadzu revenue growth slows

Nikon up on industrial microscopes

Tosoh grows in chromatography

Showa Denko hit by earthquake

IDEX grows strongly on acquisitions

Flat core growth for Danaher’s environmental instrumentation

Honeywell sales improve by a fifth

Emerging markets boost Halma

ABB surges as spending returns

Sartorius lifts full-year guidance

Appointments

Techne acquires two companies
Qiagen makes a pass at Ipsogen
Seegene and Akonni in licensing agreement
BioTek opens Korean office
Berthold Detection launches new corporate brand
Cell Biosciences buys Brightwell

General Laboratory

Lauda expands in China, buys industrial chiller company
Arquimed moves into larger HQ
Oxford Instruments acquisitions target semicon market
Persistent to buy Agilent’s French software business
Freeman Technology appoints distributors in Asia
Techcomp and Hitachi extend partnership

Process and In-Field

AMDS signs Badger Meter as distributor
Sartorius signs two supply deals

Financial News

Life science firms grow in EU and Japan
Modest organic growth for Merck Millipore
Acquistion boosts Addtech’s sales
US growth strongest for Seegene
Olympus life science sales weak
PSS falls to a loss
Asian sales keep EU lab firms in growth
Porvair hit by weak Seal sales
Sartorius confirms full-year targets
Emerging markets the key for Eppendorf
AJ falls to loss despite sales growth
Process firms up: is chip rebound slowing?
Newport’s stock pops on earnings
HHT falls short on earthquake disruption
Parker Hannifin over target again
Advanced Photonix beats on sales
Exchange rates hit Comet last year

Appointments

CamScan seeks partner for Middle Eastern distribution

LIFE SCIENCES

TAP changes corporate identity
PerkinElmer acquires NGS informatic business
Thermo Fisher builds its diagnostics foothold
Raindance collaborates with Roche and Ambry
Eppendorf sell Silverquant trademark
Anagnostics partners with Invicon

GENERAL LABORATORY

Hellma Analytics expands during crisis
PerkinElmer buys Labtronics
SI goes direct in Germany
YSI for sale
Accelrys acquires notebook specialist Contur
Nova Capital sells Sterilin to Thermo
Bibby buys thermal control line from Thermo
Milestone presents the UltraWAVE
IDEX adds optical components firm

PROCESS & IN-FIELD

Smiths Detection buys Brazilian partner
Glatt and Thermo in partnership
QRSciences sells instrument assets

FINANCIALS

US life science firms report stronger pharma markets
Life Tech blames tsunami for miss
Bio-Rad earnings slide on costs
Caliper remains in the red
Harvard slow in Q1
Sequenom grows
Many US general lab firms beat estimates in Q1
Thermo Fisher raises guidance
Sigma grows on strong research product sales
FEI grows organically and on acquisitions in the first quarter
Bruker earnings sink once again
PerkinElmer lifts guidance
US security and environment firms stay strong in Q1
More streamlining ahead for ICx
ITT Analytics outperforms expectations in Q1
XRF Scientific’s bottom line benefits from acquisition
Implant Sciences grows on strong international demand

MARKET FEATURE

Japanese rebound en par with the EU and US
Lab sales below pre-recession levels

APPOINTMENTS

Dynasil starts biomedical business

Seward opens Asian office

GE Healthcare adds cellular imaging firm

Qiagen expands with two more purchases

Protagen and Scienion collaborate

Halo Genomics steps up commercial effort

GENERAL LABORATORY

Roentgenanalytik resurrected

Bibby Scientific goes direct in Asia

XEI launches EM sample cleaning system

Labvantage bids for market leadership

PROCESS AND IN-FIELD

Morpho Detection buys Syagen

Sensors and AP2E partner

Xenemetrix chooses EAR as partner

END-USER MARKET FEATURE

Pharma weakness no surprise in another mixed quarter for instrument markets

FINANCIAL NEWS

Qiagen instrument sales plunge

Bio-Rad profits up

Biotage writes itself down to a loss

Roche sees strong instrument sales

Sequenom bottom line plunges

Shimadzu boosted by overseas sales

Horiba gloomy

Biohit identifies Asia as growth market

PerkinElmer tops targets

Sigma sees growths flatten

Neogen blossoms in record quarter

Pall raises forecasts on strong laboratory sales

SPX boosts flat growth with acquisitions

Pfeiffer grows on demand for instrumentation components

APPOINTMENTS