Headlines
GENERAL LABORATORY
- 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
- Pfeiffer opens Asian site, invests in doubling US HQs - 2017-09-10
LIFE SCIENCES
- 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 [...] - Merck consolidates laboratory business - 2017-09-03
As a result of the integration of Sigma-Aldrich, acquired for $17 billion last year, Merck KGaA (Darmstadt, Germany) is to [...] - Tecan to launch SPE product in Europe - 2017-09-02
Life Science automation platform company Tecan AG (Männedorf, Switzerland) is to start launch of its solid phase extraction (SPE) solutions [...] - More from LIFE SCIENCES
- Collaboration for long-read sequencing using EM - 2017-09-03
PROCESS & ENVIRONMENTAL
- OI signs Korean distributor for semicon technologies - 2017-09-06
With the selection of Woowon Technology Co Ltd (Seonam, Korea) as distributor and service representative in the Korean market for [...] - Trajan opens Malaysian manufacturing site - 2017-09-03
Trajan Scientific and Medical Pty Ltd (Ringwood, VIC/Australia), a provider of technologies for biological, environmental and food-related analyses, has expanded [...] - Funding round to help Syft increase global visibility - 2017-08-31
Syft Technologies Ltd, a developer of highly sensitive gas analysers on the basis of selected ion flow-tube mass spectrometry (SIFT-MS), [...] - More from PROCESS & ENVIRONMENTAL
- OI signs Korean distributor for semicon technologies - 2017-09-06
FINANCIALS
- Profit remains elusive for Techcomp - 2017-08-31
Despite a modest uptick in sales, leading Chinese instrument firm Techcomp (Holdings) Ltd (Hong Kong, China) remained in the red [...] - Pfeiffer Vacuum sees dip in analytics sales - 2017-08-31
Pfeiffer Vacuum Technology AG (Asslar, Germany) recorded a mid single-digit year-on-year decline in sales of OEM pumps to analytical instrument [...] - Renishaw Healthcare doubles losses on costs - 2017-08-31
Despite solid double-digit sales growth, losses more than doubled for the Healthcare division of Renishaw plc (Wotton-under-Edge, England) in its [...] - More from FINANCIALS
- Profit remains elusive for Techcomp - 2017-08-31
FEATURES
- 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
- Chinese export growth continues to dwindle
APPOINTMENTS
- SPECTARIS departure and succession - 2017-09-06
- Spectris obituary - 2017-09-03
- SPIE retirement - 2017-09-03
- Elementar retirement and succession - 2017-09-03
- ABB promotions and retirement - 2017-08-24
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