February 2023 – content
Life Sciences
ITP specialist’s acquisition to accelerate adoption of Bionano’s genome mapping
Shimadzu acquires diagnostics reagent company
Sartorius buys minority stake in bioprinting company
Cold-chain technology purchases expand Azenta’s portfolio further
LifeSpan turns into Absolute Biotech
Single-step extraction method receives growth funding
Belyntic sells peptide purification business to Mesa Labs
Bionano and Hamilton in sample prep partnership
Sapio gains investment of unknown size
General Laboratory
Commercial real estate services firm buys instrument maintenance company
Cloud infrastructure start-up raises series A funding
ATS Scientific expands portfolio with company purchase and distributorship
Purchase expands food quality lab’s scope to the UK
Analytik Jena invests in German expansions
Two acquisitions broaden Pion’s offering into sample preparation and homogenisation
Quantum measurement specialist signs distributors in UK and Japan
Büchi Ibéria to also cover Portuguese market
Process & hand-held instrumentation
Emerson sells Climate Tech business to build pure-play automation company
Smiths Detection opens UK lab for R&D and production
Financials
Mesa Labs’ organic growth dwarfed by contribution from acquisition
Rate of growth increases at Twist Bioscience, while losses deepen
Sharp reduction in Covid tests hits BD’s Life Sciences division
Covid-related sales declines hold back Azenta
Enzo LS segment grows in full fiscal year
Takara Bio improves full-year forecast on reagent sales boost
Electronics market weakness holds back MKS
Biological and industrial microscopes buoy Nikon in first half
Peak Scientific back to double digit growth in second pandemic year
Healthcare remains Shimadzu A&MI’s strongest end market
Diagnostics and semiconductor demand continues to drive HHT
LC resin shipments strong at Tosoh
Process measurement and bioanalytics are growth drivers at Berthold Technologies
Varex’ Industrial compensates for Medical’s weakness
Industrial and APAC drive growth at Sensirion
EAS recovers on eve of Emerson’s drastic restructuring
Specialty chemicals and gas detection lead at Honeywell
Sterile transfer products dominate Getinge’s LS segment growth
Mirion Medical compensates for Industrial’s revenue decline
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