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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