Instrument News – July 2023 – content

Life Sciences 

Abcam considers strategic options after planned shareholder revolt

PE’s LS and Dx businesses renamed to Revvity

AnaBios expands with Cell Systems

Maravai acquires synthetic biology enzyme specialist

MolGen buys co-development partner

Culture media specialist expands AnalytiChem’s offering                            

Integra Bio invests in NGS sample prep with acquisition              

Paragraf buys biosensor firm

 

General Laboratory

Verder Scientific expands with dissolution expert and dispersion specialist

New joint venture for particle analysis formed

EDAX and Gatan combine to maximise synergies

Facility maintenance company buys two lab services businesses

Calibre adds two lab consumables firms

Ownership change results in Photonis' acquisition spree

Newomics launches two more versions of MS source

Fritsch and Horiba sign distribution agreement for the Americas

 

Process & hand-held instrumentation

CEM company expands with two more acquisitions

Donaldson makes third life science acquisition

PBS Biotech closes financing round

Optical temperature sensor expert joins WIKA

Acquisition to widen DT’s X-ray detector offering

Picarro in EtO monitoring partnerships

 

Features

ASMS2023: Ionisation in the air

 

Financials

Custom-development demand provides some growth at Stratec

Maravai prepares for post-pandemic cliff-edge

Second half performance pushes Abcam into the red

Annual organic growth in low single digits at Tecan

Post-pandemic sales remain significantly elevated at Integra Biosciences

Record year at Biotage, despite weak last quarter

Ingersoll PST benefits from acquisitions in 2022

Kewaunee increases rate of growth, but fails to break even

Proprietary consumables sales save Avantor from worse in 2022

Mostly organic sales growth drives XRF to new heights

Spectroscopy sales flat at Renishaw

IMI’s Life Sciences unit ahead on acquisitions in 2022

Organic growth up 2% at Foss, while profitability declines

Binder reports record 2021 sales on partial recovery of EU markets

Dropping pandemic sales reduce Repligen’s reported growth

Donaldson’s LS division hit by demand decline for PTFE membranes products

AHL sells off majority of business

Process analytics compensates for waning pandemic demand at Nynomic              

Security demand still below DT’s record 2019

Sick Group continues to forecast double digit growth

 

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