October 2024 – content
Life Sciences
Fluent acquisition expands Illumina’s multiomics capabilities
Nagi Bioscience starts priority access programme
Singular Genomics in bidding war
Bioinformatics, light sheet and antibodies expand Danaher’s LS division
Certara acquires cheminformatics specialist Chemaxon
Illumina wins ECJ decision on Grail jurisdiction
Spectris buys stake in protein screening company
Two Danaher businesses are fully integrated into Cytiva
Volta Labs ships first sample prep instruments
General Laboratory
Chromatography theme of five recent Calibre acquisitions
Asynt acquires photochemistry expert
Order decline at Atik Cameras forces SDI to restructure
Hamamatsu completes NKT Photonics deal after upping price by a quarter
SepSolve partners with HyperChrom
Process & hand-held instrumentation
Monolithic purification materials in Repligen’s acquisition crosshairs
Veralto sells Trojan’s Norwegian filtration business
Büchi distributes NeoSpectra handheld NIR
ABB expands its position in CEM with acquisition
Sensirion terminates condition monitoring start-up
Financials
Reducing losses and record revenues at Twist
PacBio held back by purchase delays
Maravai experiences upward momentum in second quarter
Overstocking still holds back most of Danaher’s divisions
Instruments push Illumina into mid-single digit sales reductions
Laboratory’s weakness continues at Porvair
Industrial and scientific sales still in decline at Atlas Copco’s VT
Tosoh column packing materials sales decline in US and China
Electron microscopy and China provide growth for TFS
Nikon’s microscopy business held back in second half
SDI relies on purchases for growth
Spectroscopy and Analytics OEM at Halma continues to suffer from destocking
Analytical instruments and NDT take a hammering at Hamamatsu
Chinese weakness sees MT suffer
Water treatment beats analytics in Veralto’s first half
WTS drives record growth at Veolia Water Technologies
Getinge LS suffers sharp organic sales decline
Last quarter weakness curtails Yokogawa in fiscal year
Performance improvements in second quarter at Repligen
Sensirion back to sales growth
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