August 2025 – content
Life Sciences
Waters and BD businesses agree transformative merger
Enzo Biochem’s agrees to acquisition by Battery Ventures
Cost-cutting measures at Eppendorf after second weak year
Pluto Biosciences raises $3.6 million for AI platform
Halo Labs adds to Waters’ particle characterisation offering
Investment-fuelled CellBio Scientific adds biospecimen expert
Funding for iPSC specialist
Eppendorf sells Bio-ITech share to EHS platform developer
HP and Tecan launch dispenser
General Laboratory
Astrea acquisition prepared Biotage take-over by KKR
Horiba UK opens Analytical Solution Plaza
OI to sell NanoScience business after unit’s recovery
ACD/Labs to sell ChemisTwin platform worldwide
Process & Hand-held Instrumentation
Activist investor forces further Honeywell spin offs
PPT Group changes equity investment owner
Masco Group expands bioprocess offering with acquisition
IBAIA raises funds for four-sensor water quality testing platform
Financials
System destocking creates headache for Stratec
Strong PS margin diluted by Dx segment at Bio-Techne
Signs of market stabilisation heartens Eppendorf
Takara Bio saved by currency translations
Profitability in view for Azenta
Analytical instruments markets make a recovery at Hamamatsu
ERWEKA in profit as part of Verder Scientific
OI recoups its quantum losses in latest fiscal year
Verder Scientific’s 2023 growth relies heavily on acquisitions
Growth rate down at Prior Scientific
Photonics demand for data centres buoys Halma
Destocking holds back Hellma in 2023
JÜKE Systemtechnik sees double-digit growth after pandemic blip
Recovery at Sensirion led by Medical and Industrial
Berthold Technologies continues postpandemic growth
Life Sciences division provides growth for Donaldson
Work-in-progress Honeywell meets high end of Q4 guidance
ABB’s Process Automation division weakens in the fourth quarter
Record sales at Mirion with N&S in the lead
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