Strategic Information for the Life Science and Analytical Instrument Industry
Tariff announcements and changes in the academic and government funding landscape in the US are the latest challenges facing the laboratory tools industry. But, according to Strategic Directions International’s (SDi’s) 2025 “Global Assessment Report,” despite these challenges and others, the compound annual growth rate (CAGR) for laboratory instruments will increase in coming years. Five-Year Market […]
One likely effect of the new US government’s recent actions to disrupt NIH grant funding to US universities has been a hit to stock prices of suppliers of life science instrumentation for university R&D. The Trump Administration’s actions include restrictions and terminations of grants, as well as delays or cancellations of grant review meetings and […]
The recent plan by the Trump Administration to cap indirect costs for NIH academic research, which has been put on hold by a federal judge, as well as cuts to several other agencies that are major funders of R&D, has put the spotlight on federal R&D spending. This month, the National Science Foundation’s (NSF’s) National […]
The SLAS2025 International Conference and Exhibition, one of the annual conferences of the Society for Laboratory Automation and Screening (SLAS), will be held at the San Diego Convention Center in San Diego, California, from January 25 to 29. SLAS is a professional society whose members include researchers as well as developers and providers of lab […]
Founded in Germany in 1956, family-owned LAUDA DR. R. WOBSER GMBH & CO. KG (LAUDA) has become one of the most well-known companies for laboratory temperature-control equipment. Today, the company boasts $120 million in annual sales and a workforce of 600. End-markets served include the pharma/biotech (32% of sales), automotive (20%), chemical (20%), medicine (10%) […]
Life science labs view sustainable consumables as important but face challenges in purchasing and using them. These results are part of Bioinfomatics’ latest report, “2024 Perceptions of Environmental Sustainability in the Life Sciences.” Bioinformatics, part of Science and Medicine Group (SMG), is a research and advisory firmserving the life science industry. SMG is a leader […]
This spring, Strategic Directions International (SDi) published its latest “Global Assessment Report,” providing comprehensive market forecasts and sizing information for the laboratory tools industry. SDi, part of Science and Medicine Group, is a business intelligence company specializing in analytical and life science instruments. The report covers 10 categories of analytical and life science instrumentation (excluding […]
In March, the UK government announced a major investment in the country’s mass spectrometry (MS) capabilities. UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) will provide £49.35 million ($62.4 million) in funding over five years for Critical Mass UK (C-MASS), a network of MS labs supporting large-scale screening, protocol development, data tools and cataloging, among other priorities. UKRI […]
The Chinese market for laboratory instruments suffered in 2023, as the country’s economic environment, end of stimulus funding, tariffs, political tensions with the US and local competition hurt sales for many multinational instrumentation companies. The unprecedented situation was made evident by the financial results of some of the world’s largest analytical instrument and consumable providers, […]
The annual Pittcon (Pittsburgh Conference on Analytical Chemistry and Applied Spectroscopy) laboratory science conference and exhibition will be held in San Diego, California, February 24-28. This marks the show’s first time on the West Coast. Run by the Society for Analytical Chemists of Pittsburgh (SACP) and the Spectroscopy Society of Pittsburgh (SSP), the conference has […]
