Second-quarter revenues for the IBO Lab Equipment/Consumables Sales Index expanded 7.5%, 4.5% excluding currency, to $4,056.00 million. Operating profits for the Index climbed 6.3% to $721.23 million, but adjusted operating margin declined 80 basis points to 17.1% of sales. Biohit’s second-quarter sales grew 2.4% to €10.2 million ($14.8 million = €0.69 = $1) due to […]
Two recent announcements by Thermo Fisher Scientific illustrate the company’s commitment to its diagnostics business. Diagnostics is not a new market for the company but, as the news made clear, it is one in which the company has a solid position and one for which it is investing in research. Revenue for Thermo Fisher Scientific’s […]
Instrument and laboratory product company executives hold divergent opinions on the industry outlook for the next six months and related issues, according to the latest IBO Business Climate Survey. The survey is conducted twice yearly. This season’s survey of IBO subscribers was conducted anonymously via a webpage questionnaire during late September and early October. Twenty-five […]
The second of IBO’s biannual new laboratory roundup indicates that new academic and consumer product labs, as well as labs in the Middle East, are being built or expanded. Many of these labs involve cross-disciplinary functions. The table on page 3 highlights plans for new academic, clean energy and contract research organization labs. In the […]
It is just six months since Pittcon, and IBO’s last review article on new product introductions (see IBO 3/31/11, 4/15/11), and already there is a new and lengthy list of notable new products. In this article, IBO highlights some of the product launches of the last six months based on their potential commercial and technical […]
Calendar-year third quarter ended with increased recessionary fears due to the lingering European sovereign debt crisis, a deteriorating US economic outlook by the US Federal Reserve and weak economic data from China. Investors’ anxieties were further heightened on September 20, when the International Monetary Fund lowered its growth forecasts for both the US and Europe. […]
With its offerings of several different types of light-scattering instruments, as well as a service to demonstrate how to use these instruments, Wyatt Technology aims to equip its customers with comprehensive particle characterization information about their samples. The company offers dynamic light-scattering instruments, such as the DynaPro NanoStar, which measures small volumes of proteins; the […]
Recovery for material characterization solutions for the metals and mining industry, along with sustained growth for products used by the electronics industry and strong demand from emerging territories, boosted sales for British companies Oxford Instruments and Spectris. For the fiscal year 2011 ending March 31, Oxford Instruments’ sales climbed 24.0% to £262.3 million ($409.8 million […]
Second-quarter 2011 IBO Life Science Index sales grew 8.6%, 5.6% excluding currency, to $3,191.57 million. Operating profit improved 9.8% to $703.35 million, but operating margin declined 200 basis points to 20.8% of sales. Fiscal third-quarter revenue for Becton Dickinson BD Biosciences division improved 9.3%, 4.3% excluding currency, to $337.9 million to make up 17% of […]
Foodborne pathogen testing is one of the fastest-growing segments of the real-time PCR (qPCR) market. Participants in the market include both qPCR instrument and reagent providers, including Bio-Rad Laboratories, Life Technologies and Roche, as well as companies that specialize in products for food testing, such as BIOTECON, Congen and DuPont Qualicon. Earlier this year, both […]
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