Four Companies Make Bid for Whatman London, UK 1/14/08 and 1/15/08—Filtration and life science consumables company Whatman has confirmed that it has received offers to acquire the company. The Financial Times reported on January 15 that Danaher, General Electric, Millipore and Parker Hannifin have approached the company and that the auction’s second round was held […]
Although the performance of some segments of the mass spectrometry (MS) market may not meet supplier expectations, most areas of the market will continue to grow very strongly. Despite the expected slowing of the global economy, the MS market is expected to grow nearly 10% in 2008, easily exceeding $2.3 billion in worldwide sales. The […]
The life science instrumentation market grew 8.7% to $9.2 billion in 2007. The market consists of DNA and peptide sequencers, DNA and peptide synthesizers, nucleic acid amplification or polymerase chain reaction (PCR) systems, gel electrophoresis equipment, molecular biology purification kits, microarray-based products, biosensors, bioinformatics and cheminformatics, cell analysis technologies and in vivo animal imaging. The […]
Valued at more than $2.5 billion in 2007, the atomic spectroscopy market is forecast to grow at 4.7% in 2008. The individual technologies have quite different future prospects, ranging from flat to high single-digit growth. In particular, the past few years have experienced a time of tremendous growth for the two X-ray technologies, X-ray fluorescence […]
The molecular spectroscopy market is as consistent as any segment of the entire analytical instrument market. Overall, the molecular spectroscopy market is expected to grow 6.3% in 2008, a scant 0.1% increase over the forecast for 2007. Furthermore, with the exception of Raman spectroscopy, which is the smallest of all molecular spectroscopy segments, no other […]
Materials characterization instruments use a variety of techniques to analyze the physical properties of a sample. These properties include temperature, thermal response, force, hardness and particle size. Many materials characterization techniques involve more than one of these properties so that particular response curves can be calculated. In combination, these techniques provide information on the chemical, […]
Most everyone would agree that 2007 was a very good year, except for the last few months when subprime loans and housing issues dominated the news. The analytical and life science instrument industry turned in an unexpectedly strong performance. Instrument companies continued to focus on emerging markets. Biotech spending was robust and pharmaceutical expenditures improved […]
Although the previous categories discussed cover a large portion of the techniques provided by the analytical and life science industry, there are a number of techniques that do not easily aggregate into a single category. These include lab balances, pH meters and electrodes. Likewise, instruments used for specimen preparation, such as centrifuges and extraction and […]
Laboratory automation equipment can increase laboratory efficiency, especially in areas where processes depend on repetition and precision. Lab automation is also a way to increase productivity, throughput and, perhaps, most importantly, lower the cost per sample analyzed. In 2007, growth for the overall lab automation market was disappointing. Historically, the automation market grows between 7% […]
MDS Sciex Acquires Molecular Devices The acquisition created MDS Analytical Technologies (see IBO 1/31/07), an instrument business with more than $400 million in annual sales, and marked MDS’s full-scale entry into the analytical instrument market, where it had previously operated primarily as a manufacturing partner. MDS Analytical Technologies now faces the challenges of not only […]
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