The laboratory automation market accounts for approximately 7% of the analytical and life sciences instrumentation market. It consists of four technology categories, which are liquid handling, microplate readers, robotics and management informatics. It is a medium-size market that encompasses technologies designed to automate repetitive laboratory procedures to increase the speed, efficiency and accuracy of the […]
Overall growth in demand for MS is expected to be in the mid-single digits in 2013, which is somewhat stronger than 2012, but still well under the more typical pace in recent history of around 10%. Aside from portable and in-field MS, all categories of instrumentation are expected to experience much better growth in 2013. […]
The life science instrumentation (LSI) market is the largest technology sector, accounting for about a quarter of the total analytical instruments industry. It encompasses a broad spectrum of technologies grouped into 13 categories. Unlike most other instrument markets, the LSI market is heavily reliant on the aftermarket. Consumables, reagents, kits and other aftermarket products make […]
IBO has made some minor changes to the separations market compared with last year’s forecast issue (see IBO 1/15/12). The overall market size and definition remain consistent, but how we account for a few categories has been updated. Perhaps the most obvious change is the addition of supercritical fluid chromatography (SFC), which was disaggregated from […]
Competitive Pressures Tough government and academic markets and, toward year end, slowing industrial markets, plus lagging global growth, made 2012 a year when instrument and lab product companies had to compete harder than usual in many markets. Many companies noted pricing pressure across product lines, particularly for sales to industrial markets. This effect also played […]
Radnor, PA 1/3/13—VWR International has appointed Manuel Brocke-Benz president and CEO, effective immediately. He had been serving as interim CEO following the resignation of former CEO John Ballbach last year (see IBO 7/31/12). He was appointed to the Board in September 2012. Mr. Brocke-Benz previously served as senior vice president and managing director of Europe. […]
Sanford, ME 1/3/13—Maine Manufacturing has acquired a number of life science product lines from GE Healthcare. These product lines consist of microbiological monitors, liquid growth media, the ZapCap brand bottle-top filtration units and the Centrex brand centrifugal filers. “The addition of these products fits very nicely with our recently announced acquisition of the filter and […]
San Diego, CA 1/14/13—Accelrys has acquired Vialis for $5 million and the potential for additional incentive consideration of up to $5 million based on three-year growth objectives. Based in Switzerland, Vialis provides software systems integration and business process consultancy services to the pharmaceutical, biotechnology, chemicals and agro-science industries. Accelrys and Vialis are long-time partners. “With […]
San Diego, CA 1/7/13; Waltham, MA and Redwood City, CA 1/9/13—Illumina has agreed to acquire Verinata Health, a provider of non-invasive tests for the early identification of fetal chromosomal abnormalities, for $350 million and up to an additional $100 in milestone payments through 2015. Verinata Health’s verifi prenatal test utilizes next-generation sequencing to analyze cell-free […]
New York, NY 1/8/12—At the JPMorgan Global Healthcare Conference, Illumina announced the acquisition of Moleculo, a provider of technology enabling next-generation sequencing reads in excess of 10,000 bases. Illumina stated that it plans to commercialize the technology in the second quarter for phased genomes (indicating which parent an allele comes from) and for cancer research, […]
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