As a regular feature of our annual forecast issue, IBO selects a firm from our industry as “company of the year.” In designating the company of the year, IBO recognizes an analytical and life science instrument maker that has accomplished technical, operational and financial achievements. Such achievements are a function of strong financial performance, market […]

While all geographic regions are primed for a strong rebound from a lackluster performance in 2013, developing markets will lead the way. Other Asia Pacific (excluding China, Japan and China), especially Taiwan, Korea and Indonesia, will perform exceptionally well. China remains the key market for most industry suppliers, while Japan offers significantly improved prospects because […]

CROs are projected to be the leading growth market for the instrument industry in 2014. Pharmaceutical and biotechnology firms are increasingly outsourcing analytical research activities and clinical trials, especially those located in China. The CRO market is followed closely by biotech, agriculture/food, hospital/clinical and pharmaceutical labs, all with similar analysis requirements, especially utilizing mass spectrometry […]

IBO includes the following technologies in its laboratory equipment section: laboratory centrifuges, water purification equipment, transfection techniques, extraction techniques, gas generators, concentrators and evaporators, incubators, fume hoods, biological safety cabinets, microwave-assisted chemistry, fermentors and bioreactors, lab washers, and shakers and stirrers. The laboratory equipment market totaled more than $3.83 billion in 2013 for growth of […]

The general analytical techniques (GAT) market is a collection of the most basic lab instruments, including electrochemistry systems, lab balances, radioactivity systems, dissolution testing equipment, and continuous flow (CF) and discrete analyzers. While these technologies are fundamentally different from each other, they share similar market characteristics. These instruments are somewhat low-end technologies and market demand […]

Instruments for materials characterization provide several different methods for measuring or characterizing the material properties of samples, including thermal properties, viscoelastic properties, hardness and particle size. In total, the global market for materials characterization instrumentation is forecast to reach nearly $2.5 billion in 2014, representing growth of 6.4% for the year. Although this is relatively […]

The surface science technology category contains a broad range of instruments that can loosely be called microscopes. Traditional optical microscopes are included, but there are also other instruments that probe and image surfaces at the microscopic scale. Overall, the surface science market is forecast to achieve growth of 9.1% for 2014, with total market demand […]

The total market for molecular spectroscopy is forecast to grow 7.1% in 2014. Total demand for all of the technologies will approach $4 billion. These instruments generally use some form of electromagnetic radiation to probe samples in order to determine chemical composition. The largest market segment is NMR, which makes up more than a quarter […]

The technologies in this category are primarily used to determine the elemental composition of samples, since they analyze at the atomic level. The total market demand for atomic spectroscopy is forecast to grow 5.8% for 2014, reaching $3.67 billion. The largest individual product segment is X-ray fluorescence spectroscopy (XRF), which makes up more than a […]

The laboratory automation market accounts for approximately 7% of the analytical and life sciences instrumentation market. It consists of four technology categories: liquid handling, microplate readers, management informatics and robotics. It is a medium-sized market and consists of technologies designed to automate repetitive laboratory procedures to increase the speed, efficiency and accuracy of work done […]