Washington, DC 1/28/10—In its fourth-quarter earnings conference call, Danaher announced that Hach Lange has purchased Crison Instruments SA, a manufacturer of electrochemistry instruments and consumables. “Crison’s high-quality, easy-to-use product portfolio strengthens Hach Lange’s e-chem lab and process business,” commented H. Lawrence Culp Jr., CEO and president of Danaher. According to a letter to customers, Crison […]
Waltham, MA 1/19/10—Thermo Fisher Scientific has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Ahura Scientific for $145 million in cash plus the potential for earn-out payments based on 2010 financial targets. Ahura Scientific provides miniaturized Raman and FT-IR spectroscopy instruments for safety, security and pharmaceutical applications. The 120-employee company had 2009 revenues of $45 million. “The […]
Toronto, Canada 1/25/10; Toronto, Canada 1/27/10; Washington, DC 1/27/10—The sale of MDS Analytical Technologies to Danaher (see IBO 9/15/09) is expected to close by the end of the first quarter, following the resolution of PerkinElmer’s legal challenge and the approval of the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC). MDS has signed a settlement agreement with PerkinElmer, […]
Santa Clara, CA and Palo Alto, CA 1/21/10; Brussels, Belgium 1/21/10—Agilent Technologies announced that the European Commission has granted conditional antitrust clearance for its acquisition of Varian. In connection with the clearance, Agilent has agreed to divest four Varian businesses: laboratory GC, triple quadrupole GC-MS, inductively coupled plasma–MS and micro GC. Agilent has initiated the […]
The 14th annual LabAutomation conference and exhibit sponsored by the Association for Laboratory Automation (ALA) was held January 25–17 in Palm Springs, California. The lively gathering attracted 4,113 attendees, a 3.0% decrease from 2009. The number of exhibitors also declined, with a 7.3% drop in exhibitors to 233. This year, MS seemed to be more […]
After taking a slight hit in 2009, the cell analysis research market is expected to be back on track for growth in 2010, according to Strategic Directions International’s “Cell Analysis Techniques, Market Forecast 2010–2014”. For the year, the cell analysis research market’s growth is estimated to be in the high single digits, and will reach […]
The high proportion of demand from government and academic laboratories, as well as its association with life science applications, has helped to insulate the molecular spectroscopy market from the recession. In 2009, the molecular spectroscopy market contracted 3.3% to $3.4 billion, but it should show a solid rebound in 2010, with more than 8% growth. […]
Despite the ill effects of the downturn in global economies, the life science instrumentation market has remained relatively stable. The market accounted for the largest share of the analytical instrumentation market, which was nearly $10.3 billion in revenues in 2009. Sales are expected to increase 5.9% in 2010, with demand driven by government-funded research initiatives […]
Last year, IBO speculated that environmental applications would help to keep demand for several of the relevant atomic spectroscopy techniques stable in 2009; this turned out to be only partially the case. Although certain elemental analyzers and sum parameter instruments like Total Organic Carbon (TOC) did continue to achieve growth, the workhorse environmental techniques of […]
Surface science techniques provide microscopic analysis of surfaces and samples. The individual technologies span an enormous range of sophistication, from light microscopes that cost thousands of dollars to complicated confocal microscopes and ultra high-vacuum surface analysis systems with price tags a thousand times larger. Microscopic analysis of surfaces and samples together represented nearly $4.3 billion […]
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