Scientific & Technical Instruments

Companies that make and/or sell scientific and technical instruments.

In the April 30, 2012 issue C&EN lists the leading suppliers of instrumentation to the chemical industry as–

Rank-Company-2011 Sales $MM

• 1 Danaher 4627 (purchased Beckman Coulter; AB Sciex; Molecular Devices; Leica)
• 2 Thermo Fisher Scientific 3870 (purchased Dionex)
• 3 Agilent Technologies 3310
• 4 Life Technologies 2750
• 5 Shimadzu 1933

• 6 Waters 1851
• 7 Bruker 1554
• 8 Perkin Elmer 1249
• 9 Mettler-Toledo International 1085
• 10 Hitachi High Technologies 866

• 11 Roche Diagnostics 788
• 12 Nikon 754
• 13 Bio-Rad Laboratories 710
• 14 JEOL 661
• 15 FEI 655

• 16 Olympus 558
• 17 Carl Zeiss 548
• 18 Merck (Germany) Millipore 545
• 19 Spectris 525
• 20 Illumina 370

• 21 Xylern Analytics 300 (spinoff from ITT; purchased YSI)
• 22 Horiba 287
• 23 Tecan 247
• 24 Qiagen 176
• 25 Analtik Jena 106

A news service, GenomeWeb, comments on this segment as well as medical diagnostic plays. They comment monthly on an index of such companies.

http://www.genomeweb.com/

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