1. Global analytical instrument market—current situation and development trends

Life science instrumentation has the largest market demand, followed by chromatographic instruments.

Mass spectrometers enjoys the fastest market demand growth, followed by surface science instrumentation.

The demands for instruments account for a half of the market, and demands for components and consumables and service account for the other half. Demands for consumables account for 80% of the components and consumables.

North America has the largest demand for instruments, followed by the Europe: demands of the two account for 2/3 of the global instrument market.

The growth of demand for instruments is fastest in China, followed by Asia Pacific and India.

The field with the largest demand for instruments is academic research, followed by the pharmaceutical industry.

The growth of the laboratory automation and software, and general analytical instrument market has slowed down.

2. Global chromatographic instrument market dynamics

Analytical HPLC accounts for a half of the entire chromatographic instrument market, wherein, the demands of the pharmaceutical and biotech industry for liquid chromatograph account for above 40% of the liquid chromatograph market. The demands of the pharmaceutical industry promote the preparative HPLC market.

HPLC’s clinical use enables the clinical HPLC to experience the fastest growth on the HPLC market, reaching 8.7%.

Growth of the gas chromatograph is mainly from the petrochemical and environment monitoring development demands. And ion chromatograph has been increasingly used in environment monitoring.

Hospitals and pharmaceuticals use the largest number of TLC.

3. Global mass spectrometer market dynamics

Various mass spectrometers have the fastest demand growth on the global analytical instrument market, and the compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of them is all above 6%, except magnetic sector and GC/MS.

Triple quadrupole LC/MS is the mass spectrometer that enjoys the largest demand on the mass spectrometer market.

The portable and in-field mass spectrometer has the fastest demand growth, with CAGR reaching 9.6%, followed by MALDI-TOFMS.

Development of the environment, agriculture/food, and oil and gasoline industry leads to a surge in GC-MS.

The demands for GC-MS are shifting from the quadrupole GC-MS to triple quadrupole GC-MS.

4. Global life science instrumentation market dynamics

DNA sequencer has the fastest growth (9.4%) and largest demand on the life science instrumentation market, with the third-generation sequencer having entered the life science instrumentation market.

Microarray microchip system is currently mainly used in academic research.

The flow cytometer with lost cost and special purpose is becoming increasingly important.

Positron emission tomography/computed tomography (PET/CT) and single-photon emission computed tomography (SPECT/CT) are the instrument with the fastest development on the optical in vivo imager market.

The aftermarket (mainly the kits matched with the life science instrumentation) of life science instrumentation accounts for above 50% of its entire market.

5. Global molecular spectrometer market dynamics

The market CAGR of Raman spectrometer, infrared spectrometer, and near-infrared spectrometer all exceeds 5%, wherein, Raman spectrometer has the fastest growth, reaching 8.7%.

Development of both the pharmaceuticals and biotechnology increases the demand for polarimeter.

Semiconductor and electronics industries are the main industry demanding the polarized light analyzer, and ectobiology and solar cell mark a huge potential market for the polarized light analyzer.

The clinical medicine and biology applications are the main market for fluorophotometer and luminescence analyzer.

The demands for the handheld/portable near-infrared spectrometer and Raman spectrometer grow fast owing to the demand from the rapid screening work.

6. Global atomic spectrometer market dynamics

The atomic absorption spectrophotometer market is a traditional and stable market, and the environment and food safety industries are the main market for atomic absorption spectrophotometer.

7. Global lab automation instrument market dynamics

The market CAGR of the multiplex/HT ELISA is the fastest (5.7%), which is demanded by basic research, drug R&D, clinical diagnosis, and food safety.

The genome research and clinical tests promote the demand for the liquid sampler of which the demands account for 1/3 of the lab automation instrument market. The calibrated pipette and automated liquid handling (ALH) system become increasingly important.

The robotics market will continue to grow within the 5 years, and the after-sales service will become increasingly important.

Laboratory information management system (LIMS) has good development momentum, and China’s demand for LIMS rapidly grows.

8. Global general analytical instrument market dynamics

The demands for electrochemical instruments and balances account for above 80% of the entire general analytical instrument market.

Acidometer and ion-selective electrode account for nearly a half of the electrochemical instrument market.

The balances for special purposes have the fastest development among the lab balances.

Pharmaceutical industry accounts for 1/4 of the radioactivity surveying instrument market.

Pharmaceutical industry is the main market for the dissolution testing instruments.

Demands from environmental detection and agricultural/food analysis promote the CFA & discrete analyzer market, and the new discrete analyzer will replace the old CFA.

9. Global lab equipment market dynamics

Lab centrifuges are the most demanded among the lab equipment, and the tabletop centrifuges are the main part of the lab centrifuge market.

Various transfection devices have the fastest demand growth (CAGR of 6.7%), followed by bioreactors/fermenters (CAGR of 5.4%).

The pharmaceutical industry accounts for above 1/4 of the extraction device and microwave-assisted chemical device market, and the microwave extraction is replacing the traditional extraction methods.

The aftermarket of extraction devices accounts for 2/3 of the entire extraction device market.

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The Global Analytical Instrument Market, 2015-2020 presentation of the Researcher Wang Zhenfan at China Association for Instrumental Analysis

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