Chromatography Forum

Folks,

I have been trying to find industry data relating to chromatography and it has proven to be more difficult than I had anticipated. Even our adept research librarian here at Drexel said this one would be tough-ish.

The basic industry questions I am trying to find answers for include:

Global revenues, perhaps broken down by area (not required)
Industry trends and ideally a 20 year history (what's growing, what's not and by how much)
Earnings (probably a real stretch, but it can't hurt to ask)

Can you tell yet that I'm a business student?

In addition to that I am also looking for market information including:


Which markets consume instruments & consumables?
How much do they spend? Earn (return)?
Growth of these markets?
Outlooks?

Would anyone know of a source for this sort of specific information? I have been having a bear of a time finding it. I find plenty on the technical side, but very little on the industry and market sides, especially in statistics.

Any help you could afford would be greatly appreciated as I feel like I'm at a dead-end.

Feel free to respond here or if you prefer, email me at osan@netlabs.net or av79@drexel.edu

Thanks very much.

The first place I would check is good old Google. Use key words like "chromatography" and "market share". You'll turn up some estimates and links to more links. I'm sure you can think of other key words that might get results.

The next place I'd look is stock market analysts' reports on companies that are "pure plays" in chromatography (Waters and Dionex come to mind; both are publicly traded). Also get hold of the annual reports and press releases. You can probably expand that list to include more diversified public companies like Thermo Fisher, Agilent, Perkin-Elmer, Shimadzu, Varian, or Hitachi).

Finally, check with the advertising sales departments of the analytical industry journals/magazines. Analytical Chemistry (American Chemical Society), LC/GC (Advanstar), American Laboratory (ISC), Laboratory Equipment (used to be Elsevier; not sure now), etc. In the past, they used to gather this sort of information as a service to their advertisers. If you ask nicely as a student, they might be willing to share.