analytica: A resounding success

The 23rd analytica International Trade Fair for Laboratory Technology, Analysis and Biotechnology, concluded in Munich with more than 30,000 visitors. The three new Live Labs on the topics of Forensics and Clinical Diagnostics, Plastics Analysis and Food and Water Analysis were popular attractions that generated a great deal of attention. For the first time ever, participants experienced what really happens in an analysis laboratory at a trade fair.

More than 30,000 trade visitors from over 110 countries came to the fair in Munich. 100 percent of the visitors were industry professionals, and according to a survey by the market research institute TNS Infratest, they came to the fair with intentions to make investments: 20 percent planned to invest EUR 25,000 to EUR 50,000 in laboratory and analysis equipment, 16 percent between EUR 50,000 and EUR 100,000, and 29 percent more than EUR 100,000. “Besides the research aspects of this event, no other trade fair focuses so intensely on business ties,” said Bargmann (Deputy CEO of Messe Muenchen). Just less than one-third of all visitors were from companies with more than 1,000 employees. Based on the TNS Infratest survey, customer satisfaction of analytica is at its highest in the last 16 years.

The countries with the largest numbers of visitors were Austria, Switzerland, Great Britain, Italy and France. There was also a significant increase in the number of visitors from the United States (just less than 14 percent). For the first time ever, the Analytical & Life Science Systems Association (ALSSA), an American trade association, held a meeting at the fair.

1,026 exhibitors from 37 countries presented their products and equipment for research and industrial laboratories. Besides Germany, the countries with the largest number of exhibitors included the United States, Great Britain, France, Switzerland and the Netherlands.

Growing interest in the analytica Conference
More than 1,700 visitors participated in the analytica Conference, an increase of more than 40 percent. According to Dr. Martin Vogel, Chairman of the GDCh Working Group for Analytical Chemistry at the German Chemical Society: “The organisers of the analytica Conference – the German Chemical Society, the Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology and the Society for Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine – are very satisfied with its outcome. Attendance at this year’s lectures was so good that it was standing room only in many of the rooms."