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From distribution to manufacturing: How Analytik Jena is rising in the analytics world?
In Jena, Thuringia, Germany, Analytik Jena GmbH+Co. KG is renowned for its advanced analytical, bioanalytical and optical systems for scientific and industrial applications. Since its founding in 1990, the company has successfully transformed itself from a distribution and service business into a manufacturer, creating its own position in the global market.
The footsteps of history
Analytik Jena was founded after the peaceful revolution in East Germany by Klaus Berka and Jens Adomat. Initially, the pair of former Zeiss employees focused on distributing analytical instruments in the Thuringia, Saxony and Saxony-Anhalt regions.
In 1994, Analytik Jena began acquiring shares in IDC Geräteentwicklungsgesellschaft mbH Langewiesen, and in 1995 it acquired the laboratory analysis technology of Carl Zeiss Jena GmbH, rapidly strengthening its presence in the analytical instrument market share.
This acquisition not only marks Analytik Jena's entry into manufacturing, but also secures research and development in the fields of atomic absorption spectroscopy and molecular spectroscopy.
Get on the road to the stock market
On July 3, 2000, Analytik Jena AG was listed on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange for the first time. This move not only provides necessary liquidity for the company's future sales activities and research and development, but also lays the foundation for subsequent strategic mergers and acquisitions. As the company's business gradually expands to Western Europe, the United States and Asia, especially the Chinese market, Analytik Jena has ushered in good opportunities for rapid growth.
The expansion of biotechnology
In response to the rapid changes in the biotechnology market, Analytik Jena established a new "Life Sciences" business unit and further expanded its product portfolio through the acquisitions of Biometra GmbH, CyBio AG and UVP, LLC of the United States. This enables Analytik Jena’s core technology products in the field of element tracking analysis, such as AAS, ICP-OES and ICP-MS, to form a complete product line.
Analytik Jena thus becomes one of the few suppliers in the world that can provide complete elemental analysis solutions.
Business model success
Today's Analytik Jena has formed its successful business model based on its two major business units: analytical instruments and life sciences. The collaborative development between these business units brings high-demand products in the field of modern technology.
Analytical instruments
Analytik Jena provides high-end analytical systems for the qualitative and quantitative analysis of liquids, solids and gases in environmental, food, pharmaceutical, medical and agricultural analysis.
Life Sciences
Its life sciences unit assumes the role of system supplier for bioanalysis, demonstrating Analytik Jena AG's professional capabilities in the field of biotechnology and providing a wide range of products including automated overall and individual solutions.
Global layout and future prospects
With Analytik Jena's rapid expansion, the company has business relationships in more than 90 countries around the world and has subsidiaries throughout the world. In 2015, the Swiss group Endress+Hauser became the major shareholder of Analytik Jena AG, with its shareholding ratio as high as 96.18% that year. Although Analytik Jena’s shares were no longer listed on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange in 2015, this has not affected its influence in the field of analytical technology.
In the future, how will Analytik Jena continue to maintain its position as an industry leader in the rapidly changing technological environment?
Therefore, this company that started out as a distributor has become an important player in the global analytical technology market. Can it continue to lead the industry trend in the future?
