Life Sciences and Chemical Analysis

• Mission
• Strategy
• Markets
• Key Products
• Market Positions
• Locations
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Mission

Contribute to the quality of life by providing innovative analysis products and services to life sciences and chemical analysis organizations.

Life Sciences and Chemical Analysis (LSCA) is a leading supplier of instruments, software, supplies and services to the life science and chemical analysis markets. These products enable customers to identify, quantify, analyze and test the atomic, molecular, physical and biological properties of thousands of substances and products. The group's products are used extensively by customers in the chemical, environmental, pharmaceutical, biotech, academic and government sectors.

Strategy

• Target high-growth opportunities in the life sciences such as gene expression and proteomics and become a leading solutions provider
• Grow market share of key system platforms in core
• Focus on growth opportunities in chemical markets while maximizing our efficiency and profitability
• Bring new technologies and products to market faster
• Leverage key technologies and strategic relationships to develop complete workflow- and application-based solutions for customers that include software,supplies and services.

Markets and Market Outlook

The life science and chemical analysis markets account for approximately 40 percent and 60 percent (respectively) of LSCA's $1.3 billion business. Agilent is applying the profitability of its long-standing chemical analysis business to invest in developing new products for two high-growth markets in life sciences: gene expression and proteomics. Each is projected to grow at double-digit rates annually.

In 2000, worldwide revenue in the life sciences and chemical analytical instrumentation market totaled approximately $19.1 billion. Growth in this market between 2000 and 2004 is expected to be approximately eight percent annually.

Key Products

LSCA's seven key product categories include microarrays, microfluidics, gas chromatography, liquid chromatography, mass spectrometry, informatics, and related supplies and services.

Market Leading Positions

• #1 worldwide in gas-chromatography and GC/MS systems
• #1 worldwide in liquid chromatography/mass spectrometry (LC/MS) systems
• #2 worldwide in microarrays
• #1 worldwide in ICP-MS systems
• #2 worldwide in liquid-chromatography systems

Locations

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