The mass spectrometer market gradually warms up domestic equipment

Laboratory large-scale analytical instruments sing protagonists in the field of scientific research, the more common nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy (NMR), plasma mass spectrometry (ICP-MS), gas mass spectrometry. These instruments play a crucial role in today's more industry analytical research, and thus the market for mass spectrometry instruments is hot. With the continuous development and deepening of technology development and research fields, the application of mass spectrometers has become more and more common, and the pace of renewal of its products is also accelerating. Especially in the past two years, the mass spectrometer manufacturers launched mass spectrometry at a surprising rate. In the first half of 2010, major mass spectrometers launched more than 10 new products. High throughput, high sensitivity, high resolution, low detection limits, miniaturization, and portability are the main directions for mass spectrometers.

As a high-end scientific research instrument, mass spectrometers are used more and more widely in universities. China, as an important demand market for mass spectrometers in the world, is also attracting more and more attention from manufacturers. The rapid growth of mass spectrometry demand in the domestic market has not divided this gospel score.è•™ è•™ è•™ è•™ è•™ è•™ è•™ è•™ è•™ è•™ è•™ è•™ è•™ è•™ è•™ è•™ è•™ è•™ è•™ è•™ è•™ è•™ è•™ è•™ è•™ è•™ è•™ è•™ è•™ è•™ è•™.

Mass spectrometers have a wide range of applications in food, environmental, human health, pharmaceuticals, national security, and other areas related to analytical testing. It has now become one of the most promising analytical instruments. In recent years, the global market growth rate has exceeded 10%. The demand growth in the Chinese market is even far greater than this proportion. In particular, current human health, environmental safety, and rational use of energy are currently outstanding issues faced by countries in the world. Mass spectrometers are also particularly favored for their accurate qualitative and quantitative capabilities in the analysis and detection process.

However, this increasingly prosperous market has not brought too much revenue to domestically produced instrument manufacturers. It is understood that China's mid-to-high-end mass spectrometers are completely dependent on imports. This means that what we favor is mostly foreign brands, and our country’s market. Has also become the object of other countries to attract gold. This is really not a “small profit.” Ah, a mass spectrometer made domestically is the cheapest and it costs hundreds of thousands. Importing each one of them requires almost 1 million to 5 million or more, a 211 University of Engineering light mass spectrometer. There are tens of millions of investment in equipment. But how much of this tens of millions is spent on purchasing domestic products? Not much. Does Peking University and Tsinghua have homemade mass spectrometers? It is estimated that it is unlikely that other institutions of higher learning as a research base? I am afraid that it will not add more than a dozen units. So who needs more than 10% of this demand is created by Agilent? Thermo Fisher? Or Waters? In short, it will rarely turn to Chinese brands.

In fact, the development of organic mass spectrometers in China began in the 1960s. Both the Beijing Analytical Instrument Factory and the Academy of Sciences Instrument Factory have launched their own chemical analysis mass spectrometers and GC/MS. However, domestic instruments have lost to foreign products in terms of performance, price, etc., and have gradually lost their markets. In order to maintain their livelihoods, these state-owned instrument factories have gradually evolved from independent design production to foreign product assembly and commissioned maintenance, and their technical strength and equipment have been lost. Although some universities and research institutes have successfully developed instruments such as MALDI-TOFMS, they have not been transformed into commodities.

As a result, there is no general situation in the domestic brands of the mass spectrometry industry. We admit that there is a gap between ours and foreign technologies in the field of high-end analytical instruments. However, the chief culprit in the absence of domestically produced instruments is the Chinese equipment. The data cannot be recognized internationally. The author is not very clear that this is not a kind of academic barrier, and it is not clear what these international equipment manufacturers have played with, and in short, domestic instruments have become “failed” and the research results of generations of people have come to an end. Can only be divided into some "cold", this is not just a situation of embarrassment, that is not too much sad. Although home-made mass spectrometry equipment also occupies a small part of the education market, most of them are not for scientific research, but are used as lectures and demonstrations, and play a much less important role than models.
The mass spectrometer has penetrated deeply into all walks of life and has become an indispensable tool for protecting human health, promoting environmental safety, and exploring an unknown world. Its importance has been widely recognized. However, our country's mass spectrometer has always had the core technology shortage and “hollowing” phenomenon, which has led to the monotonous growth of the mass spectrometer market in China that has been monopolized by foreign companies. Faced with the needs of China's economic and social development, there is an urgent need to develop mass spectrometry instruments with independent intellectual property rights.