October: Eurofins reveals lab opening plans
Eurofins' relevation it has opened 21 start-up labs from January 2014 to June 2015 topped the news this month.
It also plans to open 14 more until mid-2017 in Australia, China, France, Germany, India, New Zealand and the USA.
By the end of 2015, it expected to complete 40,000m2 of additional laboratory surface, following the 60,000m2 in 2014.
More recently, it acquired the NM Group of Laboratories (NML), a private laboratory in Malaysia for food and environment testing but, at the time of writing has not responded to our media request.
NML employs about 120 staff across three facilities in the northern and southern parts of the country.