Agilent equipment

About Agilent

Agilent Technologies is an American manufacturer of instruments for the life sciences, diagnostics, and applied chemical markets, incorporated in Delaware in May 1999. The company was spun off from Hewlett-Packard that year as part of a realignment that separated HP's test and measurement, chemical analysis, and life sciences businesses into an independent entity. It is headquartered in Santa Clara, United States, and trades on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker A, with no parent company. Its product range covers liquid chromatography, gas chromatography, mass spectrometry, spectroscopy and cell analysis instruments, together with genomics and diagnostics reagents, consumables, columns, laboratory automation and informatics software. On Questpair, 1932 Agilent listings are offered by 22 verified suppliers and distributors across 12 countries.

Agilent product lines on Questpair

Agilent's chromatography lines are the backbone of its catalogue. The InfinityLab LC Series covers high-performance liquid chromatography, the separation technique at the centre of pharmaceutical quality control, impurity profiling and protein purification work. On the gas side, the 8890 GC System and the Intuvo 9000 run gas chromatography for volatile and semi-volatile compounds, and the J&W range of GC columns is the consumable that feeds them. These are the workhorses of analytical chemistry, and their fittings are a de facto standard across many laboratories.

Mass spectrometry sits downstream of both. Agilent's MSD and triple quadrupole GC/MS systems couple a gas chromatograph to a mass detector for compound identification and quantitation, work that anchors molecular diagnostics, metabolomics and environmental screening. The whole chain runs on MassHunter software, which handles acquisition and data analysis across the LC and GC detectors alike.

The cell analysis and genomics lines reach further into life sciences. NovoCyte flow cytometers perform flow cytometry for immunology and cell biology, measuring the properties of individual cells in suspension. The TapeStation and Bioanalyzer systems, together with the Fragment Analyzer, size and quantify nucleic acids, a quality-control step that underpins genomics, library preparation for sequencing, and gene editing workflows where verifying a construct before it goes forward saves a run. Spectroscopy instruments and dissolution testing systems round out the applied chemistry side, and the CrossLab line covers columns, supplies and consumables across all of it.

Where used and new sit on Questpair

98 percent of the Agilent listings are used. For chromatography and mass spectrometry that is less a compromise than a feature, because these instruments hold their utility over long service lives and their columns, sources and method files carry forward. A used 8890 GC or an InfinityLab LC module arrives into an ecosystem that most analytical laboratories already run, which is why the secondary market for these systems is as deep as it is.

Prices run from EUR 6 to EUR 158.395. The average listing sits around EUR 10.883. That spread reflects a catalogue that holds both single J&W columns and complete GC/MS systems, so a buyer replenishing a validated method and a buyer sourcing a whole instrument both find their price point here.

Where a buyer weighs a used system against a new one, the difference to go on is price: used and refurbished units are listed below new. Warranty is not set centrally; it is often possible and is arranged in consultation for the specific listing, so that question belongs with the individual listing rather than with any blanket policy. Parts for Agilent instruments can be sourced via Questpair, and for manuals or documentation a buyer can contact Questpair directly, where specialists respond within the hour. With 22 suppliers listing across 12 countries, the same instrument or column is frequently available from more than one seller, which is worth checking before a purchase.

Questpair review of Agilent

Our take based on listings data and supplier feedback

Agilent occupies an unusual position among analytical instrument makers because its range reaches from the separation stage through to detection without a gap. A laboratory that runs liquid chromatography can pair an InfinityLab LC system with a mass selective detector and keep the same MassHunter software across both, and the catalogue reflects that: the 1932 listings include LC modules, GC systems, mass spectrometers and the columns that feed them. The first benefit, breadth across separation and detection, matters most to a buyer who would otherwise assemble a workflow from several makers and reconcile their fittings and data formats. Here the pump, the column and the detector come from one lineage, which is why so many analytical laboratories standardise on a single maker for a method.

The second benefit, the depth of the used market, is where Questpair's data is most telling. 98 percent of the listings are used. For chromatography and mass spectrometry that figure carries weight, because these are instruments a laboratory keeps for a decade or more, and the J&W column fittings, the ion source geometries and the MassHunter method files on a used 8890 GC or a triple quadrupole GC/MS are the same ones a technician already knows. A used instrument of this kind is rarely an unknown quantity. It arrives with an installed base of documentation, spare parts and trained operators behind it, which shortens the path from delivery to a validated method.

The third benefit, the price span, follows from the first two. Listings range from EUR 6 to EUR 158.395, with an average around EUR 10.883. The low end is consumables territory, J&W GC columns, vials and fittings, where a buyer replenishes a running method. The high end is a complete LC/MS or GC/MS system. A laboratory does not have to choose between stocking a method and buying an instrument on the same marketplace, and the 22 verified suppliers and distributors across 12 countries mean the same part is often listed by more than one seller.

Two points temper the picture rather than undercut it. First, the used share means condition varies between listings, so the individual listing is where a buyer confirms what is included, from the detector down to the lamp hours or the ion source. Second, where a buyer weighs a used system against a new one, the clearest difference on Questpair is price: used and refurbished units are listed below new. Warranty is not set centrally, it is arranged in consultation for the specific listing, so that question belongs with the seller of the unit in front of you. Read against the catalogue as a whole, Agilent on Questpair is less a single product and more a supply of analytical instrumentation deep enough that the instrument, its columns and its spares usually appear together.

**Breadth across separation and detection**

The Agilent catalogue spans liquid chromatography, gas chromatography, mass spectrometry and spectroscopy, so a buyer can source a complete analytical workflow from one maker across 1932 listings.

**Depth of the used market**

98 percent of the listings are used, which gives a large secondary supply of instruments whose part numbers and column fittings are already familiar to most analytical laboratories.

**A wide price span**

Listings run from EUR 6 to EUR 158.395, covering single columns and consumables at one end and complete LC/MS and GC/MS systems at the other, from 22 verified suppliers and distributors.