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Yes, gas chromatographs are financed as a standard asset purchase, usually on hire purchase or a lease, with the machine itself acting as the security. UK prices typically run £15,000 to £120,000, and most deals are written over 24–72 months with a deposit of around 10–20%. Decisions typically take 24–48 hours. Used machines are financeable too, usually with a shorter term.
Typical Cost
£15k – £120k
Approval Speed
24–48 hours
Same-day for < £75k
Rates From
4.5% APR
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Check EligibilityOn a purchase price of £45,000: a 10% deposit of £4,500, then 48 monthly payments of £949 at 5.9% APR representative (fixed). Total amount payable £50,052, including the deposit. The rate you are offered depends on your business and the asset.
Guide prices for sizing a finance agreement, not quotes. Manufacturers in this market mostly price on application, so where a current UK list price could not be confirmed the row describes a specification class rather than naming a model. Your supplier quote is what the agreement is written against.
| Machine or specification | Guide price | Type |
|---|---|---|
| Agilent/Shimadzu-class Single-Channel GC with FID (spec class) | £15,000 – £35,000 | Single-Channel GC-FID |
| Thermo Fisher-class Dual-Channel GC (spec class) | £30,000 – £55,000 | Dual-Channel Gas Chromatograph |
| Shimadzu-class GC with Headspace Autosampler (spec class) | £40,000 – £75,000 | GC with Headspace Autosampler |
| Refurbished GC-MS System (spec class) | £30,000 – £70,000 | Refurbished Bench GC-MS |
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Check EligibilityGas chromatographs qualify for Annual Investment Allowance (AIA), meaning you can deduct the full cost from taxable profits in year one, up to £1,000,000. For HP agreements, you claim capital allowances on the instrument. For leases, you typically deduct the full lease payment from profits.
Gas chromatographs are bought by environmental and food testing labs, petrochemical and industrial QC labs, forensic toxicology services and university and contract research labs, usually for routine volatile and semi-volatile compound analysis that runs continuously once installed. Contract research, food testing and environmental testing businesses buying a GC are frequently funded by client contracts or grant cycles rather than open-ended trading, and lenders match the finance term to that funding pattern rather than assuming a standard business profile. Detector, column and gas supply consumables, along with an annual service contract, are recurring costs that commonly exceed the instrument's purchase price over a working life of ten years or more. A well-developed specialist market in refurbished GCs and GC-MS systems gives smaller labs a realistic lower-cost route to instrumentation that would otherwise be out of reach new.
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