LABEXPO covers analytical instruments and the laboratory equipment, consumables and reagents that surround them. The floor follows the way a laboratory is actually equipped: chromatography, mass spectrometry, spectroscopy and X-ray analysis at one end, balances, microscopes and materials-testing rigs in the middle, and the glassware, reference materials, furniture, fume cupboards and information systems that make the rooms work at the other end.

Its audience is drawn from testing laboratories, research institutes and universities as much as from distributors and procurement teams, which suits a floor arranged around fitting out a whole laboratory rather than buying a single instrument. An academic conference on analytical testing technology runs at the same time, bringing academicians and specialists together on frontier work in analytical and biochemical science.