BERWYN, Pa. — AMETEK, Inc. (NYSE: AME) today announced that it has acquired Reichert Technologies, a privately held manufacturer of analytical instruments and diagnostic devices for the eye care market headquartered in Depew, NY. The company was acquired for $150 million from Beecken Petty O’Keefe & Company and has estimated annual sales of $55 million. […]
SANTA CLARA, Calif., and Oxford, England – Agilent Technologies Inc. and Oxford Gene Technology today announced they have expanded an existing partnership into an exclusive agreement for Agilent to provide OGT with oligonucleotide microarrays and SureSelect target enrichment products for next-generation sequencing. Mike Evans, chief executive of OGT, said: “We are delighted to have been […]
SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. & BANGKOK & SINGAPORE–Fluidigm Corporation has appointed Research Instruments Pte Ltd/RI Technologies Ltd. as its distributor in Singapore and Thailand. Research Instruments will offer Fluidigm’s complete portfolio of BioMark™ HD, EP1™, and Access Array™ Systems, the complete line up of Dynamic Array™, Digital Array™ and Access Array IFCs for real-time PCR, […]
CHICAGO –- Beecken Petty O’Keefe and Company (“BPOC”), a private equity firm focused exclusively on the health care industry, announced today that it has completed the sale of Reichert Technologies to AMETEK, Inc. Located in Depew, New York, Reichert is a global leader in the design and manufacture of high-quality diagnostic instruments and equipment for […]
Frederick, MD –– RURO, Inc., a developer of research productivity and management solutions today announced that it has formed a strategic partnership with Angelantoni Industrie s.p.a. to integrate their Smart Freezer® line of ultra-low temperature robotic freezers with RURO FreezerPro ™ software, jointly producing the ultimate storage solution for research, government and medical laboratories that […]
Shimadzu Corporation (President: Akira Nakamoto, situated in Nakagyo-ku, Kyoto, Japan) and Shimane University (President: Hiroki Yamamoto, situated in Matsue City, Shimane, Japan) have signed a joint research agreement for neonatal mass screening using tandem mass spectrometry. (Research period: October 15, 2011 to March 31, 2013.) In neonatal mass screening, blood sampled from newborn babies is […]
San Jose, California – BaySpec, Inc. is pleased to announce the acquisition of the handheld Raman technology and product lines by Rigaku Americas Corporation, which will now be formed into a new division, Rigaku Raman Technologies Inc., for R&D, engineering, production, marketing and distribution. Rigaku’s new handheld Raman instruments combine patented optics and proven spectral […]
BILLERICA, Mass.–Bruker Corporation today announced the closing of its acquisition of Center for Tribology, Inc. (CETR) for $13 million in cash as an initial purchase price, with potential additional earn-out payments of up to $4 million in cash, depending on growth and profitability of the CETR-business within Bruker in 2012 and 2013. CETR, a privately […]
MARTINSRIED, GERMANY and MUNCHEN, GERMANY – MorphoSys AG / MorphoSys AG : AbD Serotec, Moredun Research Institute and Roslin Institute Announce Grant Funding to Establish Veterinary Research Reagents . Processed and transmitted by Thomson Reuters ONE. The issuer is solely responsible for the content of this announcement. MorphoSys AG (FSE: MOR; Prime Standard Segment, TecDAX) […]
MCLEAN, VA – Northrop Grumman Corporation announced today that it has been awarded a contract from the U.S. Army BOSS-U (Biometrics Operations and Support Services – Unrestricted) program to further develop and supply the IntegenX RapidHIT™ 200 Human DNA Identification System. Previously, IntegenX participated in an invited US Department of Defense (DOD) exercise where the […]
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