SAN DIEGO – Accelrys, Inc. (NASDAQ: ACCL), a leading scientific enterprise R&D software and services company, today announced that its subsidiary, Accelrys Software Inc., has acquired privately-held Contur Software AB. Based in Stockholm, Sweden, Contur is an emerging leader in cost-effective Electronic Laboratory Notebook (ELN) software solutions which enable scientific organizations to document their research […]
ST. LOUIS – Sigma-Aldrich Corporation (Nasdaq: SIAL) announced today it has acquired all outstanding shares of Vetec Quimica Fina Ltda to strengthen the Company’s position in Latin America. Based in Brazil, Vetec is a leading supplier of high quality specialty chemicals for the academic and industrial markets and provides products that support research, development and […]
SAN JOSE, CA – RAE Systems Inc. (NYSE Amex: RAE) (“RAE” or “the Company”), a leader in delivering innovative sensor solutions to serve industrial, energy, environmental, and government safety markets worldwide, today announced that it has entered into an amendment to its merger agreement with an affiliate of Vector Capital (“Vector”) under which the acquirer […]
Pforzheim, Germany – Titertek Instruments, Inc. and Berthold Detection Systems GmbH have joined forces. The new company brand name is Titertek-Berthold. The company will continue to operate from the sites in Huntsville, AL, USA and Pforzheim, Germany. Titertek-Berthold has developed a coherent product and market strategy that is presented on the new website www.titertek-berthold.com. Titertek […]
European private equity firm, Cinven, today announces that it has reached an agreement to sell Phadia Group (“the Company”), the leading in-vitro allergy diagnostics company based in Uppsala (Sweden), to Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. (NYSE: TMO) for an enterprise value of €2.47 billion. Having identified the diagnostic testing sector as a segment with strong growth […]
Goettingen, Germany and Helmbrechts, Germany – Sartorius Stedim Biotech (SSB), an international leading pharma and biotech supplier, and RAUMEDIC, a leading worldwide OEM manufacturer of medical- and pharmaceutical-grade polymer components and systems, announced the signing of a global partnership agreement. This covers arrangements concerning the mutual development of innovative fluid systems and marketing of single-use […]
Marcy l’Etoile, France – bioMérieux, a world leader in the field of in vitro diagnostics, has signed an agreement to acquire AES Laboratoire, a leading French group, specialized in industrial microbiological control, for 183 million euros. This will be bioMérieux’s ninth acquisition in five years and its third in the area of industrial applications. Founded […]
WALTHAM, Mass. & UPPSALA, Sweden – Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. (NYSE: TMO), the world leader in serving science, today announced that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Phadia, a global leader in allergy and autoimmunity diagnostics, from European private equity firm Cinven, for EUR2.47 billion (or approximately $3.5 billion) in cash. The transaction, […]
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. – Complete Genomics Inc. (Nasdaq:GNOM), a complete human genome sequencing company that has developed and commercialized an innovative DNA sequencing platform, announced today an expansion of its collaboration with Erasmus University Medical Center (Erasmus MC), based in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. This agreement calls for Complete Genomics to sequence 250 DNA samples for […]
SAN JOSE, CA – RAE Systems Inc. (NYSE Amex: RAE) (“RAE” or “the Company”), a leader in delivering innovative sensor solutions to serve industrial, energy, environmental, and government safety markets worldwide, today announced that it has rescheduled its special meeting of stockholders, which will now be held at 10:00 a.m. Pacific Time on Thursday, June […]
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