Graham Partners has acquired SP Industries, a leading designer and manufacturer of medical equipment and components used in pharmaceutical development and production. SP’s two primary product categories include laboratory and pharmaceutical research and production equipment as well as laboratory glassware and precision glass components. The Company’s principal end markets include the pharmaceutical, educational, industrial, and […]

CAMBRIDGE, UK – TeraView, (www.teraview.com ) the pioneer and leader in terahertz solutions and technology is pleased to announce a major collaboration with Ohio State University. The Hyperspectral Engine Lab for Integrated Optical Systems (HELIOS) is a Third Frontier supported project based within the Electrical Engineering Department of Ohio State University. Headed by Prof J […]

Nanosurf, a leading provider of atomic force microscopes (AFM) and scanning tunneling microscopes (STM), and Zurich Instruments, technology leader for lock-in amplifiers and phase-locked loops (PLL), today announced a strategic technology partnership. The two companies have agreed to cooperate in the development of high-frequency, high-performance scanning probe microscopy (SPM) solutions, to provide mutual communication interfaces […]

WILMINGTON, Mass. – Charles River Laboratories International, Inc. (NYSE: CRL) today announced that it has entered into a marketing and distribution agreement with Pfizer Inc. (NYSE: PFE), the world’s leading biopharmaceutical company, to provide certain Pfizer-developed genetically modified research models to the global biomedical research community. Under this agreement, Charles River will supply a number […]

Portland, OR – Riverlake Partners, a Portland-based private equity group focused on the lower middle market, today announced it has sold SP Industries, Inc., a leading designer and manufacturer of laboratory products and pharmaceutical production equipment, to an affiliate of Graham Partners of Newtown Square, PA. “During our ownership period, several value-creating initiatives were implemented,” […]

Halma, the leading safety, health and sensor technology group, announces the acquisition of the Water Technology Division of Wagtech International Limited on 1 March 2011 for cash consideration of £3.0 million. The acquisition, which is earnings enhancing, has been funded from Halma’s existing cash and debt facilities. The acquired business will be merged with Palintest […]

IRVINE, CALIF. and WOODLANDS, TEX. – ChromaDex Corporation (OTCBB: CDXC), and Bruker Optics Inc., a subsidiary of Bruker Corporation (NASDAQ: BRKR), announced today a co-development and co-marketing agreement that will promote a new approach to dietary supplement testing. The collaboration will capitalize on the extensive phytochemical and botanical reference standard capabilities of ChromaDex and will […]

North Billerica, MA – Seahorse Bioscience, Inc., the leader in the design and development of instruments for assessing cellular bioenergetics, has announced In Vitro Technologies Pty Ltd as the new distributor of Seahorse XF Analyzers and consumables in Australia and New Zealand. Seahorse Extracellular Flux Analyzers provide the first and only kinetic method to measure […]

AUSTIN — BaySpec, Inc., a leading supplier of UV/VIS/NIR and Raman spectral engines, and Rigaku Corporation, the world leader in analytical spectroscopic instrumentation, have signed an exclusive sales distribution agreement covering BaySpec’s FirstGuardTM and XantusTM series Handheld Raman devices, covering North America, Japan and Asia-Pacific markets. Specifically designed to overcome difficult to measure “real-world” samples, […]

Loveland, Colorado, USA. – Hach Company (www.hach.com) announced the acquisition of Accurate Detection and Accurate Measurement (Accurate), distributors of analytical and detection instrumentation including Hach water quality analytics in Australia and New Zealand. This move gives Accurate’s customers direct access to Hach’s innovative water quality products and extensive service support. Hach has more than sixty […]