Holliston, MA —Harvard Bioscience’s Austrian subsidiary, AsysHitech GmbH, has purchased select assets of the microplate reader andwasher product lines of Anthos Labtec Instruments GmbH, a BeckmanCoulter subsidiary. Financial details were not provided. “This acquisi-tion provides us with a new design platform, software and a luminescencecapability which complement our current Asys product line,” said DavidParr, managing […]
Little Chalfont, UK: Stockholm, Sweden- GE Healthcare Life Sciences has agreed to acquire surface plasmon resonance company Biacore AB in an offer valued at SEK2,860 million ($390 million), net of Biacore cash and equivalents. GE Healthcare will pay SEK330 ($44.70) per share, a 17% premium over the stock’s closing price on June 19, and a […]
Paoli, PA – AMETEK has acquired Land Instruments, a maker of infrared temperature measurement, combustion efficiency and emission monitoring instrument, from a private investor group led by private equity company 3i. Headquartered in Dronfield, UK, Land Instruments has annual sales of approximately £22 million ($41 million). “Land Instruments is an excellent addition to our high-end […]
Santa Clara, CA 6/14/06—Symyx Technologies has acquired Autodose SA, a Swiss maker of precision powder dispensing equipment for CHF 8.5 million ($6.9 million)in cash and additional considerations up to CHF 7.7 million. AutoDose will become a subsidiary of Symyx and will serve as its European headquarters. “This acquisition underscores our commitment to serving the European […]
Paoli, PA ; Kleve, Germany -AMETEK has acquired SPECTRO Beteiligungs GmbH, the holding company of SPECTRO Analytical Instruments GmbH & Co. KG, for approximately €80 million ($98 million) from a group led by German Equity Partners BV. With annual sales of around €85 million ($104 million) and over 22,000 instruments shipped, SPECTRO designs and manufacturers […]
CARLSBAD, Calif. & HAYWARD, Calif. & CAMBRIDGE, United Kingdom–Invitrogen Corporation (Nasdaq:IVGN), a provider of essential life science technologies for disease research and drug discovery, and Solexa, Inc. (Nasdaq:SLXA), a provider of next-generation genetic analysis systems, announced a collaboration through which Invitrogen will supply many of the reagents for Solexa’s sequencing, gene expression, and small RNA […]
Dublin, California, – Eksigent, a leading provider of capillary HPLC systems and Phenomenex, Inc., one of the world’s largest manufacturers of HPLC columns, announce a strategic marketing and technology collaboration to develop columns optimized for capillary HPLC systems. Under the agreement, Phenomenex will offer a line of capillary HPLC columns that are tested and optimized […]
DANVERS, Mass.—Cell Signaling Technology, Inc. (CST), announced that it has entered into a new partnership agreement with Bio-Rad Laboratories, Inc. (AMEX: BIO and BIOb), a multinational manufacturer and distributor of life science research products and clinical diagnostics. Under the new agreement, CST will develop antibodies for kinase activation and protein phosphorylation assays that will be […]
BOSTON—PerkinElmer, Inc. (NYSE: PKI), a global leader in Health Sciences and Photonics, announced the acquisition of United Kingdom-based Clinical & Analytical Service Solutions Ltd. (C&A), a scientific equipment asset and managed maintenance company serving the pharmaceutical, biotechnology and healthcare markets. C&A, which generated revenues of approximately $7.5 million in 2005, will become an integral part […]
BOC Edwards Pharmaceutical Systems and Physical Sciences Inc. (PSI) have signed a joint agreement to develop tunable diode laser absorption spectroscopy (TDLAS)-based technologies for pharmaceutical processing equipment. The two companies, who have already successfully completed a pilot project with a global pharmaceutical company in the US, are incorporating TDLAS into freeze-drying equipment. The result is […]
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