Waltham, MA – The Carlise Group acquired the Photovac Division from PerkinElmer Instruments on October 19, 2001. Photovac develops portable gas chromatographs and detectors for the detection and measurement of volatile organic compounds, including the Voyager gas chromatograph. New Photovac President and CEO Tom Smith stated, “[Photovac] was an industry leader as an independent company […]
Boston, MA – PerkinElmer has announced that it has put its Fluid Sciences Business under strategic review and is considering a sale of the unit. The Boston, MA – Fluid Sciences Unit sells sealing products and technologies for fluid containment to the aerospace, semiconductor and power generation industries. In 2000, the division recorded revenue of […]
Tulsa, OK – Chandler Engineering Company LLC has purchased Ruska Instrument Corporation’s Fluid Technology Group (Houston, TX). The group’s primary business is the manufacture and sale of PVT systems, positive displacement pumps and ancillary equipment such as viscometers and gasometers. Chandler Engineering, a leading manufacturer of specialized test equipment for the oil and gas industry, […]
Piscataway, NJ-Amersham Pharmacia Biotech (AP Biotech) has acquired Dan-Process A/S, a subsidiary of Pantax. Dan-Process supplies engineering solutions for the purification of biomolecules, such as peptides and peptides hormones, with a focus on high-pressure process-scale chromatography systems and columns. According to AP Biotech, Dan-Process will maintain its autonomy and brand name and its products will […]
Paoli, PA-AMETEK has acquired EDAX, a manufacturer of energy dispersive X-ray microanalysis instrumentation, from Panta Electronics for $37 million. EDAX specializes in energy dispersive x-ray fluorescence systems as well as other instruments for the identification and quantification of elemental composition and solid material structures. In 2000, EDAX recorded sales of $34 million. AMETEK stated that […]
North Kingstown, RI 4/27/01 and 6/20/01-Brown & Sharpe has sold its metrology business to Hexagon, A.B. of Sweden for approximately $170 million. The metrology business consists of the Measuring Systems Group and the Precision Measuring Instruments Division. The metrology business will keep the Brown & Sharpe name and the Measuring Systems Group’s headquarters in Kingstown, […]
Everett, WA and Washington, DC-Danaher plans to acquire all of Lifschultz Industries’ outstanding shares in an acquisition valued at around $33 million. Lifschultz operating subsidiary Hart Scientific will become part of the Precision Measurement Group of Danaher’s Fluke subsidiary. Hart Scientific, a supplier of precision temperature calibration products and calorimetry instrumentation, will continue doing business […]
Nuremberg/Erlangen, Germany and Gothenburg, Sweden-Siemens Automation & Drives has acquired AltOptronic, a laser spectrometry product supplier for combustion process, environmental technology and metallugy applications. AltOptronic specializes in in-situ methods and fiber-optic sensors. Semiconductor spectrometry enables a highly accurate analysis of gas concentrations under difficult conditions. AltOptronic will operate as a subsidiary of Siemens of Sweden. […]
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