Milford, MA 12/5/08—Waters has purchased the net assets of Analytical Products Group (APG), a proficiency testing and quality-assurance services company, for an undisclosed amount. Waters will merge APG with its Environmental Resource Associates operations. APG has annual revenues of approximately $4 million. The acquisition is expected to be neutral to Waters’s 2009 earnings.
Waltham, MA 12/3/08—PerkinElmer has purchased Arnel, a provider of GC systems and software for the petrochemical, food and beverage, and industrial hygiene markets, for an undisclosed amount. Arnel has been PerkinElmer’s exclusive supplier of gas-sampling valve solutions for 18 years. In addition, the companies jointly engineer and market GC instruments and accessories that are sold […]
Carlsbad, CA and Norwalk, CT 11/20/08; Carlsbad, CA 11/21/08; Carlsbad, CA 11/26/08—Invitrogen completed its acquisition of Applied Biosystems (ABI) on November 21 (see IBO 6/15/08) and began trading as Life Technologies Corporation on the NASDAQ Global Select Market on November 24 under the ticker symbol “LIFE” (see IBO 11/15/08). “By combining these two highly respected […]
Albuquerque, NM 11/7/08—The New Mexico Business Weekly reported on November 7 that Invitrogen has acquired Acoustic Cytometry Systems. Located in Los Alamos, New Mexico, and founded in 2006, Acoustic Cytometry Systems is developing flow cytometers based on acoustic-focusing technology licensed from Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) and associated reagents. According to a business presentation by […]
Pfäffikon, Switzerland 11/26/08; Amersham, England 11/27/08—OC Oerlikon has sold its Oerlikon Optics USA business unit to Ocean Optics, an affiliate of Halma, for $6 million in cash. Based in Golden, Colorado, Oerlikon Optics USA is a supplier of custom optical components and subassemblies and has annual sales of more than CHF 10 million ($8.4 million). […]
Goettingen, Germany 10/31/08—Sartorius Stedim Biotech GmbH has acquired Wave Biotech AG, a developer of single-use bioreactors for bipharmaceutical manufacturing, for an undisclosed amount. The two companies have worked together since 2006 and Sartorius Stedim Biotech exclusively markets Wave Biotech’s products, Wave Biotech’s products are expected to contribute €10 million ($13 million) in revenues this year […]
It was another year when one major deal in the analytical instrument and laboratory products industry dwarfed the size of other deals. Invitrogen’s $6.7 billion acquisition of Applied Biosystems was this year’s mega-deal, bringing together the largest supplier of life science consumables with one of the largest supplier of instruments for life science research (see […]
Waltham, MA 11/11/08—Thermo Fisher Scientific has acquired Raymond A. Lamb, a manufacturer of histology and anatomical pathology products. Raymond A. Lamb’s products include systems that automate the labeling and tracking of slides and cassettes. The company had 2007 revenues of $9 million and is a supplier to Thermo Fisher. “Our anatomical pathology customers—in both clinical […]
West Chester, PA 11/11/08—Laboratory product distributor VWR International has signed a distribution agreement with Corning Life Sciences that will take effect in January 2009. Corning Life Sciences manufacturers microplates, laboratory glassware and plasticware for cell cultures and liquid handling, as well as filtration devices. “In a committed effort to provide our customers with structured choice […]
Company Announcements JEOL’s Scientific Instrument sales for the year ended March 31 declined 39.3% to ¥39,090 million ($341.0 million) (see IBO 9/15/08), as strong sales of transmission electron microscopes were offset by declining sales of X-ray fluorescence systems. Industrial Equipment sales rose 46.5% to ¥54,799 million ($479.8 million), led by sales of scanning electron microscopes. […]
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