Courbevoie, France 6/29/15—Nuclear and renewable energy firm AREVA has announced that it plans to sell its Canberra business. Canberra provides nuclear measurement systems and instrumentation, including products for waste characterization and lab measurements. Headquartered in Connecticut with over one thousand employees worldwide, Canberra generated€180 million ($240 million = €0.75 = $1) in sales in 2014. […]
Aubagne, France and Goettingen, Germany 7/2/15—Sartorius Stedim Biotech (SSB) has acquired Cellca for an undisclosed amount. Cellca provides process-development services for biopharmaceutical and biosimilar companies. Based in Germany with around 30 employees, Cellca posted 2014 revenues of €6 million ($8 million = €0.75 = $1). “Together with our single-use products, media and testing services, we […]
Rishon LeZion, Israel 7/14/15—Citing anonymous sources, Israel’s Globes newspaper reports that Danaher has signed a letter of intent to purchase Applied Spectral Imaging (ASI) for $30 million. Headquartered in Israel, ASI provides computer imaging solutions for microscopes for genetic testing applications. ASI sells software and hardware. Its products are FDA approved. The newspaper reports that […]
Company Announcements Fluidigm named Steven C. McPhail as general manager of its Production Genomics Business in May. He previously served as president and CEO of Expression Analysis. The company also announced its plans to register as a medical device manufacturer with the US FDA, list certain of its products as FDA Class 1 devices and […]
Mikkeli, Finland 6/1/15 and Helsinki, Finland 6/1/15—Private equity firm VersoVentures has acquired Environics, a supplier of industrial gas detection as well as chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear monitoring solutions, for an undisclosed amount. ”The gas detection market is estimated to grow, driven by increased demands in personnel safety, environmental protection and process efficiency,” commented Anssi […]
Wellesley, MA and Tucson, AZ 6/18/15—Ampersand Capital Partners has acquired Protein Technologies, a provider of peptide synthesis instrumentation, for an undisclosed amount. “Protein Technologies is the recognized leader in a segment of the life sciences instrument market that is experiencing strong demand based on worldwide research interest in novel, peptide-based therapies,” said David Parker, general […]
Waltham, MA 4/30/15—PerkinElmer has purchased Torion Technologies, a supplier of portable GC/MS systems for analyzing chemical and biological threats, contaminants and pollutants. The company stated, “This acquisition expands PerkinElmer’s offerings to include dedicated, small-footprint analyzers for laboratory use and mobile systems for field analyses.” The acquisition closed April 30, 2015.
Woburn, MA 6/16/15—HighRes Biosolutions announced the purchase of a majority stake of the company by Axel Johnson, a privately owned investment company, for an undisclosed amount. “HighRes is expecting to double its bookings from last year, and we are on the verge of introducing some of the most exciting new products in our history,” stated […]
Waltham, MA 6/25/15; London, UK 6/25/15-—Thermo Fisher Scientific has agreed to acquire Alfa Aesar, the Research Chemicals business of Johnson Matthey, for £256 million ($400 million = £0.64 = $1) in cash. In fiscal 2015 ending March 31, the business had sales, excluding the value of precious metals, of £77 million ($124 million = £0.62 […]
Lansing, MI 6/1/15—Neogen has announced the acquisition of the assets of Sterling Test House, a food testing lab based in southwest India with 40 employees. Financial details were not disclosed. “Much as we did in China, this acquisition is intended to bolster our long-term strategy of accelerating our revenue growth in critical global food safety […]
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