London, UK 11/12/13; London, UK 11/12/13; London, UK 11/12/13; London, UK 11/12/13—Research tools firm Oxford Instruments has announced it is in discussions to acquire publicly held Andor Technology, a provider of scientific cameras, microscope systems and analytical software, stating that the acquisition would add to its Nano-Bio business. Oxford has made an indicative offer of […]
Reinach, Switzerland 10/31/23; Jena, Germany 11/14/13—Analytik Jena announced that Endress+Hauser, which currently holds 47% of the company’s shares, has concluded an option agreement giving it the right to purchase an additional 28% stake through the purchase of the shares owned by the German state of Thuringia, which controls 18%, and the shares held by CEO […]
Company Announcements In August, Agilent Technologies gave an Agilent Thought Leader Award to Dr. Emmanuel Barillot, director of Bioinformatics and Systems IT at the Institute Curie in Paris, in recognition of his development of user friendly, Web-based bioinformatics tools for systems toxicology. Agilent Technologies opened in August the $25 million Spectroscopy Technology Innovation Center in […]
A record breaking transaction overshadowed tepid merger and acquisition (M&A) activity in the instrument and laboratory product–related industry in 2013. Upon completion, Thermo Fisher Scientific’s acquisition of Life Technologies for $13.6 billion and assumed debt of $2.2 billion (see IBO 4/15/13) will represent the single largest transaction ever in the analytical instrument and laboratory product–related […]
New Castle, DE 9/30/13—TA Instruments, a Waters company, has acquired German firm Scarabaeus Mess- und Produktionstechnik for an undisclosed amount. Scarabaeus manufactures instrumentation and software for physical property measurements of rubber and rubber processing. “This market is a natural fit for TA Instruments. We have existing expertise and a large customer base using thermal analysis […]
Middleton, WI 10/11/13—Gilson, a supplier of manual and automated liquid sample management products, has acquired Armen, a provider of manual preparative chromatography based on HPLC and centrifugal partition chromatography, also known as counter current chromatography (CCC). “Armen brings to Gilson their CCC technology, which is capable of quick and cost effective purification of natural, raw […]
Venlo, The Netherlands 10/29/13—QIAGEN has announced the purchase of bioinformatics company CLC bio, which specializes in next generation sequencing (NGS), for an undisclosed amount. CLC bio’s products include the CLC Genomics Workbench for analyzing, comparing and visualizing NGS data and the CLC Genomics Service, an enterprise-level infrastructure and analysis backbone for NGS data analysis. “The […]
San Diego, CA 10/28/13; Washington, DC 10/29/13—Illumina has acquired NextBio, a provider of clinical and genomics informatics, for an undisclosed amount. NextBio’s platforms aggregate and analyze large quantities of phenotypic and genomic data for research and clinical applications. “The combination of Illumina’s BaseSpace cloud computing environment for next generation sequencing with NextBio’s platform for integrating […]
As IBO detailed in the July 15 issue, analytical instrument and lab product firms are pursuing more direct sales opportunities in developing markets through new subsidiaries and offices. Five firms `recently announced similar expansions. In September, Life Technologies celebrated the opening of a Customer Experience Center in Moscow, Russia—its first demonstration laboratory facility in the […]
Chelmsford, MA 10/2/13—Spectro Inc., a developer of instrumentation and software for the industrial performance fluids market, has acquired Wilks Enterprise for an undisclosed amount. Wilks specializes in the development and manufacture of mid-IR application-specific analyzers that are used for biofuel, petrochemical, environmental, quality control, manufacturing and ambient air monitoring measurements. “Wilks has built an excellent […]
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