Helsinki, Finland 9/5/12; Helsinki, Finland 10/25/12—High-performance materials firm Ahlstrom has acquired Munktell Filter, a provider of life science and lab applications filtration materials, for €20 million ($25 million = €0.79 = $1). Based in Falun, Sweden, Munktell Filter had 2011 annual sales of €15 million ($21 million = €0.72 = $1) and an operating profit […]
San Diego, CA 10/23/12—Accelrys has acquired Aegis Analytical for $30 million in cash. Aegis Analytical’s Discoverant software aggregates, contextualizes and analyzes manufacturing, quality and product development data, allowing quality and manufacturing organizations to gain predictive control over their processes. “This acquisition expands our footprint in downstream operations with valuable new solutions for electronic process intelligence, […]
Newark, DE 10/1/12; Tulln, Austria 10/1/12—SDIX has agreed to sell its Food Safety and GMO businesses to food safety diagnostic firm Romer Labs for $13.5 million. The Food Safety business provides the RapidChek lateral flow test strips, phage-based enrichment systems and CONFIRM immunomagnetic confirmation tools for the detection of pathogens. The GMO business includes test […]
Carlsbad, CA 10/8/12—Life Technologies has acquired cancer bioinformatics firm Compendia Bioscience for an undisclosed amount. Compendia Bioscience’s oncology data, including mutation profiles, gene expression data and cellular biomarkers, are used by pharmaceutical companies to identify new gene targets for drug discovery and development. “Compendia is highly regarded by its customers as a preeminent source of […]
Company Announcements Analytik Jena closed AJ USA in April. Xylem’s second-quarter sales for the Test portion of its Water Infrastructure division grew 58%, including $32 million in YSI sales. First-quarter sales declined 2%, excluding YSI, which had double-digit growth. The UK announced in August the establishment of the Medical Research Council–National Institute for Health Research […]
La Jolla, CA 9/17/12—Synthetic Genomics (SGI), which is focused on developing genomic solutions for global challenges, has purchased three families of patents and patent applications from Febit Holding, including the know-how, equipment and technical support for implementation. The intellectual property is related to synthetic genomic technologies with the potential to reduce the cost of DNA […]
Aarhus, Denmark 9/3/12—CLC bio, a developer of software for next-generation sequencing, has acquired Molegro for an undisclosed amount. Molegro provides software for molecular docking, including the prediction and analysis of protein-ligand interactions, screening of compound databases for activities against a receptor and determination of molecule similarity. CLC bio stated that the acquisition supported its strategy […]
Bruker Adds to In Vivo Imaging Offerings Rochester, NY and Billerica, MA 9/21/12—Bruker has entered into an agreement to purchase the preclinical in vivo imaging equipment product portfolio and related assets of Carestream’s Molecular Imaging business. The purchase price was not disclosed. The majority of employees at the business will be offered the opportunity to […]
Company Announcements Testing services firm ILS purchased in June key assets of Beckman Coulter Genomics’ Morrisville, North Carolina, site and formed ILS Genomics. Beckman Coulter acquired the site in its 2009 purchase of Cogenics (see IBO 06/15/09). Anton Paar and its Brazilian distributor Polimate formed Anton Paar Brazil, which will take over the sales and […]
Hombrechtikon, Switzerland 9/3/12—Sias has agreed acquire to Xiril, effective September 30. Sias provide OEM systems for robotic liquid handling. Xiril specializes in the development and manufacture of lab equipment and software for DNA analysis and diagnostics. The purchase price was not disclosed, but the transaction was paid for in stock. Sias said it will retain […]
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