Santa Clara, CA and Palo Alto, CA 1/21/10; Brussels, Belgium 1/21/10—Agilent Technologies announced that the European Commission has granted conditional antitrust clearance for its acquisition of Varian. In connection with the clearance, Agilent has agreed to divest four Varian businesses: laboratory GC, triple quadrupole GC-MS, inductively coupled plasma–MS and micro GC. Agilent has initiated the […]
Agilent Buys Varian Although not officially completed (see IBO 12/31/09), the deal brings together two of the analytical instrument industry’s largest companies, creating a broad-based supplier of laboratory instrumentation and consumables, whose size and diversity of technology offerings for chromatography, MS, atomic spectrometry and molecular spectrometry is matched only by Bruker, Shimadzu and Thermo Fisher […]
Port Washington, NY 1/12/10—Pall has acquired MicroReactor Technologies for an undisclosed amount. MicroReactor Technologies provides a miniature bioreactor platform for process development and fermentation, which is reliable, easy to use and cost effective, according to Pall. The company’s High Throughput Process Development (HTPD) systems control, monitor and record process parameter for multiple individual cell culture […]
London, UK 11/16/09; London, UK 1/13/10; Luton, UK 1/7/10—Mettler-Toledo has purchased Anachem’s Manual Liquid Handling (MLH) business, a UK-based distributor of pipettes, tips and consumables, from Diploma for £7.8 million ($12.7 million = £1.62 = $1) in cash. The MLH business generated £10.7 million ($17.3 million) in revenue for the year ended September 30, 2009, […]
Venlo, The Netherlands 1/12/10—QIAGEN NV has acquired ESE GmbH, a developer and manufacturer of UV and fluorescence optical measurement devices, for $19 million in cash. ESE’s detection technology is fast, compact and can be manufactured at a low cost, according to QIAGEN, making it suitable for point-of-need testing and integration into lab instruments. The devices […]
Carlsbad, CA 1/12/10—Life Technologies has agreed to acquire AcroMetrix for an undisclosed amount. AcroMetrix provides molecular and serological diagnostic quality control products to clinical laboratories, blood screening centers and in vitro diagnostic manufacturers. “With the growth of DNA and other molecular based tests, there is a growing need for high quality, independently provided controls to […]
Sydney, Australia 12/9/09—NuSep, a publicly-listed maker of pre-casts gels and systems for bioseparations, has signed a letter of intent to acquire BioInquire, the developer of the ProteoIQ software for MS data analysis. BioInquire projects a profit of $1.2 million for 2010. The purchase price consists of an initial payment of $1.5 million; a $1 million […]
Belfast, Northern Ireland 12/23/09—Andor Technology, a developer of digital cameras, has acquired Bitplane AG for £7.46 million ($11.95 million) in cash and the issue of 285,851 shares at the price of 2 pence each ($0.03). Based in Zurich, Switzerland, Bitplane develops microscopy image analysis software for medical and life science applications. In 2008, Bitplane had […]
Brussels, Belgium 12/22/09—Dow Jones has reported that the European Commission (EC) extended the deadline for its antitrust review of Agilent’s acquisition of Varian (see IBO 7/31/09) by 10 working days to January 20. By that date, the EC will either clear the acquisition or launch an investigation. The extension was due to “commitments” by Agilent […]
Washington, DC 12/18/09; London, England 12/18/09—Diversified technology firm Danaher has announced a £50 million ($82 million) offer, net of cash acquired, for publicly held Genetix, a maker of research and clinical diagnostic instruments. In 2009, Genetix generated revenues of £26 million ($42 million) (see IBO 3/15/09). Danaher proposes to acquire all the issued and to […]
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