Agilent Creates New Business Unit
The business unit is evidence of Agilent’s commitment to these technologies and of LSCA’s expansion into new product markets. Bruker BioSciences, Shimadzu and Thermo Fisher Scientific are among the few analytical instrument companies with sizable product offerings for the chemical analysis, life science and materials science markets.
Santa Clara, CA 3/30/07—Agilent Technologies has created a Materials Sciences Solutions Unit within its Life Science and Chemical Analysis (LSCA) business. The new unit will focus on the development of the company’s microscopy and optical spectroscopy businesses. Agilent’s Nanotechnology Measurement Division, which provides atomic force microscopes (see IBO 11/30/05), will become part of the new division effective May 1. The new unit will be headed by Michael C. Gasparian, who most recently was Agilent’s vice president and general manager of customer quality. “Because of our expertise in both the electronics and bioanalytical markets, we are in a unique position to leverage these capabilities to address emerging customer needs in this new market space,” stated Chris van Ingen, president of LSCA and senior vice president of Agilent. (For further information, see page 11.)
