Edison, NJ and Hamburg, Germany 7/11/07—Eppendorf AG has agreed to acquire New Brunswick Scientific for approximately $110 million. Eppendorf will acquire the outstanding common stock for $11.50 per share, a 43% premium over the July 10 closing price, and will settle all outstanding stock options for cash. New Brunswick Scientific will become a subsidiary of […]
West Chester, PA 6/20/07—VWR International has agreed to acquire Bie & Berntsen A-S, a Denmark-based distributor of laboratory supplies. Financial details were unavailable. Founded in 1992, the family-owned Bie & Berntsen A-S has annual revenues of around $27 million and employs 90 people. Managing Director Søren Kirkegaard will join VWR. “VWR’s expertise in chemicals, consumables […]
Copenhagen, Denmark 5/29/07—Exiqon A/S has completed an initial public offering of approximately 8.7 million shares on the Copenhagen stock exchange at an offer price of DKK 40 ($7.22) per share, raising gross proceeds of around DKK 347.6 million ($62.8 million). Exiqon develops, manufactures and sells reagents, kits and software for the analysis of nucleic acids […]
Reinach, Switzerland 6/20/07—The Endress+Hauser Group, a provider of physical properties instrumentation, has announced its acquisition of PB Mesures. Financial details of the purchase were not disclosed. Based in Clermont-Ferrand, France, PB Mesures is a services company specializing in the calibration and repair of laboratory instruments and equipment, such as spectrophotometers and centrifuges. Urs Endress, director […]
Santa Clara, CA 6/18/07—Agilent Technologies’ Life Science and Analytical Instruments Group has acquired the Kalabie electronic laboratory notebook (ELN) product line from Klee Group. Financial details were not disclosed. All employees of Kalabie have joined Agilent and will remain based in Paris and Montpellier, France. Agilent plans to integrate the Kalabie ELN with its OpenLAB […]
Madison, WI 6/19/07—Roche has agreed to acquire microarray company NimbleGen Systems for $272.5 million. In 2006, NimbleGen posted revenues of $13.5 million and total losses of $8.3 million (see IBO 3/31/07). NimbleGen will join Roche’s Applied Science business, part of Roche Diagnostics, whose other research products include PCR instruments and reagents, and the recently acquired […]
Northbrook, IL 6/12/07—IDEX has acquired Quadro Engineering, a provider of particle control solutions for the pharmaceutical and biopharmaceutical industries for $31 million in cash. Quadro Engineering specializes in products for fine milling, emulsification and special handling of liquid and solid particulates for lab, pilot phase and production scale processing. Based in Ontario, Canada, the company […]
Venlo, The Netherlands and Gaithersburg, MD 6/3/07—QIAGEN NV has agreed to acquire publicly listed molecular diagnostics firm Digene for approximately $1.6 billion, including $170 million in cash. QIAGEN will offer Digene stockholders $61.25 in cash per share, a 37% premium over Digene’s June 1 closing price, or 3.545 of QIAGEN stock. QIAGEN and Digene shareholders […]
Zurich, Switzerland and Syracuse, NY 5/31/07—-INFICON has acquired Maxtek, a provider of instruments and software for thin film deposition and quartz crystal microbalance (QCM) measurements. Terms were not disclosed. “Maxtek’s strong reputation and its products complement INFICON instruments, enabling us to provide a more complete product range for thin film coating processes which are vital […]
Farmingdale, NY 3/6/07; 5/2/07—Cemtrex, a provider of continuous emissions monitoring systems, has acquired Griffin Filters. Griffin Filters designs, manufactures and supplies air filtration and environmental control systems, including fabric filters. “Griffin Filters has been a leading supplier of dust collection systems for the past forty years with hundreds of installations nationwide,” stated Cemtrex President and […]
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