Los Angeles, CA 5/10/13; Los Angeles, CA 5/31/13—OpenGate Capital, which last year acquired Thermo Fisher Scientific’s Laboratory Workstation business (see IBO 10/31/12), has filed suit against Thermo in the US District Court for the Central District of California. OpenGate alleges that Thermo “engaged in a scheme to induce the sale of the Hamilton Entities to […]
New York, NY 5/21/13; Washington, DC 5/21/13—Reuters has confirmed that Sigma-Aldrich and Roche partnered to bid for the purchase of Life Technologies (see IBO 4/15/13, 4/30/13), with Roche planning to acquire Life’s sequencing business. In Life’s SEC proxy filing for the acquisition (in which Strategic Party A is Sigma and Strategic Party B is Roche, […]
Gilbertsville, PA 4/9/13—Rockland Immunochemicals, a provider of research reagents, has acquired the Epi-Plus antibody product line from 21st Century Biochemicals for an undisclosed amount. According to Rockland, the Epi-Plus antibodies are the most well-validated antibodies for epigenetics research. “The fact that the Epi-Plus brand is co-owned by Novus Biologicals also allows us to expand the […]
Woburn, MA 3/29/13; Santa Clara, CA 4/29/13—SciAps has acquired DeltaNu from Intevac for $500,000 in cash and up to $1 million in an earn out. DeltaNu develops and manufactures portable Raman spectroscopy analyzers. SciAps plans to combine its distribution, marketing and product development expertise with DeltaNu’s Raman technical expertise. DeltaNu will retain its operations in […]
Jena, Germany 5/6/13—Analytik Jena announced that it has purchased all the assets of molecular diagnostics company SIRS-Lab. SIRS-Lab’s offerings were for systemic infections, including LOOXSTER technology for the identification and detection of bacterial and fungal DNA in diagnostic samples. The company filed for bankruptcy in December 2012. Analytik Jena has announced it will place a […]
Minneapolis, MN 4/23/13; San Jose, CA 4/23/13—Honeywell has signed a definitive agreement to acquire RAE Systems, a manufacturer of fixed and portable gas and radiation detection systems and software, for $340 million. Based in San Jose, California, with 750 employees, RAE had 2012 sales of $107 million. Honeywell stated that the purchase price is approximately […]
Cary, NC 5/2/13—ABB has announced an agreement to acquire Los Gatos Research (LGR), a supplier of gas analyzers for research and environmental monitoring based in Mountain View, California. LGR’s offerings consist of analyzers for real-time trace-gas and isotope measurement utilizing Off-Axis Integrated Cavity Output Spectroscopy. LGR’s 2013 sales are projected to be $14 million. “LGR […]
Wetzlar, Germany and São Paulo, Brazil 4/23/13—Leica Microsystems and Leica Biosystems have acquired Aotec Instrumentos Cientificos, their Brazilian distributor for more than 25 years. “Brazil is a very important market. Through this acquisition we are developing our business further and invest into the service to our customers,” commented Jürgen Kress, senior sales director, High Growth […]
New York, NY 4/16/13—Bloomberg reported that Sigma-Aldrich was among the bidders for Life Technologies (see IBO 4/15/13), offering around $12.5 billion for the company. Sigma planned to sell the sequencer business if it acquired Life in order to help fund the transaction, according to the report. Sigma held talks with Roche and Agilent Technologies regarding […]
Santa Barbara, CA and Bergisch Gladbach, Germany 4/23/13—Biomedical research product provider Miltenyi Biotec has acquired Owl biomedical for an undisclosed amount. Owl is the developer of a microchip-based, high speed cell sorter using a disposable cartridge. “We immediately recognized the intrinsic value of Owl’s microchip-based technology for cell processing and its complement to our existing […]
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