Millville, NJ 12/20/12; Pittsburgh, PA 12/21/12—Wheaton Industries, a supplier of laboratory products, has acquired MicroLiter Analytical Supplies for an undisclosed amount. MicroLiter Analytical Supplies provides pre-cleaned chromatography sample vials and accessories for use with autosamplers, as well as septa and closures and the MicroLiter Plate Sampling System. MicroLiter Analytical Supplies’ Instrument Top Sample Preparation products […]
Abingdon, UK 12/17/12; Santa Barbara, CA 12/17/12; Abingdon, UK 12/19/12—Oxford Instruments has acquired Asylum Research, a supplier of scanning probe microscopes (SPMs), for $32.0 million, with a deferred payment of up to $48.0 million payable over three years depending on performance. In 2011, Asylum recorded revenues of $19.6 million and EBIT of $1.1 million. Approximately […]
Waltham, MA 12/21/12—Thermo Fisher Scientific has acquired picoSpin, the developer of the picoSpin-45 miniature NMR. “Bringing NMR capabilities to new markets where its practicality has been limited represents significant value for our customers,” commented John Sos, vice president and general manager for Molecular Spectroscopy at Thermo. The company will be integrated into the Analytical Technologies […]
Hercules, CA 12/16/12; Munich, Germany 12/16/12—Bio-Rad Laboratories has agreed to acquire MorphoSys’s AbD Serotec division for €53 million ($70 million = €0.76 = $1) in cash. AbD Serotec sells antibodies for research and diagnostic applications. “With this acquisition, Bio-Rad will have access to a comprehensive catalog of antibodies allowing us to better serve our customers […]
Tokyo, Japan 12/3/12; Tokyo, Japan and Villach, Austria 12/7/12—Showa Denko has announced a strategic partnership with BIA Separations for joint marketing and R&D, expanding its business to include chromatography resins for biopharmaceutical manufacturing. Showa Denko currently offers lab-scale HPLC products under the Shodex brand name. Based in Austria with 80 employees, BIA Separations provides short […]
Gilbertsville, PA 12/13/12—Rockland Immunochemicals, a provider of antibodies and antibody-based tools, has acquired the TrueBlot IP (immunoprecipitation)/Western blot product line from eBiosciences, an Affymetrix company. “As eBioscience continues to focus its efforts on our evolving flow cytometry, immunoassay and immunohistochemistry applications in immunology, oncology and other therapeutic areas, we are pleased that the TrueBlot product […]
Sanford, ME 12/11/12—Maine Manufacturing has acquired from GE the assets of its laboratory filter and membrane business. The acquired product lines include the Cameo brand of syringe filters, capsule and cut disc filters; transfer membranes; and flat sheet and roll stock microporous membranes. Maine Manufacturing will continue to operate the Westborough, Massachusetts facility that makes […]
Radnor, PA 12/4/12—VWR International has acquired France-based Labonord and Belgium-based Switch for undisclosed amounts. Labonord supplies consumables and chemicals, including histology products. Switch manufactures cytology and histology reagents and dyes under the Q-Path brand, which are sold in France, Belgium and the Netherlands. Labonord is a Switch distributor.
Munich, Germany 11/30/12; Tokyo, Japan 12/3/12—Konica Minolta Optics has acquired German firm Instrument Systems effective December 1 for an undisclosed amount. Instrument Systems provides LED light source and other lighting-related measurement systems based on spectroscopy. Headquartered in Munich with 99 employees, the company’s fiscal 2012 sales grew 26.8% to €30.3 million ($40.4 million = €0.75 […]
Tokyo, Japan 12/10/12; Tokyo Japan 12/12/12; Tokyo, Japan 12/12/12—Hitachi High-Technologies and SII NanoTechnology, a unit of Seiko Instruments, have announced that the companies’ merger will proceed (see IBO 5/31/12, 8/15/12). The acquisition is expected to be completed by January 1, 2013. The announcement follows the decision by the Japan Fair Trade Commission (JFTC) that the […]
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