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Venlo, the Netherlands and Hilden, Germany 9/10/16; San Francisco, CA 9/9/16–The US District Court for the Northern District of California has granted Illumina’s motion for a preliminary injunction barring the sale of QIAGEN’s GeneReader NGS System and related products in the US. The ruling stems from a patent infringement suit brought in May by Illumina […]
Washington, DC 9/6/16; Sunnyvale, CA 9/6/16–Technology provider Danaher has agreed to acquire publicly held Cepheid, a supplier of molecular diagnostics system, for $4 billion, including debt and net of acquired cash. This is equal to $53 per share in cash, a 54% premium to Cepheid’s closing price on September 2. Cepheid’s 2015 revenue totaled $539 […]
Frankfurt, Germany 9/12/16; Duesseldorf, Germany 9/12/16–Gerresheimer and Chase Scientific Glass have announced plans to sell their Kimble Chase to Duran for $131 million. Kimble Chase provides lab and scientific glassware, including reusable glassware, and disposable and specialty products. In 2015, Kimble Chase posted revenues of €100.7 million ($111.9 million = €0.90 = $1). Sales declined […]
New Castle, DE 9/12/16–Waters’ subsidiary TA Instruments, a provider of analytical instruments for thermal analysis, rheology and microcalorimetry, has announced the acquisition of Rubotherm, which develops and manufactures systems for thermogravimetric and sorption measurements. “Rubotherm brings a great new technology and capability to TA in the form of their patented magnetic suspension balance,” stated TA […]
New York, NY 9/7/16; Valencia, Spain 9/7/16–Bruker has agreed to acquire the preclinical imaging business, including employees, of Oncovision, a medical imaging device firm, for an undisclosed amount. For five years, Bruker and Oncovision have exclusively marketed the Albira PET/SPECT/CT systems. Together, they have also developed the preclinical 3 T Silicon photomultiplier PET/RI system.”The unique, […]
Munich, Germany 9/1/16–Gardner Denver, a provider of flow control machinery, has acquired Innovative Labor Systeme (ILS) and Zinsser Analytic (ZA) from Werner Zinsser and Christel Zinsser for an undisclosed amount. ILS suppliers glass syringes for lab equipment manufacturers, lab and consumables distributors. ZA provides customized automated fluid and powder handling systems as well as consumables […]
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