ThermoNoran Acquires NeXray, LLC.
June 5, 2002
Middleton, WI and Waltham,- Thermo Electron's Thermo NORAN business has acquired NeXray, LLC. NeXray, which was a wholly-owned subsidiary of Veeco Instruments, supplies microbeam x-ray fluorescence (XRF) metrology instruments for measuring filmthickness and composition of metal layers and other structures. "The NeXray XR product line complements our line of analytical XRF systems with an optically [...]
SPX Valves and Controls Acquires Daniel Valve Company
May 6, 2002
Charlotte, NC - SPX Corporation’s Valves and Controls business acquired Daniel Valve Company from Emerson Electric. Based in Houston, Texas, Daniel Valve Company manufactures, markets and services specialty valves and control solutions for crude oil and liquid petroleum product pipeline transmission, storage and distribution applications. Daniel Valve has annual revenues of approximately $40 million. SPX [...]
L-3 Communications Purchases PerkinElmer Detection Systems
January 2, 2002
Boston, MA, New York, NY and Hawthorne, CA - L-3 Communications has purchased PerkinElmer's Detection Systems business for approximately $100 Million. The Detection Systems business primarily consists of security systems for the x-ray screening of cargo, baggage and parcels. L-3 Communications makes a computer tomography (CT) explosive detection system for baggage screening. With the expanded [...]
January 2, 2002
Boston, MA and Paoli, PA - PerkinElmer has sold its Instruments for Research and Applied Science (IRAS) product line to AMETEK and its Voltarc Technologies business to Innovative Technologies Group for a total of approximately $85 million. AMETEK stated that it paid approximately $63 million in cash for IRAS, which manufactures and markets nuclear spectroscopy [...]
Zygo Corporation Sells Its Automation Systems Group
December 14, 2001
Middlefield, CT - Zygo Corporation sold its Automations Systems Group to Brooks Automation, Inc. of Chelmsford, Massachusetts for $11 million cash. While the final price is subject to adjustment, Brooks Automation has assumed all assets as well as liabilities of the business. Located in Longmont, Colorado, the Automation Systems Group is a leading manufacturer of [...]
December 7, 2001
Washington, DC and Devon, England - Danaher has agreed to acquire Viridor Instrumentation from Pennon Group plc for approximately $135 million. Viridor's four businesses, Ele International, GLI International, Hydrolab and Orbisphere, manufacture lab and process instruments for water analysis. Danaher estimates Viridor's revenues at approximately $75 million. Viridor will join the Water Quality Group of [...]
AVL North America Acquires Pierburg Instruments
November 28, 2001
Graz, Austria and Plymouth, MI - AVL, an engine instrumentation and test systems company, has acquired Pierburg Instruments and a majority interest in Pierburg Instruments GmbH. Pierburg develops and sells emissions and fuel measurement systems, with revenue totaling $34 million in 2001. Each company will retain its respective brand and continue to market, produce and [...]
Environnement SA Acquires Cosma
November 20, 2001
France - Complementary products and technologies lead to Environnement SA’s acquisition of Cosma. Environnement SA will integrate Cosma’s new and future products as well as its extensive range of analyzers. Cosma, however, will remain an independent unit of Environnement SA and will preserve its own website. In 1999, Environnement SA reported sales of 101 million [...]
CEA Donates $1.3 million to SAIT Organization
November 19, 2001
Houston, TX - CEA Systems Inc. donated $1.3 million of plant design software known as Plant-4D to the Southern Alberta Institute of Technology in Calgary, Alberta. Relatively new to Canada, Plant 4D software is designed to reduce the cost and time in designing plants or modifying existing plants that require pressurized piping. The donation was [...]
Teledyne Technologies Buys API
November 8, 2001
Los Angeles, CA - Teledyne Technologies has acquired Advanced Pollution Instrumentation (API), which develops and manufactures instruments for monitoring air-borne pollutants. API will join Teledyne Instruments division, part of Teledyne's Electronic and Communications business segment, and change its name to Teledyne Advanced Pollution Instrumentation. The companies stated that they expect synergies from the partnership and [...]
