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 [...]
MKS Instruments to Acquire ENI Division of Emerson Electric Co.
October 31, 2001
Andover, MA - MKS Instruments, Inc. has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire the ENI division of Emerson Electric Co. Under the terms of the agreement, MKS will issue 12 million shares of common stock, valued at $251 million, in exchange for the businesses and assets of ENI. MKS will also assume approximately $3.5 [...]
Protasis and CEI Partners to Develop Optimization Services
October 26, 2001
Marlboro, MA - Protasis Corporation, a spin-off of Waters Corporation, and Column Engineering, Inc. (CEI) are partnering to develop method optimization and automation services for application scientists and process engineers. Both companies will work closely with customers to optimize flow path, chemistries and parameters for process monitoring applications. Protasis' microfabrication techniques allow it to repackage [...]
October 23, 2001
Milan, Italy - SAES Getters S.p.A. is restructuring to gain efficiency and enhance technological synergies. In its Analytical Technolgies Business Area, it will move all outlying operations of its Trace Analtical and Saes Pure Gas businesses to Sparks, Maryland, the location of Molecular Analytics' headquarters. The relocations will bring together ion mobility spectrometry and GC [...]
Emerson Process Management Forms Gas Chromatography Business
October 22, 2001
Austin, TX - Emerson Process Management is forming a gas chromatography business group. Located in Houston, Texas the unit will combine the gas chromatography products and technical resources of Rosemount Analytical and Daniel divisions of Emerson. Reportedly, the combination of the gas chromatography segments of the two organizations will allow Emerson Process Management to provide [...]
PerkinElmer Sells Photovac Division
October 22, 2001
Waltham, MA - The Carlise Group acquired the Photovac Division from PerkinElmer Instruments on October 19, 2001. Photovac develops portable gas chromatographs and detectors for the detection and measurement of volatile organic compounds, including the Voyager gas chromatograph. New Photovac President and CEO Tom Smith stated, "[Photovac] was an industry leader as an independent company [...]
PerkinElmer Exploring Alternatives for Fluid Sciences Unit
August 28, 2001
Boston, MA - PerkinElmer has announced that it has put its Fluid Sciences Business under strategic review and is considering a sale of the unit. The Boston, MA - Fluid Sciences Unit sells sealing products and technologies for fluid containment to the aerospace, semiconductor and power generation industries. In 2000, the division recorded revenue of [...]
Chandler Engineering Purchases Ruska’s Fluid Technology Group
August 16, 2001
Tulsa, OK - Chandler Engineering Company LLC has purchased Ruska Instrument Corporation’s Fluid Technology Group (Houston, TX). The group’s primary business is the manufacture and sale of PVT systems, positive displacement pumps and ancillary equipment such as viscometers and gasometers. Chandler Engineering, a leading manufacturer of specialized test equipment for the oil and gas industry, [...]
Orbital Sells Mass Spec Division
August 3, 2001
Dulles, VA and Windsor Locks, CT - Orbital Sciences has signed a definitive agreement to sell its Sensor Systems Division (SSD) to United Technologies' Hamilton Sundstrand Space Systems unit for approximately $20 million in cash. SSD, part of Orbital's Electronics and Sensors Systems Group, manufactures sensors and analytical instruments such as chemical and biological agent [...]
Amersham Acquires High-Pressure Process Chromatography Company
July 23, 2001
Piscataway, NJ-Amersham Pharmacia Biotech (AP Biotech) has acquired Dan-Process A/S, a subsidiary of Pantax. Dan-Process supplies engineering solutions for the purification of biomolecules, such as peptides and peptides hormones, with a focus on high-pressure process-scale chromatography systems and columns. According to AP Biotech, Dan-Process will maintain its autonomy and brand name and its products will [...]
