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 [...]
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 [...]
