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 [...]
July 9, 2001
Paoli, PA-AMETEK has acquired EDAX, a manufacturer of energy dispersive X-ray microanalysis instrumentation, from Panta Electronics for $37 million. EDAX specializes in energy dispersive x-ray fluorescence systems as well as other instruments for the identification and quantification of elemental composition and solid material structures. In 2000, EDAX recorded sales of $34 million. AMETEK stated that [...]
Hexagon Acquires Browne & Sharpe Metrology Business
June 20, 2001
North Kingstown, RI 4/27/01 and 6/20/01-Brown & Sharpe has sold its metrology business to Hexagon, A.B. of Sweden for approximately $170 million. The metrology business consists of the Measuring Systems Group and the Precision Measuring Instruments Division. The metrology business will keep the Brown & Sharpe name and the Measuring Systems Group's headquarters in Kingstown, [...]
Danaher’s Fluke Acquires Hart Scientific
May 16, 2001
Everett, WA and Washington, DC-Danaher plans to acquire all of Lifschultz Industries' outstanding shares in an acquisition valued at around $33 million. Lifschultz operating subsidiary Hart Scientific will become part of the Precision Measurement Group of Danaher's Fluke subsidiary. Hart Scientific, a supplier of precision temperature calibration products and calorimetry instrumentation, will continue doing business [...]
April 23, 2001
Nuremberg/Erlangen, Germany and Gothenburg, Sweden-Siemens Automation & Drives has acquired AltOptronic, a laser spectrometry product supplier for combustion process, environmental technology and metallugy applications. AltOptronic specializes in in-situ methods and fiber-optic sensors. Semiconductor spectrometry enables a highly accurate analysis of gas concentrations under difficult conditions. AltOptronic will operate as a subsidiary of Siemens of Sweden. [...]
