New Brunswick Scientific and Eppendorf Enter Into Merger Agreement

Privately Held Eppendorf to Acquire All Outstanding Common Stock for $11.50 Per Share Edison, New Jersey and Hamburg, Germany, July 11, 2007—New Brunswick Scientific Co., Inc. ("NBS") (Nasdaq: NBSC), and Eppendorf Group ("Eppendorf") today announced that they have entered into a merger agreement whereby Eppendorf will acquire the outstanding common stock of NBS for $11.50 [...]

Thermo Fisher Scientific Acquires OptiCell Product Line

Expanded market development planned for next generation cell culture technology ROCHESTER, New York (July 9, 2007) -Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc., the world leader in serving science, today announced it has acquired all assets of the OptiCellT product line from BioCrystal Ltd. of Westerville, OH. Included in the transaction were trademarks, production equipment, inventory, and 12 [...]

Thar Instruments Completes the Acquisition of Berger SFC® Business from METTLER TOLEDO

The Two Leaders in Supercritical Fluid Technologies Combine to Advance this Emerging Technology and Expand Customer Support PITTSBURGH--Thar Instruments, a global leader in the design, development and manufacture of Supercritical Fluid Chromatography (SFC) systems announced the acquisition of Berger SFC® division of METTLER TOLEDO. Berger SFC® is a pioneer in the development of SFC and [...]

Anton Paar aquires German Instrument Company

Anton Paar OptoTec GmbH Effective from July 1, 2007, Anton Paar has aquired the German instrument company Dr. Wolfgang Kernchen GmbH in Seelze near Hannover. The German instrument company was founded in 1970 and develops and produces a range of refractometers and polarimeters. Its main market is the worldwide sugar industry. Dr. Wolfgang Kernchen, founder [...]

VWR International, Inc. Acquires Bie & Berntsen A-S, Denmark

WEST CHESTER, PA, June 20, 2007 – VWR International, Inc., a leading supplier to the global research laboratory industry, today announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Bie & Berntsen A-S, a Danish scientific laboratory supply distributor. The closing of the transaction is subject to customary closing conditions, including the receipt [...]

Roche acquires NimbleGen to gain entry into high-growth research microarrray market

Acquisition strengthens presence in genomics research market Roche and NimbleGen Systems Inc. today announced that they have signed a definitive agreement under which Roche will acquire 100% of NimbleGen, a privately held, Madison, Wisconsin, USA-based company active in high-density DNA microarrays. DNA microarrays are a widely used discovery and research tool in pharma research for [...]

Agilent Technologies Expands Informatics Portfolio with Electronic Notebook for Life Sciences, Chemical Analysis After Acquiring Kalabie from Klee Group

Kalabie ELN Highly Complementary to Agilent OpenLAB SANTA CLARA, Calif.--Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE:A - News) today announced it has acquired the Klee Group's Kalabie Electronic Laboratory Notebook (ELN). The focus for this product, which is Agilent's first electronic notebook, will be on the pharmaceutical market and some chemical applications. Financial details of the acquisition were [...]

HACH LANGE completed the acquisition of ZÜLLIG AG

As of June 12, 2007, HACH LANGE completed the acquisition of ZÜLLIG AG, based in Rheineck, Switzerland. ZÜLLIG is well known internationally as a manufacturer for online measurement instruments. It has a particularly strong position in Switzerland as a provider for control and automation solutions at waste and drinking water plants HACH LANGE is a [...]

Canadian business leader purchases assets of Mathis Instruments and announces the launch of C-Therm Technologies Ltd.*, a new instrumentation company.

Halifax, NS Canada - Chuck Cartmill, announced the acquisition of the assets and intellectual property of Mathis Instruments Ltd.. Mathis’ core product lines in thermal conductivity and in-line process instrumentation are to be re-launched by C-Therm Technologies Ltd. The product will be manufactured by C-Vision Limited, an electronics manufacturing services provider based in Amherst, Nova [...]

QIAGEN and Digene Announce Merger

Creating Market and Technology Leader in Molecular Diagnostics Transaction Valued at Approximately US$1.6 Billion Expected to be Accretive in 2008 to QIAGEN's Earnings Per Share Venlo, The Netherlands and Gaithersburg, Md., USA -- June 3, 2007 - QIAGEN N.V. (Nasdaq: QGEN; Frankfurt, Prime Standard: QIA) and Digene Corp. (Nasdaq: DIGE) announced today a definitive agreement [...]

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