Metrology Companies Announce Merger
January 21, 2005
Milpitas, CA and Minneapolis, MN 1/21/04—Nanometrics and August Technology have entered into a merger agreement to form August Nanometrics, which will have pro forma 2004 revenues of $140 million. “We join two strong product lines with little overlap, and bring to market a better fab-wide solution with advanced macro inspection, critical dimension (CD) and film [...]
MKS Cirrus Atmospheric Pressure Gas Monitoring
January 12, 2005
Wilmington, MA (January 12, 2005) -- Cirrus Atmospheric Pressure Gas Monitoring system is ideal for the on-line monitoring and analysis of gases and gas mixtures including solvet vapors, hydrocarbons, inorganic gas species (including corrosives), freons and noble gases. It's compact design and flexible control front-end make the cirrus system suitable for a broad range of [...]
Malvern Secures Major Cement Industry Contract in Brazil
January 10, 2005
Malvern, UK—Malvern Instruments has secured a multi-year contract with Brazilian company Votorantim Cimentos to supply Insitec on-line particle size analyzers for at least 30 of their cement production lines throughout North and South America. Votorantim is the largest cement producer in Brazil and a significant player in the cement industry throughout the Americas. Its decision [...]
Watts Water Technologies Acquires HF Scientific
January 5, 2005
Watts Water Technologies, Inc. has acquired HF Scientific, inc. located in Fort Myers Florida in a stock purchase transaction. HF Scientific, Inc. manufactures and distributes a line of instrumentation equipment, test kits and chemical reagents used for monitoring water quality in a variety of applications. HF Scientific has approximately $5 million in annual revenue. HF [...]
Invensys and Mathis Announce Process Analytical Technology Solutions Agreement
January 2, 2005
Montreal, Quebec-Invensys Validation Technologies and Mathis Instruments signed a memorandum of understanding aligning their expertise to offer a complete package for monitoring and automating drying control for the pharmaceutical and life science industries. This new initiative will provide a system for on-line moisture monitoring during drying and will also provide automated control of the fluid [...]
Endress + Hauser and Rockwell Automation Agree on Strategic Collaboration
December 16, 2004
The Swiss Endress + Hauser Group (process automation) finalizes its strategic collaboration with Rockwell Automation, Inc. (Milwaukee/USA). Together the two companies will provide comprehensive solutions for plant engineering, operation and management to customers with hybrid automation tasks (production and process automation), utilizing the measurement devices of Endress + Hauser and the integrated control, communication and [...]
Horiba Launches the AP-370 Series Trace Gas Analyzer
December 16, 2004
HORIBA Ltd. will begin sales of the AP-370 series of Trace gas analyzers. These instruments perform online monitoring of continuous nano-level measurements of the concentrations of Nox, SO2, CO, HC, and O3 in the atmosphere, and are used in the evaluation of the effectiveness of photocatalysts, or are implemented in such places as clean rooms.
General Electric Agrees to Acquire Ionics
November 24, 2004
WILTON, CT-GE Infrastructure, a unit of General Electric Company, and Ionics, Inc. announced today that they have signed a definitive agreement for GE’s acquisition of Ionics in an all cash merger for $44 per share, valuing the transaction at approximately $1.1 billion plus the assumption of existing debt. Ionics is a global leader in desalination, [...]
SPX to Sell Edwards Systems Technology to GE
November 15, 2004
CHARLOTTE,NC-SPX Corporation announced a definitive agreement to sell its Edwards Systems Technology (EST) business to General Electric for $1.395 billion in cash. The sale is subject to antitrust clearance and customary closing conditions and is expected to be completed in the first quarter of 2005. EST’s products and services include networked and standalone fire alarm [...]
InVision Merger Agreement with GE Extended
November 1, 2004
NEWARK, CA-InVision Technologies has signed a waiver letter specifying additional terms for its acquisition by GE Infrastructure. The original merger agreement stated that if the merger did not occur by October 31, either party could terminate the agreement. The new agreement waives until December 27 the rights of either party to terminate the merger and [...]
