London, UK 4/5/11; London, UK 4/11/11—Microsaic Systems has raised £4.0 million ($6.5 million = £0.62 = $1) through an institutional placing in connection with its public listing on the London Stock Exchange’s AIM Market on April 11. Microsaic is the developer of the Microsaic 3500 MID, a chip-based MS system. The company placed 12.5 million […]
Vienna, Austria 4/1/11—Lab supply and distribution company VWR International has agreed to acquire the safety products distribution business of Trenka Industriebedarf Handelsgesellschaft. Financial details were not disclosed. Located in Vienna, Austria, Trenka distributes industrial clothing, testing equipment and personal protection equipment to customers in Austria. “Trenka’s product portfolio allows VWR to offer a broader selection […]
Peabody, MA 4/6/11—JEOL USA, the US subsidiary of Japanese-based JEOL, officially announced the formation, effective April 1, of JEOL Resonance, a joint venture company with the Innovation Network Corporation of Japan (INCJ) for the development of NMR instruments (see IBO 2/15/11). JEOL Resonance will collaborate with research institutes, universities and suppliers. Additional funding for the […]
Venlo, The Netherlands and Melbourne, Australia 4/3/11—QIAGEN has agreed to acquire Cellestis for AUD 341 million ($355 million = AUD 0.96 = $1) in cash, or AUD 3.55 ($3.70) per share, a 24% premium to the closing price on April 1. Cellestis is in the early stages of commercializing diagnostic tests based on its QuantiFERON-CMV […]
As expected, IBO’s annual list of the top 30 analytical and life science instrument companies was reshuffled in 2010 due to consolidation and the global economic recovery. Several transactions, including Life Technologies’ divestiture of its joint venture MS business to Danaher (see IBO 9/15/09, 2/15/10) and Agilent Technologies’ acquisition of Varian (see IBO 7/31/09, 5/15/10), […]
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