M&A Deal Summary

Bruker Acquires XGLab S.r.l

On August 7, 2017, Bruker acquired test/measurement equipment company XGLab S.r.l

Acquisition Highlights
  • This is Bruker’s 11th transaction in the Test/Measurement Equipment sector.
  • This is Bruker’s 1st transaction in Italy.

M&A Deal Summary

Date 2017-08-07
Target XGLab S.r.l
Sector Test/Measurement Equipment
Buyer(s) Bruker
Deal Type Add-on Acquisition

Target

XGLab S.r.l

Milano, Italy
XGLab S.r.l is a developer and manufacturer of an analytical instruments for applications in the field of X-Ray spectrometry and imaging, as well as advanced electronics for X-Ray and Gamma radiation detection. XGLab was founded in 2009 and is based in Milano, Italy.

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Buyer

Bruker

Billerica, Massachusetts, United States

Category Company
Founded 1991
Sector Test/Measurement Equipment
Employees11,396
Revenue 3.4B USD (2024)
DESCRIPTION

Bruker is a provider of high-performance scientific instruments and solutions for molecular and materials research, as well as for industrial and applied analysis. Bruker was founded in 1991 and is based in Billerica, Massachusetts.


DEAL STATS #
Overall 18 of 48
Sector: Test/Measurement Equipment M&A 11 of 20
Type: Add-on Acquisition M&A Deals 14 of 43
Country: Italy M&A 1 of 1
Year: 2017 M&A 5 of 6
PREVIOUS DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2017-05-08 Luxendo

Heidelberg, Germany

Luxendo GmbH is a developer and manufacturer of proprietary light-sheet fluorescence microscopy instruments. Luxendo's proprietary single plane illumination microscopy (SPIM) technique significantly reduces sampling times over conventional laser scanning confocal microscopes, while reducing phototoxicity and damaging side effects on living specimens.

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FOLLOWING DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2017-09-26 MERLIN Diagnostika

Bornheim, Germany

MERLIN Diagnostika GmbH has in-depth expertise in products, services and consulting in the fields of antibiotic resistance testing (ART) and antibiotic susceptibility testing (AST). MERLIN's technology and product portfolio for human and veterinary antibiotic resistance and specialty susceptibility testing further expands Bruker´s microbiology business, which is based on rapid, broad-based microbial identification using Bruker's market-leading MALDI Biotyper (MBT) platform for proteomic fingerprinting.

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