M&A Deal Summary

Waters Acquires Environmental Resource Associates

On November 21, 2006, Waters acquired medical products company Environmental Resource Associates

Acquisition Highlights
  • This is Waters’ 1st transaction in the Medical Products sector.
  • This is Waters’ 4th transaction in the United States.
  • This is Waters’ 1st transaction in Colorado.

M&A Deal Summary
Date 2006-11-21
Target Environmental Resource Associates
Sector Medical Products
Buyer(s) Waters
Deal Type Add-on Acquisition

Target

Environmental Resource Associates

Golden, Colorado, United States
Environmental Resource Associates, Inc. (ERA) founded in 1977, ERA has evolved to become the premier providers of Certified Reference Materials (CRMs) and Proficiency Testing (PT) products to thousands of laboratories around the world and across multiple industries.

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Buyer

Waters

Milford, Massachusetts, United States
Category Company
Founded 1958
Sector Test/Measurement Equipment
Employees7,900
Revenue 3.0B USD (2023)
DESCRIPTION
Entrance to Waters' corporate headquarters in Milford, Massachusetts.
Entrance to Waters' corporate headquarters in Milford, Massachusetts.

Waters is a manufacturer of high and ultra-high performance liquid chromatography and mass spectrometry instruments. It offers thermal analysis, rheometry, and calorimetry instruments and supplies software based products to interface with the company's and other manufacturers' instruments. Waters was formed in 1958 and is based in Milford, Massachusetts.

DEAL STATS #
Overall 4 of 11
Sector (Medical Products) 1 of 4
Type (Add-on Acquisition) 4 of 10
State (Colorado) 1 of 1
Country (United States) 4 of 9
Year (2006) 2 of 2
PREVIOUS DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2006-03-01 VICAM

Watertown, Massachusetts, United States

VICAM a provider of mycotoxin testing solutions. Since 1985, VICAM has been dedicated to developing USDA- and AOAC-approved rapid tests for mycotoxins. VICAM’s mycotoxin test kits offer a choice of rapid qualitative screening and quantitative test methods for a wide variety of mycotoxins. The company's single-use test kits, instrumentation and ancillary equipment are used by grower, processor, regulatory, and food company laboratories for regulatory compliance testing of foods and beverages such as peanuts, coffee, corn, grain/feed, milk, pet food, spices, beer, wine/grape juice among others.

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FOLLOWING DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2007-06-05 Thar Instruments

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States

Thar Instruments, formerly a division of Thar Technologies, is solely focused on advancement and applications of supercritical fluid technologies (SFC). Thar Instruments, headquartered in Pittsburgh, is the world leader in design, development and manufacturing of analytical and preparative SFC instrumentation for pharmaceutical and fine chemical industry. Thar Instruments’ customers include top pharmaceutical, universities and government research organizations worldwide.

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