USA – Bruker, a Billerica, MA-based provider of analytical and diagnostic solutions, acquired Nion, a Kirkland, WA-based company that develops and manufactures innovative high-end scanning transmission electron microscopes (STEM).
The amount of the deal was not disclosed.This acquisition enhances Bruker’s product offerings and technology portfolio in materials science research and provides the technology base for applications in electron diffraction crystallography.Founded in 1997 by Dr. Ondrej Krivanek and Dr. Niklas Dellby, Nion is a developer of advanced scanning transmission electron microscopes (the UltraSTEM™ range) and other electron-optical instruments. The company designs and makes cold field emission guns, aberration correctors, monochromators, sample stages, spectrometers, and detectors. This allows the company to ensure that all the components work together seamlessly, and to deliver instruments that answer needs in the real world, in an integrated and easy-to-use manner.Bruker provides performance scientific instruments and analytical and diagnostic solutions that enable scientists to explore life and materials at molecular, cellular and microscopic levels. In close cooperation with its customers, it is enabling innovation, improved productivity and customer success in life science molecular and cell biology research, in applied and pharma applications, in microscopy and nanoanalysis, as well as in industrial applications. The company offers differentiated, life science and diagnostics systems and solutions in preclinical imaging, clinical phenomics research, proteomics and multiomics, spatial and single-cell biology, functional structural and condensate biology, as well as in clinical microbiology and molecular diagnostics. 04/01/2024
