NEW YORK, Sept. 22 (GenomeWeb News) - Harvard Bioscience said Friday that its Genomic Solutions subsidiary had acquired microarray instrumentation firm BioRobotics, a subsidiary of Apogent Technologies, for approximately $3.2 million in cash and certain limited liabilities.
BioRobotics sells robotics for DNA microarray manufacturing and colony picking. Jeff Williams, president of Genomic Solutions, said the Cambridge, UK-based firm's product line would complement that of GeneMachines, a company it acquired last March for $8.3 million, with "GeneMachines' strength in high-capacity arrayers and BioRobotics' strength in bench top instruments."
Williams said that BioRobotics' UK-based support and sales staff will join Genomic Solutions' UK sales and marketing team, while product development and manufacturing will be consolidated into the company's Huntingdon, UK facility.
BioRobotics is expected to achieve revenues of approximately $3 million in 2004.