PerkinElmer Acquires Labtronics, Provider of Lab Notebook Solutions

PerkinElmer's (Waltham, MA, USA) software company has bought the electronic laboratory notebook provider Labtronics (Guelph, Canada). Labtronics provides procedure-based electronic laboratory notebook (ELN) solutions for laboratories performing routine analysis in multiple industries. Financial details of the deal were not disclosed.

The Labtronics acquisition follows the purchase of informatics companies CambridgeSoft and ArtusLabs by PerkinElmer in March 2011 for US$220 million. CambridgeSoft and ArtusLabs anticipate combined revenues of about $65 million, according to PerkinElmer, which finished 2010 with about $1.7 billion in revenue.

The addition of Labtronics' solutions extends PerkinElmer's ELN and data-integration software offerings into laboratories following strict routine procedures such as regulated and nonregulated quality assurance/quality control (QA/QC), late-stage product or method development laboratories, and environmental and food testing labs. Labtronics' tools can be applied to any procedure-based problem including laboratory analysis, equipment calibration, and validation, and cleaning validation, notes PerkinElmer.

Dusty Tenney, president, analytical sciences and laboratory services, PerkinElmer said, "This acquisition successfully positions PerkinElmer as the only technology provider able to deploy an optimized ELN solution across a global customer's entire value chain, from research to manufacturing."

Mr Tenney added, "The acquisition presents strong synergies with our OneSource Laboratory Services portfolio providing enterprise-level solutions that foster long-term partnerships with customers."

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