ACQUIRED · 2014

Who Acquired Cole-Parmer Instrument Company?

GTCR · $480.0M · 2014

The acquisition

Cole-Parmer Instrument Company (United States and Canada) was acquired by GTCR in 2014 for $480.0M. Antylia Scientific manufactures laboratory and industrial fluid handling products, instrumentation, and equipment. It offers laboratory equipment, such as baths and circulators, burettes, calorimeters, centrifuges, chromatography products, desiccators dispensers, electrophoresis products, electroporation products, extraction apparatus, fermentation products, flame photometers, fluid bed dryers, and freeze dryers; fittings that includes quick-disconnect fittings, barbed fittings, compression fitt.

Cole-Parmer Instrument Company at time of acquisition

Deal value

$480.0M

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