10 Current news of Corning
rssAcquisition will broaden life sciences consumables product portfolio
04-11-2012
Corning Incorporated announced that it has reached a definitive agreement with BD(Becton, Dickinson and Company) (NYSE:BDX) to acquire the majority of its Discovery Labware unit for approximately $730 million in cash. The acquisition is expected to be completed later this year, subject to ...
12-05-2011
Corning Incorporated announced that it has completed the acquisition of Mediatech, Inc. , a Virginia-based corporation, including Mediatech's subsidiary, KD Medical, Inc., a Maryland-based corporation. Mediatech is now a wholly owned subsidiary of Corning and will be integrated into Corning's ...
Corning expands capacity to serve world's fastest growing Life Sciences market
11-11-2011
Corning Incorporated announced the official opening of a new state-of-the-art manufacturing and distribution facility for Corning Life Sciences in China's Yangtze River Delta. The grand opening ceremony was held just over a year after Corning's Board of Directors approved the approximately ...
10-06-2010
Corning Incorporated announced that it has completed the previously announced acquisition of all outstanding shares of Plaslab S.A.S. from certain investment funds managed by Qualium Investissement and from the other shareholders of Plaslab. Plaslab is the holding company of Plastiques ...
Acquisition to add sampling, testing, and analysis consumables to its life sciences product portfolio
08-16-2010
Corning Incorporated announced that it has reached an agreement with the shareholders of Plaslab S.A.S. to acquire all outstanding shares of the company. Assuming certain closing conditions are met, the acquisition is expected to be completed in the fourth quarter of 2010. Plaslab is a ...
02-02-2010
Corning Incorporated and Sartorius Stedim Biotech announced a co-marketing and branding collaboration. The companies intend to leverage existing synergies to co-market a full range of cell culture products through a combined product catalog and work together on numerous marketing and sales ...
Strategic agreement to develop next-generation platforms for Life Sciences research
10-30-2009
PerkinElmer Inc. and Corning Incorporated announced that the two companies have entered into a strategic agreement to advance the development of next-generation label-free detection technologies. The agreement will allow Corning and PerkinElmer to combine their expertise in optical ...
Acquisition to expand Corning's portfolio of life sciences products and global customer access
09-18-2009
Corning Incorporated announced that it has acquired all the shares of Axygen BioScience, Inc. and its subsidiaries from American Capital Ltd. for approximately $400 million in cash. Headquartered in Union City, Calif., Axygen is a manufacturer and distributor of life sciences plastic ...
09-09-2008
Corning Incorporated announced the signing of a commercial agreement with HighRes Biosolutions Inc. to develop consumables to meet the needs of medium-to high-throughput screening customers. HighRes Biosolutions is a manufacturer of high-end automation for high-throughput screening (HTS). ...
08-17-2007
Corning Incorporated announced that it has acquired from Oerlikon the worldwide exclusive rights to U.S. Patent 5,738,825 and its foreign counterparts, which cover microplate-based optical biosensors. Corning had previously acquired a joint ownership right in the patent from Artificial ...
