SANTA CLARA (dpa-AFX) - Scientific instruments maker Agilent Technologies Inc (A) on Monday said it has agreed to sell its X-ray diffraction business to Rigaku, a privately held scientific instrumentation company based in Tokyo. The financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.
The deal is expected to to be final May 1, subject to customary conditions.
Agilent's X-ray diffraction business makes single-crystal X-ray instruments for the chemical crystallography market. Agilent had acquired the business from Varian in 2010.
Rigaku plans to combine XRD with its existing crystallography business to form a new business unit. XRD products will continue to be developed and produced at existing factories in Poland and Japan.
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