2007年AMETEK收购CAMECA SAS，提升分析仪器市场实力

  


(AMETEK)宣布其收购CAMECA SAS??高端元素分析系统，用于先进的分析、半导体和纳米技术应用。CAMECA总部位于法国巴黎，年收销售额约6000万欧元，被Carlyle集团领导的投资集团所购买，价值约820亿欧元合1.12亿美元。

AMETEK主席廉首席执行官Frank S. Hermance说：“收购CAMECA是一个很明智的举措，对于扩展我们的技术能力意义深远。其全球客户包括许多世界领先的半导体生产商、学术专家、政府和从事其它材料科学研究的工业生产厂商。”

Hermance又补充说到，“CAMECA在他所涉及的市场中都占据领导地位。他们的产品包括二次离子质谱入门（SIMS）、低能耗X射线发射光谱测定法（LEXES），TAP和电子探针微量分析仪器。”

他又解释：“CAMECA的加入可以补充我们的SPECTRO和EDAX业务产品。这些业务涉及很广泛的技术，包括用于微量分析测量解决方案的光谱仪和X射线荧光光谱仪技术，用于金属、环境、分析研究、石化产品、药品、电子和法庭科学市场。”

AMETEK是电子仪器的全球领导制造商，2006的其电子机械设备销售额18亿美元。AMETEK的合作成长计以五个关键性战略为基础：优越的操作性、战略收购和联盟、全球市场扩张和新产品。AMETEK的目标就是在业务循环之上每股收入实现两位数增长，总资产达到较高回报。 

AMETEK Acquires CAMECA SAS

PAOLI, PA | Posted on August 13th, 2007

AMETEK, Inc. (NYSE:AME) announced that it has acquired CAMECA SAS, a manufacturer of high-end elemental analysis systems used in advanced laboratory research, semiconductor and nanotechnology applications. CAMECA, based in Paris, France, was purchased from an investment group led by the Carlyle Group for approximately €82 million ($112 million). CAMECA has estimated annual sales of € 60 million ($82 million).

"CAMECA is an excellent acquisition that significantly broadens our technical capabilities in differentiated, high-end analytical instrumentation. Its global customer base includes many of the world's leading semiconductor manufacturers and academic, government, and industrial research facilities engaged in nano-science and other materials science research," states Frank S. Hermance, AMETEK Chairman and Chief Executive Officer.

"CAMECA holds a leading position in each of its markets. Their products include secondary ion mass spectrometry (SIMS), low-energy X-ray emission spectrometry (LEXES), tomographic atom probe (TAP), and electron probe microanalysis (EPMA) instrumentation," adds Mr. Hermance.

"CAMECA complements the products and technology offered by our SPECTRO and EDAX businesses. Those businesses provide a wide range of technology, including optical emission and X-ray fluorescence spectrometers for microanalysis measurement solutions for the metals, environmental, R&D, petrochemical, pharmaceutical, electronics and forensic science markets," he notes.

CAMECA joins AMETEK's Electronic Instruments Group—a global leader in advanced instruments for the process, aerospace, power and industrial markets with 2006 sales of more than $1 billion.

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