Agilent Technologies completes acquisition of ULTRA Scientific assets

Agilent Technologies Inc. has completed the acquisition of the business assets of ULTRA Scientific, Inc., a leading provider of chemical standards and certified reference materials. Agilent identified chemical standards as a key expansion area that will enable it to enhance the customer experience by providing complete workflow solutions. ULTRA Scientific’s extensive catalog of chemical standards is critical to analytical laboratory workflows and helps customers qualify the performance of their methods to validate and quantitate results.

ULTRA Scientific serves laboratory professionals in key end markets including environmental, food, forensics, pharmaceutical, chemical and energy, and academia and government.

Steve Cohan, vice president and general manager of Agilent’s Supplies Division: “We look forward to combining the teams, and the new opportunities we will have to leverage our combined strengths and create significant value for our customers as we work towards our goal of creating complete workflow solutions.”