Agilent Technologies to Acquire Assets of Ultra Scientific

Agilent Technologies, Inc. has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire all the business assets of Ultra Scientific, a leading provider of chemical standards and certified reference materials. Chemical standards are identified as a key expansion area that is essential to Agilent’s goal of being a complete workflow solutions provider since they are critical to customers’ analytical laboratory workflows and used to help customers qualify the performance of their methods to validate and quantitate their results. Founded in 1976, Ultra Scientific manufactures and supplies an extensive catalog of certified reference materials, organic and inorganic standards, calibration standards, IQ/OQ/PQ and quality control check standards and has rapid turn capability to meet custom solution needs. This acquisition provides immediate core capabilities, bringing critical manufacturing and industry expertise in-house for the first time. For the past 40 years Ultra Scientific has been a leading supplier of analytical reference material to industry, academia, and research laboratories. Ultra Scientific has been working with Agilent to produce their instrument standards for more than 25 years, and has grown throughout the decades with Agilent and are looking forward to the future opportunities to accelerate growth together.