In June 2015, the company announced its intention to acquire Alfa Aesar, a global manufacturer of research chemicals for $405 million from Johnson Matthey, and the acquisition was completed at the end of September In January 2021, Thermo Fisher Scientific announced it had acquired Belgium-based viral vector manufacturer, Henogen SA, from Groupe Novasep SAS for €725 million in cash and point-of-care molecular diagnostics provider Mesa Biotech, Inc. for up to $550 million. It is a global supplier of analytical instruments, clinical development solutions, specialty diagnostics, laboratory, pharmaceutical and biotechnology services. In October 2025, Thermo Fisher announced a deal to acquire Clario Holdings—an endpoint data management solutions provider—for $8.88 billion in cash from a shareholder group including Novo Holding. In August 2023, it was announced Thermo Fisher had completed the acquisition for $912.5 million (in cash). In August 2020, Thermo Fisher Scientific opened its new Lenexa facility aimed at boosting the production and manufacturing of COVID-19 testing supplies. Thermo Fisher also partnered with its biopharma customers, including Pfizer and Moderna, to support the development and production of new mRNA-based COVID-19 vaccines.
The merger was complete in November 2006, and technology transfer to a US site was completed during 2007 and 2008. It focused on providing laboratory equipment, chemicals, supplies and services used in healthcare, scientific research, safety, and education. It acquired Chicago-based Stansi Scientific Company in 1967, expanding into educational science supplies. As part of our global team, what you do contribues directly to our Mission, to enable our customers to make the world healthier, cleaner and safer. The images were claimed to validate the effectiveness of antibody products which have uses including Western blots. In 2013, Opengate Capital Group LLC filed suit against Thermo Fisher Scientific for selling it a manufacturing plant controlled by the Gulf Cartel. In June 2021, The New York Times reported that, despite bans, Thermo Fisher Scientific equipment continued to be sold to police in Xinjiang.
This acquisition is anticipated to close in early 2017 and will contribute to the growth of Thermo's Analytical Instruments business group. In January 2016, the company announced it would acquire Affymetrix for $1.3 billion. The company also acquired GIBCO (Grand Island Biological Company) as part of the Life Technologies adrian games acquisition. Life Technologies was originally formed in 2008 through a $6.7B merger of Invitrogen, a cell therapy, and Applied Biosystems. In April 2013, after a competitive bidding with Hoffmann-La Roche, Thermo Fisher acquired Life Technologies Corporation for US$13.6 billion in a deal, adding further service lines related to advanced DNA sequencing and genetic testing. In December 2010, Thermo Fisher Scientific announced its acquisition of Dionex for $2.1 billion.
In 1925, the company purchased Montreal-based Scientific Supplies, Ltd. Fisher became a supplier of lab equipment and reagents for the area's industrial research. Discover exclusive savings on ultra-low temperature freezers and laboratory equipment trusted by researchers worldwide. Save on equipment, consumables, and more all year long with Spotlight special offers.
In the 1990s, Fisher, with partner Intertech Corporation of Atkinson, New Hampshire, set up a pharmaceutical testing and certification lab in Moscow, Russia, to serve with the Russian Federation's Ministry of Health and Medical Industry needs. The public entity was called Fisher Scientific International Inc., and based in Hampton, New Hampshire. Fisher was acquired by Morristown, New Jersey–based Allied Corporation in 1981 for $330 million. In 1968, it purchased Massachusetts-based Jarrell-Ash Company, a producer of optical instrumentation, particularly for emission and atomic absorption spectroscopy. It acquired Pfeiffer Glass, Inc. in 1966, a manufacturer of high accuracy volumetric pipettes. In 1959 the company opened an instrument and supplies facility in Indiana, Pennsylvania. In 1957, the company purchased the New York–based medical apparatus supply company E. In 1955, Fisher established a chemical manufacturing facility in Fair Lawn, New Jersey.
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It made broad patents covering Enhanced GFP (EGFP), GFP-based biosensors and any genetically encoded protein fusion to a luminophore, with subsequent monitoring of the protein's translocation within a cell as the primary readout for drug discovery assays. In 1990, Thermo Fisher Scientific (then known as Thermo Instrument Systems) acquired mass spectrometer manufacturer Finnigan Instrument Corporation. In April 2007, Genevac was sold to Riverlake Partners LLC and the merger closed with FTC approval. However, the Federal Trade Commission ruled that this acquisition was anti-competitive regarding centrifugal evaporators, requiring Fisher to divest Genevac. It ranked 106th on the Fortune 500 list based on its 2025 annual revenue of $44.556 billion. Thermo Fisher Scientific has acquired other reagent, consumable, instrumentation, and service providers, including Life Technologies Corporation (2013), Alfa Aesar (2015), Affymetrix (2016), FEI Company (2016), BD Advanced Bioprocessing (2018), and PPD (2021). Based in Waltham, Massachusetts, Thermo Fisher was formed through the merger of Thermo Electron and Fisher Scientific in 2006. The merger closed on November 9, 2006, and the merged company is now called Thermo Fisher Scientific.