Thermo Fisher Scientific

Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. ( NYSE: TMO), also briefly Thermo Fisher, is an American technology company based in Waltham, Massachusetts. It describes itself as "the world leader in serving science applications."

Thermo Fisher has approximately 50,000 employees worldwide and a turnover of 13.09 billion U.S. $ ( 2013).

History

Thermo Fisher Scientific was formed in November 2006 with the acquisition of Fisher Scientific International Inc. by Thermo Electron Corp.. and its subcontractors Thermo Quest. Thermo Electron Corp.. , Which had been founded in 1956, but had already numerous analytics companies ( such as Finnigan MAT, Fisons Instrument ( partial), Carlo Erba Strumentazione, Nicolet Instrument Corporation ) acquired their activities now under the umbrella of Thermo Fisher Scientific were summarized. Since 17 May 2011, the Dionex Corporation is officially a part of Thermo Fisher Scientific group.

In May 2011, Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. bought for € 2.47 billion the company Phadia, which manufactures tests for allergies and autoimmune diseases.

In April 2013 Thermo Fisher announced after a bidding war with Hoffmann -La Roche, that there Life Technologies Corp. will take over 13.6 billion U.S. dollars. This acquisition was completed in February 2014.

Products

A major product of thermal coupling techniques are of mass spectrometers with Chromatographiegeräten. Among other things, the mass spectrometer with quadrupole ( DSQ, TSQ ), the ion trap technique ( ion trap ) and Orbitrap mass spectrometers are offered to both simple and multiple mass spectrometer both in the form.

Analysis devices can be used in the form of a gas chromatograph (GC), liquid chromatograph (HPLC), capillary electrophoresis (CE) and ICP can be coupled. For the chromatography instruments, other detectors are offered.

Other products include the following analysis techniques:

• AAS ( atomic absorption spectrometry )
• FT -IR spectroscopy
• Infrared microscopy
• Laboratory extruder, lab mixer
• Near- infrared analyzers
• OES ( optical emission spectrometry )
• Raman spectroscopy
• Rheometers, viscometers
• X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy,
• UV-Vis spectrophotometer
• XRF / XRD ( energy and wavelength dispersive X-ray fluorescence analysis)

Thermo Fisher Scientific is also developing appropriate chromatographic analysis software (eg Xcalibur and Dionex Chromeleon ) and Laboratory Information and Management Systems (LIMS ).

The company is also a leading global supplier of laboratory consumables and chemicals