Bruker Corp

Roper Scientific operates through various subsidiaries that include Photometrics and Princeton Instruments. The company offers a variety of medical equipment and services and high-performance digital imaging and spectroscopy. It also has subsidiaries in France, Germany, Japan and the Benelux, which includes Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg. Founded in 1998, Roper Scientific provides various specialized services in scientific and industrial imaging segments. The company provides various engineered products and solutions for global niche markets, including water, energy, radio frequency, research and medical applications. It additionally focuses on several other market segments, such as technology, distribution, manufacturing and sourcing. Roper Scientific is located in Tucson, Ariz.

Founded on precision measurement in 1942, Boeckeler Instruments expanded its technology to support the video measurement needs in science and industry. In 1993, the company streamlined its video marking services for use by the presentation and broadcast markets. The company offers video measuring, digital readouts, measuring instruments, crossline generators and image enhancement products. Boeckeler Instruments is located in Tucson, Ariz.

Accelr8 Technology Corporation is a developer of innovative materials and instrumentation for advanced applications in medical instrumentation, basic research and drug discovery. The company s initial products were OptArray micro-arraying slides, coated with its OptiChem surface chemistry. Its OptArray slides are used for protein and DNA arraying. In addition to its micro-arraying products, Accelr8 is developing a rapid clinical pathogen platform, the BACcelr8r, based on its innovative surface coatings, assay processing and detection technologies. The company is engineering BACcelr8r to become the world's first diagnostic system to provide bacterial identification and quantitation in two hours or less. It will also offer complete antibiotic resistance strain identification in eight hours or less, as opposed to the one to three days it takes for standard culturing. Accelr8 entered the life sciences industry in 2001 with the acquisition of advanced materials and instrumentation platforms for bio-analytic assays. Prior to the acquisition, Accelr8 had been successful in the software industry since 1987.