NanoWorld Holding AG Acquires NanoAndMore GmbH
NanoWorld Holding AG acquired 100% of the German based NanoAndMore GmbH
Schaffhausen, Switzerland (PRWEB) January 20, 2005 -- As of January 1st 2005
NanoWorld Holding AG acquired 100% of the German based NanoAndMore GmbH. This is
a first step to extend the NanoWorld Group’s radius of action along the value
added chain.
With this acquisition the NanoWorld Group gains access to
the greatest end-customer base for Atomic Force Microscope (AFM) related
supplies in Europe and benefits even more from the probes supermarket concept
that was created and successfully implemented by NanoAndMore GmbH founder and
CEO Peer Burshille.
At the same time the acquisition enables the
NanoWorld Group to participate more directly in the promising tool business that
NanoAndMore successfully started in 2004.
NanoAndMore’s sales expertise
and NanoWorld Holding’s strong financial background will enable NanoAndMore to
expand the scope of products, service and support.
About NanoAndMore
GmbH:
NanoAndMore GmbH was founded in 2002 with the objective to serve the
SPM community in the best possible way with consumer goods like SPM probes,
calibration standards, substrates, coating material, MVD deposition systems and
more products and services in the field of High Technology.
NanoAndMore’s
mission is to give the customer the visibility to select the right SPM probe and
other supplies for his needs in the wide range of products from different
manufactures.
Mr. Peer Burshille, founder and CEO of NanoAndMore GmbH has
been active in the SPM market since 1991 making NanoAndMore GmbH the premier
source for supplies, support and hands on information in Europe.
In 2004
NanoAndMore GmbH together with NanoWorld AG entered the systems market with a
series of tools produced by AMST Inc. (www.appliedmst.com) Their Molecular Vapor Deposition MVD
coating systems make Sensors, MEMS and Bio-Devices work better and enable
advancements in Nanotechnology.
MVD™ is a significant new technology that is
certain to accelerate the development of next-generation coatings for a wide
range of nano-scale devices.
The products distributed by NanoAndMore GmbH
are optimized for research, development and process control applications when
visualization, modification and measurement of nanometer-sized surface structure
is critical.
NanoAndMore GmbH continues to pursue the idea of bringing
new developments in the field of measurement instrumentation to the laboratories
in scientific research and industry on customers demand. NanoAndMore has offices
in Germany and France and a subcontractor in UK (Windsor Scientific www.windsor-ltd.co.uk/).
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About NanoWorld Holding AG:
The
NanoWorld Holding AG is a purely financial holding company and does not conduct
operational business. The present key activities of the associated companies are
concentrated on the development, production and commercialization of consumables
for Atomic Force Microscopes (AFM) namely AFM probes or tips fo Scanning Probe
Microscopes (SPM).
In the future the leading position of the associated
companies in the core business will be further expanded and new markets are
going to be developed in the fields of high tech and nanotechnology through
strategic alliances and acquisitions.
Central functions fulfilled by the
holding include access to capital markets and steering the group strategically,
thus relieving the group’s units, allowing them to concentrate on their customer
related activity.
The holdings’s headcount is being kept deliberately low
in order to limit group overheads to a minimum.
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