知名的材料表征技术公司马尔文仪器（Malvern Instruments Ltd.）成功收购Viscotek公司。Viscotek公司在天然或合成高分子和蛋白质的色谱表征技术上处于世界领先地位。 

马尔文仪器公司作为全球知名的颗粒材料表征系统的供应商，为各类企业提供完善的应用方案。与Viscotek公司的结合使得双方在技术和特长上优势互补，马尔文公司自此拥有了凝胶渗透色谱（GPC/SEC），流动注射高分子分析（FIPA）以及稀释液粘度仪（DSV）等相关技术，进一步拓展了材料表征方案的应用范围。 

马尔文公司全球总裁Paul Walk先生这样评价此次收购：“Viscotek公司一直以来在其产品质量和创新性上享有良好的声誉。在蛋白质和高分子的应用领域，其公司的产品应用范围与马尔文公司的十分接近而且互补。此次收购将显著增加马尔文公司纳米产品线的表征能力。” 

Viscotek公司是由四毛细管微分粘度探测器的发明者Max Haney博士于1984年创建的，公司总部位于美国休斯敦。“自公司创立之初起，Viscotek在天然或合成高分子与蛋白质的凝胶渗透色谱技术以及稀释液粘度法的产品开发和创新上一直是业界的先锋，” 保罗•沃克先生补充道，“近年来Viscotek公司实现了显著的增长，与马尔文公司合并之后，双方产品线的重新整合会为顾客提供更全面的产品与技术服务。我非常高兴Viscotek公司成为了马尔文仪器公司的一部分，我坚信公司的发展有着美好的前景！”

在介绍并购之后公司扩展产品的互补性的同时，Paul Walker先生谈到，“在生物大分子领域的应用上，马尔文的现有产品将整合Viscotek的产品体系，为生物物理学家提供更多的蛋白质结构-功能关系的信息，例如某些在确定疾病致病机理上十分重要的信息。在新功能高分子发展迅速的工业界和制药行业，马尔文将能够提供更全面的表征方案，，以迎合日趋复杂的药物传递系统和严格的环境标准。” “通过马尔文遍布全球的销售组织，用户可以在公司广泛的技术与应用支持网络的帮助下，得到全面的解决方案。” 

Viscotek公司现有的管理团队将继续以马尔文子公司的名义经营Viscotek公司。

更多的信息您可以在马尔文公司网站www.malvern.com www.malvern.com.cn
或者Viscotek公司网站www.viscotek.com 上找到。

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Malvern Instruments acquires Viscotek Corporation

Materials characterization company Malvern Instruments has acquired Viscotek Corporation, a leading provider of chromatography solutions for the characterization of natural and synthetic polymers and proteins.

Malvern Instruments is a world-class supplier of systems for the characterization of particulate materials, providing complete application solutions across a broad range of industries. The acquisition of Viscotek brings new and complementary technologies and expertise into the company, adding Gel Permeation Chromatography (GPC), Flow Injection Polymer Analysis (FIPA) and Dilute Solution Viscosity (DSV), and extending the range of characterization solutions offered.

Paul Walker, Managing Director of Malvern Instruments said: “Viscotek has a long-established reputation for innovation and quality, and there is a close and complementary fit between the Viscotek product range and Malvern’s, for both protein and polymer applications. This acquisition will increase the characterization capabilities of Malvern’s existing nanometrology product lines.”

Viscotek Corporation, headquartered in Houston, Texas, was founded in 1984 by Dr. Max Haney, inventor of the four-capillary differential viscometer detector. “Since its inception, Viscotek has pioneered innovative technologies and products for gel permeation chromatography of natural and synthetic polymers and proteins, and determination of dilute solution viscosities,” he said. “In recent years Viscotek has experienced exciting growth. The powerful alignment of Viscotek’s products with the Malvern range will provide even more opportunity to comprehensively meet a broad range of customer needs. I am delighted that the company has become part of Malvern Instruments, where I am confident of further development and a thriving and expanded business.”

Expanding on the complementary nature of the two companies’ product ranges, Paul Walker went on to say: “In the biomolecular arena the addition of Viscotek systems alongside our existing product range will further inform physical biochemists of the structure-function relationship of proteins, important in determining disease mechanisms for example. In the field of industrial and pharmaceutical polymers, Malvern will now be able to offer complete characterization solutions, essential in the development of new functional polymers that meet the demands of increasingly complex drug delivery systems and stringent environmental requirements.

“Through Malvern’s global sales organization, customers worldwide will have access to the full range of solutions, all backed by the company’s extensive technical and applications support network.”

Viscotek’s present management team will continue to lead the business, which will operate as Viscotek Corporation, a Malvern Company.

For further information about the Malvern and Viscotek ranges please visit www.malvern.com and www.viscotek.com

Malvern and Malvern Instruments are registered trademarks of Malvern Instruments Ltd. Viscotek is a registered trademark of Viscotek Corp.