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Agilent’s X-Ray Diffraction Business Acquired by Rigaku

Rigaku Corp. and Agilent Technologies Announce Rigaku to Acquire Agilent’s X-Ray Diffraction Business

TOKYO and SANTA CLARA, Calif., March 30, 2015 – Rigaku Corp. and Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE: A) today announced an agreement for Rigaku, a privately held scientific instrumentation company headquartered in Tokyo, to acquire Agilent’s X-ray diffraction (XRD) business.

Formerly known as Oxford Diffraction within Varian when that company was acquired by Agilent in 2010, the XRD group is a key manufacturer of single-crystal X-ray instruments for the global chemical crystallography market.

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