Evans Analytical Group LLC ("EAG"), the leading global provider of
microanalytical surface analysis and materials characterization
services, announced today that in the last two weeks of December, it
has acquired five additional companies: Cascade Scientific Ltd. and
Cascade Scientific GmbH (collectively "Cascade Scientific"); Nano
Science Corporation ("Nano Science"); Shiva Technologies, Inc. and
Shiva Technologies Europe SARL (collectively "Shiva Technologies").
EAG has also signed a Letter of Intent to acquire Shiva Technologies'
affiliated lab in Bangalore, India.
"With these transactions, we continue the strategic expansion plan
we established early in 2006, making EAG the most comprehensive and
accessible independent surface analysis and materials characterization
services provider in the world," said Tom Pfeil, EAG CEO. "We now
offer over twenty-five major surface analysis techniques, and have
analytical service labs in the key global areas, allowing us to
efficiently offer the complete suite of EAG analytical solutions
through each location. The truly exciting result of these acquisitions
and our overall expansion plan is that we have not only significantly
increased our scale and technique suite, but we have done so without
compromising quality. EAG has brought together a highly talented
scientific team that is able to innovate and advance analytical
applications in step with industry needs today and tomorrow."
Expanded Global Reach
By expanding its analytical laboratory footprint from six to
fifteen locations across seven countries covering strategic regions
throughout Asia, the UK, continental Europe and the US, EAG is now
able to bring its comprehensive suite of analytical services directly
to its customers in every market:
-- The addition of Cascade Scientific gives EAG a highly
respected team of scientists and established surface analysis
labs in the UK and Germany.
-- Shiva Technologies, the world leader in GDMS services, adds
expert analytical teams and labs in New York and France.
-- Nano Science, a long time strategic partner to both EAG and
Shiva Technologies, adds a highly regarded technical sales and
customer service operation in Tokyo, Japan.
World Class GDMS and Laser Ablation ICP-MS Services
The acquisition of Shiva Technologies brings to EAG a formidable
leadership position in Glow Discharge Mass Spectrometry (GDMS)
analytical services. GDMS is an extremely powerful tool for performing
trace and ultra-trace elemental analysis on inorganic solid materials
such as metals and alloys, semiconductors, ceramics, glasses,
carbides, salts as well as thin films and coatings. Shiva Technologies
also brings to EAG Laser Ablation Inductively Coupled Plasma - Mass
Spectrometry (LA-ICP-MS). One of the key advantages of this technique
is its ability to analyze small spots (as small as 5 um). LA-ICP-MS
can perform elemental characterization of items of interest such as
spots, stains, corrosion, weld areas, etc. Moreover, since the
technique samples materials directly, sample preparation issues are
minimal and dilution effects, common to solution-based techniques, do
not exist.
About Cascade Scientific
Founded in 1988, Cascade Scientific Ltd., located in London, UK,
and its sister company Cascade Scientific GmbH, located in Frankfurt,
Germany, comprise the premier semiconductor analysis company in
Europe, specializing in the analysis of silicon-based and
optoelectronic devices at all stages of fabrication. Analytical
capabilities include, SIMS, TOF-SIMS, TXRF, XPS, AES, AFM-STM and SRP.
About Shiva Technologies
Founded in 1990, Shiva Technologies located in Syracuse, New York,
along with sister company Shiva Technologies Europe SARL located in
Tournefeuille, France, is by far the largest analytical services
provider specifically dedicated to bringing the advanced and powerful
capabilities of Glow Discharge Mass Spectrometry (GDMS) to
organizations involved in high purity material research and
production. Shiva Technologies is the global leader in the application
of GDMS to the analysis of all types of inorganic solid materials:
metals and alloys, semiconductors, ceramics, glasses, carbides, salts
as well as thin films and coatings. Shiva Technologies also offers
expert services in Laser Ablation ICP-MS, ICP-OES and IGA.
About Nano Science
Nano Science has been a technical sales and customer service
partner in Japan for both EAG and Shiva Technologies for many years.
The company has earned a reputation in Japan for providing excellent
technical support and responsive customer service to a wide range of
industries. Nano Science's technical sales and service staff is
composed of former surface science analysts who are uniquely qualified
to provide value-add initial consultation and post-analysis support to
the local customer base.
About Evans Analytical Group
Founded in 1978, Evans Analytical Group (EAG) is the world's
leading full service commercial analytical lab network serving a
diversified high technology and industrial customer base of over 2,000
companies in over 35 countries. EAG provides a comprehensive suite of
microanalytical imaging, surface analysis and materials
characterization services as well as semiconductor circuit repair and
failure analysis testing. EAG's services are a critical enabling
component in research & development, manufacturing and sales support
functions, and are used specifically in developing new processes or
materials, transferring those processes to production, developing and
qualifying new production tools, and solving manufacturing yield
problems. Headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, EAG also has
facilities in Arizona, Massachusetts, Minnesota, New Jersey, New York,
North Carolina, Texas, China, France, Germany, Japan, Taiwan, and the
United Kingdom as well as sales/support offices in Korea, and
Singapore. (www.eaglabs.com)
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