Halma acquires Alicat Scientific

Halma, a safety, health and sensor technology group, has acquired Alicat Scientific, a privately owned manufacturer of mass flow and pressure technology, for ?15.7m in cash.

Halma, a safety, health and sensor technology group, has acquired Alicat Scientific, a privately owned manufacturer of mass flow and pressure technology, for ￡15.7m in cash. The Tucson, Arizona, US-based firm will join Halma’s health and analysis sector within its global group of fluid technology businesses. Andrew Williams, chief executive of Halma, based in Amersham, Buckinghamshire, UK, said: ‘Alicat adds new technologies and end market applications to our fluid technology businesses, which currently focus on fluid flow via precision miniature tubing assemblies, connectors and valves.’ He added that the deal would provide ‘new cross-selling opportunities’ and the Halma hubs in Asia would help Alicat accelerate its recent sales growth in this region. Founded in 1991, Alicat uses differential pressure measurement in its products, speeding response times by as much as 1000 times over that of competing temperature-based measurement technology. The company’s mass flow devices