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| Company type | Public |
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| Industry | Scientific test equipment |
| Founded | 1960; 65 years ago (1960), in Germany |
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| Headquarters | Billerica, Massachusetts, U.S. |
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| Revenue |  US$2.96 billion (2023) |
| US$437 million (2023) | |
| US$427 million (2023) | |
| Total assets | US$4.25 billion (2023) |
| Total equity | US$1.39 billion (2023) |
Number of employees | 9,707 (2023) |
| Website | bruker |
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Bruker Corporation is an American manufacturer of scientific instruments for molecular and materials research, as well as for industrial and applied analysis. It is headquartered inBillerica, Massachusetts, and is the publicly traded parent company of Bruker Scientific Instruments (Bruker AXS, Bruker BioSpin, Bruker Daltonics and Bruker Optics) and Bruker Energy & Supercon Technologies (BEST) divisions.
In April 2010, Bruker created a Chemical Analysis Division (headquartered in Fremont, CA) under the Bruker Daltonics subsidiary. This division contains three former Varian product lines:ICPMS systems, laboratorygas chromatography (GC), and GC-triple quadrupole mass spectrometer (originally designed by Bear Instruments and acquired by Varian in 2001).
In 2012, it sponsored theFritz Feigl Prize,[2] and since 1999 the company has also sponsored theGünther Laukien Prize.[3]
The company was founded on September 7, 1960, inKarlsruhe, Germany[4] asBruker-PhysikAG[3] by five people, one of them beingGünther Laukien, who was a professor at theUniversity of Karlsruhe at the time. The nameBruker originates from co-founder Emil Bruker, as Günther Laukien himself was formally not allowed to commercialize his research whilst being a professor.[4] Bruker producedNuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy (NMR) andEMR spectroscopy equipment then.
In the early 1960s, the company had around 60 employees and was growing rapidly.[5] One of the early success products was the HFX 90 NMR spectroscopy system, with three independent channels and which was also the first NMR system using only semiconductor transistors.[6]
In 1969, Bruker launched the first commercialFourier transform NMR spectroscopy system (FT-NMR) and in the 1970s the company was the first to commercialize asuperconducting FT-NMR. Later, the company would expand their product range withMRI,FTIR and FT-Raman spectrometers and withmass spectrometers.[7]
In 1968, Bruker shipped NMR systems toYale University inConnecticut. After that, demand from the US grew, so Bruker opened an office inElmsford, New York which marked the start of their US activities.[4] In 2008 after a corporate reorganization lasting 8 years, all divisions were merged in a unified Bruker Corporation.[4]
Günther Laukien died in 1997; one of his four sonsFrank Laukien, is currently the CEO of Bruker.[7] Another son, Jörg C. Laukien, also works for the company.[8] Another son, Dirk D. Laukien, is a former company executive.[9]
Bruker acquisitions include GE NMR Instruments (1992), Siemens AXS (1997),[10] Nonius (2001),[11] MacScience (2002),[12] Vacuumschmelze Hanau (2003),[13] Röntec (2005),[14] SOCABIM (2005),[15] PGT (2005),[16] Keymaster (2006),[17] Quantron (2006),[18] JuWe (2008),[19] SIS (2008),[20] ACCEL (2009),[21] Michrom Bioresources (2011),[22] Skyscan (2012),[23] Prairie Technologies (2013),[24] Oncovision (Preclinical PET imaging business, 2016),[25] Oxford Instruments Superconducting Technology (2016),[26] Hysitron Inc. (2017),[27] XGLab (2017),[28] Luxendo (2017),[29] Alicona (2018),[30] PMOD Technologies LLC (2019),[31] Optimal Group (2022),[32] Neurescence Inc (2022),[33] andMIRO Analytical (majority 2023).[34]
In 1964, the company bought the NMR division of theSwiss Trüb-Täuber.[3]
Bruker made several offers to take over its supplierOxford Instruments during the 1970s, but after almost a decade of negotiations, an acquisition was eventually rejected by Oxford Instruments.[35]
In 1997, the analytical X-ray division ofSiemens was acquired by Bruker.[36]
In 2010, Bruker bought 3 product lines fromAgilent, which Agilent had acquired fromVarian.[37] These included mass spectrometry and gas chromatography instruments. They have since divested these products to Scion Instruments with the exception of the triple quadrupole[citation needed]
In 2012, Bruker bought parts ofCarestream Health, including their in-vivo imaging portfolio and related aspects.[38]
In 2019, Bruker bought Alicona, known for production of metrology equipment based onfocus variation, to extend its analytics business in the industrial market.[39]
In November 2022, it was announced Bruker had acquired theMountain View-headquartered miniaturized microscope / miniscope company, Inscopix, Inc.[40]
Bruker develops and delivers a wide variety of professional and scientific analysis devices includingmass spectrometers, single-Crystal and powderX-ray diffractometers,X-ray tomography devices,NMR spectroscopy devices,fluorescence microscopes,raman spectroscopes,atomic-force microscopes, andprofilometers
Bruker products are used globally in a variety of situations. TheNational High Magnetic Field Laboratory atFlorida State University selected Bruker to build the world's first 21.0teslaFT-ICR MS.[41]
TheTotal Carbon Column Observing Network uses high resolutionFT-IR spectrometers made by Bruker to measure various greenhouse gases across the globe.[42]
In May, 2004, Frost & Sullivan selected the Company's Bruker Daltonics subsidiary for their 2004 Product Line Innovation Award for the Life Sciences. Bruker Daltonics received this award for its innovative development of sophisticated mass spectrometers.[43]
Bruker ultimately introduced the first fully transistorized NMR instrument, the HFX 90, the first of which was delivered to the Technical Univ. of Berlin.
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