Ten Companies Form IDEX Health & Science to Provide Highly Precise, Small-Scale Fluidics Solutions

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April 2, 2007: Northbrook, IL, USA, — In its annual report for the year 2006, IDEX^® Corporation, a publicly traded company with more than $1 billion in sales of highly engineered fluidics components and subsystems, formally designated ten businesses acquired since 1995 as its new Health & Science Technologies segment.

“Each of the Health & Science companies is a leader in a particular fluidics technology or technologies,” commented Robert K. Brinley, president of the newly formed segment. “Each brings both the complementary technology and functional excellence needed to support small-scale applied fluidics solutions in rapidly growing markets. Current applications range from analytical instrumentation, clinical diagnostics, medical equipment, and implantable devices to food and beverage processing, microelectronics, and transportation.”

The companies comprising IDEX Health & Science, along with their core technologies, include:

• Eastern Plastics (Bristol, Connecticut, USA): manifolds and high-precision machined components
• Gast^® (Benton Harbor, Michigan, USA): vacuum pumps and compressors;
• Ismatec^® (Glattbrugg, Switzerland): peristaltic pumps
• Jun-Air^® (Nørresundby, Denmark): ultra-quiet, clean-air compressors
• Micropump^® (Vancouver, Washington, USA): gear and micro-annular gear pumps
• Rheodyne^® (Rohnert Park, California, USA): high- and low-pressure valves
• Sapphire Engineering™ (Pocasset, Massachusetts, USA): precision dispense pumps, components, and flow cells
• Systec^® (New Brighton, Minnesota, USA): degassers and debubblers
• Trebor^® International (West Jordan, Utah, USA): air-operated, double-diaphragm pumps
• Upchurch Scientific^® (Oak Harbor, Washington, USA): fittings and tubing

“Our mission within IDEX Health & Science is to support our customers’ growth through the design, production, and distribution of a wide range of high quality, highly precise components and subassemblies,” said Joseph E. Stupfel, Vice President of Marketing for IDEX Health & Science, “Our fluidics and gas management systems and precision components are the key enabling technologies within a variety of custom applications around the world.”

In 2006, through sales teams in North America, Europe, Asia, India, and Australia and distributors around the globe, nearly 40 percent of Health & Science sales occurred outside the U.S. Manufacturing facilities are located in the U.S., Europe, Scandinavia, the United Kingdom, and China.

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Contact:
IDEX Health & Science Media Relations
Tel: +1 866 339 4653
E-mail: info.hst@idexcorp.com