GE Healthcare to Acquire Xcellerex, Inc.

March 7, 2012

GE Healthcare, a unit of GE (NYSE: GE) announced today it has reached an agreement to acquire Xcellerex, Inc. a supplier of innovative manufacturing technologies for the fast-growing biopharmaceutical industry. 

The acquisition of Xcellerex will allow GE Healthcare to expand its offering of products and services for the manufacture of biopharmaceuticals such as recombinant proteins, antibodies and vaccines. 

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