Bruker AXS Announces Closing of Acquisition of JUWE Combustion Analysis Business and Establishment of Elemental Analysis Center of Excellence

KALKAR, Germany--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 4, 2008--Bruker AXS GmbH announced today the closing of its acquisition of JUWE Labor-geraete GmbH in Viersen, Germany. The renamed Bruker JUWE GmbH will operate under its previous experienced management with a focus on rapid growth in combustion analysis for metals analysis. During 2008, Bruker JUWE will be relocated to Kalkar, Germany, where together with spark-OES specialist Bruker Quantron, it will be part of the new Bruker Elemental Analysis Center of Excellence.

JUWE has serviced, and later on developed, manufactured and sold combustion analysis (CA) systems for elemental analysis since 1997, primarily for the metal production, chemical and pharmaceutical indus-tries. JUWE's high-quality CA products complement Bruker's X-ray fluo-rescence (XRF) and optical emission spectroscopy (OES) product lines in the field of elemental analysis.