Gatan, Inc. is the world's leading manufacturer of instrumentation and software used to enhance and extend the operation and performance of electron microscopes. Gatan's products, which are fully compatible with all brands of electron microscopes, cover the entire range of the analytical process from specimen preparation and manipulation to imaging and analysis. Our customer base spans the complete spectrum of end users of analytical instrumentation typically found in industrial, governmental and academic laboratories. The applications addressed by these scientists and researchers include metallurgy, semiconductors, electronics, biological science, new materials research and biotechnology. The Gatan brand name is recognized and respected throughout the worldwide scientific community and has been synonymous with high quality products and the industry's leading technology. Gatan, Inc. is a member of the Analytical Instrumentation segment of the Roper Industries, Inc. family of companies. In June 2000 Gatan was pleased to announce its acquisition of the EM Products Group from Oxford Instruments. The new business is known as Gatan UK and operates as a self-standing UK manufacturing unit, with enhanced facilities to provide specialist products for SEM and TEM. The acquisition coincided with a move for the existing team to a modern, (6000 sq. ft.) factory unit in Oxford, with purpose-built facilities , such as a clean room for assembly and a large EM Applications laboratory. Bob Buchanan, president of Gatan Inc, stated, "The acquisition of Oxford Instruments will fulfill a long-held objective of Gatan:to add a world-class range of SEM products to the Gatan range of products, as well as an even wider portfolio of systems for the TEM. The leading reputation of the Oxford-based team in techniques such as cryo-transfer and cathodoluminescence will allow us to offer a still better service to the microscopy community." HISTORICAL BACKGROUND Peter and Rex Swann incorporated Gatan in Pennsylvania in 1964. For the first fifteen years, the Company focused on contract manufacturing involving high-precision machining. In 1979, Gatan introduced its first major product for the electron microscope market, the DuoMill, a high-precision ion-milling system used to thin a specimen to electron transparency so that it could be successfully viewed in an electron microscope.
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