Agilent Technologies announced this week that it has acquired Polymer Standards Service (PSS), a provider of solutions for polymer characterization as well as software and hardware used to define the makeup and creation of molecular structures.
The acquisition broadens Agilent's product portfolio and customer offerings, particularly in the chemical and biopharmaceutical industries for the analysis of natural and synthetic polymers such as nucleic acids, proteins, monoclonal antibodies, polysaccharides, and synthetic plastic.
Financial and other terms of the acquisition were not disclosed.
PSS provides solutions for gel permeation chromatography (GPC) and size exclusion chromatography (SEC) used in applications to determine the molecular weight and macromolecules' size distribution.