Bruker AXS Announces Acquisition of Hand-held XRF Company.BILLERICA, Mass. -- Bruker AXS Inc. today announces that it has acquired all of the shares of privately-held KeyMaster Technologies Inc. from KeyMaster's previous majority shareholder Advent International and other shareholders. The share purchase agreement for KeyMaster was signed and the transaction was closed simultaneously on July 18, 2006. KeyMaster Technologies, located in Kennewick, Washington, develops and manufactures portable hand-held X-ray fluorescence (XRF XRF X-Ray Fluorescence XRF X-Ray Flash XRF Cross Reference XRF Extended Recovery Facility (IBM) XRF Extended Reliability Feature XRF Cross Reference File XRF External Reference ) systems for numerous applications, including: --metals and alloy analysis used in various metal processing industries, including automotive, scrap sorting, and others, --Positive Material Identification (PMI See Private Mortgage Insurance. ) required for example in the aerospace and power industries, --Restrictions of Hazardous Substances (RoHS) analysis required under European regulations, --environmental metals-in-soil or lead-in-paint (LiP) analysis, --art, museum and archaeological analysis, and --elemental taggant tag·gant n. Any of various substances, such as microscopic pieces of multilayered colored plastic, added to a product to indicate its source of manufacture: added taggants to explosives to deter terrorism. analysis for tracing of origin and security applications. The hand-held XRF market has been the fastest growing market segment in X-ray analysis in recent years, with an estimated total market size of $90 million in 2005. As a new Bruker AXS subsidiary, KeyMaster will remain in its current location, and will continue under its current name and management team in order to provide leading hand-held XRF systems and cutting-edge, miniaturized, light-weight X-ray technologies both to KeyMaster's present OEM (Original Equipment Manufacturer) The rebranding of equipment and selling it. The term initially referred to the company that made the products (the "original" manufacturer), but eventually became widely used to refer to the organization that buys the products and customers, as well as to Bruker AXS. John Landefeld, President of KeyMaster, stated: "We are very pleased that Bruker AXS has acquired our company, and our team is excited to get access to considerable additional resources within Bruker AXS. This acquisition by a highly respected major X-ray analysis company further validates KeyMaster's unique technology, and we expect numerous technological and applications synergies with Bruker AXS." Frank Laukien, President of Bruker AXS, commented: "We cordially welcome the excellent KeyMaster team. After careful exploration, we have decided that Keymaster is the best partner for us to enter the rapidly growing hand-held XRF market. We are very pleased with KeyMaster's innovative and versatile, yet robust technology to serve this market both via OEM partners as well as via our own applications and market expertise. The KeyMaster technology is perfectly complementary to our existing X-ray analysis portfolio, and will be an enabling technology to pursue new miniaturized analytical solutions, particularly in fast-growing industrial applications." ABOUT BRUKER BIOSCIENCES (NASDAQ NASDAQ in full National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations U.S. market for over-the-counter securities. Established in 1971 by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), NASDAQ is an automated quotation system that reports on : BRKR BRKR Breaker ) Bruker BioSciences Corporation Bruker Biosciences Corporation is a Massachusetts-based company formed in 2003 which develops and manufactures scientific instrumentation for academic research and industrial use. in Billerica, Massachusetts is the parent company of Bruker AXS Inc., Bruker Daltonics Inc. and Bruker Optics, Inc. Bruker AXS is a leading developer and provider of life science, materials research and industrial X-ray analysis tools. Bruker Daltonics is a leading developer and provider of innovative life science tools based on mass spectrometry mass spectrometry or mass spectroscopy Analytic technique by which chemical substances are identified by sorting gaseous ions by mass using electric and magnetic fields. , and also offers a broad line of nuclear, biological and chemical (NBC NBC in full National Broadcasting Co. 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