Danaher Corporation
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| Type | Public (NYSE: DHR) |
| Founded | Washington, D.C. (1969) |
| Headquarters | Washington, D.C. |
| Key people | H.Lawrence Culp, Jr., CEO & President Steven M. Rales, Chairman Daniel L. Comas, CFO |
| Industry | Manufacturing |
| Revenue | ▲$11,025,917 billion USD (2007) |
| Employees | 50,000 (2007) |
| Website | www.danaher.com |
The Danaher Corporation NYSE: DHR, is a large global company headquartered in Washington, D.C., United States. Its products are concentrated in the fields of design, manufacture, and marketing of industrial and consumer products.
It operates in four segments: Professional Instrumentation, Medical Technologies, Industrial Technologies, and Tools & Components.
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[edit] History
The company was organized in 1969. It was formerly known as DMG, Inc. and changed its name to Diversified Mortgage Investors, Inc. in 1978. Further, the company changed its name to Danaher Corporation in 1984.
The origin of "Danaher" goes back to the root "Dana", a Celtic word dating from before 700 BC and meaning "swift flowing", and is also the name of a river in Idaho in which two of the Rales Brothers used to fish. Danaher Motion is the US Flagship of Danaher Corporation's Industrial Technologies branch with over $1 billion in sales[1]
UK based West Instruments provides control and measurement instrumentation solutions and services for the global industrial and process markets. [2]
German Instrumentation manufacturer PMA was added to the Industrial Controls Group in 2005 and enhances the range of control and measurement instrumentation solutions.[3]
The Danaher Motion group acquired Kollmorgen, of Radford, Virginia. Danaher Motion can supply some replacement parts for Kollmorgen servo motors through its distribution network. Kollmorgen servo motors are sometimes found on machine tools made by Ingersoll Milling Machine Company.
2005 - July: Danaher Announces Definitive Agreement To Acquire Leica Microsystems The company manufactures a broad range of products for numerous applications requiring microscopic imaging, measurement and analysis. It also offers system solutions in the areas of Life Science including biotechnology and medicine, as well as the science of raw materials and industrial quality assurance.
In early 2007 Danaher acquired Australian Pathology Instrument and Engineering company Vision Systems Limited. [4] Also in 2007, Danaher announced plans for its largest acquisition to date, the purchase of Tektronix, Inc. for 2.85 billion USD. [5]
[edit] Environmental record
Researchers at the University of Massachusetts Amherst identified Danaher as the 31st-largest corporate producer of air pollution in the United States, with approximately 160000 lb (72600 kg) of toxic chemicals released into the air annually.[1] The study found the most serious pollution in the form of nickel and chromium compounds. According to Toxics Release Inventory data, Danaher emitted over 13000 lb (5900 kg) of nickel and over 1000 lb (500 kg) of chromium compounds in 2002.[2]
[edit] Divisions
- Accu-Sort Systems, Inc.
- Allen
- ALLTEC
- American Sigma
- Anatel
- Anderson
- Armstrong Tools
- Artus
- Aviation Services
- Aviation Services Europe
- Bindicator
- Buhler Montec
- Calzoni S.r.l.
- Comark Ltd [6]
- Craftsman Hand Tools
- Danaher Motion
- Danaher Tool Group
- Delta Consolidated Industries
- DEXIS
- DH Instruments
- Dover
- Dynapar / Northstar
- Eagle-Signal / Veeder-Root
- ELE
- Electro-Kinetics
- Energetic Materials
- Environmental Test Systems
- Fisher Pierce
- Fluke Corporation
- Fluke Networks
- Gems Sensors
- Gendex
- Gilbarco Veeder-Root
- GLI
- Guardian Voting Systems (Makers of the ELECTronic 1242 Machine)
- G&L Motion Control, Inc
- HACH:Ames [7]
- HACH LANGE (Europe) [8]
- Hach Ultra Analytics[9]
- Harowe
- Hart Scientific
- HECON
- Hengstler GmbH
- Hennessy Industries
- Holo-Krome
- HTL/Kin-Tech
- Hydrolab
- Iseli
- Imaging Sciences International
- Jacobs Chuck Manufacturing
- Jacobs Vehicle Systems
- Joslyn Clark
- KaVo Dental
- K-D Tools
- Kerr
- Kistler Morse
- Kollmorgen
- Kollmorgen Electro-Optical
- Lachat Instruments
- Leica Microsystems
- Linx Printing Technologies
- Matco Tools
- Marsh McBerney Industries
- McCrometer
- Namco / Dolan Jenner
- Negele Industrieelektronik GmbH & Co. KG
- Orbisphere (Jean-Jacques JOURDAN being the top salesperson in France)
- Ormco
- Pacific Scientific Instruments
- Partlow
- Pelton & Crane
- PMA
- Polymetron
- Portescap
- Qualitrol Company LLC
- Radiometer
- Radiometer Analytical
- Raytek
- Red Jacket
- Robin Electronics
- Sata
- Securaplane Technologies
- Setra
- Spline Gauges
- Sunbank
- SybronEndo
- Tektronix
- Tektronix Communications
- Thomson
- Trojan Technologies Inc.
- Veeder-Root
- Videojet Technologies
- Vision Systems Limited
- West Instruments
- Willett
