Rigaku Acquires Life Science Imaging Equipment Manufacturer MILabs
Through this acquisition, Rigaku will expand its life sciences modality business globally by combining MILabs' multi-modality businesses, including PET (Positron Emission Tomography), SPECT (Single Photon Emission Computed Tomography), Optical Imaging, and CT (Computed Tomography) equipment for animals, with Rigaku's original X-ray imaging business for animals.
- Through this acquisition, Rigaku will expand its life sciences modality business globally by combining MILabs' multi-modality businesses, including PET (Positron Emission Tomography), SPECT (Single Photon Emission Computed Tomography), Optical Imaging, and CT (Computed Tomography) equipment for animals, with Rigaku's original X-ray imaging business for animals.
- Through this acquisition, Rigaku aims to strengthen its pre-clinical imaging business within the life sciences field by incorporating MILabs' radiation imaging and optical imaging technologies, a new initiative for Rigaku, while simultaneously building its existing X-ray imaging business.
- Rigaku believes that pre-clinical imaging will become increasingly important in the life sciences field.
- Rigaku will actively enter the life science market and aim to develop this field as one of its core businesses by 2025.