Idex Acquires CVI Melles Griot
Jul 1, 2011 — Applied solutions company Idex Corp. of Lake Forest, Ill., announced on May 11 that it had entered into a definitive agreement to acquire 3301%%CVI Melles Griot from Norwest Equity Partners. Based in Albuquerque, N.M., CVI Melles Griot, with annual revenue of $185 million, designs and manufactures lasers and optical equipment used in the life sciences, research, semiconductor, and security and defense markets for applications such as spectroscopy, cytometry, remote sensing, target designation...