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| 01.05.01 |
Sales channel for Eastern and Central Europe is a result of a strategic review of the sales and support in the advance of the expected expansion of the European Union eastwards. Staff comes from "ROFA Prozessanalytik" who already distributed Oxford products. |
| 01.06.01 |
Oxford Instr PLC has spun out its X-ray crystallographic business, which includes an alliance with X-Ray diffraction equipment manufacturer Kuma diffraction (Wroclaw, Poland), to former management. The new company will be called Oxford Diffraction Ltd. (Abingdon, England). As a result of the transaction, the entire share capital of Kuma has been transferred to Oxford Diffraction and the company has changed its name to Oxford Diffraction (Poland) Managing director of Oxford Instruments is Dr. Paul Leffen and the company’s chairman is Dr. Allistair Smith, both formerly with Oxford Instruments. Oxford Diffraction has 20 employees; two-thirds are based in Poland, where a new manufacturing facility has opened. |
| 15.06.01 |
Oxford has reported preliminary results for the year ended 31 March 2001. Sales from continuing operations were 183 Mio pound, up 23% on the fiscal 2000 figure of 15. Million pound. At the analytical division, a 33% increase in revenues, from 49,5 Million pound to 65.5 million, helped the unit to return to profitability; operating profit was 2,8 million pound, in contrast to the previous year's loss of 1,0 million pound. |
| 30.06.01 |
Oxford has transferred production of its wavelength disperive spectrometer line from Fremont , CA to its High Wycombe, England base. The company said:" The spectrometer now being produced in the UK not only meets the demanding level of specification, but is also producing faster and better quality results. The move unites production with the company's energy dispersive products. |
| 01.10.01 |
Formed from the merger of Oxford Instruments’ industrial analysis and microanalytical (High Wycombe, England) is now benefiting with a strong international order book, according to managing director Charles Holroyd. Oxford Instruments Analytical specialises in instruments and components for the industrial and laboratory analysis, including lab, benchtop and process XRF systems, EDX and WDX for electron microscopy and microanalysis and the process NMR. The company also designs and supplies products for the deposition and etching of materials for markets including telecommunications and optoelectronics.
More info on this merger in Instrumenta 31 October 2001. |
| 15.10.01 |
Oxford sees growth after merger. Oxford Analytical acquires measurement firm. Oxford has purchased the assets of CMI international. Making the UK company's fist move into measurement systems.Oxford has paid $2,2 million in cash for CMI, a manufacturer of thinm film measurement systems based on technoilogies including XRF and a market leader in the USA. |
| 01.12.01 |
Oxford reports strong first half, sees slowdown ahead. Recorded revenues of 104 Million pound in the first half of fiscal 2002 to 30th September 2001, a 36% increase over 78,5 million pound achieved in the first half of fiscal 2001. Pre tax profit was 6,1 million pound, in contrast to the 363000 pound reported for the year ended period. In the analytical division, sales increased by 58% to 44 million pound, following the receipt of record orders in the second half of last year Operating profit increased tenfold to 4,1 million pound. However, new orders in the first half of this year were down 18% as a result of the slowdown in the semicondutor market and the continuing weakness in the US market generally. However, in the second quarter, orders dropped significantly. As a result management prdicted reduced sales in the analytical business in the second half year. |
| 01.02.02 |
Oxford has announced a 58% increase in turnover for the halfyear to September 2001. Operating profits in the same period went from 28 Million pounds to 44 Million pounds. |
| 01.03.02 |
Oxford launches a new version of the "XpertEase" software used on the "ED2000" and "MDX 1080+". It runs on the Windows 2000. The package is being supplied with new systems but can be bought as an upgrade. |
| 01.04.02 |
Ken Stehr has left for Niton to become Director Sales
Kevin Conroy has left for Niton to become Director of New business Developments. Kevin was Sales Manager for the past 11 years at Oxford |
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