Singapore, April 11 -- Jaoan-based Shimadzu has announced the merger of its reagent company, Alsachim SAS (France, abbreviated as ALC), as the absorbing company with Biomaneo SAS (France, abbreviated as BMO), as the absorbed company and change its name to Shimadzu Chemistry and Diagnostics SAS (France, abbreviated as SCHD).

ALC develops and manufactures reagent kits for liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry (LC-MS) and stable isotope reagents , while BMO develops and manufactures clinical software and reagent kits for matrix-assisted laser desorption ionisation time-of-flight mass spectrometry (MALDI-MS).

Both companies possess technologies that are essential for the growth of the group's clinical LC-MS business and will create synerg...