Cobalt Light: Agilent buys UK-based Cobalt Light Systems for £40 million

Oxfordshire-based Cobalt Light Systems has been acquired by Agilent, a U.S. analytical laboratory technologies company that was spun out of Hewlett Packard, for £40 million. The deal will see Oxford become Agilent's global centre for Raman spectroscopy. Raman spectroscopy is one of the fastest-growing sp...