FEI Company

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FEI Company
Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc.
SubsidiariesASPEX Corporation (dba FEI Delmont) (Pennsylvania, United States), Visualization Sciences Group Inc. (dba FEI Houston) (United States) and 26 others.[2]
Websitewww.fei.com

FEI Company (Field Electron and Ion Company, FEI) was an American company that designed, manufactured, and supported microscope technology. Headquartered in Hillsboro, Oregon, FEI had over 2,800 employees and sales and service operations in more than 50 countries around the world. Formerly listed on the NASDAQ, it is now a subsidiary of Thermo Fisher Scientific.

History

The FEI company was founded in 1971 as Field Electron and Ion Company by Dr. Lynwood W. Swanson, Mr. Noel A. Martin and Mr. Lloyd Swenson, as a supplier of electron and ion beam sources for field emission research and electron microscopy.

electron microscopy
to the early commercial instruments produced by Philips Electron Optics in the 1940s.

On December 20, 2006, Philips Business Electronics International B.V. sold its shares of common stock in FEI Company reducing its shareholding in FEI to zero. In May 2011, the company announced a second straight quarter of record revenue and profits, with the company totaling nearly $200 million in revenue for their second quarter.[7] The company attributed the growth to a diversification of its clientele.[8]

On May 27, 2016, Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. announced[9] its acquisition of FEI Company for US$4.2 billion, which commenced in early 2017.[10] At the time of the transaction, FEI had more than 2700 employees in over 20 countries.[11] The FEI trademark was phased out in favor of the Materials & Structural Analysis division of Thermo Fisher Scientific.

Operations

The products manufactured by the division include

transmission electron microscopes
, and focusing columns.

The division has research and development centers in

Tokyo, Japan; Brno, Czech Republic; Canberra, Australia; Trondheim, Norway; and Bordeaux
, France. It has sales and service operations in more than 50 countries.

Subsidiaries

See also

References

  1. ^ 2015 Annual Report and Form 10-K, p. 4, investor.fei.com. Retrieved 20 December 2016.
  2. ^ a b U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission Archive, Exhibit 21, FEI List of Subsidiaries, 31-12-2014, sec.gov. Retrieved 20 December 2016.
  3. ^ FEI Company - Company Profile, Information, Business Description, History, Background Information on FEI Company, Advameg, Inc., 2015 .
  4. ISBN 978-0306473500
    , p 303.
  5. ^ "Company History". www.fei.com. 9 March 2015.
  6. ^ "Dutch Company to Buy 55 Percent Stake in FEI", The New York Times, September 6, 1996
  7. ^ "FEI reports record earnings, revenue". Portland Business Journal. May 3, 2011. Retrieved 6 May 2011.
  8. Portland Business Journal
    . Retrieved 24 July 2011.
  9. ^ "Thermo Fisher Scientific Completes Acquisition of FEI Company" Press Release, 19-09-2016, thermofisher.com. Retrieved 20 December 2016.
  10. ^ "Thermo Fisher Scientific acquires FEI Company for $4.2 billion," ASM International, 19 Jun 2016.
  11. ^ "About FEI". FEI Company.

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