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Waters to buy lab automation firm

The scientific instrument maker Waters will acquire Andrew Alliance, a developer of lab automation technology, including software and robotics. Andrew Alliance has about 40 employees in Switzerland, France, and the US. One of its first products was a pipetting robot called Andrew. Waters CEO Chris O’Connell says the acquisition will benefit customers in pharmaceutical, life sciences, and materials science markets.