Hygiena to Buy Food Safety Business from DuPont

 
Hygiena (a Warburg Pincus portofolio company) will acquire DuPont’s global food safety diagnostics business.

“The combination of DuPont Diagnostics and Hygiena will create a broad food safety diagnostics company that can better serve our customers,” said Steve Nason, chief executive officer of Hygiena. According to a press release issued by DuPont, the acquisition includes all of DuPont Diagnostics business assets, including the BAX® and RiboPrinter® Systems and associated test kits; a global sales, R&D and manufacturing organization, with in-house production capacity.
The transaction is expected to close in the first quarter of 2017; financial terms of the agreement were not disclosed.
DuPont Diagnostics provides science-based microbial detection and monitoring products that identify and characterize pathogens and other unwelcome organisms in food ingredients, finished products and production environments. The sale will allow DuPont Nutrition & Health to “focus on growth opportunities that are more closely aligned with our core portfolio of specialty food ingredients,” according to a statement by Matthias Heinzel, DuPont Nutrition & Health president.

In 2016, Hygiena received an investment from Warburg Pincus to help further its mission.