Whatman plc: Difference between revisions

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{{Infobox company

| name = Whatman plc<br>(part of GE Healthcare Life Sciences )

| logo = [[Image:Ge-healthcare-logo.PNG|220px|GE Healthcare]]

| caption = Leadership in separations technology for the life sciences

| type = Product = [[BrandSubsidiary]]

| foundation = {{Start date and age|1740}} in [[Maidstone]], [[Kent]], [[United Kingdom]]<ref name=EarlyYears>{{cite web|url=http://www.whatman.com/TheEarlyYears.aspx|title=The Early Years|publisher=Whatman}}{{dead link|date=September 2016}}</ref>

| founder = [[James Whatman (papermaker)|James Whatman]]

| ___location = [[Little Chalfont]] =

| location_city = [[Little Chalfont]], [[Buckinghamshire]]

| key_people = Kieran Murphy, Chief Executive Officer and Executive GE Healthcare Life Sciences

| location_country = [[United Kingdom]]

| homepage = http://www.gelifesciences.com/whatman

| key_people = Kieran Murphy, <br>([[Chief Executiveexecutive Officerofficer|CEO]] and& Executive GE Healthcare Life Sciences)

| parent = [[GE Healthcare]]

| homepage = {{URL|http://www.gelifesciences.com/whatman}}

}}

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Whatman products cover a range of laboratory applications that require filtration, sample collection (cards and kits), blotting, lateral flow components and flow-through assays and other general laboratory accessories.

Formerly Whatman plc, the company was acquired in 2008 by [[GE Healthcare]], a unit of [[General Electric Company]].

==History==

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===Acquisition===

Whatman [[Public limited company|plc]] was acquired on 4 February 2008 by [[GE Healthcare]], a unit of [[General Electric Company]], at 270p per share in cash for each Whatman share, valuing Whatman at approximately £363 million (approximately $713 million.) Last production at Maidstone (Springfield Mill) was on 17 June 2014.<ref name=Chalmers/>

==Key products and technologies==