WALTHAM, Mass. –\u00a0Thermo Fisher Scientific has officially shed its microbiology business to the tune of more than $1 billion.<\/p>\n
The global pharmaceutical and biotechnology company announced the completion of the transaction this week with the European private equity firm Astorg.<\/p>\n
Thermo Fisher made the sale for about $1.08 billion.<\/p>\n
The microbiology business provides antimicrobial susceptibility testing and culture media solutions for clinical, pharmaceutical and food safety testing. The business generated $645 million in revenue in 2025 and was part of Thermo Fisher’s Specialty Diagnostics segment, the company said.<\/p>\n
Thermo Fisher is based in Massachusetts and has more than 600 sites around the world, including in Upper Saucon Township, East Allen Township and Upper Macungie Township.\u00a0<\/p>\n
A company spokesperson told 69 News the Lehigh Valley locations are not impacted by the sale of the microbiology business.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WALTHAM, Mass. –\u00a0Thermo Fisher Scientific has officially shed its microbiology business to the tune of more than $1…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":264639,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[153,155,154,157,20396,2795],"class_list":["post-264638","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem-headlines","tag-bethlehem-news","tag-lehigh-valley","tag-thermo-fisher-scientific","tag-upper-saucon-township"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264638","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=264638"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264638\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/264639"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=264638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=264638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=264638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}