SAN JOSE, Calif. -- Phenom-World--a majority-owned subsidiary of NTS Group B.V. (NTS) of Eindhoven, the Netherlands--has acquired FEI Co.'s Phenom desktop scanning electron microscope line.
NTS has been FEI's manufacturing partner and was involved with the development of the scanning electron microscope before it was introduced in 2007.
NTS will continue to manufacture the product, and Phenom-World will assume responsibility for marketing, sales and distribution of the product worldwide.
FEI will retain a minority position in Phenom-World and will retain certain related intellectual property. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed.
FEI also said net income for the third quarter of 2009 was $6.1 million, up 66 percent compared with $3.7 million in the second quarter of 2009 and up 53 percent compared with $3.9 million in last year's third quarter.
Net sales of $140.8 million were up slightly compared to the second quarter of 2009 and down 1 percent from the third quarter of 2008.
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