VWR, Part of Avantor history

In 1902, it was purchased by F.W. Braun, and merged into his company the F.W. Braun Corporation.

When it was founded in 1904, the J.T.Baker Chemical Company had 20 employees in Phillipsburg, New Jersey.

In 1908, Braun left the F.W. Braun Corporation, and formed Braun-Knecht-Heimann with Gustav Knecht and Richard Heimann.

Avantor merges with NuSil (founded in 1979)

In August 1989, VWR purchased Wards's Science and Sargent-Welch Scientific Company.

In September, 1995, VWR completed their purchase of Baxter's Industrial division, creating a much larger company.

In 2004, VWR became a limited partnership controlled by investment firm Clayton, Dubilier & Rice.

In 2007, CD&R sold VWR to another private equity company, Madison Dearborn Partners.

In June 2009, the company announced it would establish a new global headquarters at the Radnor Corporate Center, where it signed a 12-year lease for about 150,000 square feet of space.

As a private company — New York investment firm New Mountain Capital purchased the company in 2010 and changed its name to Avantor — Avantor does not disclose headcounts at specific locations.

On June 1, 2011, VWR International acquired BioExpress Corp (formerly ISC BioExpress), raising concerns of monopolization of the laboratory supplies sector along with Thermo Fisher Scientific.

On October 2, 2014, VWR's IPO raised $536 million, valuing the value of the company at close to $5 billion.

In January 2016, VWR acquired Therapak Corporation, an assembler and distributor of medical convenience kits with locations in Claremont, CA, Buford, GA, Hayes, UK and Skalice, CZ.

In April 2017, VWR acquired MESM Ltd., a provider of laboratory and medical equipment and supplies for use in clinical trials worldwide.

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