Danaher Corporation

Danaher Corporation designs manufactures and markets professional medical industrial and commercial products and services worldwide. The Biotechnology segments offers bioprocess technologies consumables and services; lab filtration separation and purification; lab-scale protein purification and analytical tools; reagents membranes and services; and healthcare filtration solutions. The Life Sciences segment provides mass spectrometers; flow cytometry genomics lab automation centrifugation particle counting and characterization; microscopes; genomics consumables; and Gene and Cell Therapy to the pharmaceutical and biopharmaceutical food and beverage medical and life sciences companies as well as universities medical schools and research institutions and various industrial manufacturers. The Diagnostics segment provides chemistry immunoassay microbiology and automation systems as well as hematology molecular acute care and pathology diagnostics products. This segment offers clinical instruments reagents consumables software and services for hospitals physicians' offices reference laboratories and other critical care settings. The Environmental & Applied Solutions segment offers instrumentation consumables software services and disinfection systems to analyze treat and manage ultra-pure potable industrial waste ground source and ocean water in residential commercial municipal industrial and natural resource applications. It also provides instruments software services and consumables for various color and appearance management packaging design and quality management packaging converting printing marking coding and traceability applications for consumer pharmaceutical and industrial products. The company was formerly known as Diversified Mortgage Investors Inc. and changed its name to Danaher Corporation in 1984. The company was founded in 1969 and is headquartered in Washington the District of Columbia.