1.   This indicates that they were working together in the musical instrument business.

2.   The instruments business is established and generating cash flow but Seprafilm is still developing, according to Termeer.

3.   The quarterly results reflect continuing operations and exclude the industrial instrument business that was spun off this year as Agilent Technologies.

4.   The officials said this acquisition was in line with its global project to accelerate operations in the scientific instrument business.