Purac, a subsidiary of CSM, has entered into an agreement to acquire BIRD Engineering B.V. (BIRD), on March 6th 2013. The acquisition includes the intellectual property and 7 key employees of BIRD Engineering. All Contract Research (CRO) activities will be ended. BIRD Recruitment, a division of BIRD Engineering B.V., is not part of the acquisition.
BIRD would like to thank all customers, (former) colleagues, partners and others who contributed to the development of BIRD. BIRD started on Sept 15th 1989, as a spin-off of the Department of Biotechnology of Delft University of Technology (TU Delft). Founding fathers were professors Luyben, Kuenen , Van Dijken and Applikon Dependable Instruments. Special thanks to TU Delft which has kindly housed BIRD over the past 23 years.
BIRD Recruitment B.V. (i.o.) will continue its services from the locations in Rotterdam Science Tower and Leiden BioScience Park, and is not part of the acquisition. BIRD Recruitment B.V. (i.o.) is an independent recruitment agency for Life Science & Chemistry, since 1994.
