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- Biotage AB (publ) Biotage AB (publ) provides solutions and products for drug discovery and development, analytical testing, and water and environmental testing; offers organic and peptide synthesis solutions, flash chromatography, evaporation, parallel peptide purification, and work-up products; supplies flash systems and accessories, normal and reversed phase cartridges, sample preparation products, plasmid purification solutions, oligo synthesis solutions, metal and supported scavengers and reagents, as well as accessories and spare parts; delivers sample preparation solutions for clinical and bioanalytical, forensic and toxicology, doping control in animals and humans, environment, and food and agriculture areas, including consumables, systems, and workflows; provides biomolecule purification solutions encompassing antibody, plasmid, AAV, and tagged proteins purification, automation systems, and custom packing services with ion exchange, reversed phase, normal phase, and gel filtration PhyTip columns. The company serves pharmaceutical and biotechnical companies, contract research and manufacturing organizations, academic laboratories, hospitals, police and criminal investigators, sports events, and industries in diagnostics, clinical research, environmental protection, food safety, and forensics. Biotage AB (publ) operates globally across the Americas, Asia-Pacific, Europe, the Middle East, and Africa from its headquarters in Uppsala, Sweden, where it was founded in 1969 and employs approximately 680 people. In 2025, RWK Bidco AB, a vehicle controlled by KKR through Gamma Biosciences, completes a public takeover offer, securing a 93.12% stake in the company at SEK145 per share for a total enterprise value of approximately SEK11.6 billion.