Handix Scientific acquires Aerosol Devices Inc.

FORT COLLINS — Handix Scientific Inc. has acquired Aerosol Devices Inc. in a deal completed June 30. Both companies are headquartered in Fort Collins, although Handix also has a presence in Boulder.

Details of the sale were not available, and representatives of neither company had responded to requests for further details by mid-afternoon.

Aerosol Devices, founded in 2014, owns an exclusive license for airborne-particle collectors that are based on the water-based condensational growth tube technology invented by Aerosol Dynamics Inc. of Berkeley, California. Aerosol Devices used that technology to develop and market a line of particle collectors, instruments that have played a…