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Published September 28, 2010 4:00am ET



Danaher plans to buy instrument makerD.C. manufacturer Danaher Corp. will expand its electronic instruments business with a $300 million acquisition of Keithley Instruments Inc.

The acquisition is priced at $21.60 per share in cash, pushing the Solon, Ohio, company’s publicly traded shares up more than 70 percent in Wednesday trading.

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