Dade Responds to Ortho/MLA Joint Venture
Executive Summary
In July 1994, J&J division Ortho Diagnostic Systems initiated a hematology joint venture with Medical Laboratory Automation to market MLA’s hemostasis instruments with Ortho’s hemostasis reagents, a big blow to Dade (then a subsidiary of Baxter), which for years had a similar arrangement with MLA. Now Dade has responded by signing a hematology partnership with Toa Medical Electronics.