Orange-based dental products maker Kerr Corp. acquired a pair of business units in Oxnard in an effort to expand its portfolio of dental products and to venture into the animal healthcare market. Terms were not disclosed.
The two businesses—DUX Dental and Vettec Inc.—had been owned by Paul Porteous, whose father and grandfather started a part-time dental products business about 50 years ago that eventually became DUX Dental; the company makes dental cements, X-ray aprons and accessories.
Kerr said it will boost its line of small equipment offerings and other products to practitioners and institutional customers.
Vettec makes hoof-care products for horses.
It will “unlock new opportunities for growth in the attractive animal healthcare market,” said Kerr President Damien McDonald.
Kerr Vice President Alistair Simpson said Kerr plans to keep the DUX Dental facility in Oxnard and has no immediate plans to add to the Kerr workforce at its Orange County facilities.
Kerr is part of Washington, D.C.-based conglomerate Danaher Corp.
