
Britain’s Smiths Group on Thursday said it plans to divest the explosive trace defense business of Morpho Detection, clearing the way for European regulators to approve the acquisition of the security detection company this year.Smiths Group last April agreed to acquire California-based Morpho Detection from France’s Safran Group for $710 million (Defense Daily, April 21, 2016). The acquisition will give Smiths Group’s Smiths Detection business a well-established product line for explosive detection systems used at airports worldwide to screen checked…