The phrase "a maker of instruments for" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when describing someone or a company that produces specific tools or devices for a particular purpose or field.
Example: "He is a maker of instruments for scientific research, providing essential tools for laboratories."
Alternatives: "a producer of tools for" or "a manufacturer of devices for".
The German electronics giant Siemens A. G. agreed yesterday to acquire the Moore Products Company, a maker of instruments and control systems, for $170 million.
AEROFLEX INC., Plainview, N.Y., a maker of communications equipment, agreed to buy IFR Systems Inc., Wichita, Kan., a maker of instruments used to test cellular phones, for $60 million in cash.
ROLI, which makes the Seaboard (new type of keyboard musical instrument), has acquired FXpansion, a maker of software instruments, for an undisclosed sum.
The Waters Corporation reduced its 2001 reported earnings and its forecast for this year after a jury ordered the company, a maker of laboratory instruments for drug development, to pay $47.5 million for patent infringement.
Shares of Waters tumbled after the maker of instruments for drug research and development cut its profit forecast.
The company, a maker of disposable instruments for minimally invasive cardiothorasic surgery, has a market capitalization of just $64 million.
PerkinElmer, which makes drug discovery tools, has agreed to buy the Packard BioScience Company, a maker of laboratory instruments, for $650 million in stock and debt.
THERMO ELECTRON CORP., Waltham, Mass., a maker of measuring instruments for medical laboratories, said it would buy CRS Robotics Corp., Burlington, Ontario, a maker of robotic equipment used in medical labs, for about $42 million in cash and $3.3 million in assumed debt.
Lucasfilm Ltd., the maker of the Star Wars motion pictures series, has sued Minrad, a maker of surgical instruments, for trademark infringement over its plans to call a line of surgical products "light saber".
The company has been sold a few times, most recently in 1995 to the Selmer Co., a maker of musical instruments, for a reported $100 million.
