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schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001558370-21-016418"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "AZTA"
cik: "0000933974"
company_name: "Azenta, Inc."
filed_at: "2021-12-01T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-28T04:43:46.366954+00:00"
event_type: "other_material"
sentiment: "positive"
materiality_score: 0.4
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.4
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Azenta completes name change from Brooks Automation, ticker now AZTA; semiconductor sale expected H1 2022

## Summary
- Corporate name changed from Brooks Automation, Inc. to Azenta, Inc. effective December 1, 2021.
- Common stock ticker changed from BRKS to AZTA on the Nasdaq Global Select Market.
- No stockholder vote was required; existing stock certificates remain valid and need not be exchanged.
- Company expects to complete sale of its semiconductor automation business in first half of calendar 2022, becoming a pure play life sciences company.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001558370-21-016418
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: AZTA
- cik: 0000933974
- company_name: Azenta, Inc.
- filed_at: 2021-12-01T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other_material
- sentiment: positive
- materiality_score: 0.4
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.4
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.03, 8.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/933974/000155837021016418/0001558370-21-016418-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/933974/000155837021016418/brks-20211201x8k.htm

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