Thermo Electron Corp. ,the biggest maker of measurement instruments for medical laboratories,agreed to buy the radiation-monitoring-products unit of Compagnie de Saint-Gobain for $30 million to gain European customers.
-Refer to Thermo.Saint-Gobain (of France)is Europe's number-one1 distributor of building materials,and its radiation monitoring unit did not support the company's mission statement.What does this mean?

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The statement is discussing how the radiation-monitoring-products unit of Saint-Gobain did not align with the company's mission statement of providing building materials, indicating that Saint-Gobain's mission did not include the production and distribution of radiation-monitoring equipment. Thermo Electron's mission statement is not mentioned, and there is no indication that it is incomplete or that Thermo Electron does not have a mission statement.