Tecan and VWR Announce a Strategic Alliance

Tecan (Männedorf, Switzerland) and VWR International, Inc. (West Chester, PA, USA) have announced a strategic alliance to unite the strengths of each company and together provide Tecan's microarray instruments and microplate readers to the global research market.

The collaboration takes advantage of VWR's BioSciences program, which aims to provide researchers with the highest quality services and products available, whatever their application, and a sales network throughout Europe.

Tecan's range of microarray products and microplate readers can offer solutions for customers of the BioSciences program working in all areas of life science and drug discovery. Siegfried Sasshofer, head of marketing for Tecan's Detection business unit, said, Tecan's products and technical expertise complement the VWR's BioSciences program very well, and together we can build on our respective strengths in high end instrumentation and well-developed customer relationships. The close collaboration of both teams will benefit research communities in the US and in Europe, helping them to find the best solutions and allowing them to excel in their respective fields.

Matt Malenfant, senior VP and president Global Lab Business commented, The BioSciences program is an investment by VWR to extend our offering of research instruments for our customers' drug discovery and development needs. Establishing a partnership with Tecan accomplishes this, offering an industry leader in laboratory automation and detection instrumentation to our broad reach of customers. Our mutual commitment to excellence will most certainly drive value for our customers.

Tecan specializes in the development, production, and distribution of advanced automation systems enabling diagnostics, pharma, and academic research, food, and veterinary research as well as forensics. Through its REMP subsidiary, Tecan is the leading supplier of compound and sample storage, management, and logistics solutions. Tecan clients are diagnostic laboratories, pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies, and university research departments.

VWR's business is highly diversified across a spectrum of products and services, customer groups, and geography. The company's primary customers work in the pharmaceutical, life science, chemical, technology, food processing, and consumer product industries. Other customers include universities and research institutes, governmental agencies, and environmental testing organizations.


Related Links:
Tecan
VWR International, Inc