Tecan, one of the world’s leading players in the growing life sciences industry, will be demonstrating a range of its latest products for genomics, proteomics, drug discovery and clinical diagnostic applications at the MipTec Exhibition in Basel, Switzerland, on 8-11 May, 2006, at hall 4.1, stand A32.

Visitors will be able to witness Tecan’s Freedom EVO® 200 liquid handling workstation with its new multichannel arm, and the Freedom EVO 75, now also available with robotic manipulator arm. Together with modules for extraction and incubation, these systems demonstrate yet again the evolutionary concept of the Freedom EVO series. Also demonstrated on the stand will be REMP’s latest development, the Small Size Store™ (SSS), which can be combined with Tecan’s liquid handling workstations for fully automated sample storage and retrieval, for any sized laboratory.

As the newest representative of Tecan’s broad portfolio of detection systems, you will see the Infinite™ 200 series of flexible, upgradeable microplate readers and the PW384™ microplate washer.

About Tecan

Tecan (www.tecan.com) is a leading global player in the Life Sciences supply industry specializing in the development, production, and distribution of advanced automation solutions enabling pharma and academic research, diagnostics, food and veterinary research as well as forensics. Through its REMP subsidiary (www.remp.com), Tecan is the leading supplier of compound and sample storage, management and logistics solutions. Tecan clients are pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies, university research departments and diagnostic laboratories. Founded in Switzerland in 1980, the company has manufacturing, research and development sites in both North America and Europe and maintains a sales and service network in 52 countries. In 2005, Tecan achieved sales of CHF 344.9 million (USD 275.9 Mio.; EUR 222.5 Mio.). Registered shares of Tecan Group are traded on the SWX Swiss Exchange (TK: TECN / Reuters: TECZn.S / Valor: 1210019).

For further information please contact:

Tecan Switzerland AG
Seestrasse 103
CH-8708 Männedorf

T +41 44 922 81 11
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www.tecan.com