Tecan Austria has won two prestigious business prizes for innovation awarded by the Chamber of Commerce of the Federal State of Salzburg for 2006. The judges voted Tecan as the best company in the industry category and then unanimously awarded Tecan the overall prize for innovation for all categories.

The jury chose the development of the Infinite™ 200 series of microplate readers as the most innovative of 41 projects entered, and said it represented a groundbreaking advance with unlimited applications in the biotechnology arena. As overall regional winner, Tecan will now join winners from the eight other Austrian states in a national poll to be judged in the Spring of 2007

Michael Illek, General Manager and Head of Detection at Tecan Austria, said: “We are very proud of the award and pleased with the recognition it brings to the company as an enterprising employer. A prize for innovation in particular is an excellent reflection of what Tecan stands for, and we look forward to the national contest in 2007.”

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: 12100191).

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