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Thermo Fisher Lines up South American LIMS Software Distributor

Apr 29, 2008
NEW YORK (GenomeWeb News) – The Alta Tecnologia will distribute Thermo Fisher Scientific’s informatics products in several South American markets under a new agreement, Thermo Fisher said today.
 
Chile-based Alta will provide sales and technical support for Thermo Fisher’s informatics offerings including the Nautilus LIMS, Sample Manager LIMS, and Atlas CDS in Chile, Paraguay, Uruguay, and Bolivia.
 
Alta will target pharmaceutical companies, as well as those in other scientific fields, for sales of the lab information management software products. Thermo Fisher noted that it already has sales and technical support agreements with Alta for mass spectrometry, chromatography, spectroscopy, and elemental analysis products.
 
Financial terms of the agreement were not released.
 
Thermo Fisher has offices Chile, Mexico, Brazil and Argentina, and the company also has partners in Peru, Ecuador, Venezuela, Puerto Rico, and Columbia.

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