NEW YORK (GenomeWeb News) — Kreatech has begun distributing BioMicro Systems' products in Germany, France, and in the BeNeLux regions, where the company's sales organization is based. The companies also are engaging in a development collaboration.
The agreement is structured similarly to a 2007 agreement between the two companies that enables BioMicro to distribute Kreatech's Universal Linkage System labeling portfolio in the US.
Kreatech VP of Sales and Marketing Harald Berninger said in a statement that BioMicro's microfluidic and microarray technologies "address the same customer segment as the one we have been targeting with our … ULS labeling technology."
BioMicro CEO Michael Feldman added that the companies are collaborating to develop technologies for the cytogenetics market. Berninger said that BioMicro's Maui hybridization and washing systems potentially could be used in cytogenetics, and that the companies may co-develop new products and specific applications in that area.