NEW YORK (GenomeWeb News) – Rubicon Genomics today announced several distribution deals for its nucleic acid library preparation products in Europe, the Asia-Pacific region, and the Middle East.
The Ann Arbor, Mich.-based firm has signed deals with Amplitech to distribute its products in France; HPST for the Czech Republic; and LuBio Science for Switzerland. In Asia agreements were reached with Recenttec covering Japan; Prisma Biotech for Taiwan, and S.M. Chemical for Thailand, while in Australia and New Zealand Custom Science will be a Rubicon distributor.
Lastly, in Qatar Rubicon said an unidentified local biomedical distributor will be supporting the firm's sales.
Financial and other terms of the deals were not disclosed.
In a statement, Rubicon CEO James Koziarz said the agreements extend his company's "reach in growing sequencing markets around the globe and enable our customers to access our products without the additional cost and complications of shipping from the US to global destinations."