AB SCIEX currently provides products for research only. We recently announced that we earned 13485 certification, proving that we have the quality management system in place to manufacture medical devices.

AB SCIEX has currently set up its application center in Singapore. Why did you shift out of Japan?

Mr Ho: AB SCIEX still has a customer support lab in Japan, but we have focused resources on a state-of-the-art application support and demo lab in Singapore because of the strategic position of Singapore in Southeast Asia and across APAC. We also have the benefit of having our manufacturing operation based in Singapore, so there is close alignment between our manufacturing and in meeting customer needs in the application support lab.