Singapore: IonField Systems (IonField), the pioneer in plasma cleaning
treatment for life science applications, has selected Tekon Biotech, a leading full-service distributor to research laboratories, as exclusive distributor in China, Hong Kong and Taiwan.

Mr Sanger Chang, Tekon Biotech's general manager commented, "IonField Systems are unique products that perfectly fit Tekon's approach of only representing category leading products together with providing
our customers world-class service and support. These products represent tremendous cost savings for all our customers and a potential competitive advantage for our CRO customers in particular"

Remarked Tekon Biotech CEO, Mr David Hadfield, "These products have great potential in China. With the majority of Western pharmaceutical now undertaking R&D here, the increasing pace of out-sourcing to CRO companies and the explosion in qPCR, siRNA and Next-Generation Sequencing performed in China, the number of liquid-handlers has increased here exponentially presenting a growing market for IonField Systems products"

Mr Paul Hensley, CEO of IonField, said, "We are very pleased to be working with Tekon as our distributor. Working together, we look forward to providing our cost saving plasma technology to researchers in the
Chinese life sciences market."