New Tecan Protocol Development Centre in Japan

Tecan, a leading player in the Life Sciences supply industry, have just opened the Tecan Kobe Application Development Center in Kobe, Japan.

Located in Japan's rapidly growing center for cell research and development, the center will support the protocol development needs of customers in Japan and Asia. The laboratory facility will be used to demonstrate new laboratory automation solutions based on the company's Freedom EVO workstations, plate readers and washers.

It will also provide a facility to further develop the flexibility and configurability of Tecan's products by optimizing protocols and gathering data to validate new solutions. This will reduce risk during protocol development as well as ensure minimum installation time and immediate performance of Tecan solutions for customers.

The demand for laboratory automation continues to rise as more techniques need to be performed and more samples need to be processed. This increases the need for automation of existing and new testing procedures. At the same time, qualified staff must be assigned to projects to define procedures and find more rational approaches for development. Each new project that requires automation represents a considerable challenge for development specialists and manufacturers.

Once the center is operational, it will greatly help in the development of laboratory automation solutions for research purposes. This will translate into significant gains in productivity for customers in drug discovery and development, diagnostics and other key areas in the life sciences