The premises were officially opened for operation on January 28, 2010 in a ceremony which was attended by important French business partners, including the Beun de Ronde Group and several major suppliers.

"Our new demonstration lab located in the French capital will enable us to reach our customers in this key market much more quickly and directly", said Dr. René Nowka, Regional Manager for Western Europe (Business Unit Analytical Instrumentation) at Analytik Jena AG. "With our French sales partner Serlabo Technologies we are ideally positioned for the future, enabling us to further expand our sales activities in the whole of France and to offer our customers the best possible service".

In the first three months of fiscal year 2009/2010 Analytik Jena achieved a turnover of €5.7 million in Europe (not including Germany), which corresponds to a growth in turnover of 19.1%. In November 2009 Analytik Jena was able to gain an important new customer in France, the Université de Franche-Comté in Besançon. Through Serlabo Technologies the 100th SPECORD^® spectrophotometer was sold to the French university for use in biotechnology research.

Analytik Jena's products, which range from the PHOTOCHEM®, via the SPECORD^® 205/S600, through to the multi EA^® 5000, are predominantly represented in the demonstration and training areas in the lab, which is equipped with devices from different suppliers.

The seminar was organized by our Lithuanian partner Bioeksma, which operates in the fields of chemical reagents, microbiology, chromatography, and molecular biology.

"We are very pleased with the great response in Lithuania," said Ioan Marcu, Regional Manager in the analytical solutions division of Analytik Jena. "The high demand for information on our products reflects the potential of Analytik Jena in this region."

Analytik Jena and its product portfolio in the field of analytical measuring technique were presented by the Product Specialist for Optical Spectroscopy, Dr. Burcu Özmen, and by Ioan Marcu, Regional Manager. The numerous visitors of the event included representatives from the University of Kaunas as well as employees of governmental control laboratories, other universities, and environmental laboratories.

Jena, 20 November 2009 — Analytik Jena AG was able to gain an important new customer on the growth market of France with Université de Franche-Comté in Besançon. Thru the sales partner Serlabo Technologies the 100th SPECORD^® was sold to the French university for use in biotechnology research.

"France provides Analytik Jena with a growing sales potential. We will be more involved on this market in future" said Klaus Berka, chair of the board of Analytik Jena AG. "We already successfully cooperate in this region with our sales partner Serlabo Technologies since 2005.

As a single and double beam photometer for the spectral range from UV to NIR the SPECORD^® series offers the right solution for innumerable applications – from routine analysis to the special use in chemistry, pharmacy, medicine, food control, environment, life science and many other areas. With more than 150,000 photometers from Jena installed worldwide, the SPECORD^® is a classic and already has a tradition of 50 years.

On September 3 Analytik Jena invited to its first information forum on elementary analysis. On this occasion the specialist for analytical technology brought together customers from the fields of petrochemistry, the chemical industry and water and environmental analysis for the first time in Jena. During lectures and practical demonstrations product and application specialists presented the current analysis and automation trends for 2009: the elementary analyzers multi EA^® 5000 and multi EA^® 4000 and the AOX/TOX analyzer multi X^® 2500.

The focus of the information event were automation solutions from Analytik Jena, for example the autosampler for solids of the multi EA^® 4000 for the automated TOC/TIC analysis, a novelty amongst elementary analyzers. In the multi X^® 2500 the double furnace was of particular interest, which allows for a horizontal and vertical operation without the need for conversion tools.

In the multi X^® series and the multi EA^® 5000 the participants were shown the Multi Matrix autosampler for the fully automated analysis of solid and liquid samples. "This really saves time", said Torsten Olschewski, head of sales and marketing of the sector "analytical solutions" at Analytik Jena.

Another highlight was the demonstration of the multi-element analysis. "The multi EA^® 5000 is currently the only device of its kind enabling customers to analyze four elements simultaneously from a single sample", Olschewski added.

The final discussion centered on methods, applications, software solutions and hardware materials. "The forum on elementary analysis is going to become a permanent and regular platform for our customers", Olschewski announced.