DKSH expands partnership with Harvard Bioscience in Asia Pacific

DKSH and Harvard Bioscience have signed a distribution agreement covering its wide range of scientific instruments used to advance life science research in Asia Pacific.

Media release

Switzerland, December 16, 2019 – DKSH Business Unit Technology, the leading Market Expansion Services provider for technology companies seeking to grow their business in Asia, has extended its partnership with Harvard Bioscience to bring their solutions to advance life science research to Asia Pacific. The two companies now partner in nine markets, including Australia, China, Indonesia, Malaysia, New Zealand, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam.

Harvard Bioscience is a global manufacturer and marketer of a broad range of scientific instruments and consumables, used to improve life science research at pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies, universities and government laboratories worldwide.

Under the agreement, DKSH will provide sales, marketing and after-sales services for Harvard Bioscience's leading brands Biochrom, BioDrop, Hoefer, Scie-Plas, BTX, KD Scientific and products including microplate readers, amino acid analyzers, spectrophotometers, microvolume spectro-photometers, gel electrophoresis, electroporation and electrofusion systems as well as syringe pumps.

Dewen Deng, Asia Business Director, Harvard Bioscience stated: “We are more than happy to announce the expansion of our partnership with DKSH. Since 2012, DKSH has been a great partner for us and has successfully grown our key brand Biochrom in the Asian markets. We believe DKSH has the right specialists, systems, industry expertise and networks in place to help us achieve even greater success with our other brands.”

Hanno Elbraechter, Head Business Unit Technology, DKSH commented: “The life science industry has continued to find rapid growth in Asia Pacific in recent years. As a strategic growth segment for DKSH, we are very pleased to extend our partnership with Harvard Bioscience. This collaboration enables DKSH to complete our product portfolio and introduce more innovative and high-quality products to our customer base. We are convinced that through our dedicated life science experts and our profound industry experience, we will help Harvard Bioscience achieve scalable growth in Asia Pacific.”

For further information, please contact:

DKSH

Irene Chen

Director, Group Marketing

Business Unit Technology

Phone +886 2 8752 7611

irene.yr.chen@dksh.com