Analytik Jena's French sales partner Serlabo Technologies has opened its first demonstration lab and customer training center in Paris.

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.