Tecan is a leading global player in the Life Sciences supply industry that specializes in the development, production, and distribution of solutions enabling the discovery of pharmaceutical substances, as well as for genomics, proteomics, and diagnostics. Tecan clients are leading pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies, university research departments and diagnostic laboratories. Tecan's core competencies allow the integration of various components into a system, solving an application, integration and subsequent validation. In particular Tecan offers solutions in the field of robotics (basic handling of tubes, vials and microplates), liquid handling (transfer of liquids from nanoliter to milliliter range), detection (use of microtiterplate based detection devices), miniaturization, and software. The stand-alone, modular and fully customized products and services are all backed up by comprehensive support and advice. Product lines are grouped into the following areas: Automated Liquid Handling, Detection, Cavro® OEM Components, Applications & Solutions, and Software. In 2005 REMP became part of the Tecan Group. REMP is the global leader in the supply of large-scale automated storage and retrieval systems. Together Tecan and REMP deliver key technologies that enhance some of the most time- and cost-critical phases of the drug discovery process. Tecan was founded in 1980. Incorporated in Maennedorf near Zurich/Switzerland, the company has manufacturing, research and development sites in both North America and Europe and maintains a sales and service network in 52 countries.