BioTek Instruments is pleased to announce a service partnership with Serlabo Technologies in France. Under this contract, Serlabo will provide installation, installation/operation/performance qualification (IQ/OQ/PQ), primary training, service, preventative maintenance and service contracts for users of BioTek's microplate instrumentation.

Serlabo Technologies was privately founded in 2002 and is ISO 9001:2000 certified. In addition to the service agreement with BioTek, Serlabo offers high-quality products and services to private and public sector customers in France.

According to Philippe Vivier, BioTek France Director of Sales, "The service agreement with Serlabo in France will ensure that our BioTek customers continue to receive high quality instrument service with reduced downtime, and also benefit from a local, dedicated service technician."

For information with regard to BioTek's instruments in France, please contact Mr. Vivier at vivier@biotek.fr, or call + 33 6 21 39 66 58. For information with regard to Serlabo's service capabilities, please contact Jérôme Deboire, Technical Manager at +33 4 90 23 77 20.

BioTek Instruments, Inc., headquartered in Winooski, VT, USA, is a worldwide leader in the design, manufacture, and sale of microplate instrumentation and software. In 2011, BioTek received the North American New Product Innovation Award for Workflow Solutions in Life Sciences from Frost & Sullivan. BioTek instrumentation is used to aid in the advancement of life science research, facilitate the drug discovery process and to enable cost-effective quantification of disease relevant molecules in the clinic.