Tecan Trading AG

History

Year	Detail
1980	The company was founded.
1982	The company has opened Tecan U.S., a sales & marketing unit for North America.
1987	The company floats on the Zurich stock exchange.
1988	The company acquired SLT Laborinstrumente GmbH, based in Salzburg, Austria.
1999	Tecan becomes a 100% publicly-owned company.
2001	The company opens its new headquarters in Männedorf on Lake Zurich.
2003	The company opened a versatile robotic liquid handling platform.
2004	The company launched Infinite 200, the first microplate reader designed to accommodate shallow sample volumes down to 2 microliters.
2008	The company opened its new headquarters in Shanghai, China.
2013	The company unveiled the Cavro Omni Robot, a flexible and customizable liquid handling component.
2014	The company acquired IBL International GmbH.
2015	The company introduced the D300e Digital Dispenser for faster, reliable dispensing down to picoliter volumes into microplates.
	The company acquired SIAS, one of the leading OEM suppliers of laboratory automation solutions, thus adding new platforms and capabilities.
2016	The company introduced the Spark 20M multimode microplate reader, delivering users a configurable system to streamline workflows and accelerate productivity.
2017	The company collaborated with DiaSorin, a global leader in in vitro diagnostics.
	The company unveiled the RESOLVEX A200, a positive-pressure workstation for LC-MS sample preparation.
2018	The company launched Fluent Gx Automation Workstation.
	The company acquired NuGEN to provide an automated NGS kits, sample preparation solutions, and reagents to complement its existing protocols and computerized platforms.
2019	The company launched NGS DreamPrep, a fully automated next-generation sequencing (NGS) library preparation platform.
2021	The company acquired Paramit Corp. to broaden its commercial reach, capabilities, and presence in the U.S. and Asia.