Scientific Instruments Division Press Releases

01 Oct 2003 - Farfield gears-up to meet demand for protein characterisation using the AnaLight® Bio200

Farfield Sensors Ltd has stepped up their production capability to several hundred units a year by signing a manufacturing agreement for the AnaLight® Bio200 with Unics (UK) Ltd, a specialist Anglo-Singaporean bio-medical contract manufacturer. The AnaLight® Bio200 will be volume manufactured in the new high-tech manufacturing complex at the Ubi Techpark in Singapore (see insert). Farfield, an ISO9000:2000 accredited company, selected Unics from a range of suppliers as it combines the very best of High-Tech product development options with the cost-effective benefits of the Asia Pacific industrial economy to deliver a premium quality product.

In selecting Unics to manufacture the award winning AnaLight® Bio200, Managing Director, Gerry Ronan, was looking for the highest technical innovation skills to complement precision engineering capability, uncompromising quality control with good value for money, in short a partner to accelerate the recently launched AnaLight® product range into the market.

Gerry reflected that "Unics offered a unique approach to contract manufacturing. The tight network of associated companies providing all the skills and resources only normally found in much larger organisations, where we would not have received the same high level of support and attention to our needs".

Unics leads an integrated group of companies including GemTree, MEMS Solutions, TeraHz and Richtmenn Technology. Unics are geared mainly for medium-volume, high-mix manufacturing operations ranging from hand held instruments to bench top workstations and on to factory floor automated assembly systems. The group can fully support product design and prototype development, mechanical engineering, PCB Circuit design, CPU firmware development, electrical and electronic assembly and harness development, and software creation and data capture through to final production manufacture.

Farfield Sensors Ltd specialise in the supply of precision research equipment for the characterisation of proteins, study of associated diseases and amelioration by pharmaceutical candidates. The recently launched AnaLight® Bio200 is already deployed in research laboratories across USA, Japan, Australia, the UK and mainland Europe.

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