Waters and SOTAX Group Sign Co-Marketing and Re-Seller Agreement
November 01 2016 - 3:00PM
Business Wire
Agreement Gives SOTAX Distribution Rights to
Waters ACQUITY UPLC H-Class System within Small Molecule
Pharmaceutical Accounts
Waters Corporation (NYSE:WAT) announced today that it has
entered into an agreement with the SOTAX Group, a global developer
and manufacturer of equipment for dissolution testing, automated
sample preparation, and physical testing of pharmaceutical dosage
forms. Under the terms of the agreement, Waters will make available
to SOTAX its ACQUITY UPLC® H-Class System for sale to drug
manufacturers performing small-molecule, solid-dosage analysis in
quality control and analytical research and development.
“Improved sample preparation to keep pace with the speed of our
ACQUITY UPLC instrumentation platform has often been requested by
our customers,” said Mike Harrington, Ph.D., Senior Vice President
– Global Markets. “This exciting new collaboration links Waters and
SOTAX technologies enabling our mutual customers to streamline
their analysis, characterization and preparation of pharmaceutical
samples, and improve their productivity and profitability.”
Under the terms of the agreement, Waters licenses SOTAX as an
independent distributor for the Waters ACQUITY UPLC H-Class System.
SOTAX will market, sell and distribute the ACQUITY UPLC H-Class
System through its own direct sales force to pharmaceutical
laboratories in the following countries: United States, Canada,
United Kingdom, France, Germany, Italy, Switzerland and the Czech
Republic.
“Working closely with Waters will allow us to generate
significant value for our mutual customers in the current, data
integrity driven environment. We are excited to have been selected
by Waters to collaborate in the dissolution testing and sample
preparation space,” said Patrick Ballmer, Vice President at SOTAX
Group.
About SOTAXSOTAX is the international leader in the
development and manufacturing of fully automated systems for
dissolution testing, sample preparation, and physical testing of
pharmaceutical dosage forms. With over 40 years of sustained
growth, SOTAX is now the world’s largest company focused on the
dissolution testing space.
About Waters Corporation
(www.waters.com)Waters Corporation (NYSE:WAT)
develops and manufactures advanced analytical and material science
technologies for laboratory dependent organizations. For more than
50 years, the company has pioneered a connected portfolio of
separations science, laboratory information management, mass
spectrometry and thermal analysis systems.
Waters, UPLC, ACQUITY, ACQUITY UPLC and are trademarks of Waters
Corporation. SOTAX is a trademark of SOTAX AG.
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