Microfluidic pioneers Dolomite are celebrating both the opening of its Japanese office and sales growth of over 200 per cent during the past year.
'Most of this increase is due to more sales from commercial customers, particularly in the field of heath care,' said Mark Gilligan, managing director of Dolomite.
In this area, microfluidics has the potential to enable smaller instruments and smaller fluid samples to be used, allowing more frequent testing to be carried out and hence potentially greater control of a patient's condition.
There has also been an increase in sales from academic organisations who are coming to Dolomite for a professionally engineered microfluidic solution to help them realise research goals.
Over the past year Dolomite has broken new ground with the development of quartz-based microfluidic devices, complex multi-layer microfluidic devices, droplet generation and management technology, a range of microfluidic connectors and advances in pumping technology for microfluidic systems.
It has been working on projects ranging from mobile environmental analysis systems to DNA analysis.
Dolomite's new Japanese sales office will be headed by Kozo Hori.
The establishment of the Japanese office is intended to bring the company closer to its customers within this market and to open up new opportunities within the region.
