Kyongshin will be responsible for marketing and sales of Point Technologies's microarray spotting pins and other future products to the Korean market
Point Technologies has named Kyongshin Scientific of South Korea as distributor for its genomic/proteomic microarray spotting pin products.
Kyongshin represents 15 other companies and their products in South Korea, all in the area of scientific and laboratory automation in the genomic and proteomic field.
Microarray spotting pins are used by biotech customers including core facilities, which are large users of spotting pins for gene expression.
John O'Brien, vice president of Point Technologies, said: "Korea is taking its place as a leader in the genomics and proteomics field with many world-class institutions doing forward thinking work.
"The inclusion of Kyongshin among our international distributor network extends our position as one of the fastest growing microarray spotting pin maker in the world.
"Kyongshin is very active in all the markets we serve.
"We look forward to many years of service to our customers in Korea through Kyongshin".