1.6.2010

BIA Separations and Agilent Technologies sign co-marketing agreement to sell analytical columns

BIA Separations GesmbH today announced the extension of it's supply agreement with Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE: A) which began on May 29th, 2008. According to this extension Agilent Technologies and BIA Separations will both have the rights to sell analytical columns for bio-molecule separations based on BIA Separations’s monolithic technology. Agilent Technologies will market the columns under the Agilent Bio-Monolith name and BIA Separations under the CIMac trademark.

Bio-monolithic analytical columns, based on BIA Separation’s CIM technology, provides enabling solutions for the analytical separation of virus particles, plasmid DNA, antibodies and other macro bio-molecules. The support is characterized by rapid, high-resolution separations and a flow-independent binding capacity. It can be operated at very high flow rates, significantly decreasing the separation time of large bio-molecules. BIA Separations currently provides their preparative scale CIM^® disk and process scale CIM^® tube bio-monolithic products for purification and bioconversion of bio-molecules.

"This amendment will allow BIA Separations to provide a complete solution to its customers," said Ales Strancar, BIA Separations managing director and co-inventor of CIM^® monolithic column technology. "Beyond analytical applications, BIA Separations is currently offering enabling and cost-effective purification solutions for large bio-molecules and nano-particles like IgM, plasmid DNA, vaccines, viral vectors and phages at the industrial scale."

For more information about CIMac™ please visit www.monoliths.com.

About BIA Separations
BIA Separations is the only worldwide manufacturer of CIM Convective Interaction Media^® -- short monolithic chromatographic columns optimized for the separation and purification of large bio-molecules on laboratory and industrial scale. Information about BIA Separations is available on the Web at http://www.monoliths.com.

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