Chiron AS (Trondheim, Norway) has announced new North American distribution partnerships with Ibis Scientific, LLC (Las Vegas, USA) and Chromatographic Specialties Inc. (Ontario, Canada).
“Access to high quality and innovative analytical standards is essential to research,” said Jon Johansen, Managing Director at Chiron. “These new distribution agreements will help to ensure our products are more easily available to customers across North America, benefitting the wider scientific community.”
Ibis Scientific is a leading regional provider of analytical laboratory products, certified reference standards, and consumables for gas and liquid chromatography (GC/LC) and inductively coupled plasma–mass spectrometry (ICP/ICP-MS) workflows.
“Our nationwide shipping and warehouse supply locations will provide a host of benefits for Chiron’s customers. We firmly believe that this exciting new agreement will be of huge benefit to everyone involved,” said Justin Spencer, President of Ibis Scientific.
Chromatographic Specialties has over 55 years of expertise in GC and LC, supplying instrumentation, chemicals, and sample preparation consumables to the Canadian scientific community.
“We’re delighted to be a part of the Chiron distributor family. We are fully committed to providing our customers with high quality products, backed by expert technical support. Chiron’s range of products is an excellent fit for us,” said Ken Jordan, Sales and Marketing Manager at Chromatographic Specialties.
These newest partners will be joining Chiron’s existing representatives across North America–Caledon, Sapphire NA, and Design Scientific–to further strengthen the company’s product supply network.
For more information, please visit: www.chiron.no
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