OI Corp (College Station, Texas), a provider of a variety of technologies in the chemical analysis field, has entered into an agreement with DANI Instruments SpA (Cologno Monzese, Italy), a developer of GC instruments and accessories.
OI Corp (College Station, Texas), a provider of a variety of technologies in the chemical analysis field, has entered into an agreement with DANI Instruments SpA (Cologno Monzese, Italy), a developer of GC instruments and accessories. The agreement will cover the sale of DANI's sample-introduction and detector technologies on a worldwide basis. "The addition of the DANI product to the OI portfolio broadens the scope of our application reach, thereby increasing our ability to address current customer requirements and opening the doors to new markets and opportunites," said Craig Marvin, OI's vice president of sales and marketing.
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