Solentim Expands Reach into China

BOURNEMOUTH, United Kingdom

Solentim, the developer of imagers for single cell cloning and tools for shortening the upstream cell line development workflow, is pleased to announce that it has recently expanded its global sales reach to China by signing up two new distributors, Bio-reach Ltd., based in Beijing, and Dynamax Biotech Ltd., based in Shanghai. Furthermore, both of the new distributors have already completed their first sales of the Cell Metric™ to Chinese customers.

“Having established ourselves with a strong base of customer sales and installations in the US and Europe over the past three years, China now represents a tremendous growth opportunity for us with Pharma, Biotech and CRO customers involved in developing cell lines for biologics and biosimilars, and also groups working on stem cells,” commented Aaron Figg, Managing Director of Solentim.

Cell Metric provides users with market-leading clone imaging. In large part, this is due to the significantly better optics and automated cell detection capabilities the systems offer when compared to previous generation products. Thanks to these advantages, existing users have reported shaving up to three months off the development of a new cell line using Cell Metric.

Solentim will be supporting Bio-reach Ltd. on their exhibition booth at the forthcoming IBC 3^rd Annual Cell Line Development & Engineering Asia Meeting to be held in Shanghai from 20^th-23^rd May, where customers can view the Cell Metric.

About Solentim
Commercial cell line development for biopharmaceutical production is a high value process which is intrinsically expensive and takes a significant amount of time. Solentim is dedicated to the development of innovative tools to shorten steps in the upstream cell line development workflow and facilitate cell line scale-up. The Cell Metric™ product range consists of bench-top imaging stations for QC of FACS dispensing, clone screening and id, clone growth and stability measurements.