FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

August 13, 2004.

Tecan, a leading player in the fast-growing Life Science product industry, will demonstrate a range of new, breakthrough products on stand A132 at International Biotech and Lab Automation Europe 2004 in London (November 16th - 17th).

Showcase for automation in Genomics, Proteomics and Drug Discovery ..

Tecan, a leading player in the fast-growing Life Science product industry, will demonstrate a range of new, breakthrough products on stand A132 at International Biotech and Lab Automation Europe 2004 in London (November 16th - 17th).

New solutions on display for the Genomics, Proteomics and Drug Discovery areas will include the new IVD-D compliant EVOware, next generation control software for the Freedom Evo automation platform that has now been extended with the Freedom EVO 75; Safire2, a fully modular monochromator-based microplate detection system that offers a range of high-speed fluorescence techniques; Autoloader, the stacker system for the Aquarius stand alone multichannel pipetting device and CryScreen a new software to support the complex set-up procedure for protein crystallisation.

Tecan is a leading player in the fast growing Life Sciences supply industry that specialises in the development, production, and distribution of solutions enabling the discovery of pharmaceutical substances, as well as for genomics, proteomics, and diagnostics. Tecan clients are leading pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies, university research departments and diagnostic laboratories. Founded in Switzerland in 1980, the company has manufacturing, research and development sites in both North America and Europe and maintains a sales and service network in 52 countries.

CONTACTS:

Tecan UK Ltd. Theale Court 11-13 High Street Theale Reading RG7 5AH UK tel. +44-1189-300300 email: tecanuk@tecan.com