FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

October 16, 2006.

See Tecan's latest automation and detection systems at Medica 2006

Tecan, one of the world's leading players in the growing life sciences industry, will be demonstrating a range of its latest products for clinical diagnostic applications at Medica 2006 in Düsseldorf, Germany, from 15-18 November 2006 on stand number A30 in hall 3.

Don't miss the launch of Tecan's brand new HydroFlex(tm) platform, which is capable of automated plate washing AND vacuum filtration for a range of 96-well format applications.

Tecan will also unveil its novel safety concept for automated diagnostics processes, including the new Freedom EVO® Clinical with pressure monitored pipetting (PMP) and the Te-PoolSafe(tm) pooling option, operated by the new Freedom EVOware® Sample Oriented software.

A Freedom EVO 75 with the RoMa robotic manipulator arm and Te-MagS(tm) magnetic bead separation module for molecular diagnostic applications, such as nucleic acid extractions,
the Infinite 200(tm) modular microplate reader, the latest Sunrise(tm) plate readers and many more examples of Tecan's technological advances will also be on display.

For more information about Tecan, please contact:
Tecan Switzerland AG
Seestrasse 103, CH-8708 Männedorf
Tel +41 (0)44 922 81 11, Fax +41 (0)44 922 81 12
info@tecan.com www.tecan.com


About Tecan
Tecan (www.tecan.com) is a leading global player in the Life Sciences supply industry specializing in the development, production, and distribution of advanced automation solutions enabling pharma and academic research, diagnostics, food and veterinary research as well as forensics. Through its REMP subsidiary (www.remp.com), Tecan is the leading supplier of compound and sample storage, management and logistics solutions. Tecan clients are 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. In 2005, Tecan achieved sales of CHF 344.9 million (USD 275.9 Mio.; EUR 222.5 Mio.). Registered shares of Tecan Group are traded on the SWX Swiss Exchange (TK: TECN / Reuters: TECZn.S / Valor: 12100191).