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Company Profile
Caliper Life Sciences uses its advanced liquid handling and LabChip technologies to
create leading edge tools for the life science industry. CaliperLS provides a fully
integrated suite of automated liquid handling and microfluidics products designed
to help researchers make better choices earlier in their drug discovery process, as
well as tools that are designed to increase the general speed and efficiency of their
high-throughput screening efforts. Our pharmaceutical customers, who include scientists
from many of the largest pharmaceutical, biotechnology, and life sciences
companies throughout the world, report that using CaliperLS systems such as the
Allegro ultra-high throughput screening system has resulted in the emergence of
35 viable drug candidates from their drug discovery pipelines. Users of the new
microfluidic screening system, the LabChip 3000, state that the precision of the data
produced allows them to identify structure-activity relationships directly, cutting 6-
9 months from the discovery cycle.
With the recent advances in genomics research and subsequent surge of interest in
protein functionality there is an increased industry need for high throughput, cost
efficient tools for automating the multiple steps required by conventional gel electrophoresis.
The LabChip 90 Automated Electrophoresis System addresses this need
by rapidly analyzing the size and concentration of DNA or protein samples directly
from a microtiter plate.
Company History
Created from the combination of Caliper Technologies with Zymark Corporation in
mid 2003, Caliper was launched under its new name, Caliper Life Sciences, in
January of 2004. Zymark was founded in 1981 as a custom robotics company. By
1999, with the acquisition of Scitec, it had established itself as a major liquid handling
supplier to the drug discovery market. Caliper Technologies was founded in
1995 with the vision of miniaturizing laboratory processes. Through collaboration
with Agilent, the first commercial microfluidics product, the 2100 Bioanalyzer, was
launched in 1998. Caliper manufactures over one-half million LabChip consumables
per year for this Agilent system, which is used for rapid DNA, RNA and protein sizing.
With over 2000 systems installed worldwide, the 2100 Bioanalyzer is now an
established component of many genomics and proteomics laboratories today.
Caliper Life Sciences will use its expertise in liquid handling and automation coupled
with the precision of results obtained through microfluidic technologies to
provide state-of-the-art systems to drive efficiency in the life science research laboratory
and remove bottlenecks within the entire drug development pipeline, rather
than just shifting them from one place to another.

Caliper- A Global Infrastructure of Offices and Support
Caliper is headquartered in Hopkinton, MA with R&D facilities in California and a
network of regional offices and distributors offering local service and support
throughout the world.

With sales and marketing centers in both Hombrechtikon, Switzerland and New Castle, Delaware, USA, we use our knowledge and skill to understand market needs and deliver robotic solutions to supersede the expectations of our customers. Our sales partners around the world complete the Sias team.

Hombrechtikon is an area rich in resources and expertise in robotic technology and is the home of our development and production facility. Sias is an active and founding member of “Toolpoint” – a group making convenient links between local industry, institutes of education and financial groups, with the aim to combine skill and expertise to address common issues and to ultimately improve the business relations of its local member organisations.

Sias is a dedicated and skilled partner to help you realise your automation projects efficiently and cost effectively.

Xiril AG was founded in 2001 by a team of experts with more than 22 years liquid handling experience who are committed to the development of automated systems for Life Science and Diagnostic applications. Product development began in Spring 2002 and the first instruments were launched in October 2002. Xiril Robotic Workstations are the long-awaited solution for the mid- to low-end pipetting markets where bench space is often costly and limited.

Xiril AG is based in the pipetting valley of Hombrechtikon, Switzerland and is represented across the globe with subsidiaries in US and Italy and a distribution network that covers Austria, France, Germany, Benelux, Scandinavia, Israel, Switzerland, United Kingdom, India, Australia and New Zealand.