Showa Denko Expands HPLC Product Line to Process Market

Showa Denko is among the top 10 makers of analytical HPLC columns in market share. Last year, BIA Separations announced a partnership for downstream LC with Japan’s JSR, which also made an equity investment in the firm (see IBO 3/15/12).

Tokyo, Japan 12/3/12; Tokyo, Japan and Villach, Austria 12/7/12—Showa Denko has announced a strategic partnership with BIA Separations for joint marketing and R&D, expanding its business to include chromatography resins for biopharmaceutical manufacturing. Showa Denko currently offers lab-scale HPLC products under the Shodex brand name. Based in Austria with 80 employees, BIA Separations provides short monolithic chromatographic columns.

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