? Consideration paid out, complying to all governmental regulations

? Close cooperation of both sites in Germany and China planned

? Access for German high-tech products to the growing Chinese market

Frankfurt – Jinan Hanon Instruments Co., Ltd. („Hanon“), a fast growing manufacturer of analytical instruments and solutions, which contribute to food safety and nutrition as well as drug quality supervision listed at the only state-controlled OTC-Board NEEQ in the PRC, acquired a majority stake in Gesellschaft für analytische Sensorsysteme mbH („G.A.S.“), a German high-tech company focused on instrument manufacturing and headquartered in Dortmund. The Chinese authorities have approved the transaction and the first tranche of the deal has been paid out according to the agreement. G.A.S., a spin-off of ISAS (Leibniz Institute for Analytical Sciences), specializes in manufacturing customized analytical instruments coupling gas chromatography to ion mobility (GC-IMS) in order to measure trace