JEOL Ltd. (Tokyo, President: Gon-enon Kurihara) and Siemens Healthcare Diagnostics Inc.?Tarrytown, NY, CEO: Michael Reitermann?have signed a new 10-year contract, reinforcing a longstanding relationship and creating a more robust partnership.

With approximately 5% growth worldwide in 2010FY, the clinical chemistry market is steadily expanding. To keep abreast of the market and with the escalation of requirements for higher performance, higher throughput and wider variety of data output, particularly in the fields of mid-to-high volume laboratories, we are set to make the best use of our individual resources and expertise to create new innovations for the next generation clinical chemistry platform. We believe that the closer partnership will open the door to a new business relationship, with huge mutual benefits.

JEOL Ltd.

JEOL is a world leader in electron optical equipment and instrumentation for high-end scientific and industrial research and development. Core product groups include electron microscopes (SEMs and TEMs), instruments for the semiconductor industry (electron beam lithography and a series of defect review and inspection tools), and analytical instruments including mass spectrometers, NMRs and ESRs.

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