PARTEC receives WÜRTH Junior World Market Leader Award

SCHWÄBISCH HALL, GERMANY - On the opening night of the 1st German Congress of Global Market Leaders in Schwäbisch Hall, Adolf Würth GmbH & Co. KG, together with trade journal Produktion, presented the Junior World Market Leader Award for companies which through their innovative products, carry on the traditions established by global market leaders. The jury awarded the prize to Görlitz-based Partec GmbH, one of the few traditional family businesses in the biotechnology sector. At its two sites in Münster and Görlitz, Partec develops and produces state-of-the-art products ‘made in Germany’ for research and practice.

“Here at Würth, we didn’t have to think twice when asked whether we could envisage sponsoring this prize, which we have organised together with trade journal Produktion. The prize is aimed at rewarding and promoting the drive and dynamism needed to continue to produce future global market leaders and whetting the appetite for new undertakings,” explained Robert Friedmann, spokesman for the Würth Group’s Central Management Board, at the award ceremony. Partec GmbH executive director Roland Göhde accepted the trophy at a ceremony in the Neubausaal in Schwäbisch Hall.

The jury emphasised Partec’s high level of ethical responsibility. The company has successfully adapted the development and distribution of its products to local conditions in Africa and Asia. An important milestone was the introduction of its CyFlow® instruments for diagnosing HIV/AIDS immune status in 2002. This allowed the annual cost of testing to be reduced from an average of 160 euros per patient (World Health Organisation figures) to just 8 euros per patient. More than a million HIV/AIDS patients have now benefited from long term care and support using Partec diagnostic products. The company has developed a global distribution network of 14 branch offices and beaten off competition from major American corporations.

About Partec GmbH
The Görlitz-based biotechnology company was founded in 2000. Partec developed the keystone technology of flow cytometry and uses it to produce automated cell analysis systems, which are distinguished by their precision and cost-effectiveness. The company is the global market leader in the field of HIV/AIDS immune status diagnostics, a life-long requirement for patients with HIV or AIDS. Partec also offers solutions for molecular and cellular diagnostics, DNA analysis, fluorescence and transmission light microscopy and flow cytometry. These techniques are used in particular in the fields of immunology, especially leukaemia and cancer diagnostics and research, microbiology, industrial applications and in agricultural and aquacultural research. Partec places particular emphasis on its extremely high real net output ratio, which approaches 100 percent. The company conducts all its R&D and production in Germany. With more than 60 national and international patents, Partec has marked itself out as a technology leader.

About Adolf Würth GmbH & Co. KG
Adolf Würth GmbH & Co. KG is a leading specialist dealer in assembly and fastening materials for professional use. It is the largest individual company in the global Würth Group, which currently consists of more than 400 companies in 84 countries and employs 62,000 people. The company boasts a sales portfolio of more than 100,000 high quality products. It supplies three million customers in the global artisanal and industrial sectors with screws, screw accessories, anchors, technical chemistry products, furniture and construction fittings, tools, storage and retrieval systems and personal protection equipment. The Würth Group’s preliminary annual financial statement for the 2010 financial year reports a turnover of 8.6 billion euros.

About Production
With its mix of technology and business topics, Produktion reaches the entire decision-making chain within the processing industries, ranging from experts and specialists, through managers in production and production-related departments such as construction and logistics, to executive directors and chief technical officers. Produktion assists them in making business decisions by providing shop floor technical know-how and product information, practical examples and management tips for process optimisation and competition and market analysis. Produktion’s strength lies in the breadth of its reach across industrial sectors, in its precisely target group-oriented range of topics, the high quality of its factual reporting, its topicality and its newspaper-style rapid overview.

The Würth Junior World Market Leader Award
The Würth Junior World Market Leader Prize is awarded at the German Congress of Global Market Leaders in Schwäbisch Hall. The prize has been endowed with 10,000 euros by Adolf Würth GmbH & Co. KG and is awarded in conjunction with trade journal Produktion. It is aimed at young, dynamic industrial enterprises which, by exhibiting a outstanding engineering skill in their particular sector, are following in the footsteps or aiming to follow in the footsteps of established German global market leaders. Prize winners are selected by a jury made up of: Robert Friedmann (spokesman for the Würth Group’s Central Management Board), Eduard Altmann (editor -in-chief at Produktion), Claus Wilk (editor at Produktion), Steffen Schoch (executive director of Wirtschaftsregion Heilbronn-Franken), Prof. Dr. Bernd Venohr (strategy expert), Dr. Walter Döring (former Minister of Economics for the state of Baden-Württemberg).

Partec GmbH is a worldwide leading flow cytometry instrumentation developer, manufacturer, and application provider in research and clinical fields headquartered in Germany. Cytomics and Cell Analysis by Flow Cytometry is pioneered by Partec since 1968/69 when the overall first commercial flow cytometer, the ICP-11, was released. Partec scientists and engineers cover the fields of medicine, biology, physics, optics, fluidics, electronics, and computer technology. Partec has operations in North America, UK, France, Italy, Netherlands, Sweden, Japan, South Asia, Nigeria, Kenya, Botswana, Malawi, Cameroon and Burkina Faso and is being represented by subsidiaries and distributors in 100 countries worldwide.