News
22-Sep-2009 – LGC Standards continues its growth in emerging
markets with first Russian office
Championing measurement science and quality control in the
Russian analytical market
LGC Standards
has opened its first office in St Petersburg, Russia. This new office, coming only six months
after a presence in China was
established, demonstrates that LGC Standards continues to grow to
support laboratory quality worldwide.
Russia is widely recognised as a ‘pharmerging’
market, with a predicted growth rate in the pharmaceutical sector
of 17% per annum to 2013 (Espicom – The Pharmaceutical Market:
Russia, 2009.) The initial focus for the Russian team will be
this sector, launching the LGC Standards range of 2400 reference
standards for pharmaceutical impurities to support quality
control.
LGC Standards provides a range of products and
services for measurement and laboratory control encompassing
reference material distribution and proficiency testing, together
with the production of pharmaceutical impurities and custom
synthesis. For the first time the company will be able to support
Russian laboratories directly by offering logistical and technical
advice in their local language.
The new office will be managed by Svetlana
Buchaka, who has a PhD in Chemistry from St Petersburg State
University and experience in both the industrial and academic
sectors. Dr Buchaka will be attending the conference Modern
methods of analysis of pharmaceutical products in Moscow, 2-4
December 2009, to meet with potential customers.
Dr Matthias Brommer, Director of LGC
Standards, said: “While Russia has its own metrological system
for chemistry (GOST standards), there is increasing interest in the
ISO metrological system widely used in the European Union,
particularly for those industries seeking export opportunities into
this market. With our new office in Russia, LGC Standards will be
well placed to support these developments.”
Dr Svetlana Buchaka, Head of Representative
Office in St Petersburg, said “We have Russian-speaking experts
in our Russian and Polish offices who have a good understanding of
both the GOST and ISO systems, and can advise Russian laboratories
on the correct use of laboratory quality products and services
under both systems.”
The LGC Standards website is available in
Russian at http://www.lgcstandards.ru/
About LGC Standards
LGC Standards provides products and
services to improve measurement and quality control within the
laboratory, and is part of LGC, whose Research and Technology
Division acts as the UK National Measurement Institute for Chemical
and Biochemical Measurements. LGC Standards supplies over 20,000
reference materials, pharmaceutical impurity reference standards,
proficiency testing and training in analytical quality. LGC
Standards is headquartered in Teddington, Middlesex, UK. Its global
centre for excellence in proficiency testing is located in Bury
(Greater Manchester). LGC Standards has offices in France, Germany,
Italy, Poland, Spain, Sweden, China, Russia and the UK, a joint
venture presence in India, and representatives in Bulgaria, Czech
Republic, Finland, Hungary, Ireland, Romania, Turkey and the
US.
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