Tecan took over the company REMP based in Oberdiessbach, Switzerland, supplying automated laboratory and logistics systems in the life-science area.
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In 1982 the company opened Tecan US in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, for sales and marketing in North America, and Tecan Production Corp. to manufacture for the US market take place.
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In 1986 Tecan was nominated as the Swiss Company of the Year by the Zurich industrialists Branco Weiss and by publishers Jean Frey and Ringier, and awarded the Branco-Weiss Prize for innovative companies (TV broadcast).