IonField Systems and Tekon Biotech Ltd. Join Hands to Bring Plasma Technology Into China

Moorestown, NJ – January 12, 2013 – IonField Systems (IonField), the pioneer in plasma cleaning treatment for life science applications, announced today that it has selected Tekon Biotech Ltd., a leading full-service distributor to research laboratories, as exclusive distributor in China, Hong Kong and Taiwan.

Sanger Chang, Tekon Biotech General Manager commented "IonField Systems are unique products that perfectly fit Tekon's approach of only representing category leading products together with providing our customers world-class service and support. These products represent tremendous cost savings for all our customers and a potential competitive advantage for our CRO customers in particular"

Remarked Tekon Biotech CEO, David Hadfield "These products have great potential in China. With the majority of Western pharmaceutical now undertaking R&D here, the increasing pace of out-sourcing to CRO companies and the explosion in qPCR, siRNA and Next-Generation Sequencing performed in China, the number of liquid-handlers has increased here exponentially presenting a growing market for IonField Systems products"

Paul Hensley, CEO of IonField, said, “We are very pleased to be working with Tekon as our distributor. Working together, we look forward to providing our cost saving plasma technology to researchers in the Chinese life sciences market.”

About IonField Systems

IonField Systems, a life science instrumentation company, is the pioneer of applying plasma technology to reduce plastic waste in the research world. Its TipCharger™ system employs plasma technology to clean plastic and metal pipette tips and pin tools in seconds, rapidly ionizes organic molecules and completely decontaminate the tips and pin tools. IonField Systems has 7 patents and 2 patents pending. For more information, visit www.ionfieldsystem.com.

About Tekon Biotech

Tekon Biotech, founded in 1988, sells and supports a broad range of technologies to the China life sciences market. Tekon’s customers include all the major pharmaceutical and biotech companies plus the top 50 universities. Tekon is headquartered in Shanghai with offices in Hong Kong and Taipei. Tekon Biotech takes pride in providing the best service and technical support. For more information, visit www.tekontech.com.

IonField Systems Contact: Jean Shieh

1 Executive Dr., Suite 8

Moorestown, NJ 08057

Tel: +1 856 437 0330

Email: jean.shieh@ionfieldsystems.com

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