Bruker (Billerica, Massachusetts, USA) has opened a new applications and customer support centre of excellence in Moscow, Russia. The facility will provide access to a range of scientific instruments for life science and analytical applications using nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR), X-ray analysis, mass spectrometry, chromatography, molecular spectroscopy and AFM microscopy. Several Bruker divisions have been brought together, enabling customer sales support, applications and service requests and numerous research collaborations in Russia.

Frank Laukien, PhD, president and CEO of Bruker Corporation, commented, “Bruker has come a long way since our first projects in NMR with the Academy of Sciences in 1970s. All of my Bruker colleagues and I are very excited by the new opportunities for customer collaborations, training, support and applications research in Russia offered by our outstanding new scientific and support facility here in Moscow.”

Nikolay Yakovlev, general director of Bruker in Russia, said: “The new Bruker Centre of Excellence offers all of our Russian and CIS customers additional opportunities to explore numerous high-performance analytical instruments and cutting-edge applied solutions with our high-level experts here in Moscow. This investment provides us with the infrastructure, high-performance systems and highly qualified staff to provide comprehensive scientific and engineering expertise across many life-science and analytical technologies, for the benefit of our Russian academic, government, clinical and industrial customers.”