About Nacalai USA, Inc.

Nacalai USA, Inc., a wholly-owned subsidiary of Nacalai Tesque, Inc., Kyoto Japan., was founded in January 2005 in San Diego, California to bridge between the United States and Japan in the scientific research community. Nacalai USA strives to bring the most innovative and stringently quality-controlled biochemicals and research tools from Japan into the United States market, and also to introduce United States technologies and products into the Japanese research market.

Nacalai USA provides the highest quality research products necessary for the Life Science research such as Molecular Biology and Proteomics. Most of the products are manufactured and packaged in the high level of manufacturing facilities in Japan.

Nacalai USA also provides Cosmosil brand HPLC columns. The Cosmosil chromatography product line includes several robust reversed phase and prep columns as well as specialty columns such as the Cholester (cholesteryl group), NPE (nitrophenylethyl group), PYE (pyrenylethyl group) and Sugar-D. Cosmosil Buckyprep (pyrenylpropyl group) and PBB (pentabromobenzyl group) columns are well recognized worldwide for Fullerene separation.

About Nacalai Tesque, Inc.

Nacalai Tesque, Inc. is a manufacturing and marketing company of research products with its principle of business and head office in Kyoto, Japan. The organization was established in 1846 selling traditional Japanese and Chinese medicines, and was formally incorporated as a research reagent company in 1958. Since then Nacalai Tesque has been delivering world class service in the field of scientific research.

Nacalai Tesque is an ISO 9001:2000 certified and registered manufacturer of products for research fields including Molecular Biology, Proteomics and Liquid Chromatography. Nacalai Tesque's Quality Control Systems assure that every product conforms to strict regulations and customer requirements.

Nacalai Tesque also acts as a distributor for foreign companies who desire to expand business into the Japanese Life Science market. Nacalai Tesque maintains 15 sales offices with over 100 direct sales representatives throughout Japan. To supplement these sales offices, Nacalai Tesque has a relationship with over 50 sub-distributors in Japan. Through its own sales offices, and with the use of sub-distributors, Nacalai Tesque is able to deliver first class service to all of Japan.