Bruker marks another milestone in its more than 40 year history in 
      Russia, with today's grand opening of its new applications and customer 
      support Center of Excellence in Moscow. The new high-tech facility 
      provides customers access to a wide range of scientific instruments for 
      life-science and analytical applications using NMR, X-ray analysis, mass 
      spectrometry, chromatography, molecular spectroscopy and AFM microscopy. 
      Several Bruker divisions have been brought together in this modern 
      Center of Excellence, enabling optimal support of customer sales, 
      applications and service requests, and numerous research collaborations 
      in Russia.
    
    
      Bruker, a leading provider of high-performance scientific instruments 
      and solutions for molecular and materials research as well as for 
      industrial, clinical and applied analysis, has long been committed to 
      Russia. Its long-standing presence in and support for the Russian 
      research community began with initial NMR installations already in 1969. 
      Bruker has achieved market and/or technology leadership in many fields, 
      including magnetic resonance (NMR, preclinical MRI, EPR), atomic force 
      microscopy (AFM), stylus and optical metrology, X-ray diffraction and 
      crystallography, X-ray and spark-OES elemental analysis, life-science, 
      clinical and applied market separations and mass spectrometry, as well 
      as infrared and Raman molecular spectroscopy.
    
    
      Frank Laukien, Ph.D., the President and CEO of Bruker Corporation, 
      participated at the grand opening of the new Center of Excellence for 
      Bruker's Russian customers, and commented: "Bruker has come a long way 
      since our first projects in Nuclear Magnetic Resonance 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 Ltd. in Russia, added: "The 
      new Bruker Center 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."