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Sigma-Aldrich is one of few organisa-tions that have been certified as a Top Employer Europe 2012. This is a special achievement as organisations could only participate if they could demonstrate consistency in the HR offerings to their employees across all countries. To achieve this certification, organisations had to be successfully achieving the criteria set in a minimum of 5 European countries.

Michael Harris, Managing Director & Vice President Sigma Aldrich Europe, Middle East & Africa (EMEA) has been working with the company for 8 years now. He commented: 'Our efforts to train and develop our employees so that they can excel in their performance and career is a competitive advantage. Recently we have set up our European Headquarters in Switzerland and investment in our people has been instrumental in the success of this.'

Sigma-Aldrich Corporation (NASDAQ: SIAL) today announced that its custom manufacturing and services business unit, SAFC® (www.safcglobal.com), is launching the CHOZN® Platform system, a CHO (Chinese Hamster Ovary) cell expression system that allows for faster, simpler selection and scale-up of high-producing clones for the production of recombinant protein drugs. The new platform consists of the cGMP-produced and tested CHOZN® ZFN Modified GS-/- CHO cell line, an optimized set of cGMP-produced, chemically defined media and specially designed feeds to maximize production of r-proteins.

Sigma-Aldrich Corporation (NASDAQ: SIAL) announced today it has acquired all outstanding shares of Cleveland, Ohio-based, Research Organics, Inc., to expand the Company's buffer production capacity and to increase its portfolio of PharmaGrade raw materials for the biopharmaceutical and diagnostic markets. Research Organics is a leading supplier of high purity biochemicals for use in molecular biology, diagnostics, cell culture, pharmaceuticals, biopharmaceuticals, life sciences and biotechnology and will transition into SAFC, the custom manufacturing and services business unit of Sigma-Aldrich.