Sectra enters the Russian market with new partnership
The Swedish IT and medical technology company Sectra has signed a distribution agreement with McBrothers, a leading medical technology company based in St Petersburg, Russia.
McBrothers represents a number of internationally renowned manufacturers of a wide range of state-of-the-art medical equipment. Through this partnership, McBrothers becomes a distributor of Sectra’s medical systems in the western regions of Russia. The agreement includes Sectra PACS (system for processing and archiving of digital radiology images) and Sectra’s digital mammography solution, Sectra MicroDose Mammography.
“McBrothers is a very professional medical solutions distributor with a solid position and an established customer base in the St Petersburg region,” says Lars Wettergren, Global Partner Manager for Radiology IT at Sectra. “We believe the timing is right for entering this market as the Russian government is currently making significant investments in the healthcare sector.”
“There is a rapidly growing demand for efficient medical IT solutions and digital mammography systems in Russia,” says Andrey Kozadaev, Director of McBrothers. “Through the agreement with Sectra we will be able to provide new and existing customers with an internationally proven PACS solution to increase their operational efficiency, as well as a highly efficient mammography solution with half the radiation dose of competing systems.”
For further information, please contact:
Dr. Torbjörn Kronander, President, Sectra Imtec AB, +46 705 23 52 27
Dr. Jan-Olof Brüer, CEO and President, Sectra AB, +46 13 23 52 09
About Sectra
Sectra develops and sells IT systems and products for radiology, mammography and orthopaedics. More than 1,100 hospitals, clinics and imaging centers worldwide use the systems daily, together performing over 55 million radiology examinations annually. This makes Sectra one of the world-leading companies within systems for handling digital radiology images. In Scandinavia, Sectra is the market leader with more than 50% of all film-free installations. Sectra’s systems have been installed in North America, Scandinavia and most major countries in Europe and the Far East.
Sectra was founded in 1978 and has its roots in Linköping University in Sweden. The company’s business operation includes cutting-edge products and services within the niche segments of medical systems and secure communication systems. Sectra has offices in 12 countries and operates through partners worldwide. Sales in the 2010/2011 fiscal year totaled SEK 911 million. The Sectra share is quoted on the NASDAQ OMX Stockholm AB exchange. For more information, visit www.sectra.com
About McBrothers
With its head office based in St Petersburg, McBrothers is represented throughout the western part of Russia. Over the years, McBrothers has established an excellent reputation for supplying high-quality equipment and services and for the reliability of its qualified staff. McBrothers supplies and maintains high-quality medical equipment in various medical fields, including diagnostic imaging, nuclear medicine and oncology, urology and cardiology.
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