Chembio Diagnostics Germany

Center-of-Excellence for Optical Technology

“Our declared goal is to supply our customers with reliable, innovative and precise measurement technology for lateral flow applications. We focus on providing customized, holistic solutions with an excellent price / performance ratio."

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Center-of-Excellence for optical Technology

About us

Chembio Diagnostics Germany (CDG) is a Berlin-based German subsidiary of Chembio Diagnostic Systems (CDS), Inc. based in Haupauge (NY, USA). Originally founded in 2005 as opTricon - Development Company for optical Technologies by Lutz Melchior and Volker Plickert, the company became part of the Chembio family in November 2018. Focus of activities is the development, production and marketing of customized reading devices for the evaluation of immunological rapid tests. Initially started as a service provider for the development of opto-electronic systems, the company today focuses on the OEM business for easy-to-use readers and software solutions as customer-specific products.

Mission

As a Center of Excellence for optical Technologies, we offer unique know-how from this technological area, combined with the experience and competence of more than 30 years of work in industry. Based on many years of experience in in-vitro diagnostics, we supply our customers with solutions for many other application areas of lateral flow technology such as the food industry, veterinary medicine, environmental technology and forensics.

Made in Germany - all products are developed and manufactured in Germany. High quality standards and a trusting partnership with our customers and suppliers are the basis for the success of our work.

Management

Lutz MelchiorLutz Melchior

Managing Director

Lutz Melchior studied Electronics Technology and Biomedical Technology at the Technical University of Dresden. In 1990 he started his professional career as a design engineer for HF measurement technology at Messelektronik Berlin GmbH. From 1992 he worked as a development engineer for fiber optic components and modules in the field of fiber optic technology at Siemens AG and Infineon Technologies AG. He held functions as a developer, team and project manager. In 2005, together with Volker Plickert, he founded the opTricon Development Company for optical Technologies GmbH based in Berlin-Adlershof. Together the two founders developed the company as managing partners, led it through several rounds of financing and in 2018 to a successful sale to Chembio Diagnostic Systems, Inc. As the managing director of Chembio Diagnostics Germany GmbH, which emerged from opTricon, the focus of his work is business development, sales & marketing and operations.

Lutz Melchior is the inventor and co-inventor in numerous patents on optical assembly and connection technology.

 

Volker PlickertVolker Plickert

Managing Director

Volker Plickert studied Electronics Technology at the Technical University of Dresden. In 1984 he started his professional career as a development engineer for fiber optic technology at the Institute for Telecommunications and in the Plant for Television Electronics in Berlin. From 1992 he worked as a development engineer for electro-optical transmission modules (transceivers) in the field of fiber optic technology at Siemens AG and later at Infineon Technologies AG. He was a developer, team and project manager. In 2005, together with Lutz Melchior, he founded the opTricon Development Company for optical Technologies GmbH based in Berlin-Adlershof. Together the two founders developed the company as managing partners, led it through several rounds of financing and in 2018 to a successful sale to Chembio Diagnostic Systems, Inc. As managing director of Chembio Diagnostics Germany GmbH, which emerged from opTricon, the focus of his work is finance and controlling, product development and quality control.

Volker Plickert is the inventor and co-inventor in numerous patents on optical assembly and connection technology.

Quality Management

Chembio Diagnostics Germany is an innovative company certified according to EN ISO 13485: 2016 + AC: 2016 by TÜV Rheinland.

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Jobs

At Chembio Diagnostics Germany you can expect challenging, responsible tasks and the opportunity for personal development. We rely on innovative technologies, new impulses are always welcome. It is important to us that every employee can experience the success of their own work beyond their personal work area.

There are flat hierarchies, short decision-making processes and excellent development prospects. You will work in a family-friendly company with regular working hours (core working hours and flextime) and a creative work environment in the exciting metropolis of Berlin.

If these characteristics meet your expectations, Chembio Diagnostic Germany is the right employer for you.

We look forward to speculative applications at any time. Send your meaningful application to: CDGinfo@chembio.com

Cooperations – Partners

Chembio Diagnostics Germany cooperates with strong partners, innovative companies, universities and institutes in research, development, manufacturing and sales. The aim of our work in these networks is to identify customer needs, innovative developments and market trends at an early stage, to steer them as far as possible and to ultimately offer marketable products with an excellent price-performance-ratio.

Chembio Diagnostic Systems, Inc.

Chembio is a leading point-of-care diagnostics company focused on detecting and diagnosing infectious diseases. The company's patented DPP technology platform, which uses a small drop of blood from the fingertip as a sample, provides high-quality and cost-effective test results in just about 15 minutes. Coupled with Chembio’s extensive scientific expertise, its novel DPP technology offers broad market applications beyond infectious disease, a number of which applications are under active development with collaboration partners. Chembio’s products are sold globally, directly and through distributors, to hospitals and clinics, doctor’s offices, clinical laboratories, public health organizations, government agencies, and consumers.

Learn more at www.chembio.com

Fountain of Youth GmbH

Provider of a professional, mobile health monitoring platform for the quantitative determination of specific vitamin levels.

Learn more at www.vitality-health-check.com

DiagnostikNet BB – Diagnostics Network

In order to implement marketable innovations a synergistic interaction of the different technology fields is required. That is why DiagnostikNet-BB - founded in 2007 - diagnostics and device manufacturers, suppliers and users from clinics, routine laboratories and research institutions in the Berlin-Brandenburg region have come together to form an efficient network: This enables us to cover the entire value chain of diagnostics.

Learn more at www.diagnostiknet-bb.de

Berlin Partner for Business and Technology

Berlin Partner for Business and Technology carries out various projects with the financial support of the European Regional Development Fund.

Learn more at www.berlin-partner.de

BMBF – Federal Ministry of Education and Research, Germany

The Federal Ministry of Research supports the implementation of research and innovation projects within the scope of subject-specific and open funding programs. The wide range of funding is tailored to important fields of innovation or technology, but also to different challenges and starting conditions. In particular, innovative small and medium-sized enterprises are addressed with specific funding programs.

Learn more at www.bmbf.de/de/foerderung-in-der-forschung-642.html

Fraunhofer Heinrich Hertz Institute (HHI) Berlin, Germany

The Fraunhofer Institute for Telecommunications, Heinrich Hertz Institute, HHI, also called Fraunhofer HHI, is an institution of the Fraunhofer Society for the Promotion of Applied Research e.V. (FhG) and is based in Berlin. The institute's activities are in applied research and development in the subjects of physics, electrical engineering and computer science.

Learn more at www.hhi.fraunhofer.de

PolyPhotonics Berlin – Photonics Alliance

PolyPhotonics Berlin: Great in Optics – Small in Size

Eleven regional companies and three research institutions have come together in the “PolyPhotonics Berlin” association emerged from the BMBF innovation initiative “Company Region”. In this alliance, the partners are for the first time able to implement comprehensive solutions in the application field of optical components based on polymers, which are not yet available in this form worldwide. The aim is to develop innovative materials and processes for the manufacture and assembly of photonic components that can be used in a variety of ways, e.g. for applications in the field of telecom / datacom, sensor technology and analytics.

Learn more at http://www.polyphotonics-berlin.de/

Contact

Address:

Chembio Diagnostics GmbH
Schwarzschildstraße 1
12489 Berlin – Germany

Phone +49 (0)30. 6392 2032
Fax +49 (0)30. 6392 2037
CDGinfo@chembio.com

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