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Eurofins Agro Testing and NIK Group announce a strategic partnership which will see Eurofins Agro Testing operate NIK’s agricultural sampling, analysis, and testing businesses in Bulgaria and Romania. NIK will continue to offer agronomy services as an important part of the company’s portfolio in Bulgaria and Romania. Combining Eurofins Agro Testing’s best-in-class analytical services with NIK’s proven agricultural solutions, this partnership will ensure more flexibility and added value for Eurofins Agro Testing and NIK customers.
The laboratory in Sofia, formerly known as NIK Agro Service, has a 15-year history of analysis, sampling, and agronomy advisory services, and is ISO-17025 accredited.
Eurofins Agro Testing comprises multiple agricultural laboratories and partners both in Europe and worldwide with a focus on soil, crop, water, compost, and manure analyses. By combining the results of Eurofins Agro Testing’s innovative and standardised analyses with tailored guidelines, landowners can close yield gaps, optimise crop quality and use nutrients and water in a prudent way. As such, Eurofins Agro Testing contributes to healthy, viable and sustainable farming and growing.
NIK is an international group of companies with a unique portfolio of precision agriculture solutions. NIK has been leading progress on the field for more than 20 years with its portfolio of comprehensive solutions for automation and optimisation in agricultural farms. The NIK group is the leader in the agronomy segment in Bulgaria and Romania utilising its high-end laboratory operations and its proprietary software with an IP for grid soil sampling to provide best in class services for customers. As a key step in this partnership, Eurofins Agro Testing will integrate with NIK’s advanced IT platforms in the region, providing significant benefits for customers.
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About Eurofins – the global leader in bio-analysis
Eurofins is Testing for Life. The Eurofins Scientific S.E. network of independent companies believes that it is a global leader in food, environment, pharmaceutical and cosmetic product testing and in discovery pharmacology, forensics, advanced material sciences and agroscience contract research services. It is also one of the market leaders in certain testing and laboratory services for genomics, and in the support of clinical studies, as well as in biopharma contract development and manufacturing. It also has a rapidly developing presence in highly specialised and molecular clinical diagnostic testing and in-vitro diagnostic products.
With ca. 62,000 staff across a network of more than 900 laboratories in over 1,000 companies in 62 countries, Eurofins offers a portfolio of over 200,000 analytical methods.
Eurofins Scientific S.E. shares are listed on Euronext Paris Stock Exchange.
About NIK Group
NIK Group consists of several companies in Bulgaria, Romania, Italy and South Africa. As of today, NIK operates on 14 markets with a portfolio of over 6,000 clients and 300 employees. The group offers leading precision farming equipment and smart agriculture machines alongside its portfolio of services, including a cutting-edge agronomy software as well as a comprehensive agronomy service package.
The company’s innovative approach and focus on the implementation of artificial intelligence in agricultural operations makes NIK a driving force of progress towards more sustainable agriculture and a key player in the field of innovation in the region.
