Top Dealers in Kuwait for Forensic Products

By

Nikhil Mehta

Table of Contents

Slno Name of the Company Pgno1 RTN General Trading and Contracting Co 12 Leica Geosystems 23 BDH Middle East LLC 34 Dar Al-Farabi Corporation 45 MO BIO Laboratories Inc| Al-Arfaj Engineering 56 Scientific Analytical Tools Trading, LLC 6

1. RTN General Trading and Contracting Co.

Address:

RTN General Trading & Contracting CoState of KuwaitAl-Sharq – Ahmad Al-Jaber StAl-Bahr Tower – 9th floorTel: + (956) 22454646 + (965) 22454747Fax: + (965) 22454949Email: info@rtn.com.kw

Company Profile:

RTN is a Kuwaiti company working in different fields and sectors which covers Construction, Corporate, Commercial, and Security fields. In addition to general trading business, RTN is representing international companies from different parts of the world that are specialized and professional in each field.

RTN is very careful and picky when selecting its partners and cooperators in every field of its operations. In addition to a continuous development for each sector under RTN through adding new product lines (in governmental and commercial fields), which allows RTN to penetrate new markets and increase the business opportunities in the region, especially with the cooperation of international and well established organizations worldwide.

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BLUESTAR FORENSIC:BLUESTAR FORENSIC is a new reagent whose purpose is to reveal blood stains that have been washed out, wiped off or which are invisible to the naked eye. This product is intended for crime investigators. Based upon chemiluminescence, its unique formula qualifies it as the most effective blood revealer available on the market, for crime scene as well as forensic lab use.

BLUESTAR FORENSIC does not alter the DNA of the revealed blood which allows for its subsequent genotyping. It is also compatible with ABO typing and it is safer and easier to prepare and use.

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2. Leica Geosystems

Address:

HeadquartersErnst-Leitz-Strafe 17-37 Wetzlar35578 Germany

Company Profile:

Leica Geosystems is one of the world’s leading providers of modern surveying solutions. Leica Geosystems products and services are trusted by professionals worldwide to help them capture, analyze, and present spatial information. Leica Geosystems is best known for its broad array of products that capture accurately, model quickly, analyze easily, and visualize and present spatial information.

When it has to be right, customers can trust Leica Geosystems to provide innovative solutions and services for the capture, modeling and visualization of 3D spatial information those who use Leica products every day trust them for their dependability, the value they deliver, and the superior customer support.

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Forensics & Public SafetyLeica’s 3D laser scanner is a powerful tool for investigations and preplanning, 3D laser scanning for forensics, public safety, and homeland security. It helps in law Enforcement Applications, Crime Scene Investigation.

Leica’s 3D laser scanning gives you the ability to go back, even years later, to explore detailed images and accurate measurements of the original scene. It can help revisit spatial analysis and generate new hypotheses based on the high-resolution, “full-dome” spherical photo of the scene. It can help navigate throughout the scene, zooming in and out to scrutinize each detail.

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3. BDH Middle East LLC

Address:

P.O. Box: 13152, Safat1st floor, Homaizi Building, Jassim Khalifa St., Shuwaikh Tel : +965-67795511Web: www.bdhme.com Email: bdhmekuwait@hotmail.com

Company Profile:

BDH is an internationally renowned supplier of complete turnkey project solutions including Design, Supply, Furnish, Install, Commission and Training, Operation and Maintenance, for Laboratory Supplies including Laboratory Furniture, Analytical, Medical & Scientific Equipments, Lab Reagents, Chemicals, Apparatus, Glassware and Consumables for all kinds of Laboratories with diversified operations in the Middle East.

The company also provides a complete range of equipment for Forensic, Nano-Biotechnology, Educational, Test & Measurement, Environmental, Material Testing, Surveying and Laboratory Furniture.

Activities:

The company supplies a wide range of Forensic Products like DNA specimen kits, GSR evidence and DWI specimen kits, evidence casting, blood id kits, finger printing equipments, stepping plates and presumptive drug testing.

Forensic Phone Analyzer (FPA)The technology allows analysts to discover wide range of critical information in various ways possible. This powerful technology can be used to analyze a single device or thousands of devices at a same time.

It has already helped track, monitor and intervene in criminal activity across vast networks of mobile phones and users. Extremely large amount of telecommunications data is automatically analyzed and make available to analyst in real time.

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4. Dar Al-Farabi Corporation

Address:

Imam Saud RoadP. O. Box No: 67386Riyadh - 11596Kingdom of Saudi ArabiaTel: +966 1 2033404Fax: +966 1 2074652Email: info@dafco-sa.com

Company Profile:

Dar Al Farabi Corporation is a hospital supply organization supplying healthcare products to hospitals and clinics Kingdom-wide. In order to distinguish Dar Al Farabi from the traditional contract suppliers, it has adopted a unique strategy that boosts customer/supplier partnerships extending beyond normal practice. This has established Dar Al Farabi as a trustworthy business partner, adding intangible value to its customers in the long term.

The company has alliances with over 30 reputed companies in the medical industry. The company finds pride in forming innovative relations with suppliers and customers, that respect individual and cultural differences and result in a better outcome that make lives better.

Activities:

The company supplies various lab equipments, glassware’s, molecular and genetic lab equipments, educational systems including Chromatography unit, computer controlled heat transfer systems, Channel Electro cardiology devices, portable electrochemistry meters, tamper-evident bags, epoxy coated solid sample metal evidence containers, inkless fingerprint system, fingerprinting stations.

Master Latent Print Kits

Master Latent Print Kits are designed to provide an investigator with a variety of latent powders, brushes, tapes, hinged lifters etc for the proper collection and preservation of latent prints at virtually any crime scene.All of the Master Latent Print Kits are supplied for larger agencies that routinely develop prints at crime scenes. The versatile kit includes all of our standard latent print powder colors, Dual Purpose and Safe-Cracker powders, fiberglass Brushes, nine camel hair brushes, reversible black and white backing cards.

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5. MO BIO Laboratories Inc| Al-Arfaj Engineering

Address:MO BIO Laboratories, Inc. 2746 Loker Avenue WestCarlsbad, CA 92010Toll-free in US: 800-606-6246 outside US: 760-929-9911 Fax: 760-929-0109 Company Profile:

MO BIO Laboratories is one of the fastest growing companies in Life Science. MO BIO Laboratories has been developing innovative tools for researchers in Molecular Biology. MO BIO's PowerMAX DNA Isolation kits and our RNA PowerSoil kits are among the most unique and innovative products in the biotech marketplace today.MO BIO also has introduced some of the fastest kits on the market for DNA isolation and purification. We offer the UltraClean 6 Minute Plasmid Mini Prep, the UltraClean PCR Clean-up Kit (only 3 minutes per reaction), and the UltraClean GelSpin Kit (only 5 minutes per reaction). Plus, we produce a full line of nucleic acid isolation and purification products in mini, midi, maxi and 96 well formats.

The company distributes these products through Gulf Scientific Corporation which is handled by company named Al-Arfaj Engineering Co WLL

Address:

Al-Arfaj Engineering Co WLL,Plot No. 7, Opposite Alam SteelShuwaikh Industrial Area, Pepsi (Jahra) StreetKuwait

Products:1. UltraClean® Forensic DNA Isolation Kit.

2. UltraClean® DNA-Free Reagents.

3. UltraClean® Lab Cleaner.

4. UltraClean® Low Melt Sieve Agarose.

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6. Scientific Analytical Tools Trading, LLC (SAT)

Address:

S.A.T. trading L.L.C, P.O.Box:182174, Dubai-U.A.ES-05, Al Aman House, Port Saeed, Deira, DubaiTel: +971 42959646, Fax: +971 4 2958343Email: info@sat.ae

Company Profile:

SAT designs and plans laboratory facilities for healthcare, educational, industrial and material sciences customers. SAT has focused on forensic laboratories becoming the primary supplier of forensic products for chemistry, toxicology, fingerprinting, photography, firearms analysis, immigration control, special task force outfitting and coast guard support to law enforcement in the Gulf Cooperation Council.

Products:Following are the products supplied by SAT

1. Arson: Arson Investigator.

2. Cyber Forensics: DNA Extraction Using Saliva.

3. Evidence Collection and Packing: Finger print Enhancement Software Suite.

4. Finger Prints: Brush, Chemicals and Kits.

5. Mobile Forensics: SAT NAV systems, RF isolation Tran receivers.

6. Crime Science Reconstruction.

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