Agar Scientific has appointed Paul Balas its new technical sales manager. Agar is a division of the Elektron Technology Group. Balas joins the company from Ronexprim SRL, where he served as executive director and the area sales manager of PANalytical X-ray equipment and FEI electronic microscopes. He is a graduate of Politehnica University of Bucharest in Romania, and has experience with a wide range of laboratory instrumentation, including optical microscopes. For more information, visit www.agarscientific.com.