Optophase has been appointed the Western Europe distributor of nanopositioning products from !%nPoint Inc.%! of Madison, Wis. The agreement covers France, England, Ireland, Spain and Portugal in Western Europe, as well as Norway, Finland, Sweden, Estonia, Hungary, Serbia, Slovenia, Croatia and Turkey. Optophase will offer nPoint’s nanopositioning products with single- and multiaxis and tip-tilt stages for use in superresolution microscopy, high-speed confocal imaging, high-resolution optical alignment, single-molecule spectroscopy, particle tracking, optical tweezers, nanoscopy and nanolithography.