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USDOC FOR 532/OEA/M. NICKSON-D/J. HATFIELD 
USDOC FOR 3131/USFCS/OIO/ANESA/KREISSL 
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ICE HQ FOR STRATEGIC INVESTIGATIONS 
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E.O. 12958: N/A 
TAGS: ETTC ETRD BEXP IN
SUBJECT: EXTRANCHECK: POST-SHIPMENT VERIFICATION: SARTORIUS INDIA 
PVT. LTD., BANGALORE 
 
REF: USDOC 00261 
 
¶1. Unauthorized disclosure of the information provided below is 
prohibited by Section 12(c) of the Export Administration Act. 
 
¶2. Acting Export Control Officer (ECO) David Nardella and BIS FSN 
Prem Narayan conducted a Post-shipment Verification (PSV) at 
Sartorius India Pvt. Ltd. (Sartorius), Bangalore, on January 23, 
¶2007. 
 
¶3. BIS requested a PSV at Sartorius, a private sector company, 
located at: #10, 3rd Phase Peenya, 6th Main, KIADB Industrial Area, 
Bangalore 560058, Tel: 91-80-2837-7728, Fax: 91-80-4117-1840, 
Email: 
amit.chatterjee@sartorius.com, Website: www.sartorius.com. The PSV 
was requested under EAR99/NLR.  Sartorius was listed as Ultimate 
Consignee for one transaction for an apparatus to test voltage.  The 
exporter was Red Lion Controls, York, Pennsylvania. 
 
¶4. ECO along with FSN Narayan met with Amit Chatterjee 
(Chatterjee), 
Managing Director, Biju Joseph (Joseph), Vice 
President-Manufacturing and N. Ramesh (Ramesh), Assistant 
Manager-Materials, Sartorius. 
 
¶5. BIS requested seven (7) PSVs to be conducted at Sartorius for 
different commodities imported from seven different U.S. firms, 
including its U.S. affiliation Sartorius North America.  Chatterjee 
and his colleagues were not aware of the BIS regulations.  This was 
the first official visit by a USG or BIS official to Sartorius. 
Chatterjee stated that they regularly import products from U.S. 
companies. He stated that in the absence of the U.S. exporters' 
invoice numbers or relevant transaction papers, it will be 
difficult 
to locate the relevant transaction documentation.  BIS team did not 
possess invoices for any of the 7 requested PSVs. 
 
¶6. ECO then advised Chatterjee that BIS, through its headquarters, 
will obtain the copies of invoices and forward to Sartorius.  ECO 
asked Chatterjee if he would permit the PSV to commence, once all 
associated invoices are obtained and provided to him.  Chatterjee 
reluctantly replied that he believed the checks would be allowed, 
but added he would need to inquire with the parent company, to 
determine if there are corporate legal concerns associated with the 
PSVs. 
 
¶7. He asked the BIS Team to first obtain, and forward to him the 
transaction invoices.  He would then seek approval from his parent 
company in Germany, for the PSVs to commence.  Chatterjee noted 
that 
the subject equipment might not be at their facility because much 
of 
what Sartorius purchases is integrated into custom products sold to 
customers. 
 
¶8. The invoice for the Red Lion Controls export was obtained and 
forwarded to Sartorius on February 22, 2007.  Based on the 
information in the invoice, Sartorius reported the Red Lion Controls 
apparatus were incorporated into electronic weighing balances which 
were sold to several separate end users located in India.  The end 
users are:  Bhilai Techneeds, Chattisgarh, India; DIC India Limited, 
Noida, India; Horizon Scales and Systems, New Delhi, India; Punjab 
Alkalies and Chemicals Ltd., Chandigarh, India; Sunag Engineers Pvt. 
Ltd., Kolkata, India; Tata Refractories Ltd, Jharsuguda, India; 
Rashtriya Ispat Nigam Ltd., Visakhapatnam; India and Shantha 
Biotechnics Ltd. Andra Pradesh, India. 
 
¶9. Sartorius was established in 1992, is a fully owned subsidiary 
of 
Sartorius AG based in Goettingen, Germany.  According to company 
brochure Sartorius is one of the leading laboratory and process 
technology providers covering the segments of biotechnology and 
mechatronics.  For biotechnology industry Sartorius manufactures 
membrane filters, syringe filters, vacuum filtration units, 
pressure 
filtration units and venting units.  In mechatronics it 
manufactures 
analytical balances, precision balances, micro and ultra 
micro-balances, moisture analysis equipment, and electrochemical 
analysis equipment.  In addition, it manufactures gold and carat 
weighing scales.  The key Sartorius customers include 
pharmaceutical, chemical and food and beverage industries.  In 
addition, it sells its products to several research and educational 
institutes of the public sector undertakings (PSU).  In India 
Sartorius is headquartered in Bangalore along with two 
 
manufacturing 
facilities with five regional offices located in Mumbai, New Delhi, 
Kolkata, Secunderabad, and Chennai.  Sartorius sales in FY 2006 
were 
approximately $23 million.  It employs 450 personnel India-wide. 
 
¶10. Recommendation:  While all indications are that the commodity is 
being used by Sartorius in its manufacturing process in accordance 
with the Export Administration Regulations the ECO will be unable to 
physically verify their actual end use.  As such this check is 
inconclusive. (PDAVIS/PNARAYAN) Pyatt