US-based Nano Mask, a healthcare product development company focused on emergency, infection control and critical care markets, has opened a sales, marketing and distribution office in Riyadh.

David Willoughby, Nano Mask, Inc.’s (NMI) VP, Sales and Marketing, will be stationed in Riyadh over the next six to 12 months in order to work closely with NMI's Saudi Arabian partners in developing sales and distribution channels in the region.

NMI previously announced a distribution agreement with a Saudi Arabia-based medical products distributor which will represent NMI's product line on an exclusive basis to Saudi Arabia, UAE, Kuwait, Egypt, Morocco, Oman, Algeria, Qatar, Jordan, Bahrain, Sudan, Yemen Lebanon, Yemen and Tunisia.

The Saudi Arabian medical products distributor, having already placed significant orders with NMI, has agreed to order a minimum of more than $2 million over the next four years, a statement said.

The products that will be marketed and sold in the territory are: NMI's emergency life support and respiratory products (utilising the company's industry leading patented 2H Filtration Technology), antimicrobial hospital barrier products and NMI's proprietary line of bacteria free enzymatic medical detergents specially formulated for instrument reprocessing.

Separately, NMI announced that it will be exhibiting, in conjunction with its Saudi Arabian partners, its products at Arab Health Trade Show in Dubai, UAE from January 23 to 26. – TradeArabia News Service