RADNOR, Pennsylvania, March 9, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- VWR (NASDAQ: VWR), the leading global independent provider of products and service solutions to laboratory and production customers, is excited to announce an agreement with Avantor® Performance Materials, LLC. This agreement will allow VWR to distribute Avantor's beaker-to-bulk portfolio of J.T.Baker® and Macron Fine Chemicals™ brand laboratory and pharmaceutical products to all European countries except Poland. European customers in the biopharmaceutical, production, quality labs, research and education industries will all benefit from this offering. "The J.T.Baker® and Macron Fine Chemicals™ brand portfolio is backed by Avantor's robust global quality systems, cGMP manufacturing footprint and distinctive innovation model designed to provide customized solutions to address complex challenges at any scale.