Mr. Axel Stamme (Sales Manager, Sample Management) and Mr. Laurent Baron (Shanghai Representative Office Business Manager) of Hamilton Bonaduz AG (Switzerland) visited the Chinese National Compound Library (CNCL) in the morning of February 23, 2016. Professor Ming-Wei Wang, Director of CNCL, warmly greeted them and discussed with them in great detail about the current status of automated sample storage and retrieval technologies.