Eppendorf is a leading international life science company that develops, manufactures, and
distributes instruments, consumables, and services for use in laboratories around the world.
The product portfolio of the business units Liquid Handling & Consumables, Separation &
Instrumentation and Bioprocess includes, for example, pipettes, pipette tips, centrifuges,
mixers, ultra-freezers and bioreactors for cell and gene research. In addition, Eppendorf
offers a wide range of high-quality consumables. In fiscal year 2023, the Eppendorf Group
generated €1.08 billion in sales and invested €69 million in research and development
(R&D).
Eppendorf products are used in academic or industrial research laboratories, such as
pharmaceutical, biotech, chemical, and food industries, as well as clinical, environmental,
forensic, and industrial laboratories for process analysis, production, and quality assurance.
Since 1945, the Eppendorf Group has been headquartered in Hamburg, Germany, and today
operates production and R&D sites in Europe, Asia and North America and has subsidiaries
in 33 countries. Today, the Group employs more than 5,000 people worldwide. They all act
in accordance with the purpose of the company's founders: to improve human living
conditions.
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