Eppendorf AG
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| legal form | Corporation |
| founding | 1945 |
| Seat | Hamburg , Germany |
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| Number of employees | 3,576 (Ø 2019) |
| sales | EUR 803.9 million (2019) |
| Branch | Life sciences |
| Website | www.eppendorf.com |
The Eppendorf AG is a company with headquarters in Hamburg , provides products and services for laboratories develops, manufactures and markets worldwide.
Overview
The company sells products and services for use in laboratories worldwide and is represented by commercial agencies and sales offices in 26 countries worldwide. Research and development work, as well as the manufacture of laboratory equipment and consumables, takes place primarily in Germany, as well as in the USA, Great Britain and Belgium.
Eppendorf's product range is divided into the areas of liquid handling, cell handling and sample handling. The company's products are used in academic or industrial research laboratories, e.g. B. used in companies in the pharmaceutical, biotech, chemical and food industries. Eppendorf products are also used in clinical or environmental analysis laboratories, in forensics and in industrial laboratories for process analysis, production and quality assurance. The company is the world market leader in this area.
history
The company was founded in 1945 by Heinrich Netheler and Hans Hinz in the Hamburg district of Eppendorf on the premises of the university hospital as a workshop for medical devices. Netheler and Hinz used their knowledge of radar technology to develop the first ultrasound device and the stimulator, a device for diagnosing and treating muscle and nerve damage. The electrical thermometer "Thermorapid" made it possible for the first time to measure body temperature within a few seconds. In 1963 the first microreaction vessel made of polypropylene - the "Eppi" - was produced. In 1965 the company with around 200 employees moved to its current headquarters in Barkhausenweg in the Hamburg district of Hummelsbüttel . In 1988 Klaus Fink took over the management of Eppendorf. "Eppendorf Gerätebau Netheler und Hinz GmbH" became "Eppendorf AG" in 2000, with all shares remaining in the possession of the founding families Netheler and Hinz.
With the takeover of New Brunswick Scientific in 2007 shakers , incubators , freezers and bioreactors were added to the range; since 2012 - after the purchase of DASGIP - the portfolio has been supplemented by parallel bioreactor systems and bioprocess data and information management software.
Eva van Pelt and Peter Fruhstorfer have been managing the Eppendorf Group as Co-CEOs since December 2019. They thus succeed Thomas Bachmann, who took over the chairmanship from Dirk Ehlers in 2015. In 2011, Ehlers replaced Klaus Fink, who had been chairman of the board for many years and who then took over as chairman of the supervisory board until 2016. Philipp von Loeper has been Chairman of the Supervisory Board of Eppendorf AG since 2016.
Holdings
In 2007, Eppendorf took over the US company New Brunswick Scientific Co , which was based in Edison, New Jersey. In 2012 Eppendorf acquired the medium-sized manufacturer of parallel bioreactor systems DASGIP from Jülich and in 2016 Calibration Technology Ltd based in Limerick , Ireland.
Products
Eppendorf develops, produces and sells devices, consumables and services for laboratories. These include pipettes , automatic pipetting machines, dispensers , centrifuges and mixers as well as consumables such as reaction vessels, pipette tips and culture vessels for cell cultures . In addition, Eppendorf manufactures ultra-freezers, fermenters and bioreactors , CO₂ incubators , shakers , devices for DNA replication (e.g. using PCR ), spectrometers and systems for cell manipulation.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Press release "Eppendorf with new dual CEO"
- ↑ a b c Medical technology: Hamburger Eppendorf AG is growing rapidly in Asia. Report in the Hamburger Abendblatt from May 3, 2011.
- ↑ a b Annual Report 2019, key figures. Retrieved April 28, 2020 .
- ↑ Press release "2017 financial year: Eppendorf is growing well above the market average"
- ↑ Uniklinikum and Eppendorf AG sign a cooperation agreement. Message in Die Welt of January 13, 2006.
- ↑ a b Eppendorf AG: On the family opposite path. ( Memento of the original from October 29, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Companies in focus at Laborwelt.de.
- ↑ a b New addition to the Eppis family. ( Memento of the original from June 10, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Report at Laborwelt.de from January 6, 2012.
- ↑ Press release "Eppendorf takes over DASGIP Group"
- ↑ Eppendorf AG takes over Calibration Technology Ltd (information on www.lifesciencenord.de). Retrieved July 1, 2019 .
