Eppendorf is a leading life science company that develops and sells
instruments, consumables, and services for liquid handling, sample
handling, and cell handling in laboratories worldwide. Its product range
includes pipettes and automated pipetting systems, dispensers,
centrifuges, mixers, spectrometers, and DNA amplification equipment as
well as ultra-low temperature freezers, fermentors, bioreactors, CO2
incubators, shakers, and cell manipulation systems. Consumables such as
pipette tips, test tubes, microplates, and single-use bioreactor vessels
complement the range of highest-quality premium products.

Eppendorf products are most broadly used in academic and commercial
research laboratories, e.g., in companies from the pharmaceutical and
biotechnological as well as the chemical and food industries. They are
also aimed at clinical and environmental analysis laboratories,
forensics, and at industrial laboratories performing process analysis,
production, and quality assurance.

Eppendorf was founded in Hamburg, Germany in 1945 and has more than
4.500 employees worldwide. The company has subsidiaries in 26 countries
and is represented in all other markets by distributors.