EPPENDORF SE

History

Year	Detail
1945	The company was founded by two technicians, Dr. Heinrich Netheler and Dr. Hans Hinz, who began repairing medical devices on the grounds of the University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf. The founding families still own the company.
1950	The company developed the Eppendorf photometer for clinical requirements. It used the principle of spectral lines, enabling photometry to be used for routine laboratory applications.
1963	Eppendorf launched the first Eppendorf Tubes that quickly gained popularity in German medical and bioscience laboratories. The tubes allowed laboratory workers to fill and store small sample amounts easily and practically.
1969	The company developed its first automated Analyzer 5010. Chan links were used to feed samples into this device, which was used for rapid and precise measuring of enzyme activity and could handle as many as seven times the number of samples processed by laboratory workers in manual tests.
1978	Eppendorf launched the first Multipette 4780. This dispenser can discharge liquid repeatedly in predefined doses.
1993	Eppendorf created the EDOS 5222 metering system, an extremely versatile and high-performance device for all fluid dispensing tasks in the lab.
1996	The company developed microinjectors, such as the CellTram Air and Oil microinjectors, for controlling pressure, manual microinjection, and fluid dispensing.
1998	The company developed BioPhotometer, a handy measuring device for the rapid and reliable quantitative analysis of ds/ssDNA, RNA, oligonucleotides, proteins, and bacterial cell density.
2001	The company developed the Perfectprep Gel Cleanup Kit for purifying dsDNA fragments from a wide variety of agarose gels and reaction batches.
2007	Eppendorf acquired New Brunswick Scientific for approximately $110 million to expand into bioreactors and fermentation equipment segments.
2012	The company acquired DASGIP Group, a bioprocess and information technology technology provider, for high-quality parallel bioreactors and software solutions.
2020	The company acquired the centrifuge business of Koki Holdings Co, Ltd, Japan, including its Himac brand, to expand its centrifuge business from benchtop centrifuges to floor-standing and high-speed centrifuges to automated centrifuges.
2022	The company developed BioBased Tubes from 90 percent renewable bio-based raw materials, such as recycled cooking oil waste and residues.
2023	Eppendorf sold its micro-manipulation product portfolio to Calibre Scientific GmbH in Hamburg, Germany, a subsidiary of Calibre Scientific, Inc., a U.S.-based global life sciences company.
2023	Takara Bio Inc. and Eppendorf SE collaborated to automate Takara Bio’s chemistries on Eppendorf epMotion automation platforms, enhancing the efficiency and reliability of various laboratory processes.