Rank: 6
Organization: Eppendorf India Ltd
CEO: Mr V Sankaranarayanan
Bioscience Revenue: Rs 109.75 crore

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, fermenters, bioreactors, CO2 incubators, shakers, and cell manipulation systems. Consumables such as pipette tips, test tubes, microliter plates, and disposable bioreactors complement the range of highest-quality premium products.

The firms' 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 about 2,850 employees worldwide. The company has subsidiaries in 25 countries and is represented in all other markets by distributors. Eppendorf India, the Indian arm of Eppendorf AG was established in 2003 to cater and be closer to the customers of the sub-continent and continue being an expert partner in life sciences laboratories. The company is headquartered in Chennai.

In the last fiscal, the company launched Conical Tube 15 mL and 50 mL. The new Eppendorf Conical Tubes 15 mL and 50 mL broaden the volume range of Eppendorf Tubes. With the introduction of the two screw cap tubes, Eppendorf Tubes now cover the entire volume range from 0.5 mL to 50 mL.

In addition, Eppendorf India has received expanded NABL Accreditation for calibration services for volume, temperature, speed and time. The company can now can perform NABL calibration onsite for various laboratory instruments such as centrifuges, incubators (CO2 and BOD), incubator shakers, freezers (Cryo, ULT, -45 °C, -20 °C), Thermomixer or dry bath, water bath, autoclave, etc.

Eppendorf launched official Eppendorf App with a broad range of functionalities, including an Eppendorf product catalog, a news section and a BioNews archive. Moreover the app provides a number of helpful lab tools such as lab timers or calculators and conversion tools for typical routine applications in the laboratory. For customers who want to purchase products, the app offers a direct link to our Eppendorf eShops without leaving the app.

The app is available free of charge in the Apple's App Store for the iPad and iPhone and also for the users of Android