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About Eppendorf

About Eppendorf

Eppendorf is a leading life science company that develops and sells instruments, consumables, and services for liquid-, sample-, 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, microtiter plates, 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.

Accuracy, reliability, experience, innovation — characteristics that customers all over the world associate with Eppendorf.

Eppendorf was founded in Hamburg, Germany in 1945 and has about 4,500 employees worldwide. The company has subsidiaries in 26 countries and is represented in all other markets by distributors.

Locations

  • Head OfficeHead Office
  • Sales SubsidiariesSales Subsidiaries
  • Entity with regional/global functionsEntity with regional/global functions
  • Entity with regional/global functionsCompetence Centers

Europa

Amerika

Asien/Pazifik/Afrika

Mission & Competence

Eppendorf contributes to improving human living conditions

The Experience and Competence to Handle Your Needs

Quality, reliability, experience, innovation — these are words that people worldwide associate with Eppendorf. We believe this highly regarded reputation is the result of our 75-year history and commitment to deliver the best solutions for handling your most precious samples.
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Eppendorf’s broad product range covers three competence areas:

Our Experience is Your Benefit

Our commitment to people and the environment

Service & Support

Your success matters to us

Awards

Scientific Awards

With the aim of encouraging and supporting outstanding work of promising young scientists, Eppendorf awards two research prizes.

Eppendorf Group

Annual Report 2020

In fiscal year 2020, Eppendorf AG succeeded in posting record revenue of €967 million (prior year: €804 million) – a significant year-on-year increase of 20.3% (prior year: 10.2%). EBIT likewise saw a sharp rise of €73.5 million to €217.7 million (prior year: €144.2 million), representing an improvement of 51.0% on the prior-year period, while the EBIT margin climbed to 22.5% (prior year: 17.9%). Eppendorf, a globally positioned life science company from Hamburg, Germany, thus grew faster than its competitors and can look back on the most successful fiscal year in its more than 75 years of existence.
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Eppendorf_Annual-Report_2020.pdf

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Management & Supervisory Board

Dr. Peter Fruhstorfer

Co-CEO & Chief Business Officer

    Eva van Pelt

    Co-CEO & Chief Commercial Officer

      Axel Jaeger

      Member of the Management Board, Chief Financial Officer

        Dr. Wilhelm Plüster

        Member of the Management Board, Chief Technology Officer

          Philipp von Loeper

          Chairman

            Prof. Dr. Elmar Hinz

            Vice Chairman

              William A. Linton

              Vice Chairman

                Thomas Heydler

                Member of the Supervisory Board

                  Marlis Kripke

                  Labour Representative

                    Peter Schmidt

                    Labour Representative

                      Code of Conduct

                      It is our common understanding that we do not just wish to comply with legal and regulatory requirements. We feel committed to high ethical standards and principles. In order to prevent any - however unintentional - reputational damage, clear rules of conduct for all members of the Executive Board and all employees are required. In order to make our views of an integral corporate conduct transparent, we have defined and laid them down in a binding Code of Conduct. The Code of Conduct for all employees and members of the Executive Board of Eppendorf AG and its German and international subsidiaries provides guidance for legally impeccable behavior based on ethical principles. The rules mark the commitment of both Eppendorf and its business partners to attach the utmost importance to the quality of business, advice and dealings with each other within their cooperation. The Code of Conduct also contains a procedure for reporting violations to help employees respond immediately to any wrongdoing they may encounter.

                      Code of Conduct

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                      Celebrating 75 Years of Supporting Scientists

                       

                       

                      After 75 years, the mission of the company is just as valid and relevant as it ever was: “Eppendorf contributes to improving human living conditions.”

                       

                      Since 1945. And tomorrow as well. Join us in celebrating this jubilee and immerse yourself in the big questions of TOMORROW LAB since 1945.
                       

                      www.eppendorf.com/75-years

                      History

                      History