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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 more than 3,300 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 65-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 2018

2018 was a very good year for Eppendorf. The company increased its Group sales by 8.2% (in local currencies) compared with the previous year. Eppendorf experienced broad-based growth, with improved results in all divisions and all market regions. North America, in particular, contributed to our above-average growth compared with the rest of the market. Overall, we even outperformed our dynamic industry as well: 2018 was probably one of the best years in the life science market by far.
In fiscal year 2018, we also continued to invest heavily in our company, particularly in research and development and additional human resources. EBIT at the Eppendorf Group climbed 5.6% above the level generated in the previous year while the EBIT margin remained unchanged at 21.1%. ... read more

Annual Report 2018

PDF | 5 MB | 23.04.2019


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Management & Supervisory Board

Dr. Peter Fruhstorfer

Co-CEO & Chief Business Officer

    Eva van Pelt

    Co-CEO & Chief Commercial 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

                    PDF | 181 KB | 10.01.2018


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                    History

                    History