Germfree Laboratories, Inc. Overview
Company Headquarters: US
Founded: 1962
Company Working: Germfree Laboratories, Inc. is one of the leading manufacturers of isolation systems and aseptic control systems, globally. It designs, manufactures, and sells various equipment and components for applications in healthcare, biotech, laboratory research, and biopharmaceutical industries. The company’s product portfolio consists of laminar flow hoods, biological safety cabinets, compounding aseptic, isolators, pharmaceutical laminar flow equipment, lab enclosures, rental cleanroom and biocontainment trailers, and laminar flow workstations. Germfree Laboratories, Inc. operates through five segments, which are pharmacy, laboratory, mobile, modular, and biopharma. It offers glove boxes for applications in biotechnology, biomedical, nuclear, defense, pharmaceutical, semiconductor, and chemical industries. Through its modular and mobile segments, the company provides critical aseptic control and high levels of biocontainment (up to BSL-3).
It has a manufacturing and R&D facility in the US to serve its global consumers.
Strategy
Germfree Laboratories, Inc. is concentrating on forming partnerships and collaborations with the US government bodies and related agencies. For instance, in 2015, it collaborated with the US army at the Edgewood Chemical and Biological Center to design Class III BSCs and Biological & Chemical Filtration systems. It plans to innovate and introduce new technologies related to glove box systems through the Cooperative Research and Development Agreements program. Additionally, in 2017, it also signed a research agreement with the US army and innovated primary containment equipment for mobile labs such as Class II Biosafety Cabinets, Class III BSC (Gloveboxes), and Fume Hoods and corresponding exhaust air filtration systems.
