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 amplification equipment as well as ultra-low temperature freezers, fermentors, bioreactors, CO2 incubators, shakers and cell manipulation systems. Eppendorf was founded in Hamburg, Germany in 1945 and has more than 3,000 employees worldwide.The company has subsidiaries in 25 countries and is represented in all other markets by distributors.