Last Updated on
July 26, 2022
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Excedr
Sartorius is a global leader providing services, products, and solutions for the biopharmaceutical industry and laboratories. Sartorius AG is the parent company of the Sartorius Group. It holds 74% of the share capital of another similarly-named company, Sartorius Stedim Biotech S.A, which handles the bioprocessing business. Sartorius AG also holds a 100% stake in Sartorius Lab Holding GmbH, which handles the lab business.
While the parent company, Sartorius AG, is headquartered in Göttingen, Germany, Sartorius Stedim Biotech S.A is headquartered in Aubagne, France. However, both companies operate worldwide, with sites in over 30 countries and sales operations in over 110 countries. It’s a company with a long history, dating back to 1870, when its founder, Florenz Sartorius, started producing short-beam analytical balances.
You can see from its preeminent growth in 2020, with a 30.2% lift in sales revenue and a 49% lift in order intake, that Sartorius continues to be a major vendor in the biopharmaceutical industry 150 years later.
Sartorius’s main focus is assisting the biopharma industry from all angles of drug development and manufacturing as part of their mission to make healthcare more accessible for all. Additionally, they have spent the past decade collaborating with customers that develop and manufacture vaccines for infectious disease outbreaks and pandemics, and have joined in the efforts to end the COVID-19 pandemic.
The Sartorius Group offers a wide range of solutions divided into two main categories: lab process and services, and bioprocess solutions.
Besides its product offering, Sartorius also provides a range of experts and services to help you complete your project(s) efficiently, including:
Sartorius delivers its bioprocess development and engineering service from two sites: Bangalore, India, and Guxhagen, Germany.
The service takes you from concept to the realization of your custom solution. Sartorius’s involvement aims to optimize costs and facility throughput and ensure critical project timelines are met consistently.
The experts involved in Sartorius’s protein expression system service helps you with both cell line development and cell bank manufacturing at the highest standard.
With seasoned experts on your case, a unique CHO expression system, and careful steps to ensure gCMP compliance, you’ll get the highest quality results from Sartorius’s protein expression system service.
Sartorius’s media and process services ensure that your upstream process and media receive the optimal titer and product quality needed. With the flexibility, control, transparency, and client-focused concept in this service, you’ll be able to manage your process according to what your project needs. They combine industry-leading cell culture expertise with “long-standing media and process development” excellence to facilitate even your most challenging CHO processes.
The instrument service keeps your equipment in top shape, meaning consistent product quality, less downtime, and a longer shelf life for your units.
Sartorius’s expert team can help you maintain your equipment from installation and calibration, all the way to preventive maintenance visits.
Sartorius’s validation service, called Confidence®, has over 25 years of experience. It offers a wide variety of tests for your validation needs, including:
This service is a technical support group for software, Octet BLI and SPR instruments, biosensors, consumables, applications, and assay optimization.
It includes self-help tools and a knowledge base, so you’ll be able to investigate and solve common problems quickly.
Next up is Sartorius’s suite of products, which includes various instruments, consumables, and solutions for laboratories across multiple industries. The product range can be divided into several categories based on functionality, including:
You can also divide the product range into two types: lab essentials and bioprocessing solutions.
Like its name suggests, the lab essentials category focuses on products any professional laboratory needs. Sartorius’s tools are designed to improve the quality of your projects by ensuring accurate measurements and a better workflow. The products in this category include:
Meanwhile, the bioprocessing solutions category focuses on the production processes in the biopharmaceutical industry. The tools in this category include:
There are also a few trademarked products unique to Sartorius’s product offering, which include:
As you can see, Sartorius has various product lines across different categories. A lot of Sartorius’s product lines are registered trademarks. They often have different models, which offers you flexibility around the feature and budget for these branded lines.
Sartorius products are used across many industries.
Its Lab Essentials division products are an excellent fit for laboratories in any industry, while its Bioprocessing Solutions division provides upgraded research and development experience, especially in the biopharmaceutical industry.
Let’s see how these products are used across industries.
The application of Sartorius’s equipment in life science research covers basic research like weighing, water purifying, and pipetting. It also has some particular use cases, such as cell line development in drug discovery or cell culture in cell biology. Other applications include:
Sartorius promotes single-use production platforms to reduce the production cost and time to market. Equipped with years of experience in the biomanufacturing industry, Sartorius can help you optimize resources throughout every step of your process. Some of the functions Sartorius products can help with include:
Quality control and testing are some of the most critical parts of the biopharmaceutical industry. With highly regulated quality control, your products need to meet strict requirements in order to go to market. Sartorius’s products and consultancy service help you ensure quality in all aspects. The application of Sartorius products in quality control and testing includes:
While it gains its reputation from supporting the biopharmaceutical industry, Sartorius products are also used across other industries.
The products and services it offers allow you to get consistent, reliable, and accurate data so you can test and develop confidently. The resulting improved productivity and efficiency in your workflow is another side effect of using high-quality products to support your research and development.
Other industries that are a perfect match with Sartorius products include:
Sartorius equipment has an excellent reputation, especially among biopharmaceutical professionals.
Its broad selection of products and services aims to optimize your productivity and ensure your research and projects are top-quality.
While top tier laboratory equipment is ideal to outfit your lab with, the upfront costs of high-end equipment and instrumentation adds up to a large, upfront lump sum expenditure.
If you want to avoid these enormous upfront payments and having to spend the huge capital outlay, consider leasing your equipment instead.
Leasing gives you more flexibility. By saving your money through leasing, you can invest in other important areas such as staffing, inventory, or marketing.
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