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Sartorius AG is an international pharmaceutical and laboratory equipment supplier. In September 2021, Sartorius was admitted to the DAX, Germany's largest stock market index. Sartorius supports its customers in the development and production of biotech drugs and vaccines. The company has two major divisions: Bioprocess Solutions and Lab Products & Services.


History

In 1870, Florenz Sartorius founded the "Feinmechanische Werkstatt F. Sartorius" in Göttingen at the age of 24. The short-beam analytical balance that he developed further became internationally known, and the 3,000th balance was delivered by 1895. The mechanical workshop developed into a medium-sized company. In 1906 Sartorius expanded its portfolio by acquiring the companies August Becker (Göttingen) and Ludwig Tesdorpf (Stuttgart). Their work included microtomes as well as astronomical, geodetic, and physical instruments. Sartorius tested moon rock collected during the
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mission in 1969.


Recent history (since 2000)

In 2000, Sartorius took over B. Braun Biotech International (BBI) from B. Braun Melsungen AG. BBI, the world's leading manufacturer of fermenters ( bioreactor) and cell culture systems at the time, was integrated into the Sartorius group as ''Sartorius Stedim Systems GmbH ''(formerly ''Sartorius BBI Systems GmbH ''), a subsidiary of '' Sartorius Stedim Biotech GmbH.'' Sartorius AG acquired the remaining shares in Viva Science and is now the sole owner. In 2005, Sartorius acquired 100% of the shares of Omnimark Instrument Corporation,
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, United States. Omnimark is a producer of moisture analyzers. Sartorius merged its biotechnology division with the French biotech company Stedim S.A. in 2007. The resulting Sartorius Stedim Biotech (SSB) is listed on the Paris stock exchange. Sartorius took over the'' Toha Plast GmbH,'' which now operates under the name'' Sartorius Stedim Plastics.'' Through its subgroup, SSB Sartorius acquired the Swiss-based Wave Biotech AG in 2008. Wave Biotech is a provider of single-use bioreactors. In 2011, Sartorius acquired the liquid handling business of the Finnish laboratory specialists Biohit. This acquisition expanded Sartorius' product portfolio to include laboratory instruments. A new production building for the injection molding of plastic parts was opened in Göttingen in 2013. In the same year, the new Asia sales center of the Sartorius Group was inaugurated in Shanghai, from which all sales and marketing activities for China and for the entire Asia region are controlled. In 2015, Sartorius Acquired the cell line and process development company Cellca. By 2017, the subsidiary Sartorius Stedim Cellca was in operation, operating out of a rented facility in Laupheim, but by 2019 a new facility was slated to be occupied in the Eselsberg district of Ulm. The company acquired two North American flow cytometry companies in 2016. These companies were IntelliCyt, acquired for $90 million and ViroCyt, acquired for $16 million. In July, the company, through SSB, acquired kSep Systems, which specialized in preparative centrifugation for recombinant proteins, vaccines, and cell therapy products. In November, the SSB subdivision opened a new bioanalytical and biosafety testing facility in Boston. The company acquired cell-based assay and instrumentation firm Essen BioScience in 2017 from private equity owner SFW Capital Partners, for $320 million. A co-development agreement between Sartorius' Cellca subsidiary and Synpromics began to test Synpromics' customized synthetic promoters on Cellca's CHO Expression Platform. Another co-development agreement was inked with Nova Biomedical to develop a system for large-scale testing of diverse cell culture conditions. In 2019, the company acquired the Israel cell culture media developer and manufacturer Biological Industries. The company acquired selected assets of Danaher Corporation, including products for the research and development of cell therapies in 2020. In 2021 the company acquired the German cell culture media manufacturer Xell AG, the German cell and gene therapy raw materials supplier CellGenix GmbH and the German bioanalytic company ALS Automated Lab Solutions GmbH.


Products & Services


Sartorius Stedim Biotech

* automated cell banking (cryovial handling) system * Single-use bioreactors * Scaledown bioreactors * Membrane chromatography devices (membrane adsorbers) * Manufacturing process platforms and modular manufacturing facility elements


Sartorius Stedim BioOutsource

BioOutsource is a subsidiary of Sartorius Stedim Biotech * Chemistry testing services focus on the analysis of therapeutic monoclonal antibodies for their physicochemical and structural properties


Sartorius Stedim Cellca

* CHO Expression Platform, for production of biological agents


See also

* Laboratory equipment


References


External links


Official company site
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