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Now In: Barnstead International
Barnstead was founded in 1878 in Boston, Massachusetts, USA. Thermolyne was founded in 1942 in Dubuque, Iowa, USA. In 1988, the companies merged to form Barnstead International. They are part of Thermo Fisher Scientific, the world leader in serving science. Thermo Fisher Scientific enables customers to make the world healthier, cleaner and safer by providing analytical instruments, equipment, reagents and consumables, software and services for research, analysis, discovery and diagnostics. With annual sales of more than $9 billion, Thermo Fisher Scientific has 30,000 employees and serves more than 350,000 customers in pharmaceutical and biotech companies, hospitals and clinical diagnostic labs, universities, research institutions and government agencies as well as environmental, industrial quality and process control settings.
Recently, Barnstead International has continued to grow by acquiring several well known product lines including the following:
Labindustries - REPIPET bottle top dispensers
PMC Dataplate - digital heating and stirring products
Linear - chart recorders
Turner - fluorometers and spectrophotometers
Harvey - sterilizers
Electrothermal - heating mantels and melting point apparatus
Lab-Line - ovens, incubators and shakers
Laboratory Devices - melting point apparatus, dri block heaters
Stem Corporation - heating, cooling, stirring and shaking laboratory products
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