verification . please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources . unsourced material may be challenged and removed . may 2012 learn how and when to remove this template message sartorius ag type aktiengesellschaft traded as fwb srt industry pharmaceutical and laboratory equipment founded 1870 in g ttingen founder florenz sartorius headquarters g ttingen germany area served worldwide key people joachim kreuzburg ceo and chairman of the executive board reinhard vogt member of the executive board j rg pfirrmann member of the executive board revenue 891.2 million 2014 1 number of employees 5 611 2014 1 website www.sartorius.com the sartorius group is an international pharmaceutical and laboratory equipment supplier covering the segments of bioprocess solutions and lab products & services . in 2014 the technology group earned sales revenue of 891.2 million euros 2013 791.6 . founded in 1870 the g ttingen based company currently employs around 5 600 persons . 1 contents 1 company profile 2 early history 3 acquisitions since 2000 4 latest developments 5 awards 6 see also 7 references 8 external links company profile edit the company consists of the two divisions bioprocess solutions and lab products & services . bioprocess solutions includes the segments filtration fluid management fermentation and purification and focuses on the production processes of the biopharmaceutical industry . lab products & services focuses on the production and servicing of laboratory instruments and consumables . sartorius has its own production facilities in europe asia and america as well as sales subsidiaries and commercial agencies in more than 110 countries . the sartorius preference share has been traded at the german technology index tecdax since 18 june 2012 . 2 within the management board reinhard vogt is responsible for marketing sales and services while j rg pfirrmann manages finance it general administration and human resources as well as being executive for labor relations . the ceo joachim kreuzburg is responsible for corporate strategy legal compliance as well as communications . he also is chairman of the board and ceo of the subgroup sartorius stedim biotech . early history edit universal theodolite made by florenz sartorius c. 1910 140 years ago in 1870 florenz sartorius 1846 1925 a g ttingen university mechanician founded the fine precision weighing company called feinmechanische werkstatt f. sartorius and began with the production of short beam analytical balances . the new light weight material aluminum he used to produce these ensured rapid overseas sales . to allow the use of hydro power the company moved north of g ttingen to bovenden the new factory provided work for 60 people . this move coincided with the production of the 3000th scale by the company in 1895 . however in 1899 the headquarters of the company was to move once more this time to a plot near the weender highway on the northern outskirts of g ttingen . in 1906 the founder s three sons william 1872 1937 erich 1876 1947 and julius 1878 1918 became partners in their father s company . shortly after in 1911 the company celebrated the construction of its 10 000th analytical balance . in 1914 florenz and his sons turned the company into a stock corporation to expand its capital base . 3 during the first world war the company was converted into producing military hardware and the successful foreign business wings of the company were broken off . after the war ended the company returned to the proven business of weighing technology ; however it was not until the mid 1930s that the pre war production figures were once again achieved . with the start of the second world war the company was once again taken over for the purpose of building military hardware this time for the air force and for this purpose a new factory was completed in 1941 . 3 between the wars in 1927 the company under the name membranfiltergesellschaft m.b.h. began the industrial production of membrane filters an area of production developed from the nobel prize winner richard zsigmondy and his associate wilhelm bachmann . this early phase of production is still the foundation for sartorius bioprocess business which is used in the production of filters today . 3 acquisitions since 2000 edit 2000 sartorius takes over b. braun biotech international bbi from the b. braun melsungen ag . bbi the world s leading manufacturer of fermenters bioreactor and cell culture systems at the time is integrated into the sartorius group as sartorius stedim systems gmbh formerly sartorius bbi systems gmbh a subsidiary of sartorius stedim biotech gmbh . sartorius ag acquires the remaining shares in viva science and is now the sole owner . 2005 sartorius acquires 100 % of the shares of omnimark instrument corporation arizona usa moisture analyzers . 2007 sartorius merges its biotechnology division with the french biotech company stedim s.a. . the resulting sartorius stedim biotech is the world s leading technology provider for the biopharmaceutical industry . the new company is listed on the paris stock exchange . sartorius takes over the toha plast gmbh which now operates under the name sartorius stedim plastics . 2008 through its subgroup sartorius stedim biotech sartorius acquires the swiss based wave biotech ag a leading provider of single use bioreactors . 2011 sartorius acquires the liquid handling business of the finnish laboratory specialists biohit . thus the group expands its product portfolio in the field of laboratory instruments . 2012 sartorius expands its bioprocess portfolio by cell culture media and enters a long term cooperation agreement with the swiss life science group lonza . 2013 through its subgroup sartorius stedim biotech sartorius acquires the british firm tap biosystems group plc ; expansion of bioprocess portfolio in fermentation . 2014 through its subgroup sartorius stedim biotech sartorius acquires a majority stake in the us start up allpure technologies llc thus complementing the disposables portfolio for the biopharmaceutical industry . latest developments edit in december 2014 sartorius sells the division industrial technologies a specialist in industrial weighing and control equipment to the japanese company minebea co. ltd. consequently sartorius concentrates on its core businesses bioprocess and laboratory . the operational structure of the group therefore consists of the two divisions bioprocess solutions and lab products & services . 4 in april 2015 sartorius through its subgroup sartorius stedim biotech ssb acquires the scottish company biooutsource ltd. thus integrating bioanalytical testing services into the portfolio . 5 in july 2015 sartorius through its subgroup sartorius stedim biotech ssb acquires the laupheim based company cellca thus further expanding its service offering for process development . 6 awards edit in 2001 sartorius receive the innovation award of the german economy for its development of the genius analytical balance . 7 two years later sartorius competed for and received the initiative prize for training and continuing education from the otto wolf foundation the german chamber of commerce and industry and the german language weekly financial journal wochenmagazin . in 2004 the company received the frost & sullivan award for its innovation in product differentiation technology . in 2005 sartorius won the best innovator of 2005 from the category of time to profit awarded by the international management consultant a.t.hearney and german business magazine wirtschaftswoche . in 2006 the international consulting company frost and sullivan awarded sartorius the 2006 growth strategy leadership award . in 2012 sartorius won the reddot design award for its new electronic pipette picus . 8 in 2016 the sartorius marketing campaign passionforscience was nominated on the shortlist top 5 for the marketing intelligence and innovations awards miia 2016 in the category multi channel strategy . 9 see also edit laboratory equipment references edit a b c sartorius annual report 2014 press release sartorius moves up to the tecdax a b c sartorius chronicle press release sartorius to sell its industrial technologies division to minebea co. ltd. press release sartorius stedim biotech acquires uk based cro biooutsource press release sartorius stedim biotech acquires cellca sartorius history product website picus miia awards 2016 . marketing intelligence and innovation awards 2016 . quadriga media berlin gmbh . retrieved 5 october 2016 . external links edit official company site passionforscience connect upstream v t e tecdax companies of germany updated 18.03.2013 adva optical networking aixtron bb biotech bechtle cancom ag carl zeiss meditec dialog semiconductor dr gerwerk drillisch euromicron evotec freenet ag jenoptik kontron lpkf laser & electronics morphosys nordex se pfeiffer vacuum psi ag qiagen qsc ag sartorius ag sma solar technology software ag stratec biomedical systems s ss microtec telef nica germany united internet wirecard xing retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title sartorius ag & oldid 742757928 categories laboratory equipment manufacturerscompanies of germanytechnology companies established in 1870companies based in lower saxonyresearch support companieshidden categories articles needing additional references from may 2012all articles needing additional references navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version in other projects wikimedia commons languages deutsch edit links this page was last modified on 5 october 2016 at 16 25 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; 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