sources . please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources . unsourced material may be challenged and removed . july 2013 learn how and when to remove this template message eppendorf type private industry life sciences biotechnology founded eppendorf hamburg germany 1945 headquarters hamburg germany area served worldwide products laboratory devices and consumables revenue 629 1 million 2015 operating income 123 2 million 2015 number of employees 2 969 2015 website www.eppendorf.com eppendorf a company with its registered office in germany develops produces and sells products and services for laboratories around the world . eppendorf products are used in academic and industrial research laboratories e.g. in companies in the pharmaceutical biotech chemical and food industries . they are also used in laboratories that perform clinical or environmental analysis in forensic laboratories and in industrial laboratories where industrial process analysis production and quality assurance are performed . the company is the world s market leader in this area . contents 1 products 2 history 3 participating interests 4 external links products edit eppendorf develops produces and sells devices consumables and services for laboratories . they include pipettes automated pipetting systems dispensers laboratory centrifuges and mixers as well as consumables such as reaction vessels and pipette tips . in addition eppendorf manufactures ultra low temperature freezers bioreactors co2 incubators shakers dna amplification equipment polymerase chain reaction spectrometers and cell manipulation systems . history edit eppendorf was founded in 1945 by heinrich netheler and hans hinz in the hamburg district of eppendorf on the grounds of the university medical center originally as a workshop for medical devices . dr. netheler and dr. hinz used their extensive knowledge of radar technology to develop both the first ultrasound device and the stimulator a machine used for diagnosing and therapeutically treating muscle and nerve damage . they also invented an electrical thermometer the thermorapid that for the first time enabled body temperature to be measured in just a few seconds . in 1965 the company and its approximately 200 employees moved to a facility in barkhausenweg in the hamburg district of hummelsb ttel where eppendorf has been headquartered ever since . today the company s focus has shifted from the development and sale of medical technology to laboratory devices consumables and services . during the 1960s the holistic approach used for the eppendorf microliter system set new standards in the laboratory world . its perfectly harmonized system for dosing mixing tempering centrifugation cooling separating storing and transporting samples is still a central element in today s laboratory work . in 2000 eppendorf ger tebau netheler und hinz gmbh was renamed and became eppendorf ag . the company sells its products around the world in many cases through its own sales offices . thomas bachmann became chief executive officer of the eppendorf group on august 1 2015 . following detmar ammermann who had exercised the function of spokesman of the management board on an interim basis in addition to his responsibilities as cfo since june 2014 . in 2011 dirk ehlers followed on the long term ceo klaus fink who took over as chairman of the supervisory board till this day . participating interests edit in 2007 eppendorf took over new brunswick scientific co. an american company headquartered in edison new jersey . the company moved to enfield connecticut in 2011 . new brunswick scientific co. merged with the company eppendorf inc in 2013 . the portfolio from nbs is now part of the eppendorf portfolio . in january 2012 eppendorf acquired dasgip a mid sized german company headquartered in j lich germany that manufactures parallel bioreactor systems . external links edit official website retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title eppendorf company & oldid 736434613 categories laboratoriesscienceresearch support companiesbiotechnology companies of germanymanufacturing companies based in hamburghidden categories articles lacking sources from july 2013all articles lacking sourcespages using infobox company with unsupported parameters 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 languages deutschespa olfran ais edit links this page was last modified on 27 august 2016 at 13 26 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; 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