Sartorius AG is an international pharmaceutical and laboratory equipment supplier, covering the segments of Bioprocess Solutions and Lab Products & Services.

Recent history (since 2000)

In 2015, Sartorius Acquired

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and process development Cellca. By 2017, the subsidiary Sartorius Stedim Cellca was in operation, operating out of a rented facility in

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, but by 2019 a new facility is slated to be occupied in the Eselsberg district of Ulm. 2000
Sartorius took over B. Braun Biotech International (BBI) from B. Braun Melsungen AG. BBI, the world's leading manufacturer of fermenters (

bioreactor A bioreactor refers to any manufactured device or system that supports a biologically active environment. In one case, a bioreactor is a vessel in which a chemical process is carried out which involves organisms or biochemically active substance ...

) 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. 2005
Sartorius acquires 100% of the shares of Omnimark Instrument Corporation,

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, United States ( moisture analyzers). 2007
Sartorius merged its biotechnology division with the French biotech company Stedim S.A. The resulting Sartorius Stedim Biotech (SSB) is the world's leading technology provider for the biopharmaceutical industry. The new company is listed on the

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. Sartorius took over the '' Toha Plast GmbH '', which now operates under the name '' Sartorius Stedim Plastics ''. 2008
Through its subgroup, SSB Sartorius acquired the Swiss-based Wave Biotech AG, a leading provider of

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s. 2011
Sartorius acquired the liquid handling business of the Finnish laboratory specialists Biohit. Thus, the Group expands its product portfolio in the field of laboratory instruments. 2013
A new production building for the injection molding of plastic parts was opened in Göttingen. 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. 2016
The company acquired two North American

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companies, IntelliCyt ($90 million) and ViroCyt ($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 Biosafety is the prevention of large-scale loss of biological integrity, focusing both on ecology and human health. These prevention mechanisms include conduction of regular reviews of the biosafety in laboratory settings, as well as strict guide ...

testing facility in Boston. 2017
The company acquired cell-based assay and instrumentation firm Essen BioScience, 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 Cell culture or tissue culture is the process by which cells are grown under controlled conditions, generally outside of their natural environment. The term "tissue culture" was coined by American pathologist Montrose Thomas Burrows. This tec ...

conditions. 2019
The company acquired the Israel cell culture media developer and manufacturer Biological Industries. 2020
The company acquired selected assets of

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, including products for the research and development of cell therapies. 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

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ing (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

References

External links

Official company site

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