What is Barnstead International?
Barnstead International, together with Lab-Line and Electrothermal, design and manufacture labor saving laboratory and dental products including NANOpure Diamond water systems, Classic, Megapure and Fistreem water distillation systems, Harvey sterilizers, Cimarec, Mirak, PMC and Explosion-Proof stirring hotplates, furnaces, Imperial V ovens, CO2 and shaking incubators, heating mantles, melting point apparatus, Locator Plus and Biocane cryogenic storage systems, REPIPET dispensers, Linear chart recorders and Turner fluorometers and spectrophotometers.
Authorized distributors represent Barnstead International in nearly 200 countries world wide.
When was Barnstead International founded?
Barnstead was founded in 1878 in Boston, Massachusetts, USA. Thermolyne was founded in 1942 in Dubuque, Iowa, USA. In 1988, the companies merged. The company is an Apogent Technologies Company. Other Apogent subsidiaries you may be familiar with include Nalge Nunc International, Erie Scientific, and Apogent Discoveries.
Has Barnstead International acquired any new product lines?
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
