Expansion of capacities for the production of consumables

The Eppen­dorf Group is expand­ing its pro­duc­tion capac­i­ty at the Old­en­burg in Hol­stein site in Ger­many by build­ing two addi­tion­al pro­duc­tion halls. As a result, Eppen­dorf Poly­mere GmbH, a whol­ly owned sub­sidiary of Eppen­dorf AG, will increase its total capac­i­ty by around 30 per­cent from 2021. A mile­stone for this tar­get­ed expan­sion was reached May 14, 2020 with the top­ping-out cer­e­mo­ny for the sec­ond hall cur­rent­ly under con­struc­tion. The first hall has already been com­plet­ed and will start pro­duc­tion oper­a­tions this month.

In Old­en­burg, Eppen­dorf pro­duces lab­o­ra­to­ry con­sum­ables made of high-qual­i­ty plas­tic such as pipette tips and tubes, microtiter plates and sin­gle-use biore­ac­tor ves­sels. Cur­rent­ly, these prod­ucts are in par­tic­u­lar­ly high demand from diag­nos­tic lab­o­ra­to­ries and vac­cine man­u­fac­tur­ers around the world who are research­ing vac­cines against the coro­na virus or car­ry­ing out Sars Cov‑2 tests.

“We are reg­is­ter­ing a steady increase in demand for con­sum­ables from Eppen­dorf. The cur­rent glob­al bat­tle against the coro­na virus is just rein­forc­ing this trend,” says Dr. Wil­helm Plüster, Chief Tech­nol­o­gy Offi­cer at Eppen­dorf AG. “With the con­struc­tion of the two new pro­duc­tion halls we are respond­ing to this trend, which has been con­tin­u­ing for years. In addi­tion, sus­tain­abil­i­ty was tak­en into account in the con­struc­tion of the build­ings.” con­tin­ues Plüster. The two pro­duc­tion halls will be heat­ed and cooled by an exist­ing com­bined heat and pow­er plant. This will con­sid­er­ably reduce ener­gy consumption.