Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc

Eldex Laboratories Inc. manufactures instruments for analytical chemistry laboratories and chemical process control. Based in Napa, Calif., the company offers a variety of products, such as MicroPro pumps, column heaters, fraction collectors, PicoTag parts/accessories and hydrolysis/derivatization workstation. In addition, the firm develops and manufactures custom instruments, such as variations on metering pumps, fluid delivery instruments for the semiconductor industry and sample preparation tools. In 1978, Eldex Laboratories Inc. introduced a line of high-pressure metering pumps, which find applications in post-column reaction systems, reactant feed and pilot plant development.

Labcon is an equipment and supply wholesaler, supplying disposable products for the laboratory, medical and dental industries. It supplies more than 800 products to labs all over the world. The company s new products incorporate concepts of eco-efficiency using less packaging, recycled plastics and refillable packages. An example is the Pagoda pipet tip reloading system. This product eliminates 90 percent of the packaging and waste in typical products of this kind. Labcon operates from a 125,000 square foot facility in Petaluma, California. Labcon develops, prototypes and test its products to work in labs all over the world. The company built its own research laboratory in 1996 to better understand the uses for its products. Labcon North America was founded in Marin County, California in 1959.