Our Suppliers
Ocon Chemicals has a 40-year track record of sourcing and distributing laboratory chemicals, glassware, consumables, and laboratory equipment and instrumentation for our customers. We have a well-established global supplier network and long-standing relationships with leading product manufacturers and distributors. We leverage those relationships to ensure that our customers get the high-quality products they need, on time, and at the right price.
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Avantor
Avantor is a leading, global provider of mission-critical products and services to the biopharma, healthcare, education, government, advanced technologies and applied materials industries. The company’s global footprint enables them to serve more than 300,000 customer locations in more than 180 countries. Avantor offer a complete line of performance materials, products, and consumables including process chemicals and reagents, customised excipients, customised singleuse assemblies, high-purity silicone products, process chromatography resins and columns, analytical sample prep kits, education, microbiology and clinical trial kits. The equipment and instrumentation products Avantor offer include filtration systems, incubators, biological safety cabinets, freezers, evaporators, and analytical instruments.
Corning
Corning is a leading innovator in materials science. For almost 170 years, Corning has combined expertise in glass science, ceramic science, and optical physics with manufacturing and engineering capabilities to develop category defining products. Corning has been a trusted supplier to the healthcare and pharmaceutical industries since they introduced PYREX® glass in 1915. Today, Corning is a leader in laboratory products, cell culture solutions, bioprocess vessels, and specialty surfaces.
Cruinn Diagnostics
Cruinn Diagnostics is an Irish owned company established in 1998 and a leading distributor of laboratory supplies and equipment to the clinical, industrial, pharmaceutical, veterinary, university and research industries. Cruinn’s product portfolio covers a wide range of diagnostics including microbiologoy, autoimmune serology, clinical chemistry, immunoassay, with the recent introduction of real time molecular diagnostics. Other product lines include blood collection systems, POS, medical devices, liquid handling consumables and instrumentation/automation, healthcare IT systems, consumables and calibration/validation services.
Cytiva
Cytiva is a global provider of technologies and services that advance and accelerate the development, manufacture, and delivery of therapeutics. With 10,000 employees across 16 manufacturing sites and 11 innovation centres in 40 countries, Cytiva has more than 60 years’ experience in the Biopharma supply industry. Cytiva’s customers undertake life-saving activities from biological research to developing innovative vaccines, biologic drugs, and cell and gene therapies. Cytiva aims to supply the tools and services their customers need to work better, faster, and safer.
Domel Labs
Headquartered in Slovenia, Domel has supplied laboratory equipment via a network of global distribution partners for more than 70 years. With products including centrifuges, homogenisers, incubators, water baths, shakers & stirrers, Domel provides solutions for a range of laboratories and applications, from 6 manufacturing locations in Solvenia and China. The company has 1,400 employees and provides laboratory equipment to customers in more than 70 countries.
Eppendorf
Eppendorf is a leading life science company, founded in 1945 and headquartered in Hamburg, Germany. Eppendorf develops and distributes instruments, consumables, and services for liquid, sample, and cell handling in laboratories worldwide. Its product range includes pipettes and automated pipetting systems, dispensers, centrifuges, mixers, spectrometers, and DNA amplification equipment as well as ultra-low temperature freezers, fermenters, bioreactors, CO2, incubators, shakers, and cell manipulation systems. Consumables include pipette tips, test tubes, microtiter plates, and single-use bioreactor vessels. The Eppendorf group has 5,000 employees across 33 global locations.
Fisher Scientific
As a premier scientific marketplace, Fischer Scientific have developed a comprehensive portfolio of laboratory equipment and supplies, chemicals, safety products, and services for customers in research, healthcare, education and industry.
Gilson
For more than 75 years, Gilson has concentrated on supporting scientists for 3 generations from its
headquarters in Wisconsin, USA. The company specialises in translating manual processes (from
academia to industry) into automated solutions. Throughout its history the company’s focus has
broadened from specialised instruments for physiological applications to solutions for liquid
handling, purification, and extraction. Today, with a worldwide network manufacturing facilities and
global representatives and authorised partners, Gilson remains family owned and manufactures
purification systems, automated liquid handlers, pipettes, faction collectors, solid phase extraction
(SPE) systems, detectors, injectors, and much more.
Hach
Hach’s broad line of instrumentation and chemistries have been carefully crafted for more than 80 years with the objective of making water analysis better – faster, simpler, greener and more informative. Since its origins in 1933, Hach has led the industry in developing innovative solutions and today their products can be found across the globe serving industries from municipal drinking water and wastewater to food, beverage, and power, and every application involving water. Hach products include laboratory instruments and equipment, laboratory meters and probes, chemistries, reagents and standards, online analysers, sensors and controllers, automated laboratory systems, multiparameter online panels, samplers, test kits and strips, microbiology supplies.
Hanna Instruments
Since 1978, Hanna Instruments has been designing, manufacturing, and distributing scientific
products used in the analysis of a multitude of industries including laboratory, food and beverage, hydroponics, aquaculture, and wastewater. Over the last 4 decades, Hanna has established an
impressive worldwide infrastructure consisting of 4 manufacturing facilities, 3 R&D centres and 47
global sales and technical support offices. Inhouse production affords Hanna the freedom to
efficiently bring new and innovative products to market while continuously improving the quality
and features of existing products. Hanna’s 3,500 product range includes solutions from chemical test
kits, reagents and solutions to titration, magnetic stirrers, multiparameter meters, photometers,
refractometers, and process instrumentation.
IKA
IKA offers a wide range of innovative laboratory technology for a variety of applications in research
ad development. Their slogan is “IKA – designed to work perfectly” and the company is a leading
global provider of innovative magnetic stirrers, mixers, overhead stirrers, shakers, homogenisers,
mills, rotary evaporators, colorimeters, laboratory reactors, and specially developed software for
laboratory and analysis applications as well as temperature control products such as circulators,
baths, and chillers. Headquartered in Staufen im Breisgau, Germany, IKA Group has over 900
employees at 10 locations on 4 continents.
Merck
Merck are a leading supplier to the global Life Science industry with solutions and services for research, biotechnology development and production, and pharmaceutical drug therapy development and production. With more than 3,000 products, Merck offer one of the broadest portfolios in the industry for scientists, best-in-class products for pharmaceutical development and manufacturing, and a fully integrated service organisation to support CDMO and contract testing across traditional and novel modalities. Merck offer solutions in the areas of analytical chemistry, cell culture and analysis, chemistry and biochemicals, clinical and diagnostics, filtration, industrial microbiology, labware, materials science, molecular biology and functional genomics, mRNA development and manufacturing, pharma and biopharma manufacturing, protein biology, water purification. The company has 27,000 employees across 60 global manufacturing sites and 130 distribution centres.
Porvair Sciences
Based in North Wales, Porvair Sciences are global leaders in the manufacturing and development of cutting-edge porous plastic materials and microplate technologies for the biotechnology and life science industries. From microplates, assay kits to automated laboratory equipment, Porvair is committed to equipping customers with high quality products for improved analysis and increased productivity to accelerate scientific discover with integrity. Together with JG Finneran and Kbiosystems, the life sciences group of companies are equipped to offer customers a diverse product portfolio dedicated to high quality sample preparation.
Sartorius
Founded in 1870, and headquartered in Gottingen, Germany, Sartorius has 16,000 employees at
more than 60 locations worldwide. With its two divisions, Bioprocess Solutions and Lab Products &
Services, Sartorius focuses on the biopharmaceutical industry. Offering solutions covering the entire
biopharmaceutical value chain, Sartorius provides solutions for bio analytics, and laboratory
products, consumables, and services to laboratories in the pharmaceutical and biopharmaceutical
industries, as well as academic research facilities. Sartorius is a market leader for laboratory
balances, pipettes, and laboratory consumables.
Scharlab/ Scharlau
Headquartered in Barcelona, with subsidiaries in Italy, Brazil and Phillipines, Scharlab (part of the
Scharlau Science Group) has been manufacturing chemical products for the laboratory and culture
media for microbiology for more than 7 decades. The company also provides laboratory glassware,
chromatography supplies, filtration, pesticide, and organic standards and instrumentation. Scharlab
currently has 300 employees in 11 countries and an extensive international presence with customers
in more than 100 countries.
Smith Scientific
Smith Scientific was established in 1922 and have distributed laboratory glassware since then. Over the past century, the company has grown substantially and adapted to ever changing market demands, expanding the variety and choice of the product range available from their 60,000 sq.ft. West Kent distribution centre. Smith Scientific are the exclusive UK distributors for premier global brands including Simax, Kimble-Chase, Academy and Glassco.
