Fermentas is part of Thermo Fisher Scientific, the world leader in serving science. Our mission is to enable our customers to make the world healthier, cleaner and safer. With revenues of more than $10 billion, we have approximately 35,000 employees and serve customers within pharmaceutical and biotech companies, hospitals and clinical diagnostic labs, universities, research institutions and government agencies, as well as in environmental and process control industries. We create value for our key stakeholders through two premier brands, Thermo Scientific and Fisher Scientific, which offer a unique combination of continuous technology development and the most convenient purchasing options. Our products and services help accelerate the pace of scientific discovery, and solve analytical challenges ranging from complex research to routine testing to field applications. Visit www.thermofisher.com.

Fermentas – a Global Leader in Molecular Biology Products

For over 30 years, Fermentas has been a world leader in the discovery, manufacturing and marketing of quality molecular biology products. Fermentas International Inc., headquartered in Canada, has nine subsidiaries located in the USA, Canada, China, United Kingdom, Germany, France, Finland, Sweden, and Lithuania. Fermentas offers a comprehensive line of molecular biology products through our worldwide distribution network of 70 countries.

All Fermentas products are manufactured in class D clean room facilities, qualified and certified as per EU directives and ISPE guidelines, which are prerequisites for GMP manufacturing. Fermentas quality assurance is carried out according to ISO9001, ISO13485 quality and ISO14001 environmental management systems, guaranteeing batch-to-batch reproducibility.

As a dynamically evolving biotech company, we strive to make vital contributions to the rapidly growing fields of genomics, proteomics and microfluidics through key partnerships and collaborations. Our solid scientific and R&D background, product development experience and flexibility make us an ideal research and development partner to bring new technologies to the market.

Core competencies

Over our 30 year history, we have developed expertise in several molecular biology and enzymology fields:

• Restriction enzymes
  • Our scientists have discovered ~30% of all known restriction enzymes
  • World's first genetically-engineered restriction enzyme (Eco57MI) created
  • FastDigest® enzymes – the new standard for DNA digestion introduced
• Genetic engineering
  • Cloning, expression and manufacturing of PureExtreme® recombinant proteins, DNA and RNA
• Protein purification
  • Production of highly purified enzymes from native and recombinant sources
  • Highly purified recombinant protein fragments
    
• Nucleic acid purification
  • Proprietary technology for large scale production of pharmaceutical grade nucleic acids
  • Highly purified individual NoLimits™ DNA fragments
  • Large scale production of highly purified RNA transcripts
• High purity (>99%) dNTPs
  
• Transfection
• In vitro protein evolution

Custom services

Our extensive R&D experience and state-of-the-art facilities enable us to produce the highest quality products for life science research and molecular diagnostics. Fermentas works closely with our OEM customers at the R&D and production levels to provide complete customized solutions backed by the best possible support and service:

• Large scale production to suit your needs
• Custom formulations for high-throughput applications
• Custom quality control assays
• Vialing, labeling and packaging according to your requirements