K LABManufacturer & Origin
K LAB Co., Ltd. is a South Korean analytical-instrument manufacturer based in Daejeon, South Korea — the country’s science and technology hub. The company develops and manufactures the OPTIZEN series of spectrophotometers, used in academic research and industrial quality control.
Product Range
- OPTIZEN UV-Vis spectrophotometers — scanning instruments for research and QC laboratories
- OPTIZEN NanoQ — micro-volume spectrophotometry for nucleic acid and protein quantification, winner of the product design grand prize at the Korea IT Design Award
- Application solutions for biological analysis and water analysis
Brand Story
K LAB’s defining claim is a national first: the company led the development of a spectrophotometer built around a high-precision scanning monochromator developed in Korea — instrument-making of a kind that had previously been imported. From its base in Daejeon, surrounded by the research institutes of Korea’s Daedeok Innopolis, K LAB built the OPTIZEN line into a widely used workhorse of Korean academic and industrial laboratories.
The philosophy running through the range is accessibility: spectrophotometry is one of the most universal measurements in science, and K LAB designs instruments that make it easy to perform well — clear software, robust optics, and formats matched to real use cases, from teaching laboratories to water-quality testing to the micro-volume DNA and protein measurements of the molecular biology bench. The OPTIZEN NanoQ’s design award reflects a manufacturer that treats usability as an engineering requirement, not an afterthought.
K LAB continues to present its analytical solutions at KOREA LAB and other international exhibitions, and its instruments now serve laboratories well beyond Korea. Infenix brings the OPTIZEN range to Malaysia with local application support.