Thermo Fisher ScientificManufacturer & Origin
Thermo Fisher Scientific is the world’s largest scientific-instruments and laboratory-supply company, headquartered in Waltham, Massachusetts, USA. It was formed in November 2006 through the merger of Thermo Electron (founded 1956) and Fisher Scientific (founded 1902) — uniting a century-old laboratory supplier with a pioneer of analytical instrumentation.
Product Range
- Analytical instruments — mass spectrometry, chromatography, spectroscopy and electron microscopy under the Thermo Scientific brand
- Molecular biology — reagents, kits and enzymes under Invitrogen; qPCR and sequencing platforms under Applied Biosystems
- Laboratory essentials — equipment, chemicals, plastics and consumables through Fisher Scientific, including Nalgene labware
- Specialty diagnostics — clinical assays and testing platforms
- Pharma services — clinical research (PPD) and contract manufacturing (Patheon)
Brand Story
Thermo Fisher’s story is the consolidation of modern laboratory science into a single supply chain. Fisher Scientific, founded by Chester G. Fisher in Pittsburgh in 1902, spent a century becoming the catalogue on every laboratory shelf. Thermo Electron, co-founded by George Hatsopoulos in 1956, built the analytical instruments on the benches. Their 2006 stock-for-stock merger created a company of some 30,000 employees and $9 billion in combined revenue — and the scale has grown several times over since, through acquisitions that brought Invitrogen and Applied Biosystems, Patheon and PPD into the fold.
The result is a breadth no competitor matches: a single corporate parent behind the mass spectrometer, the PCR master mix, the cell-culture flask and the clinical trial that eventually proves the therapy. Its stated mission — enabling customers to make the world healthier, cleaner and safer — rests on that end-to-end position in the workflow of science.
Through Infenix, Malaysian laboratories can source from the Thermo Fisher Scientific range with local availability and support.