Separation and concentration

Company history began in 1852 when John Taylor found out that supplying equipment and chemicals to gold mining, laboratory and assay markets was more profitable than gold mining itself. Today VWR International, LLC, headquartered in Radnor, Pennsylvania, is a global laboratory supply and distribution company with worldwide sales in excess of $4.1 billion in 2013. VWR provides customers with an expansive choice of premiere products, such as chemicals, furniture, equipment, instruments, apparel and consumables, from a vast group of leading scientific manufacturers.

Founded in 1950 by Otto Bürkle in Stuttgart as a commercial agency for pharmaceutical products and plastic lab equipment, Bürkle develops and manufactures manual sampling systems, filling machines for aggressive liquids and plastic lab equipment. Today, Bürkle offers Europe’s most comprehensive product line in manual samplers and filling machines. Its customers are mainly active in the chemical, pharmaceutical, food and environmental protection industries. Products are manufactured exclusively in Germany and since 1994, Bürkle has been certified according to DIN/EN ISO 9001.