Suppliers with systemic relevance
Scientific research in academia and the private sector are the main beneficiaries of the LSR industry's expertise. Devices, reagents and consumables are innovative tools that are used in laboratories worldwide. Our products meet quality requirements and at the same time allow experimental freedom.
Related industries go one step further, using our technologies to develop, manufacture and optimize their own products. The pharmaceutical industry uses LSR technologies for the production of cell and gene therapy for the treatment of previously untreatable diseases. The IVD industry develops LSR technologies into analytical methods for medical diagnostics. We are therefore a sector with systemic relevance and operate in the same market as the chemical, pharmaceutical, biotech, IVD and laboratory equipment sectors.
Multifaceted market
LSR technologies can also be found in many places in everyday life, but they remain hidden. LSR technologies help to produce sufficient quantities of healthy food to feed the world's population. Our research focuses on the safe production and control of food as well as the adaptation of seeds and crops against pests. In this way, the use of chemicals in agriculture is reduced. In addition, we are helping to make the world a little greener every day, for example with plastic-degrading enzymes or artificial photosynthesis, which binds CO₂ and converts it into the fuel molecule ethanol. Epidemics in animal husbandry cause enormous economic damage to farmers and also endanger consumers. Pathogens that cause animal diseases such as bird flu can be quickly analyzed and identified so that mass slaughter can be avoided and the spread can be contained.