英国Genevac    
英国GeneVac离心浓缩蒸发仪器广泛地应用于生物、化学、制药领域。 GeneVac采用多项优秀的技术，具有高通量、全面防止交叉污染等特点。
世界上领先的溶剂蒸发技术 Genevac高性能的溶剂蒸发系统已经广泛使用于世界上新药开发及药物研究实验室．
Genevac公司推出的HT系列高通量离心浓缩仪，是目前市场上唯一的融离心蒸发和冷冻干燥技术于一体的仪器，从HPLC或Flash制备色谱得到的混合溶剂样品，只需放入HT系列仪器，设定程序，就可自动完成离心蒸发和冷冻干燥，得到用户需要的固态晶体样品。

Genevac Ltd is a subsidiary of SP Industries Inc.

SP Industries is a leading manufacturer of specialty glassware and equipment for pharmaceutical, biotechnology, industrial, academic, and OEM applications. Products are sold under marketing leading brands that include Wilmad-LabGlass NMR and EPR tubes, accessories, and specialty and custom glassware, Hotpack glassware washers and dryers, vacuum ovens, and environmental chambers, Genevac solvent evaporators and miVac concentrators, FTS precision thermal control systems and LyoStar freeze dryers with SMART control for freeze drying cycle development, Virtis laboratory, pilot-plant, and production scale freeze dryers, and Hull cGMP lyophilization systems.

Company Origins

Genevac Ltd was founded in 1990 by Michael Cole. At this time, the small, family owned business specialised in the manufacture of corrosion proof vacuum pumps and centrifugal evaporation equipment for the life science research laboratory.
Centrifugal evaporation involves the use of lowered pressure to reduce the boiling points of solvents thereby accelerating their evaporation. Samples are placed in a rotor and spun during the drying process to prevent violent solvent boiling (known as "bumping").

Click here to see short video clip of "solvent bumping" (Requires QuickTime plug in).

Michael Cole invented the revolutionary Cole Vacuum Pump (CVP) to provide the world's first corrosion proof high vacuum, low maintenance laboratory pump. The CVP pump originally formed the backbone of all Genevac vacuum systems to provide unparalleled levels of performance. The evaporation systems produced between 1990 and 1995 were very compact bench top systems for general-purpose use in life science research.

With advances made in technology, this has now been superseded with the Scroll Pump. Developed by BOC Edwards, with assistance from Genevac, and based on the "scroll" principle. The scroll pump takes it’s name from the design of the pump head, where a series of crescent shaped scrolls cut into an oscillating rotor are used to repeatedly compress and decompress the gas or vapour to be pumped.

1995 - The Emerging Combinatorial Chemistry Market

In conjunction with the emergence of new technologies to speed up drug discovery and development in the pharmaceutical industry, the company focussed on developing a new class of laboratory evaporation equipment specifically designed for combinatorial chemistry and its related applications.

Combinatorial techniques demand high throughput, high performance laboratory synthesis, solvent evaporation and purification equipment capable of operating in a production environment. Genevac became the first manufacturer to build solvent evaporation systems for combinatorial chemistry. Genevac currently manufacture a range of standard systems from the compact bench-top EZ-2 and HT-4X systems to ultra-high throughput Mega production scale systems.

The success of the combinatorial chemistry systems launched in 1995 gave rise to accelerated company growth. The systems are currently used in most major pharmaceutical research laboratories worldwide. The company won the Queen's Award for Innovation in 2000 in recognition of the innovations incorporated into the products.

Ownership

Dr Cole retired, selling Genevac to Apogent Technologies in May 2000. Apogent was in turn merged with Fisher Scientific Inc. during 2004. Fisher Scientific then merged with Thermo Electron Corporation to form ThermoFisher Scientific in November 2006, with Genevac being divested as part of the merger process. In April 2007 Riverlake Equity Partners LP (the parent company of SP Industries) acquired Genevac.
Genevac currently employs around 85 people, most based at the manufacturing, R&D and marketing headquarters in Ipswich, England. A US subsidiary is based in Valley Cottage, NY. The US operation provides sales, service and technical support to our customers in the US. Sales and service representatives are based local to most of our customers on the East Coast, Mid West and West Coast. In Europe we have sales and service staff based at offices in Lyon, France and Wiesbaden, Germany to provide efficient service to our key European customers. Elsewhere, Genevac products are sold and supported via a global network of distributors located strategically to serve the drug discovery industry.

Genevac endeavours to provide the highest quality products, service and support. This is achieved through a unique range of innovative, high performance products and a commitment to customer satisfaction, resulting in the Company achieving the status of ISO9001 2000 certification during 2004.