Corporate Profile

About Us

New Brunswick Scientific has long been considered a vanguard in the rapidly evolving Life Science industry, with a 60-year heritage of producing innovative and dependable equipment. Today, our company continues to play a critical supporting role in the development of emerging therapies and technologies. Our products have led to discoveries that helped to conquer tuberculosis as well as produce the world’s first commercially-licensed gene therapy drug. We are proud to support an industry that improves people’s lives, enhances quality of life, and profoundly shapes the human condition.

Products & Services:

New Brunswick Scientific is the worldwide market leader of biological shakers. We offer the largest selection of any manufacturer, with over 30 models to suit a wide variety of needs and budgets. Known for quiet-running, dependable operation, it’s little wonder our shakers inspire strong customer loyalty, and continue to be the best-selling shakers in the industry.

NBS is also a leading manufacturer of fermentation equipment and bioreactors, with a broad product range designed for research through production-scale applications. Like our shakers, many of these systems are still in operation after 20, 30 or more years. A complete range of CO2 incubators, as well as ultra-low temperature freezers and ancillary products are also offered, backed by a variety of customer support, training and contract lab services.

U. S. Operations:

NBS’ world headquarters is located in Edison, NJ, in a 243,000 square-foot facility that houses the manufacturing plant, offices, and R&D labs for fermentation and cell culture testing and development. The facility is currently undergoing a continuous stream of improvements, including recent acquisition of a million-dollar, automated laser punch machine that streamlines our sheet-metal processing operations. The system, one of the first to be installed on the East Coast, lets us quickly respond to changes in customer demand, and gives us rapid prototyping capability. The plant also houses a clean-room facility for producing FibraCel™ disks and operates an ASME-certified pressure-vessel machining center that enables us to expedite delivery as well as better control quality standards. In the US, NBS maintains a direct field sales and service organization, and is allied with Fisher Scientific for exclusive distribution of our Excella shaker line.

Multi-National Operations:

NBS maintains sales and service operations strategically located throughout Europe and Asia, with facilities in the Netherlands, UK, France, Germany, Belgium, China, Taiwan and India. Elsewhere, NBS supports a worldwide distributor network of factory-trained sales and service representatives. European operations are headquartered in our Netherlands warehouse and distribution center, where inventories of shakers, fermentors and cell culture equipment are kept on hand, speeding delivery to our European customers. UK sales and service operations are located in St. Albans, Hertfordshire, and we also operate a nearby freezer manufacturing facility in Tollesbury, England, and a CO2 incubator manufacturing facility in Scotland.

A Few Customer Comments:

(Comments garnered during our 60th Anniversary search for the oldest NBS Shaker or Fermentor, still in active use.)

“We have always bought New Brunswick shakers knowing we can count on them long term.” G-10 shaker, 1962

“Market leading product; more user friendly; durable & reliable.” BioFlo 310 fermentor, 2006

“My NBS Fermenter equipment is one the most important in development of this company, it’s 32 years old and still is working. It is beautiful.” 250-liter fermentor, 1976.

“I have had this shaker for 23 years, and it was a hand-me-down when I got it. It is in constant use and still runs fine.” G76 shaker, 1967

“I love this shaker; it is rugged and dependable.” G24, 1985

“Never lets me down.” Innova 4000, 1996

“Still works!” G-10 shaker, 1965

“It’s fantastic equipment and gives me the best results.” BioFlo 110, 2002

“This fermenter is still going strong! New Brunswick has certainly built their equipment to last.” BioFlo III, 1994

“This equipment has been working for a long time. It is very solid and robust. We have been using it for research as well as teaching purposes. Everytime we used it we realized is one of the best ones. We have other equipment (from another company) and for sure has not worked as good as yours.” BioFlo III, 1994

“Is great equipment, works perfectly. I love NBS instruments.” G-24 shaker, 1977

“I also have a second, G-24 shaker. They are built like a tank. Both are still functional and are currently in use.” G24, 1975

“Was in operation when I started working in 1988 and has been used >5 days a week since that time without ANY problems.” G-25 shaker, 1989

“I have to say that my fermentors are 15 years old and they work as good as when they were brand new. These equipments [sic] have been and still are really important for my students since they give a better understanding of what I teach them in the bioengineering courses.” BioFlo III, 1991

“This G-25 Gyrotory shaker was purchased on September 20, 1972 … The instrument is in good working order. I'm not sure we would give it up for a new one. It even survived an unusual incident. About 20 years ago one of my colleagues asked to use the shaker. I said sure and was horrified when I found they thought it was a water-bath and had tried to fill it with water. I cleaned up the mess as quickly as possible knowing my boss would be pretty upset if he knew his shaker had water in it. Once the shaker was dried out it worked just fine.” G25, 1972

From private industry to government labs, from research to production, New Brunswick Scientific has a track record of innovation and success - helping our life science partners succeed in their work.