| Industry | Software |
|---|---|
| Founded | Wilmington, Delaware (1987) |
| Founder | Vance Kershner |
| Headquarters | Wilmington, Delaware , United States |
Number of locations | 25 |
| Products |
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| Website | labware |
LabWare, Inc. is an American developer of laboratory informatics software, such as laboratory information management systems, electronic laboratory notebooks and laboratory data analytics. It is a Delaware corporation, with offices in Wilmington, Delaware.
The company was founded in 1987 by Vance Kershner, who is president and CEO. [1] [2] It has offices in 25 countries, with customers in ninety. [3] [4] [5] The head office is in Wilmington, Delaware, with a training facility at Oberod Estate in Centreville. [6] [7]
Pharmaceutical clients include Wyeth, Teva, AstraZeneca, Pfizer, Merck, and Bristol Myers Squibb; [8] other users are in the food and beverage, forensics, nuclear power, environmental and water testing industries. [9] The software is used to test for water, soil, food and air quality in the United States, Ireland, Australia, and South Africa. [10] [11] In 2021, CTI Clinical Trial and Consulting Services (CTI), a global, full-service contract research organization (CRO) announced their partnership with LabWare. [12]
Körber, a global technology company, and LabWare announced in 2023 the integration of LabWare LIMS and Körber's manufacturing execution system, PAS-X, for the pharmaceutical and biopharmaceutical industry. [13]
LabWare and Mettler Toledo announced a plug-and-play software integration to enhance laboratory productivity by seamlessly connecting LabWare LIMS with Mettler Toledo instruments in 2024. [14]
LabWare uses Visual Smalltalk Enterprise to develop its products and in October 2014, LabWare joined the Pharo Consortium. [15] In January 2024, the Cuis Smalltalk community announced that LabWare supports their efforts. [16]
In March 2022, LabWare acquired CompassRed, a data analytics firm. [17] [18]
LabWare won the Scientific Computing and Instrumentation’s Readers’ Choice Award in the Laboratory Information Management System (LIMS) category each year between 2000 and 2008. [19] [20] LabWare LIMS won a Frost & Sullivan Product Quality Leadership Award in 2004, and the company won Frost and Sullivan's European Laboratory Information Management Systems (LIMS) Company of the Year Award in 2008. [21] [22] In 2016, LabWare was honored by the Delaware Bioscience Association as their company of the year. [23] MYTECHMAG added LabWare to their list of Top Oil & Gas Tech Solution Providers in 2021. [24] The Center for Business Analytics at Drexel University LeBow College of Business recognized LabWare as an honoree of the 2023 Drexel LeBow Analytics 50 Awards. [25]