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History
Discover the milestones, successes and changes through more than five decades of KNAUER.
Discover the milestones, successes and changes through more than five decades of KNAUER.
Dr.-Ing. Herbert Knauer and his wife Roswitha founded the Company and offers an universal temperature measuring device and an electronic freezing point osmometer/cryoscopy device for determining molecular weights.
At Leipzig Trade Fair in East Germany, Knauer is honored with a gold medal. This opened the east European market for vapor pressure osmometers for the company.
KNAUER develops new instruments and columns for High Performance Liquid Chromatography (HPLC). The new company headquarters is completed in 1974.
Knauer presented HPLC instruments in modular format and they quickly become well-known for their outstanding flexibility. Biggest selling product is the Pump-64.
Knauer offers HPLC columns with inner diameters ranging from 2 to 32 mm. In addition, a numerous assortment of column materials, the know-how for filling columns and application development.
Introduction of a complete range of products for preparative chromatography.
Alexandra Knauer, daughter of the company’s founder, is appointed General Manager and begins managing the company in close collaboration with her father.
Development of the smallest SMB system in the world for preparative continuous chromatography – used for the separation of two-component mixtures, such as chiral products.
The WellChrom HPLC line, one of the most compact HPLC systems on the market with a scanning UV detector is launched.
Alexandra Knauer becomes sole owner of the company.
Starting in 2001, production is increasingly moved in-house to ensure quality and improve flexibility. The vision of the innovation department: detectors with fiber optics.
Introduction of the modern Smartline HPLC series with a diode array detector.
The Smartline Assistant can take over a variety of tasks such as sample preparation, sample injection or fraction collection.
PLATINblue, the new modular system for UHPLC features an pressure range of up to 1000 bar with a data acquisition rate of up to 200 Hz, matching UHPLC columns and a compact LC/MS- solution are also in the program.
New product line for OEM customers with HPLC and non-HPLC applications and Bioline, a bio-chromatography system are developed.
Alexandra Knauer wins the prestigious "Prix Veuve Clicquot" as female entrepreneur of the year in Germany and Knauer wins an award for being one of the most family-friendly companies in Berlin-Brandenburg.
The new product line AZURA with the flagship AZURA Prep LC which includes numerous modules and new axially compressible columns was presented.
Knauer receives the Innovation Award Berlin Brandenburg 2013 for its purification system Contichrom.
The new AZURA® Analytical HPLC surpasses and replaces the previous Smartline analytical HPLC line in many specifications. With AZURA® Mobile Control, device control is now also possible via tablet.
Introduction of the new AZURA Bio LC Systems for FPLC-Applications. Typical areas of use are the purification of proteins and nucleic acids.
Knauer receives the Quality Award Berlin-Brandenburg and the Application Award 2016 in the food analysis category of the specialist magazine “Laborpraxis” for the quality of its products.
The Berlin-based laboratory equipment manufacturer KNAUER celebrates its 55th anniversary and awards a science prize worth 25,000 US dollars
KNAUER dosing pumps are helping to develop the production of methanesulfonic acid directly from methane and sulfur trioxide, which a research team at Duisburg-based Grillo-Werke has succeeded in producing in good yield and purity for the first time. The highly aggressive SO3 is pumped at 100°C with a pressure of 50 bar.
Berlin entrepreneur Alexandra Knauer received the VICTRESS Succession Award 2018
In February, KNAUER joins the United Nations Global Compact
for sustainable corporate governance.
In the study "Leading Employers Germany 2019", the Berlin-based manufacturer of high-tech laboratory measuring instruments KNAUER was ranked as one of the best employers for the second time.
Introduction of Sepapure® columns and media for the rapid purification of proteins with liquid chromatography (FPLC).
KNAUER expands its business activities to include systems for the production of lipid nanoparticles (LNP). A major pharmaceutical company commissions us to develop the planned production of its mRNA-based coronavirus vaccine. Technology for production scale is not yet available anywhere.
On September 10, Dr. Angela Merkel visits KNAUER and acknowledges the company's important role in the race to produce the corona vaccine on a large scale. She describes KNAUER as a “pearl of the SMEs”.
On November 26, KNAUER receives the Berlin Brandenburg Innovation Award for this new LNP production technology.
The IJM NanoScaler, a system for LNP production that closes the gap between small-scale research systems and production-scale systems, is presented.
Two new liquid handlers, LH 8.1 for analytical and LH 2.1 for preparative LC systems, were added to the portfolio.
