IKA Works GmbH & Co.Headquartered in staufen, Germany, it has a history of 100 years. IKA, founded in 1910, started as a supplier of equipment to pharmaceutical companies and hospitals. IKA moved to stauffen in 1942 from the devastated city of cologne and quickly became a global market leader in laboratory technology. IKA group has been committed to the development and production of high quality laboratory instruments, calorimetric analysis instruments and industrial hybrid dispersion equipment.

Since its inception, shiseido has always considered "beauty and health". This thought became the cause of shiseido's first establishment of western dispensing pharmacy in Japan. Similarly, in the development of shiseido chromatographic products, based on the latest science and technology accumulated in the development of cosmetics and pharmaceuticals, a unique product development is under way.

A company called biolab, founded in the early 1970s as a branch of Cambridge University, makes corrosion-resistant fittings and hand-operated valves for laboratory use. The company was renamed omnifit Ltd in 1973. Omnifit was acquired by homage International Limited in 1990 and moved to its current location in 1993. The omnifit product brand was acquired by dibe fluid control Co., Ltd. in 2009.