Our locations

Alexandria, Minnesota is a city of approximately 15,000 people about 130 miles northwest of the state capital, Minneapolis. First settled in 1858, it was named after brothers Alexander and William Kinkead from Maryland.

At our site in Alexandria, we design, manufacture, test and provide service support of LGC Biosearch Technologies laboratory instrumentation and consumables. Products produced and distributed from this location enable scientists to make the world a safer place and enable customers in areas such as developing and identifying new plant hybrids, testing and tracking of food products for food safety, and research to support human diagnostic testing. The Alexandria site represents a centre of excellence for Biosearch Technologies in the areas of Engineering, Manufacturing, and Field Service by supplying and supporting customers and team members around the world.

Augsburg, Bavaria’s third-largest city, is rich in history and culture, with UNESCO recognition for its unique Water Management System. Located just over 30 miles from Munich, it plays a significant role in the region’s industrial landscape.

At our site in Augsburg, Germany, we focus on the production of organic reference materials for residue analysis and the production of customised solutions in the form of single and multiple compound solutions.

LGC manufactures over 8,000 products at its facility, which are used in laboratories across the world in the residue analysis and environmental testing market.

With 22 million residents, Beijing is a historical and research powerhouse, hosting institutions like the Chinese Academy of Sciences.

Our Beijing office provides technical support for local end-users and distributors, and we participate in various industry exhibitions to promote LGC products.

Our services in Beijing are accredited to LGC’s QMS quality standards.

Bellshill is ten miles southeast of Glasgow, 37 miles west of Edinburgh and is home to approximately 20,000 inhabitants.

Glasgow is the biggest city in Scotland with approximately 1.8 million people living in the greater Glasgow region. The wider metropolitan area is home to over 1,670,000 people, about 33% of Scotland’s population. Historically it was a major hub for oceanic trade and became known as the “second city of the British Empire” for much of the Victorian and Edwardian eras.

Bellshill is part of our Nucleic Acid Chemistry business within the Genomics business unit, which also includes our Biosearch oligonucleotide synthesis reagent group and our Prime Synthesis CPG business.

Berlin, Germany’s capital, is a centre of medical and scientific innovation. Home to the Charité, Europe’s largest university hospital, and prestigious research institutions like the Max Planck Society, it has a long history of medical advancements.

LGC operates two sites in Berlin:

Our Berlin Diagnostics & Genomics business offers Next Generation Sequencing services, DNA sequencing, Genomic services, Nucleic acid extraction services and DNA extraction products.

LGC Genomics GmbH
Ostendstrasse 25
12459 Berlin
Germany

Opening in 2025, the newly-designed, state-of-the-art LGC Axolabs facility in Berlin will operate as a Contract Development and Manufacturing Organization (CDMO) dedicated to cGMP manufacturing solutions for active pharmaceutical ingredients (API) at scales spanning from Pilot scale pre-clinical supplies through to process scale late stage clinical and commercial supplies of oligonucleotide API – for all of our customers around the world.

Budapest is the capital and most populous city of Hungary. It is the ninth-largest city in the European Union by population within city limits with an estimated population of around 1.8 million.

Budapest is a major economic hub and home to the European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT) established in 2008 and plays a significant role in the delivery of Horizon Europe, the EU’s seven-year scientific research initiative.

Our LGC Standards office is responsible for P&BT sector of LGC Standards products in the territories of Hungary, Romania, Croatia, Slovenia, Serbia, Bosnia, and Greece.

Bury is a market town in Greater Manchester and is home to around 80,000 inhabitants. It is about 8 miles north-west of Manchester city centre.

In the late 19th and early 20th century, Manchester gained a pioneering reputation for a city at the centre of physics, namely in the field of nuclear physics. J. J. Thomson, a Manchester-born physicist, discovered the electron in 1897 and invented the mass spectrometer, which contributed to his award of the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1906.

Our site in Bury is the home of our Proficiency Testing offering – producing samples and managing schemes for our global Proficiency Testing network. The site is also a major hub for global LGC Standards functions. Combining innovative labs and office space with newly expanded warehouse and distribution facilities, Bury is a key site for supporting LGC Standards customers worldwide.

Fordham is a village in rural Cambridgeshire, England, and part of the East Cambridgeshire district. It is situated about 18 miles north-east of the city of Cambridge.

LGC’s Cambridge (Fordham) site is a high-tech campus set in a beautiful rural setting just outside the British horseracing centre of Newmarket and 20 minutes from the bioscience hub of Cambridge, UK.

Sport & Specialised Analytical Services (SSAS) is the world’s largest independent provider of drug surveillance, doping control, research activities and supplement analysis including the principal laboratory for Informed Choice and Informed Sport quality assurance programmes.

Charleston is the most populous city in the U.S. state of South Carolina, home to around 150,000 inhabitants.

Sometimes known as Silicon Harbor, the city is becoming a popular location for high tech and innovation, due in large part to the Charleston Digital Corridor.

As part of our Standards division, o2si, is a leading manufacturer of organic and inorganic reference materials. At our site in Charleston, we produce customised organic Reference Materials (RM’s) and Certified Reference Materials (CRM’s) to support the chemical, environmental, petroleum, clinical, food safety, pharmaceutical and industrial hygiene industries.

Cumberland is a small town of approximately 9000 inhabitants in the state of Maine.

At our site in Maine, we produce VALIDATE® calibration and linearity verification kits for clinical laboratories globally and the facility includes a vast range of the latest state-of-the-art automated clinical IVD platforms.

Dexter is a city in the state of Missouri, approximately 170 miles south of St Louis. It is a picturesque American town with a population of around 4,500 inhabitants.

As a leading manufacturer of specialised oligo synthesis reagents, the products from the team in Dexter are sold to customers in the pharmaceutical, clinical diagnostics, and academic research sectors as well as to oligonucleotide synthesis companies and contract manufacturing organisations. In addition, in 2015, the team acquired ICON Isotopes, provider of stable isotope research compounds and gases, with a view to extending our offerings to include stable isotope labelled nucleosides and phosphoramidites.

Dublin is the capital of the Republic of Ireland with a population of approximately 1.3 million people living in the greater metropolitan area. As of 2018, the city was listed by the Globalization and World Cities Research Network (GaWC) as a global city, placed among the top thirty cities in the world.

Safefood 360° supports compliance with major food safety and supplier management requirements globally and offers users the opportunity to manage quality-reporting, workflow, documentation, and audit requirements effectively and efficiently.

Gainesville is situated in North Central Florida and has a population of about 145,000. Gainesville is home to the University of Florida, the fourth-largest public university campus by enrolment in the United States as of the 2021–2022 academic year.

Gainsville is known for its start-up culture with the greater Gainesville area home to many start-ups with over 160 high growth enterprises.

Rapid Genomics is a leading company in genotyping applications via Next-Generation Sequencing (NGS). Its Flex-Seq® Ex-L technology is provided to customers through kits and genotyping services, and allows high-throughput, cost-effective DNA analysis in plant, livestock and aquaculture genetics. This in turn enables development of more productive and resilient plants and animals, as well as food safety and animal health applications through the identification and screening of pathogens.

Located approximately 25 miles northwest of Washington D.C., Gaithersburg has a population of 70,000 people.

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is headquartered in Gaithersburg and has long been a locus for international cooperation in measurement science for more than 60 years before NIST came to the town.

SeraCare Life Sciences, Inc. is a manufacturer and leading partner to global in vitro diagnostics manufacturers and clinical laboratories. They provide quality control materials for infectious disease testing through their ACCURUN® reagents as well as in the fast growing clinical next-generation sequencing (NGS) market, which it addresses through its Seraseq® brand of products for oncology, NIPT and inherited disease testing.

Garden Grove is in northern Orange County California and home to around 170,000 residents. It began as a small rural farming community and was famous for its crops of oranges, walnuts, chili peppers and later strawberries.

Kova and BCD were acquired by LGC Clinical Diagnostics in 2023 and specialises in the field of Clinical Urinalysis and Toxicology Controls.

Hoddesdon is in the London Metropolitan Area and sits about 20 miles north of London city centre.

Our site in Hoddesdon is home to the largest commercial PCR genotyping laboratory in Europe. Here we focus on laboratory genotyping and DNA extraction services. In addition to this, we undertake reagent manufacturing and instrumentation, and plant kit shipping. Our new lab, based at Trident Park, includes an interactive customer demonstration facility which will highlight our suite of market leading genomics products and instrumentation solutions.

Kulmbach, in Bavaria, Germany, is known for its University of Life Sciences and its role in food safety and nutrition research. Home to the Max Rubner Institute and other key institutions, it serves as a hub for scientific development.

Axolabs specialises in the discovery and pre-clinical development of oligonucleotide therapeutics and nucleic acid medicines. We offer tailored preclinical solutions, including manufacturing, analytics, and detection of oligonucleotides and mRNAs. Our GLP/GCP-compliant services support lead identification, targeted delivery, and advanced biological techniques, ensuring precision and quality throughout development.

Kaylami is situated between Johannesburg and Pretoria.

Johannesburg is the economic and financial hub of South Africa, producing 16% of South Africa’s gross domestic product.

Pretoria is host to the National Research Foundation and the South African Bureau of Standards.

Kyalami is the Industrial Analytical, part of LGC Standards South Africa, and provides Certified Reference Materials, Proficiency Testing Schemes, Fine/Research Chemicals and Sample Preparation Equipment (for Fusion and Pressed Pellets techniques for XRF and ICP analysis) to the southern Africa market.

Leeds is a city in West Yorkshire about 45 miles northeast of Manchester. It developed as a mill town in the Industrial Revolution of the nineteenth century. Today, Leeds’ economy is one of the most diverse in the UK and home to over 100,000 companies, generating 5% of England’s total economic output.

Our site in Leeds is home to the northern cell metrology hub based in the Nexus building. The focus of this site is to study the standardisation of cell metrology utilising our confocal microscopy and flow cytometry capabilities. Located on the Leeds University main campus, the northern cell metrology hub benefits from a partnership with both Nexus and the University of Leeds.

Lomianki sits in Warsaw West County, in east-central Poland, about 9 miles from the city of Warsaw and with a population of approximately 25,000 people.

The city is host to the famous Copernicus Science Centre, an interactive science museum containing over 450 exhibits, enabling visitors to carry out experiments and discover the laws of science for themselves. The city is also the birthplace of Marie Curie, the first female recipient of a Nobel Prize for her research on radioactivity.

LGC Standards in Lomianki offers accredited services aligned with LGC’s QMS standards, providing top-tier quality assurance and analytical solutions to support research and development in the region.

London is the capital and largest city of both England and the United Kingdom, with a population of almost 9 million. The wider metropolitan area is the largest in western Europe, with a population of 15 million people, making it a true megacity. London’s diverse cultures encompass over 300 languages.

London is one of the great ‘science cities’ with Newton, Darwin, Faraday, and Fleming just some of the big names with connections to London. But the city also continues as a modern science powerhouse with its many universities, learned societies and science/tech startups. The latest addition is the mammoth Francis Crick Institute behind the British Library. The Natural History Museum and the Science Museum are both world renowned research institutions and attract almost 10 million visitors each year between them.

Luckenwalde, located about 30 miles south of Berlin, is a key industrial hub in the Brandenburg region. It hosts a biotechnology park with numerous international companies.

Our Luckenwalde site specialises in manufacturing pharmaceutical impurities, clinical, forensic, and toxicological standards, offering custom synthesis and outsourcing of reference materials for the pharmaceutical market.

Lystrup, a suburb of Aarhus, Denmark’s second-largest city, sits on the eastern shore of Jutland. Aarhus is a hub of innovation, hosting 15 Centres of Excellence at Aarhus University, including MINDlab and the Interdisciplinary Nanoscience Centre (iNANO).

LGC’s team in Lystrup specialises in the manufacture of oligonucleotides with prodigious proficiency, catalysing the development of revolutionary new oligo-based technologies.

During the Industrial Revolution, Manchester was a major industrial and economic hub for New England – modelled on its English namesake, the world’s first industrialised city.

Today, the city has a population of approximately 115,000 and industry has changed from its textile mill roots. The modern city is far more economically diverse and has been named as one of the best places in the US to start a business.

Our site in Manchester is a high-quality analytical chemistry products and services team. Services include the production of aqueous standards used to calibrate ICP and AA instrumentation and metallo-organic standards used for the analysis of metals in oils and other organic-based solvents using ICP, AA, ROE, DCP and XRF.

Middleton, Wisconsin, sits about 90 miles west of Milwaukee. Originally called ‘Peatville (for the large quantities of peat extracted from its soil), the town gained its current name in 1848.

Our team in Middleton provides biomedical research products and services to customers worldwide, all under an ISO 13485-compliant quality system. We have an extensive portfolio of life science products, including NGS kits, enzymes, competent cells and cloning systems, targeting fast growth applications in clinical diagnostics, drug discovery, synthetic biology, and gene editing.

Where Rome is Italy’s political and cultural capital, Milan is undoubtedly the country’s industrial and financial heart and a global financial centre. The Lombardy region alone generates about 20% of Italy’s total GDP. Milan is also a major cultural and tourist destination and one of the world’s fashion capitals.

LGC Standards in Milan offers accredited services aligned with LGC’s QMS standards, providing top-tier quality assurance and analytical solutions to support research and development in the region.

Milford, Massachusetts, lies about equidistant to Providence to the south and Boston to the northeast. More than 30,000 people call Milford home.

Milford became a booming industrial and quarrying community in the 19th century which fuelled the local economy until about 1940.

SeraCare Life Sciences, Inc. is a manufacturer and leading partner to global in vitro diagnostics manufacturers and clinical laboratories. They provide quality control materials for infectious disease testing through their ACCURUN® reagents as well as in the fast growing clinical next-generation sequencing (NGS) market, which it addresses through its Seraseq® brand of products for oncology, NIPT and inherited disease testing.

BRCGS is a leading brand and consumer protection organisation with certification issued through a global network of accredited certification bodies.

BRCGS Americas support North and South American businesses seeking certification in food, consumer products, packaging, storage and distribution, agents and brokers, gluten-free, plant-based, ethical, and retail. Our technical and commercial guidance from regional representatives, help companies navigate and select the best certification programs tailored to their needs.

Molsheim, in the Grand Est region of northeastern France, lies about 17 miles from Strasbourg. Known for its Renaissance architecture, including ‘La Metzig’ and the Molsheim Charterhouse, the town blends history with modern innovation.

LGC Standards in Molsheim offers accredited services aligned with LGC’s QMS standards, providing top-tier quality assurance and analytical solutions to support research and development in the region.

CDN Isotopes, a leading manufacturer and supplier of deuterium labelled compounds, joined the LGC family in January 2020. Based in Montreal, Canada, it has a catalogue of over 3,400 compounds. This portfolio covers a range of categories and complex products, such as pharmaceutical and environmental standards, pesticides, steroids, carbohydrates, labelled solvents, fatty acids and amino acids, which are used by a global customer base across the pharmaceutical, medical diagnostic, water treatment and medical research sectors.

C/D/N Isotopes Inc.
88 Leacock Street
Pointe-Claire, Quebec
Canada H9R 1H1

Mumbai formerly known as Bombay is the capital city of the Indian state of Maharashtra. Mumbai is the financial capital and the most populous city of India with an estimated population of 12.5 million. Mumbai is the centre of the Mumbai Metropolitan Region, the sixth-most populous metropolitan area in the world with a population of over 23 million.

New Delhi is the capital city of India and the largest commercial city in the north of the country. The city has a population of 250,000 and the greater metro area more than 28 million. It has an estimated net State Domestic Product of US$19 billion.

Novato sits on San Palo Bay in California, about 30 miles north of San Francisco over the Golden Gate Bridge. It has a population of around 52,000.

Our team in Novato specialises in solid-phase DNA synthesisers, such as the SAM I, the Cyclone, Biosearch 8700 and Biosearch 8800 Prep. These instruments manufacture oligonucleotides with prodigious proficiency, catalysing the development of revolutionary new oligo-based technologies.

Kidlington is about 5 miles north of Oxford.

Oxford Science Park is one of Europe’s leading science parks and is majority owned by Magdalen College Oxford in strategic partnership with an affiliate of global investor GIC. The UK’s ‘golden triangle’ – formed by the university cities of London, Cambridge, and Oxford – dominate UK research funding and have the highest research incomes of all British universities.

Oxford is home to The Native Antigen Company – part of the LGC Clinical Diagnostics and Genomics Business Unit – and the research and support capability for LGC Biosearch Technologies – part of LGC’s Genomics reporting segment.

Petaluma is in Sonoma County, California (just 12 miles north of our Novato facility). It is home to around 60,000 residents.

Our services in Petaluma specialise in solid-phase DNA synthesisers, such as the SAM I, the Cyclone, Biosearch 8700 and Biosearch 8800 Prep. These instruments manufacture oligonucleotides with prodigious proficiency, catalysing the development of revolutionary new oligo-based technologies.

Prenton lies just over the river Mersey from Liverpool in the northwest of England and is home to approximately 15,000 people.

Liverpool has long been a centre of invention and innovation. Railways, transatlantic steamships, municipal trams, and electric trains were all pioneered in Liverpool as modes of mass transit.

Paragon Scientific Limited is a leading manufacturer of reference materials. Complementary to our existing Industrials VHG product portfolio, Paragon has strength in viscosity and flashpoint standards and the combination of the two portfolios creates an extensive offering to our petroleum and petrochemical customer base.

As Brazil’s largest city, São Paulo is a bustling hub of innovation and scientific research, contributing over a third of the country’s scientific output. It is home to renowned institutions like the Butantan Institute, a leader in biomedical research and vaccine production. More than 20% of Brazilian scientists call São Paulo home.

LGC Standards in São Paulo offers accredited services aligned with LGC’s QMS standards, providing top-tier quality assurance and analytical solutions to support research and development in the region.

Shanghai is a global hub for finance, research, and technology, with over 25 million residents. As a leader in R&D, Shanghai is home to top-tier institutions and the bustling Port of Shanghai.

LGC Shanghai is mainly responsible for domestic market promotion, channel management, and customer service. LGC China’s business scope encompasses the importation and sales of standard materials, proficiency testing, genomic products, and services, as well as clinic and BRCGS business.

Singapore is an island nation and city state and is one of the world’s most densely populated countries. Urbanisation meant that the city state had lost 95% of its historical forest and, as a result, in 1967, the government introduced the vision of making Singapore a ‘garden city’. Singapore Botanic Gardens, a 161-year-old tropical garden and Singapore’s first UNESCO World Heritage Site.

Our Singapore site serves as the regional hub for the Genomics division and provides day to day support to the APAC distribution channel network.

Sofia is Bulgaria’s capital and largest city, situated in the Sofia Valley, known for its mineral springs and rich history. As one of Europe’s highest capital cities, Sofia hosts the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences (BAS), the hub of scientific research in Bulgaria, with over 4,500 researchers.

LGC Standards in Sofia offers accredited services aligned with LGC’s QMS standards, providing top-tier quality assurance and analytical solutions to support research and development in the region.

Steinach is in the Free State of Thuringia, close to the Thuringian Forest and mountain range, about 10k north of the town of Sonneberg, famous for its Observatory.

At our Steinach facility, we specialise in controlled porous glass (CPG) production, providing critical materials for therapeutic oligonucleotides and chromatography applications for the Pharmaceutical and Life Science industries.

Teddington is a suburb of London about 14 miles southwest of the city centre. In 2021, The Sunday Times named Teddington as the best place to live in London.

As well as the National Measurement Laboratory, Teddington also hosts the UK’s National Physical Laboratory.

Our site in Teddington is the home of our global headquarters. Teddington focuses on several activities, including the provision of services and advice to the government, we manufacture and distribute reference materials, and manufacture DNA extraction and genotyping reagents.

Tipperary is a small town of approximately 5,000 inhabitants in County Tipperary, Ireland.

Technopath Clinical Diagnostics is a global leader in the development and manufacture of total quality control (QC) solutions for clinical laboratories.

Technopath’s core product offering is focused on making the QC process simpler and more efficient for laboratories and more accurate and precise for patients by designing products that are targeted at clinical decision points and consolidating the number of quality control materials required by the laboratory while automating the reporting and data management process. Technopath has focussed on creating a lean product design that ensures end-users minimise their carbon footprint.

Toronto is Canada’s industrial and life sciences hub, celebrated for its multicultural population and economic strength.

Toronto Research Chemicals (TRC), located in North York, manufactures and supplies high-quality synthetic organic bio-chemicals. These compounds serve as reference standards, research tools and building blocks, supporting a diverse global market across pharmaceuticals, applied research, and more.

Traverse City sits on the shore of Grand Traverse Bay (part of Lake Michigan) and is home to approximately 15,000 residents, with over 150,00 people living in the greater metropolitan area.

There are three main activities in Traverse City:

• LGC’s operations at this site support American Proficiency Institute, the second largest clinical PT provider in the United States. LGC provides services such as IT, dispatch, commercial and customer services to API and its 20,000 customers in the United States
• The LGC technical group offers its own proficiency program, the AXIO Clinical Laboratory Scheme (CLS), to clinical laboratories outside the US who are not tied to US regulatory requirements
• A third group of employees supports the non-clinical AXIO proficiency testing schemes managed out of Bury, UK

Twickenham is a suburb of London located just 10 miles from the city centre and a short distance from our Teddington offices.

Twickenham is home to LGC’s Grant Management Group (GMG), an experienced team of 190 colleagues within LGC’s National Laboratories and Science Business Unit. LGC’s Grant Management Group (GMG) operates three centres for the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) on behalf of the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC): the Central Commissioning Facility (CCF) and the Centre for Engagement and Dissemination (CED) from Twickenham (with some CED staff working from Southampton); and the NIHR Office for Clinical Research Infrastructure (NOCRI) from Central London.

Wesel, a city at the confluence of the Lippe and Rhine rivers in North Rhine-Westphalia, has a rich history as a Hanseatic trading centre.

Our Wesel site specialises in the distribution and sales of Reference Materials and Biomaterials as well as Proficiency Testing.