LGC signals a new era in excellence through measurement

Science-based company LGC is launching LGC Standards to embrace its products and services for measurement and quality control. In a move that unites over 200 staff into a single business division, LGC Standards becomes the only provider that can offer a ‘one stop shop’ in support of laboratory quality.

LGC Standards encompasses reference material distribution, proficiency testing operations and analytical quality training programme, together with the production of pharmaceutical impurities and custom synthesis in Germany and India, which supply the pharmaceutical sector across the globe.

LGC Standards will incorporate all LGC Promochem subsidiaries in France, Germany, Italy, Poland, Spain and Sweden. Each will be rebranded as LGC Standards in a phasing out of the LGC Promochem name by the end of 2007. In an earlier transition, the Quality Management (QM) and Aquacheck company names moved to the LGC Standards sub-brand.

Dr Matthias Brommer, Director, LGC Standards, said:

"LGC Standards is a champion of measurement science and quality control. We are extending the breadth of products and services we offer, investing in our facilities and expanding into a number of new sales territories. We are building an ‘added value, science support’ business for the benefit of our 10,000 customers across a range of market sectors so that they can achieve more accurate fit for purpose measurements, with the ultimate aim of improving quality.

“Although no longer company or subsidiary names, we will be using QM, Aquacheck and Promochem in certain product or service line brands as we recognise that these are well known in their respective markets. One notable example of this will be the Promochem line of high purity solvents available from LGC Standards."

The market sectors served by LGC Standards are diverse and underpin many industries in life sciences, pharmaceuticals, foods, environment, health, clinical and forensics.

LGC Standards is a division of LGC, whose Research and Technology Division acts as the designated UK National Measurement Institute for chemical and biochemical analysis.

For more information about LGC Standards go to www.lgcstandards.com.

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