Founded and incorporated in 1993, Axygen, Inc. is the leading global supplier of laboratory plastics for the research industry, including the pharmaceutical, biotech, and academia markets. It is headquartered in Union City, California in the San Francisco Bay Area. Presently, Axygen employs over 300 people worldwide.
In September 2010, Axygen BioScience Inc. was acquired by Corning Incorporated and integrated into Corning’s Life Sciences segment. Axygen brand products are now part of the Corning Family of Brands.
Corning us a global leader in consumable glass and plastic laboratory tools for life science research and offers a complete range of Corning®, PYREX®, Costar®, Axygen®, Gosselin™ and Corning cellgro® brands. Corning continues to lead the way in innovation with the development and production of Corning® Epic® Technology for label-free detection, the HYPERFlask® Cell Culture Vessel for increased cell yields, novel surfaces such as Ultra-Low Attachment and the Corning® CellBIND® Surfaces for enhanced cell growth and assay performance, and our range of Axygen Maxymum Recovery® Tips and PCR products with ultra smooth surfaces.
Corning is committed to meeting customers’ unique and changing needs with original solutions for today’s emerging life sciences technologies. Our dedication to quality, technology and innovation continues to enable us to produce the world’s most comprehensive line of drug discovery tools.
About Corning Products
In addition to being a global leader in consumable plastic laboratory tools for life science research, Corning continues to lead the way in developing innovative solutions for cell culture such as the HYPERFlask Cell Culture Vessel for increased cell yields and novel surfaces such as Corning Synthemax® for culturing stem cells, Corning Osteo Assay Surface for osteogenesis research and the Corning CeIlBIND Surface for enhanced assay performance.
About Costar Products
The Costar brand of products for life sciences includes serological pipettes, cell culture microplates, Transwell® Permeable Supports, multi-channel pipettors and many more products to meet your research needs.
About Corning cellgro Products
The new Corning cellgro brand for media, sera and solutions offers a full line of standard and custom solutions for cell culture, cell therapy and bioprocess. Products include mammalian and cell culture media, salt solutions, antibiotics, supplements and reagents, dissociation products, sera, molecular biology products and a wide variety of container types and sizes.
About PYREX Products
For over 95 years, Corning has developed special glass for use in both chemical and life science laboratories. PYREX glassware is made from Type 1, Class A low expansion borosilicate glass that has become the accepted standard in chemistry labs across the globe.
About Axygen Products
Through continuous new product innovation, Axygen products bring new standards to sample handling, delivery and storage, improving the way research is done in the laboratory today. Axygen products include a complete range of disposable tips from manual through to automation, as well as a range of high throughput screening microplates and PCR storage products.
About Gosselin Products
Gosselin has been a pioneering brand of disposable labware for quality control and microbiology labs in industrial markets in Europe since 1965 and is now being introduced to food and beverage and environmental testing labs in North America. Gosselin offers a full range of products from sampling to disposal and offers peelable box labels printed with lot and sterility information for easy record keeping.
Mission
At Axygen we are constantly searching for innovation in existing and new products because: Innovations of today will become the standards of tomorrow!
Our corporate mission is to respond to the plastic consumables needs of researchers throughout the world at the highest level of service to all of our customers. We will continue to offer products of the highest quality and integrity at prices to meet the demands of research budgets.
Axygen has a simple and effective philosophy – consistency with unsurpassed quality. Our passion for manufacturing is clearly evident in all our products.
Product Lines and Breakthroughs
MAXYMum Recovery
In 1999, as a result of two years of research, Axygen introduced a totally unique method of changing the composition of the virgin polypropylene resins used to manufacture it’s products. The result is a group of products referred to as MAXYMum Recovery. These include pipet tips, robotic tips that compatible with popular automated liquid handling systems, PCR tubes and strips, microtubes, and high throughput screening (HTS) consumables. MAXYMum Recovery is also available for our filtered product lines: filter barrier pipet tips and filter barrier robotic tips. MAXYMum Recovery products inhibit DNA, protein, enzyme or peptide samples from sticking to their wall surface, and as a result virtually eliminate sample denaturation. Click here for more information on MAXYMum Recovery products.
Facilities
Axygen’s state-of-the-art facility includes:
Manufacturing of injection molds
Product design and development
Automation research & development
Injection molding machine capacity from 40 to 200 tons
In house Quality Certification and Testing Laboratory
Warehousing & Shipping
Axygen utilizes the latest technologies in the design, development, and testing of its products and molds. Included in these, the Engineering section routinely uses CAD, CAD-CAM, and Solid Modeling software. Additionally, only the finest toolmaking facilities and original materials available are used to realize our vision as industry leaders.