Thermo Fisher Expanding its Environmental Instrument Activities in China

China is the hub of the Asian and international  operations for the environmental instrument division of Thermo Fisher.  Marc Casper, executive vice president of Thermo Fisher, announced at on 30 March 2009 that the global headquarters of the firm's Environmental Instrument Division (EID) would move to Shanghai. 

"This is the first such move in the (international instrument and device) industry," says Casper. "The fast developing Asian market has made us move closer to the customers' demands."

In 2010, Thermo Fisher opened the China Technology Center in Shanghai “to meet the needs of a growing Chinese customer base." 

The tech center is designed to support engineers and development staff in the fields of life sciences, environmental monitoring and consumer product safety.

The company also opened a demonstration center in Beijing, adding to its already established demonstration center in Shanghai.

Thermo Fisher has a 30-year history of working in China, and its growth in recent years has led to a Chinese version of the company’s product catalog and the new headquarters of Thermo Fisher’s environmental instruments business, where company president and CEO Marc Casper has said he believes business will double in the next five years.

In 2011, it expanded its state-of-the-art manufacturing facility in Shanghai, China. This latest expansion enables Thermo Fisher to meet growing demand for its Thermo Scientific Nunc Cell Culture products including a range of tissue culture EasY Flasks, dishes, Multidishes and cell culture plates. This is part of a continuing strategy of investment by Thermo Fisher in the regional production and supply of its high-quality cell culture products. The company was the first global company to locally produce cell culture consumable products in China for China.

The Shanghai facility is ISO13485-certified and product quality remains paramount with strict quality controls in place at this facility as well as its other production sites in Rochester, N.Y. and Roskilde, Denmark.