The Specialty Particles Group at Polymer Laboratories (PL), now a part of Varian, Inc., is a primary developer and manufacturer of state-of-the-art particles for life science and bioscience applications. Our mission is to be the bio industry's most responsive particle development partner and production resource, combining over 30 years' polymer research and development experience with world class manufacturing facilities. We number amongst our clients many of the world's most innovative and fast moving bio development businesses and many of the larger and most established diagnostic companies.
PL's business is founded in applying our core technology in polymer particles to our clients' needs. PL's approach is to begin by really understanding what our client is trying to achieve, and then to propose candidate polymer particle technology solutions. The development process begins as we move forward to modify and optimize these candidates, leading to pilot and then scaled up production.
Customer demand for more diagnostic performance, sensitivity and economy is driving our clients to re-engineer existing systems and to develop new platforms in immunoassay, molecular diagnostics, molecular biology and other bioscience applications. Our challenge is to meet our client's technology demands through innovation, and by adding value in the design and performance of our particles.
In PL's experience, no one particle is the solution to all applications. PL doesn't believe in squeezing your application onto an existing particle product, designed and optimized for a totally different purpose. Our approach is to ask, 'What do you want to achieve?', and then to build a particle which best suits the nature, technical specification and economy that the application demands - in other words, value and performance by design.
The Specialty Particles Group offers world class production capabilities for particles used in life science and bioscience applications.
The Company is ISO 9001 accredited and operates enhanced clincal QC/QA procedures in the preparation and testing of all materials destined for a life science application. Our production facilities have been extensively audited and accepted by client QA personnel from the industry's acknowledged major players.
Increased demand has meant an expansion of our life science production facilities with a new 25,000 sq ft production building.
Strong project management and good communication are the key to a successful partnership. Every client project has PhD level supervision and is carried out by a multidisciplinary team under ISO 9001. PL encourages its clients to establish an in-house team leader who has direct and constant communication with the PL team leader.