History
"Medicine and biotechnology have undergone rapid developments in the recent past. Greiner Bio-One has played a leading role on more than one occasion when significant progress has been made due to new ideas. We are proud of this, and at the same time, are committed to continuing our strategy of innovation, in order to make the daily workflow processes of our customers easier and more efficient."

Boris Greiner

Year Milesstones
1868 Carl Albert Greiner founds a cork factory
1953

1953 became the processing of plastic by the injection moulding department, which injection moulding of thermoplastic plastics extended
1963 Establishment of Greiner Labortechnik - beginning of the production of petri dishes from plastic
1976 Subsidiary founded in the Netherlands
1985

Development of the VACUETTE® blood collection system
1988 Opening of the new firm building in Frickenhausen, Germany. Establishment of the addresses in Belgium and France
1989 Subsidiary founded in Great Britain
1990 Subsidiary founded in Japan
1992 Opening of new production facilities in Kremsmünster, Austria
1994 Certification of the Germany factory to ISO 9001
1995

Certification of the Austrian production to ISO 9001 and EN 46001

BioScience subsidiary founded in the US
1996

Opening of a production facility in Hungary

Market introduction of products for active substance screening - HTS
1997

Preanalytics subsidiary founded in Maryland, USA

The first 1536 well microplate is launched
1999

BioScience stake in the strat-up company BioTeSys.
Preanalytics subsidiary founded in Germany
2000

Renaming Greiner Labortechnik in Greiner Bio-One.




Preanalytics subsidiaries founded in Brazil and Switzerland.
Opening of a production facility in North Carolina, USA.
Expansion of production facility in Kremsmünster, Austria
2001

Foundation of  Greiner Bio-One International AG.
Preanalytics subsidiary founded in France.
Bio-Science stake in the start-up company Lambda.
2002

 The first Biochips are launched on the market
2006 Introduction of DNA Test-Kit for HPV-Screening: PapilloCheck®