- Headquarters
- Waltham, United States · North America
- Value chain
- Equipment & machinery(Tools); also Chemicals & gases
- What that means
- Builds the machines that make things: production, test and measurement equipment, machine tools, printers and lab instruments.
- Founded
- 1956
- Staff
- 125,000 (2024)
- Ownership
- Listed
- Listing
- NYSE:TMO on Google Finance
- Website
- thermofisher.com
- Relevance
- Very high at its strongest, in Biomanufacturing
Waltham, United StatesIn 4 capabilities
Each capability the company is listed in, most relevant first: how experts in the field see its global relevance there, why it is listed and the source.
- BiomanufacturingVery high
Biotechnology & Health Technologies · Equipment & materials · listed #1 of 50
Largest supplier of bioprocess media, single-use systems and analytics, and through Patheon one of the largest biologics and viral-vector CDMOs.
Relevance: Largest supplier of bioprocess media and single-use systems
- Genomics & Biological DataVery high
Biotechnology & Health Technologies · Equipment & materials · listed #2 of 50
Makes Applied Biosystems capillary (Sanger) sequencers, Ion Torrent semiconductor NGS, and a large share of the world's genomics reagents and sample-prep consumables.
Relevance: Leading life-science tools supplier; Sanger, Ion Torrent, broad genomics reagents
Biotechnology & Health Technologies · Equipment & materials · listed #2 of 50
Dominant supplier of gene-editing reagents (TrueCut Cas9, GeneArt gene synthesis), cloning kits and lab instruments used across engineering biology.
Relevance: Major supplier of gene-editing and DNA synthesis reagents
Biotechnology & Health Technologies · Equipment & materials · listed #19 of 50
Leading supplier of bioprocessing materials, viral-vector and mRNA manufacturing services (Patheon) and clinical research services (PPD) for vaccine and therapeutic development.
Relevance: Leading bioprocessing and vector manufacturing supplier