Antylia Scientific

What Antylia Scientific does

Antylia Scientific is a privately held life sciences platform company headquartered in Vernon Hills, Illinois, owned by Brookfield Corporation and Quebec Deposit and Investment Fund (La Caisse) following their joint $1.34 billion acquisition in May 2025. The company serves biopharmaceutical, environmental testing, and life sciences professionals through a portfolio of complementary premium brands — Cole-Parmer Essentials (200,000+ laboratory SKUs), ZeptoMetrix (molecular diagnostic quality controls using the patented NATtrol™ process), Traceable (cold chain monitoring hardware with the TraceableLIVE cloud service), SPEX (certified reference materials and sample preparation), and Environmental Express (environmental testing consumables and equipment). The business traces its origin to Cole-Parmer Instrument Company, founded in 1955, and was rebranded to Antylia Scientific in February 2021 after divesting its Masterflex Bioprocessing unit to Avantor for $2.9 billion.

The product portfolio spans consumables, instruments, reference materials, molecular quality controls, and IoT-enabled monitoring devices. ZeptoMetrix's NATtrol™ process is the principal proprietary technology, rendering purified microorganisms non-infectious while preserving nucleic acids for use as reference material in molecular diagnostic workflows. TraceableLIVE adds a connected software layer with Apple Watch integration, voice notification escalation, and compliance reporting for programs such as Vaccines for Children. Manufacturing and operations are based in Vernon Hills, Illinois (headquarters), Webster, Texas (Traceable), and Buffalo, New York (ZeptoMetrix), with international sales offices in the UK, France, Germany, Canada, China, India, and Italy.

Revenue is generated primarily through one-time sales of consumables, instruments, reference materials, and quality controls, supplemented by hardware-plus-cloud subscriptions (TraceableLIVE) and distribution partner channels for Traceable products. Go-to-market combines direct field sales with scientific technical support, brand-specific e-commerce platforms, and a global partner network. Primary customer segments are biopharmaceutical manufacturers, diagnostic and clinical laboratories, government public health and vaccine programs, and environmental testing laboratories across the Americas, Europe, and Asia Pacific.

Name

Antylia Scientific

Legal name

Antylia Scientific

Website

https://antylia.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

1955

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

251–500 employees

Short description

Antylia Scientific is a privately held life sciences platform serving biopharma, environmental, and diagnostic customers worldwide through brands including Cole-Parmer Essentials, ZeptoMetrix, Traceable, SPEX, and Environmental Express, offering laboratory consumables, molecular diagnostic quality controls, certified reference materials, and IoT-enabled cold chain monitoring.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Life Sciences Tools and Laboratory Equipment

NAICS

Analytical Laboratory Instrument Manufacturing (334516), In-Vitro Diagnostic Substance Manufacturing (325413), Chemical Manufacturing (325), Chemical and Allied Products Merchant Wholesalers (4246)

SIC

Laboratory Analytical Instruments (3826), Laboratory Apparatus & Furniture (3821), Services-Commercial Physical & Biological Research (8731)

akta.pro primary industry

Impurity / Reference Standard Synthesis & Characterization (HLAGAHAG)

Keywords

• Laboratory essentials
• Life sciences tools
• Molecular diagnostics
• Cold chain monitoring
• Certified reference materials

Headquarters

HQ city

Vernon Hills

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices10 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Hardware or Manufacturing

Cost components

Supply Chain, Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Technology or R&D, Infrastructure

Revenue model

1. Laboratory Essentials and Consumables: Sale of more than 200,000 essential SKUs across Cole-Parmer Essentials brand, including laboratory staples, consumables, and indispensable value products for scientists in labs worldwide.
2. Quality Control Products: ZeptoMetrix provides molecular diagnostic quality controls, verification panels, proficiency panels, and OEM/customized products for infectious disease diagnostics market.
3. Reference Materials and Sample Preparation: SPEX provides high quality inorganic and organic certified reference materials, sample preparation equipment and supplies for chromatography, spectroscopy and PCR applications.
4. Environmental Testing Products: Environmental Express provides sample collection, preparation, single-use consumables and analysis equipment for environmental water, soil and air analysis laboratories.
5. Cold Chain Monitoring Devices: Traceable provides real-time, highly calibrated measurement, monitoring and storage solutions for biological materials with end-to-end traceability and predictive analytics.

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels4 records

Marketing channels3 records

Core offering

Antylia Scientific manufactures and supplies mission-critical laboratory essentials, consumables, instruments, certified reference materials, cold chain monitoring devices, and molecular diagnostic quality controls through a portfolio of premium brands including Cole-Parmer Essentials, Environmental Express, SPEX, Traceable, and ZeptoMetrix. The company serves biopharma, environmental, and life sciences professionals globally with products supporting the discovery, development, and manufacture of therapeutics, vaccines, and diagnostics.

Product overview

Antylia Scientific is a diversified life science tools company operating as a platform business with multiple complementary premium brands serving biopharma, environmental and life sciences professionals. The portfolio includes Cole-Parmer Essentials (200,000+ laboratory SKUs), Environmental Express (environmental testing equipment), SPEX (certified reference materials), Traceable (cold chain monitoring with TraceableLIVE cloud service), and ZeptoMetrix (quality controls for molecular diagnostics using patented NATtrol technology). The company enables scientific discovery by providing mission-critical products for therapeutics, vaccines, and diagnostics development and manufacturing.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• ZeptoMetrix: Industry leader in design, development, and delivery of innovative quality solutions for infectious disease diagnostics market, including patented NATtrol quality controls for molecular diagnostic testing
• SPEX
• Traceable
• Cole-Parmer Essentials
• Environmental Express
• Katanax
• SamplePrep

Products and services

• Cole-Parmer Essentials Laboratory essentials brand offering more than 200,000 SKUs including instruments, consumables, and technical support for scientists in laboratories worldwide.
• Environmental Express Sample collection, preparation, single-use consumables, and analysis equipment used in environmental water, soil, and air analysis laboratories.
• SPEX High quality inorganic and organic certified reference materials, sample preparation equipment, and supplies for chromatography, spectroscopy, and PCR applications used in pharma, biomedical, food, beverage, and botanicals laboratories.
• Traceable Real-time, highly calibrated measurement, monitoring, and storage solutions for biological materials with end-to-end traceability and predictive analytics ensuring products maintain effectiveness during storage and transport.
• TraceableLIVE Cloud-based monitoring service providing real-time temperature data with alerts sent to mobile devices, laptops, or email, including Apple Watch integration, voice notification escalation, and compliance reporting for the Vaccines for Children Program.
• ZeptoMetrix Quality Controls External quality controls, verification panels, proficiency panels, and customized OEM products for the infectious disease diagnostics market, using the patented NATtrol process that renders microorganisms non-infectious while maintaining nucleic acids for molecular diagnostic testing.
• NATtrol Influenza A H5N1 Quantitative Stock Quality control product using phage-like particle (PLP) encapsulated RNA technology for molecular diagnostic validation of avian influenza (H5N1) testing workflows, including three encapsulated H5N1 gene segments at 1,000,000 gene copies/mL.
• SARS-CoV-2 Omicron Control Molecular quality control for SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant testing, using the NATtrol process that renders microorganisms non-infectious while maintaining internal nucleic acids.
• SARS-CoV-2 Variant Panel (Delta, Alpha, Beta, Gamma) Variant panel of non-infectious quality controls including four separate vials of Alpha, Beta, Gamma, and Delta SARS-CoV-2 variants, each at 50,000 copies/mL, for molecular diagnostic testing applications.
• Katanax Analytical reference materials and sample preparation equipment for environmental testing laboratories.
• SamplePrep Sample preparation equipment and supplies for analytical workflows in research and environmental laboratories.

Quantifiable outcome

• Protected over 100,000 residents in Flint, Michigan water crisis through rapid delivery of high-quality sample testing bottles
• +1 more outcomes

Named customers4 records

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles4 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration1 record

Feature5 records

Partnerships

One partnership is on record.

• Applikon BiotechnologyminorOEM/ Whitelabel/ Licensing PartnerOEM partnership where Antylia Scientific's Masterflex Microflex pump head is embedded in Applikon's miniBio bioreactor (250mL, 500mL, 1000mL) used globally for small-scale operations including COVID-19 vaccine research. The partnership demonstrates long-standing relationship between the companies.

Scale indicators6 records

Recent moves9 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Direct peers

• Avantor: Avantor acquired Antylia's Masterflex Bioprocessing business for $2.9B in 2021 and operates in adjacent bioprocessing and lab supplies. Closely comparable as a distributor/manufacturer of laboratory essentials and bioprocessing consumables to biopharma customers.
• VWR (part of Avantor): VWR is a laboratory products distributor and a direct competitor to Cole-Parmer Essentials in catalog lab supplies and consumables. Now part of Avantor after the 2017 acquisition, VWR competes with Antylia across global lab procurement channels.
• Waters Corporation: Waters manufactures chromatography instruments, columns, and certified reference standards — directly overlapping with Antylia's SPEX chromatography sample preparation and reference material business. Comparable customer base in pharmaceutical QA/QC labs.
• Agilent Technologies: Agilent's analytical instruments and CrossLab/Spectroscopy/PCR consumables directly compete with SPEX reference materials and Cole-Parmer analytical instrument offerings. Both serve pharmaceutical, environmental, and food safety labs with chromatography and spectroscopy workflows.
• Hach (Danaher subsidiary): Hach is a global leader in water quality analysis instruments and reagents — directly competitive with Antylia's Environmental Express business for water/wastewater analysis. Antylia's incoming CEO González-Bello previously served as President of Hach, indicating deep familiarity with this competitive overlap.
• Bio-Rad Laboratories: Bio-Rad's Life Science segment produces molecular diagnostic third-party quality controls, reference materials, and process control reagents — directly competitive with Antylia's ZeptoMetrix NATtrol business. Both serve clinical labs with infectious disease QC panels.

Broad incumbents

• MilliporeSigma (Merck KGaA Life Science): MilliporeSigma supplies reference materials, lab consumables, and bioprocessing solutions to pharma and academic customers — competitive with Antylia's SPEX/Cole-Parmer/ZeptoMetrix portfolio. Operates as the life science division of Merck KGaA and is one of the largest global platforms in life science tools.
• Danaher (Beckman Coulter / Cepheid): Danaher's life sciences and diagnostics platforms (Beckman Coulter, Cepheid, Leica, Pall, Hach) are staffed with senior leaders who previously served at Danaher — including Antylia's CEO and President of Cole-Parmer. Operates as a diversified life sciences platform similar in structure, with overlapping product categories.
• Thermo Fisher Scientific: The dominant global life sciences tools platform offering analytical instruments, reagents, reference materials, lab consumables, and bioprocessing services. Directly comparable to Antylia's Cole-Parmer/SPEX portfolio but at vastly larger scale, and a competitor in molecular diagnostic QC and certified reference materials.
• PerkinElmer / Revvity: PerkinElmer (now Revvity) supplies analytical instruments, reference materials, and diagnostics reagents comparable to Antylia's SPEX and ZeptoMetrix offerings. Both serve environmental testing, food safety, and clinical diagnostics end markets with overlapping technology.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat6 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

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Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles6 records

Subsidiaries7 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds1 record

Investors1 record

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M&A1 record

Investments

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