RECIPE
- Company typePrivate
- Founded1982
- HeadquartersMünchen, Germany
- Headcount51–100
- GTM typeB2B
- OfferingHardware or Manufacturing
RECIPE firmographics
Firmographics- Name
- RECIPE
- Legal name
- RECIPE Chemicals + Instruments GmbH
- Website
- https://recipe.de
- Company type
- Private
- Founded year
- 1982
- Operating status
- Acquired
- Headcount range
- 51–100 employees
- Ownership category
- akta.pro rank
RECIPE industry classification
Industry- Product category
- Clinical Diagnostics (In Vitro Diagnostics)
- NAICS
- In-Vitro Diagnostic Substance Manufacturing (325413), Analytical Laboratory Instrument Manufacturing (334516)
- SIC
- In Vitro & In Vivo Diagnostic Substances (2835), Laboratory Analytical Instruments (3826)
- akta.pro primary industry
- IVD Reagents, Assay Kits & Consumables (Non-instrument) (HLAHAAAM)
- akta.pro secondary industries
- Quality Control, Calibrators, Standards & Proficiency Testing (IVD Consumables) (HLAHAAAL), Mass Spectrometry & Spectroscopy Instruments (HLAGAIAB), Laboratory Developed Tests (LDTs) & Specialized Clinical Lab Assays (HLAAALAN)
Keywords
Where RECIPE is headquartered
LocationHeadquarters
- HQ city
- München
- HQ country
- Germany
- HQ region
- Europe
Offices2 records
Markets served
RECIPE business model
Business model- GTM type
- B2B
- Offering type
- Hardware or Manufacturing
- Cost components
- Operations, Personnel, Technology or R&D, Supply Chain, Marketing or Sales, Infrastructure
Revenue model
- Diagnostic Kit Sales: Sale of complete diagnostic kits including LC-MS/MS, HPLC, and photometry kits for clinical applications such as therapeutic drug monitoring, vitamins, amino acids, steroids, and immunosuppressants
- Calibrators and Controls: Sale of ClinChek® serum and plasma controls, calibrators for quality assurance in clinical laboratories
- Instrument Sales: Sale of ClinLab® HPLC instruments including autosamplers, detectors, and chromatography software
- Internal Standards: Sale of ClinMass® internal standards primarily for LC-MS/MS complete kits and for implementing proprietary methods
Pricing tiers
| Model | Billing | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Unit Pricing | Pay-as-you-go | Order minimum threshold |
Go-to-market motion1 record
Distribution channels4 records
Marketing channels5 records
RECIPE product offering
Product offeringCore offering
RECIPE designs, develops, and manufactures CE-IVD certified in vitro diagnostic kits for clinical mass spectrometry applications, including complete kits for HPLC, LC-MS/MS, ICP-MS, and photometry, along with calibrators, controls, internal standards, optimisation mixes, and HPLC instruments for clinical and hospital laboratories. The company's flagship TDM 200 Kit System uses a single analytical column to determine more than 150 therapeutic drug monitoring parameters, and all products are manufactured in Munich under ISO 13485 and EU IVDR quality systems.
Product overview
RECIPE offers a comprehensive portfolio of CE-IVD certified in vitro diagnostic products for clinical diagnostics. The core TDM 200 Kit System enables therapeutic drug monitoring via LC-MS/MS with one column and multiple add-on sets covering 150+ analytes. The product portfolio includes ClinMass® LC-MS/MS complete kits (immunosuppressants, antibiotics, antidepressants, antiepileptics, antimycotics, vitamins, steroids), ClinRep® HPLC complete kits (catecholamines, vitamins, CDT, homocysteine, amino acids), ClinSpot® dried blood spot kits, ClinDART® mycophenolic acid kits, and ClinLab® HPLC instruments (Chromaster, detectors, EC6000 with SPUTNIK® cell). Supporting products include Internal Standards, Optimisation Mixes, ClinChek® Controls, and Calibrators. All products are manufactured in Munich, certified to ISO 13485 and EU IVDR, and available in over 80 countries.
Differentiator
Problem solved
Functional benefit
Brands
- ClinMass®: LC-MS/MS complete kits and add-on sets for therapeutic drug monitoring
- ClinDART®
- ClinRep®
- ClinChek®
- ClinSpot®
- TDM 200 Kit System
- ClinLab®
Products and services
- TDM 200 Kit System Therapeutic Drug Monitoring platform using LC-MS/MS with one analytical column, two mobile phases, and rapidly expanding add-on sets, covering immunosuppressants, antibiotics, antidepressants, antiepileptics, and other drug classes for clinical laboratories.
- ClinMass® LC-MS/MS Complete Kits CE-IVD certified complete kits for LC-MS/MS analysis covering immunosuppressants, antiepileptics, antidepressants, neuroleptics, benzodiazepines, antimycotics, antibiotics, vitamins, steroids, and mycophenolic acid for clinical diagnostic laboratories.
- ClinRep® Complete Kits Complete kits for HPLC analysis including catecholamines in plasma and urine, metanephrines, vitamin D, antiepileptics, CDT (carbohydrate-deficient transferrin), vitamins A/E, homocysteine, amino acids, and porphyrins for clinical diagnostic laboratories.
- Complete Kits Photometry Complete kits for photometric clinical diagnostics used in medical and hospital laboratories for routine analysis applications.
- ClinDART® Kits Complete kits based on Direct Analysis Real Time technology for rapid clinical diagnostics, including kits for mycophenolic acid analysis in serum and plasma.
- ClinSpot® Kits Complete kits for analysis from dried blood spots (filter spots/filter plates) covering amino acids, acylcarnitines, and homocysteine, used by newborn screening laboratories.
- ClinLab® HPLC Instruments HPLC instruments for analytical laboratories including Chromaster autosampler, fluorescence detector, UV/VIS detector, organizer, and amperometric detector (EC6000) with SPUTNIK® universal cell, compatible with modular components from other manufacturers.
- ClinChek® Controls Quality control materials in serum and plasma for verifying accuracy and precision of daily laboratory results, covering trace elements, steroids, vitamins, antidepressants, antiepileptics, immunosuppressants, homocysteine, and other analytes.
- Calibrators Calibration materials for quantitative analysis across all RECIPE diagnostic kit product lines, used in clinical laboratories for assay calibration.
- Internal Standards Internal standards primarily for LC-MS/MS complete kits and for implementing proprietary methods, covering vitamins, amino acids, antibiotics, antidepressants, antiepileptics, immunosuppressants, steroids, and other analytes.
- Optimisation Mixes Solutions for optimization of MS/MS parameters and verification of analytical systems, primarily for CE-IVD certified LC-MS/MS complete kits.
Quantifiable outcome
- More than 150 different analytical parameters determinable with single platform
- +3 more outcomes
Companies that use RECIPE
Customer profileNamed customers1 record
Segments3 records
Ideal customer profiles3 records
RECIPE technology and API
TechnologyTechnology focussed No
API detail
- Has API
- No
- API docs
- API detail
Core technology
AI maturity
App detail
Feature4 records
RECIPE partnerships and signals
Strategic signalPartnerships
Four partnerships are on record, tiered major_acquisition, core and supporting.
- Brukermajor_acquisitionBruker announced majority acquisition of RECIPE to expand capabilities in therapeutic drug monitoring and clinical diagnostics. The deal enhances Bruker's offerings with RECIPE's ClinMASS and ClinDART kits, particularly high-throughput, chromatography-free assays for LC-MS/MS.
- ShimadzucoreRECIPE offers automated therapeutic drug monitoring solutions integrated with Shimadzu HPLC and LC-MS/MS systems, providing customers with complete automated workflow solutions for clinical diagnostics.
- Academic Institutions and Scientific ExpertssupportingRECIPE maintains close collaborative relationships with universities and research laboratories for the development of market-specific HPLC and LC-MS/MS applications.
- Proficiency Testing Organizations (CDC NBS, DEQUAS, NEQUAS, INSTAND, GTFCH)supportingRECIPE participates regularly in national and European proficiency testing programs to ensure product quality and compliance with industry standards.
Scale indicators3 records
Recent moves5 records
Expansion highlights5 records
RECIPE competitors and assessment
Company assessmentBroad incumbents
- Agilent Technologies: Broad analytical instruments and clinical mass-spec workflows vendor whose LC-MS/MS and ICP-MS systems compete for the same clinical lab capital budgets and pull-through consumable opportunities that RECIPE addresses with its kits.
- Waters Corporation: Global mass spectrometry and chromatography company whose LC-MS systems are widely deployed in clinical TDM and toxicology laboratories; competes with RECIPE both through its installed-base pull on clinical labs and through application kits and consumables.
- SCIEX (Danaher): Major mass spectrometry instrumentation vendor (part of Danaher) whose LC-MS/MS systems are the standard platform on which RECIPE's CE-IVD kits run; an incumbent whose own clinical iMethod and consumable kits overlap with RECIPE's open-system offering.
- Thermo Fisher Scientific: Diversified life sciences and clinical diagnostics incumbent offering both mass spectrometry instruments and IVD reagents for clinical and specialty diagnostics; addresses the same hospital and reference-lab customers as RECIPE with a much broader portfolio.
- Bruker Corporation: Scientific instrumentation company that announced a majority acquisition of RECIPE on April 16, 2025; operates overlapping clinical mass-spec and microbiology IVD capabilities and now houses RECIPE's TDM and clinical diagnostics kits within its portfolio.
- Siemens Healthineers: Large clinical diagnostics and IVD vendor offering broad chemistry, immunoassay, and specialty testing menus to the same hospital and reference-lab customers RECIPE serves with TDM and specialty clinical chemistry kits.
- Revvity: Life sciences and diagnostics company (formerly PerkinElmer) operating in clinical diagnostics, specialty testing, and analytical reagents; competes with RECIPE in clinical specialty assays and newborn screening adjacencies.
- Roche Diagnostics: Global IVD leader with deep hospital and reference-lab penetration and a wide menu of clinical chemistry and immunoassays; competes for clinical testing budget with RECIPE's CE-IVD specialty kits and could expand its own clinical mass-spec menu.
Others
- Shimadzu: Major analytical instrumentation vendor and RECIPE's automation partner for integrated TDM HPLC and LC-MS/MS workflows; both a peer (LC-MS/MS and HPLC systems competing for the same clinical labs) and a channel partner.
Direct peers
- Chromsystems Instruments & Chemicals GmbH: Munich-based specialty manufacturer of CE-IVD reagent kits, calibrators, and controls for clinical LC-MS/MS therapeutic drug monitoring and newborn screening — directly competitive with RECIPE's ClinMass® and ClinSpot® product lines for the same hospital and reference-lab customers.
Market position
Strengths5 records
Weaknesses5 records
Competitive moat5 records
Key risks6 records
Key highlights7 records
Customer concentration
RECIPE social profiles
Digital presenceRECIPE compliance and trust
Trust signalCompliance3 records
RECIPE financial estimates
Financial estimateRevenue estimate
Valuation estimate
RECIPE leadership team
Management profileNumber of profiles
Profiles1 record
RECIPE funding detail
Funding detailFunding overview
Funding rounds
Investors
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RECIPE M&A and investment
M&A and investmentM&A
Investments
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Frequently asked questions about RECIPE
What does RECIPE do?
RECIPE designs, develops, and manufactures CE-IVD certified in vitro diagnostic kits for clinical mass spectrometry applications, including complete kits for HPLC, LC-MS/MS, ICP-MS, and photometry, along with calibrators, controls, internal standards, optimisation mixes, and HPLC instruments for clinical and hospital laboratories. The company's flagship TDM 200 Kit System uses a single analytical column to determine more than 150 therapeutic drug monitoring parameters, and all products are manufactured in Munich under ISO 13485 and EU IVDR quality systems.
Is RECIPE a public or private company?
RECIPE is a private company. It is classified as corporate owned and is currently acquired.
When was RECIPE founded?
RECIPE was founded in 1982. It employs 51 to 100 people.
Where is RECIPE based?
RECIPE is headquartered in München, Germany, in the Europe region.
How does RECIPE make money?
Four revenue lines are on record. Diagnostic Kit Sales are the primary driver. The others are calibrators and Controls, instrument Sales and internal Standards.
Who are RECIPE's main competitors?
Broad incumbents on record are Agilent Technologies, Waters Corporation, SCIEX (Danaher), Thermo Fisher Scientific, Bruker Corporation, Siemens Healthineers, Revvity and Roche Diagnostics. Shimadzu is listed as an others. Chromsystems Instruments & Chemicals GmbH is listed as a direct peer.
Does RECIPE have an API?
No public API is recorded for RECIPE.
What industry is RECIPE in?
RECIPE's product category is Clinical Diagnostics (In Vitro Diagnostics). Its primary akta.pro industry code is HLAHAAAM, IVD Reagents, Assay Kits & Consumables (Non-instrument), with a secondary code of HLAHAAAL, Quality Control, Calibrators, Standards & Proficiency Testing (IVD Consumables). Its NAICS code is 325413 and its SIC code is 2835.