Kimble Chase Life Science and Research

Name

Kimble Chase Life Science and Research

Website

https://kimble-chase.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2007

Headcount range

501–1,000 employees

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Laboratory Glassware

NAICS

Glass and Glass Product Manufacturing (32721), Glass Container Manufacturing (327213)

SIC

Glass Products, Made Of Purchased Glass (3231)

akta.pro primary industry

Laboratory Consumables & Plasticware (Tips, Tubes, Plates, Filters) (HLAGAIAH)

akta.pro secondary industry

Pharmaceutical & Medical Glass Packaging (Vials, Ampoules, Syringes) (IMALAEAB)

Keywords

• Laboratory glassware
• Scientific glassware
• Lab consumables
• Research glassware
• Laboratory equipment

Headquarters

HQ city

Rockwood

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Hardware or Manufacturing

Cost components

Supply Chain, Operations, Personnel, Marketing or Sales

Core offering

Kimble Chase Life Science and Research is a leading producer of laboratory and scientific glassware, manufacturing glass-based consumables and equipment used in research, life science, and analytical laboratory settings. The company operates within the global laboratory disposables market.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Scale indicators3 records

Direct peers

• DWK Life Sciences: DWK Life Sciences is the closest direct peer to Kimble Chase - both are leading Western producers of laboratory and scientific glassware (DURAN, WHEATON, KIMBLE heritage brands), serving pharma, biotech, academic, and industrial labs worldwide with overlapping product lines in beakers, flasks, vials, and tubes.

Broad incumbents

• Schott AG: Schott AG is a global specialty glass incumbent with a major SCHOTT Life Sciences division producing laboratory glassware and pharmaceutical glass packaging. It competes with Kimble Chase across reusable lab glass and vial/bottle categories and dwarfs it in scale and breadth.
• Corning Life Sciences: Corning Life Sciences is a large incumbent offering cell culture, plastic labware, and glass-based products to similar pharma and research customers. While plastic-heavy, its scale, distribution, and R&D capacity make it a key adjacent competitor across the lab consumables category.
• Avantor (VWR): Avantor distributes and manufactures laboratory products under the VWR brand, including branded and private-label glassware. It is a major distribution channel as well as a competitor to Kimble Chase in many lab glass SKUs sold to academic, pharma, and industrial customers.
• Fisher Scientific (Thermo Fisher): Fisher Scientific, part of Thermo Fisher Scientific, is a leading global lab product distributor with its own-brand laboratory glassware lines. It competes with Kimble Chase both as a vendor of branded glassware and as the primary route-to-market for many end customers.

Emerging players

• Eppendorf: Eppendorf is a specialty life-science lab consumables and bioprocessing company known for plastic consumables (tubes, plates, pipettes), increasingly overlapping with traditional glassware applications. It is an emerging competitive threat to glass-centric suppliers in routine sample-prep workflows.
• Stevanato Group: Stevanato Group is an Italian-based specialist in pharmaceutical glass primary packaging and drug delivery devices. It is an emerging player that competes with Kimble Chase for pharma lab customers and is investing heavily in glass vial capacity for injectables and biologics.

Regional players

• Gerresheimer: Gerresheimer is a major European-headquartered pharmaceutical and lab glass specialist producing vials, ampoules, syringes, and specialty glass. While stronger in primary packaging, its product breadth overlaps with Kimble Chase in lab-grade glass containers and diagnostics.
• Nipro Glass Germany (Nippon Sheet Glass): Nipro is a major producer of pharmaceutical glass tubing and containers in Europe and Asia, competing for lab and pharma-grade glass demand. Geographic emphasis differs, but product overlap in glass vials and tubing parallels Kimble Chase's lab container offerings.

Others

• Dynalab Supplies: Dynalab Supplies is a niche US distributor of laboratory glassware serving educational, government, and industrial labs. While not a manufacturer at Kimble Chase's scale, it is an ecosystem partner/competitor reaching similar end customers through distribution channels.

Market position

Customer concentration

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Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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