Founded 12 years ago by industry veterans, 4titude is widely recognized for its innovative PCR plates which are used to "amplify" or copy small segments of DNA, a significant factor in accelerating research. The company also manufactures a range of sealing and sequencing tubes related to bench top instrumentation. 4titude supplies consumable PCR plates to more than 1200 global customers in the pharma, biotech, academic, and biobanking markets.
“4titude is a natural addition to Brooks Life Science offerings,” commented
Co-founders of 4titude,
Over the last two years, 4titude has delivered more than 20% annual growth and generated approximately
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Brooks is a leading worldwide provider of automation and cryogenic solutions for multiple markets including semiconductor manufacturing and life sciences. Brooks’ technologies, engineering competencies and global service capabilities provide customers speed to market and ensure high uptime and rapid response, which equate to superior value in their mission-critical controlled environments. Since 1978, Brooks has been a leading partner to the global semiconductor manufacturing market. Since 2011, Brooks has applied its automation and cryogenics expertise to meet the sample storage needs of customers in the life sciences industry. Brooks’ life sciences offerings include a broad range of products and services for on-site infrastructure for sample management in temperatures of -20°C to -150°C, as well as comprehensive outsource service solutions across the complete life cycle of biological samples including collection, transportation, processing, storage, protection, retrieval and disposal. Brooks is headquartered in
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