Heraeus equipment

About Heraeus

Heraeus is a German manufacturer of industrial and laboratory equipment, headquartered in Hanau. The company's pharmacy roots trace to 1660, and W.C. Heraeus was formally founded as a platinum processing company in 1851, when Wilhelm Carl Heraeus took over his father's Einhorn Apothecary and developed an industrial platinum melting process. From that base the firm expanded into laboratory and scientific instruments. Its laboratory product lines are now operated under Thermo Fisher Scientific, acquired via Kendro Laboratory Products, while the Heraeus Group itself remains a private, family-owned holding company. The laboratory range covers centrifuges, CO2 incubators, drying and vacuum drying ovens, muffle and laboratory furnaces, safety cabinets, clean air equipment, and laboratory freezers and refrigerators. On Questpair, these instruments are offered used by verified suppliers and distributors.

Heraeus product lines

The centrifuges carry some of the most recognisable names in the catalogue. Labofuge, Megafuge, Multifuge, Biofuge, Clinifuge, and Cytomat each cover a different slice of the range, from compact benchtop units through high-capacity floor-standing models. In practical terms, centrifugation is what this part of the Heraeus line does: separating cells, pelleting precipitates, and clarifying samples. These separation steps sit at the start of a great many protocols in molecular biology and protein purification, where a spin to pellet cells or clear a lysate precedes almost everything that follows. A Biofuge-class microcentrifuge handles the small-volume spins common in nucleic acid work, while a Multifuge handles larger swing-out loads for cell culture harvesting.

The HeraCell line is a CO2 incubator built for cell culture, holding the temperature, humidity, and gas atmosphere that mammalian cells need to grow. That makes it a fixture in cell culture laboratories doing tissue work, hybridoma production, and the cell expansion steps behind immunoassay and cell imaging. The HERAfreeze line covers ultra-low-temperature freezers used to store samples, cell banks, and reagents, which supports the long-term sample archiving that genomics and proteomics programmes depend on.

Alongside the biology-facing instruments, Heraeus made a substantial range of thermal processing equipment. The drying ovens, vacuum drying ovens, and muffle furnaces serve sample preparation, ashing, heat treatment, and gravimetric work rather than live-cell applications. These are the instruments a lab reaches for when a sample has to be dried to constant weight, incinerated to ash, or held at a controlled high temperature.

What Heraeus equipment is listed on Questpair?

The Questpair catalogue currently holds 296 Heraeus listings, offered by 14 verified suppliers and distributors across 7 countries. Every one of these listings is used: 100 percent of the catalogue. Prices range from EUR 70 to EUR 6.833, with an average around EUR 1.075, a spread that reflects the mix of small benchtop centrifuges and larger incubators and furnaces within the same catalogue.

Because the stock is entirely secondhand, a used unit is listed below the price of new equipment from the same line, and that price difference is the main reason to buy used here. Condition and specification vary by listing, so the individual listing is the place to confirm what a given instrument includes. A warranty is often possible and is arranged in consultation for the specific listing. Where an older instrument needs a replacement part, such as a rotor for a Megafuge or a component for a HeraCell, parts can be sourced via Questpair. For documentation on a particular model, the buyer can contact Questpair and specialists respond within one hour.

Questpair review of Heraeus

Our take based on listings data and supplier feedback

Heraeus occupies an unusual position in the laboratory equipment market: a maker whose name sits on instruments still running in labs decades after purchase, now folded into Thermo Fisher Scientific through the Kendro route. For a buyer working on the secondhand market, that history matters in a practical way, and the Questpair catalogue reflects it.

The first point is coverage. The Heraeus listings are not confined to a single instrument class. Centrifugation, cell culture, and thermal processing all appear under one maker, which is useful for a lab replacing or expanding across several benches at once. A facility standardising on a familiar platform can look at centrifuges and incubators side by side rather than sourcing each from a different vendor. Across the 296 listings, 14 verified suppliers and distributors are represented, spread over 7 countries, so the catalogue draws on more than one regional pool of stock.

The second point concerns the named product lines, and here the depth of the Heraeus range works in the buyer's favour. Megafuge and Multifuge are general-purpose and high-capacity centrifuges; Biofuge and Clinifuge sit closer to microcentrifuge and clinical work; HeraCell is a CO2 incubator line for cell culture. When a protocol was written around a specific model, finding that same model used is far less disruptive than swapping to a different instrument with its own quirks. The listings make that matching possible because the lines are named rather than lumped together as generic equipment.

The third point is price, and it is the clearest. Every Heraeus listing on Questpair at present is used, 100 percent of the catalogue. Prices run from EUR 70 to EUR 6.833. That spread is wide because the catalogue mixes small benchtop units with larger floor-standing instruments and incubators, and the average of EUR 1.075 gives a rough sense of where the bulk sits. A used instrument is listed below the price of new equipment from the same line, which is the single comparison a buyer can rely on when weighing secondhand against new.

Two caveats are worth stating plainly. Because the stock is entirely used, condition varies by listing, and a warranty is not automatic: it is arranged in consultation for the specific listing. Where a buyer needs replacement parts for an older Megafuge rotor or a HeraCell sensor, those can be sourced via Questpair rather than assumed to come with the unit. The sensible approach is to read the individual listing closely and treat the product line name as a starting point for matching, not as a guarantee of identical configuration. For a lab that already runs Heraeus instruments and knows the lines, the used catalogue is a direct route to the same equipment at a lower entry price.

**Broad instrument coverage in one catalogue**

Heraeus equipment on Questpair spans centrifuges, CO2 incubators, drying ovens, and laboratory furnaces, so a lab sourcing several instrument classes from one maker can compare 296 listings in a single place.

**Named product lines available secondhand**

Recognised Heraeus lines including Megafuge, Multifuge, Biofuge, and HeraCell appear among the used listings, which lets buyers match a specific model to an existing protocol rather than substituting an unfamiliar instrument.

**Lower entry price than new equipment**

All current Heraeus listings are used, priced from EUR 70 to EUR 6.833, below the cost of new equipment from the same product lines.