Innovive equipment

About Innovive

Innovive is an American manufacturer of laboratory animal housing and vivarium equipment, founded in 2004 and headquartered in San Diego, United States. The company was built around a single idea: transforming the economics and convenience of working with laboratory animals through disposable, wash-free rodent caging systems. Its catalogue covers individually ventilated caging (IVC) systems, disposable rodent cages, vivarium racks, single-use water bottles, and bedding and enrichment accessories. These products are organised under five product lines: Innocage, Innorack, Aquavive, Innorichment, and InnoCycle. The equipment supports preclinical animal research across pharmacology, toxicology, and genetics, where rodent models underpin in vivo studies. In that setting the disposable caging approach is also used for barrier and biocontainment work, because a single-use cage leaving the vivarium after use removes a cross-contamination path that washing has to manage. On Questpair, 71 Innovive items are listed by verified suppliers and distributors.

Innovive product lines on Questpair

The disposable caging that defines the company sits under the Innocage name. These are single-use individually ventilated rodent cages, supplied ready to use and discarded rather than washed. Rodent caging of this kind is the physical foundation of animal model research, housing the mice and rats used in genetics, drug development, and toxicology studies, and the self-contained ventilated format matters most in specific-pathogen-free and barrier facilities where airflow isolation protects each cage.

Innorack is the vivarium rack line, the ventilated frame that holds the disposable cages and delivers filtered air to each position. A rack is the durable backbone of a facility: where the cages are consumables, the rack is equipment that stays in service across many cage cycles. Aquavive covers the single-use water bottles that complete each cage, keeping the wash-free principle consistent from caging through to hydration.

Innorichment is the bedding and enrichment line, supplying the nesting material and environmental enrichment that animal welfare protocols require. InnoCycle addresses the end-of-life side of a disposable system, the recycling pathway for cages that have left the vivarium. Together these five lines form a closed loop, from a clean cage ready to populate through to the material stream after it is retired.

Not every line is present on the marketplace at any one time, and the selection reflects what suppliers currently list rather than the full manufacturer range. A buyer looking for a specific Innorack configuration or a particular Innocage format should confirm availability against the individual listing.

What Innovive equipment is listed on Questpair?

The catalogue holds 71 items from 2 verified suppliers and distributors across 2 countries. Prices run from EUR 89 to EUR 6.688. The average listing price is EUR 3.979. That range covers two quite different kinds of item: small consumables and accessories at the lower end, and complete ventilated racks at the upper end, so the figure a buyer should weigh is the one attached to the specific unit they need, not the average across the catalogue.

Every listing is used. 100 percent of the listings are used. For this product family the condition point reads differently across the two main item types. A vivarium rack is durable hardware where a used purchase is routine, while the disposable cages and bottles are by design single-use consumables. Used units are listed at lower prices than new, and where a warranty is needed it is often possible and is arranged in consultation for the specific listing.

For documentation on a particular unit, a buyer can contact Questpair and specialists respond within one hour. Parts can be sourced via Questpair as well. Between the listing detail, the available documentation, and the parts route, a buyer can assess a specific Innovive rack or component before committing to it.

Questpair review of Innovive

Our take based on listings data and supplier feedback

Innovive occupies a specific corner of the vivarium market: disposable, pre-assembled rodent housing that removes the cage-washing step from animal facility operations. The three benefits above, wash-free caging, a complete ecosystem on one marketplace, and used pricing, are worth examining against what the listings actually show.

The wash-free premise is the design argument the company has made since 2004. Conventional individually ventilated caging requires a cage-wash room, autoclaves, drying racks, and the labour to cycle cages through them. Innocage units are supplied ready to use and discarded after use, which shifts the cost structure of a facility away from fixed washing infrastructure and toward per-cage consumables. Whether that trade favours a given vivarium depends on census size and labour cost, so the economic case is facility-specific rather than universal. What the marketplace confirms is that the physical system is modular: the Innorack vivarium racks hold the disposable cages, and the Aquavive single-use water bottles complete the self-contained unit. A buyer assembling a working setup needs more than one of these lines, which is why a catalogue that carries them together matters.

That ecosystem breadth shows in the listing mix. With 71 items from 2 verified suppliers and distributors, the catalogue runs across racks, caging, and bottles rather than clustering on a single part. Prices range from EUR 89 to EUR 6.688. That spread reflects the difference between a small consumable such as a water bottle or an enrichment accessory at the low end and a full Innorack ventilated rack at the high end. The average sits at EUR 3.979. A buyer should read the span as the gap between accessory and complete rack, and match a listing to whichever they actually need rather than to the average.

On condition, the picture is uniform. 100 percent of the listings are used. Used units are listed at lower prices than new, and for a product category built on disposability that condition point deserves a closer look: a ventilated rack and the cages that sit in it are different kinds of item, and a rack is durable equipment where a used purchase is straightforward, while the single-use cages and bottles are consumables by design. Where a warranty matters, it is often possible and is arranged in consultation for the specific listing, so the individual listing is the right place to check what a given used rack or component includes.

The gap in the data worth naming is coverage. With suppliers in 2 countries and 2 of them listing, the selection is narrower than it would be for a mass-market centrifuge or pipette brand, which is expected for specialised vivarium hardware. A buyer looking for a particular Innorack configuration or a specific Innocage format should treat availability as something to confirm per listing rather than assume across the full product line. For documentation on a specific unit, specialists respond within an hour through Questpair, and parts can be sourced the same way.

**Wash-free disposable caging**

Innovive's Innocage systems are single-use rodent cages that eliminate cage-washing infrastructure, which is the core design idea the company was founded on in 2004.

**Complete vivarium ecosystem on one marketplace**

Across 71 listings from 2 verified suppliers and distributors, the catalogue spans caging, Innorack vivarium racks, and Aquavive water bottles rather than isolated parts.

**Used units priced below new**

Every listing on Questpair for this maker is used, with 100 percent of the listings in used condition, and used units are listed at lower prices than new.