Memmert equipment

About Memmert

Memmert is a German manufacturer of climate chambers and temperature control equipment for laboratory and industrial applications. Willi Memmert founded the company on June 21, 1933 in Schwabach, Germany under the name Elektro-Ing-Buero-Willi Memmert. It is a privately held family company, structured as a GmbH + Co. KG, with no parent and no confirmed acquisition. The company is still based in Schwabach, Germany. Its output covers climate chambers, heating and drying ovens, incubators, ULT freezers, water baths and medical devices. Each of those classes holds or cycles temperature, and in several cases humidity, under controlled conditions. The Questpair catalogue for the brand lists 356 units from verified suppliers and distributors.

Memmert product lines

The range divides cleanly by what each line is built to hold steady. The Universal Ovens, the U series, are convection ovens for drying, heat treatment and sterilisation, and sit at the general end of the catalogue. The Vacuum Ovens, the VO series, dry under reduced pressure, which suits heat-sensitive materials and solvent-laden samples. For incubation, the ICO line covers standard warm-air work, while the IPPeco line uses Peltier modules to reach temperatures below ambient without a compressor. The ICOmed CO2 incubators provide the controlled atmosphere needed for cell culture, which places them in molecular biology and tissue work.

The climate chamber lines are the more specialised part of the range. The HPPeco constant climate chambers and the HCP humidity chambers hold a set temperature and humidity for constant climate and photostability studies. The ICH climate chambers are built to the conditions laid down for pharmaceutical stability testing, where a product is stored at a documented temperature and humidity and the stability of that storage is part of the data. These chambers are also used for proteomics sample conditioning and for microbiology work that depends on a fixed environment. Alongside the standard lines, the m360 programme produces customised solutions, and the myChamber digital platform provides the control and logging interface across the newer equipment.

Several of these lines connect directly to biotechnology and life sciences. A CO2 incubator is the standard tool for cell culture, holding the temperature, humidity and carbon dioxide level that growing cells require, and that work underpins biomanufacturing and much of molecular biology. A climate chamber running a pharmaceutical stability study supports molecular diagnostics and formulation, where a reagent or a dosage form has to be shown to hold its properties over time. Incubation of microbial cultures sits under microbiology, and the controlled drying an oven provides is a routine step in sample preparation. The equipment itself is simple to name, an oven, an incubator, a climate chamber, but the field each one serves is where its value in a life sciences lab actually lies.

Memmert equipment on Questpair

The Questpair catalogue lists 356 Memmert units offered by 13 verified suppliers and distributors across 6 countries. Prices range from EUR 127 to EUR 44.167. That spread reflects the distance between a small water bath and a large regulated climate chamber, so the figure a buyer should read is the one on the individual listing. Of the listings, 65 percent are used. Used units are offered at lower prices than new ones, and where a choice comes down to condition, the warranty on a specific unit is arranged in consultation for that listing rather than fixed in advance. Parts can be sourced via Questpair, and for manuals or documentation a buyer can contact Questpair, where specialists respond within the hour.

Questpair review of Memmert

Our take based on listings data and supplier feedback

Memmert occupies a narrow part of the laboratory equipment market, and that focus shapes what a buyer finds on Questpair. The company does not make chromatographs, centrifuges or spectrometers. It makes equipment that holds a defined temperature, and sometimes a defined humidity, for as long as a protocol needs. That single purpose runs through every product line, from a simple drying oven to a climate chamber calibrated for pharmaceutical stability work.

The first benefit a buyer should weigh is the depth that comes from that focus. Because the entire output is temperature and climate control, the range within each class is wide. The Universal Oven U series sits at the general-purpose end, used for drying, heat treatment and sterilisation. The Vacuum Oven VO series handles drying of materials that cannot tolerate atmospheric pressure or that trap solvent. Incubation splits across several designs: the ICO line for standard warm-air incubation, the IPPeco line using Peltier cooling for work that needs temperatures below ambient, and the ICOmed CO2 incubators built for cell culture. A lab that already runs one Memmert unit tends to find the neighbouring process covered by another, which matters when calibration habits and interface are consistent across the range.

The second benefit is the climate chamber line, which is where the equipment serves regulated science most directly. The ICH chambers meet the conditions defined for pharmaceutical stability testing under the ICH guidelines, holding temperature and humidity steady over long storage studies. The HPPeco constant climate chambers and the HCP humidity chambers extend that into constant climate work and photostability. These are the units that appear in quality control, molecular diagnostics and formulation labs, where a product has to be held at a documented condition for weeks or months and the record of that condition is itself part of the result. For a buyer in that setting, the question is less about the instrument class and more about which chamber matches a specific stability protocol, so the individual listing and its specification carry the decision.

The third benefit is the condition split in the Questpair stock. Of the Memmert listings, 65 percent are used. That weighting gives a buyer a real choice between a previously owned oven or incubator and a new one, with the used units listed at lower prices. Where a decision comes down to new against used, the right reference is the individual listing, since warranty on any given unit is arranged in consultation rather than set centrally. Across the catalogue the spread is broad. Prices run from EUR 127 to EUR 44.167, which reflects the distance between a small water bath and a large walk-in climate chamber. The stock is offered by 13 verified suppliers and distributors, so a given model may appear in more than one condition and at more than one price. For a buyer, the practical result is that both ends of the Memmert range, the basic bench oven and the regulated climate chamber, are present in the same catalogue rather than split across separate channels.

**Temperature control specialists, not generalists**

Memmert builds only heating, cooling and climate equipment, so a listed unit comes from a maker whose entire output is incubators, ovens and climate chambers rather than a side line of a broader catalogue.

**Climate chambers for regulated stability testing**

The ICH and HPPeco lines are designed for the constant temperature and humidity conditions that pharmaceutical stability studies run under, which is why these chambers turn up in quality control and formulation labs.

**A catalogue weighted toward used units**

Of the Memmert listings on Questpair, 65 percent are used, giving buyers a stock of previously owned ovens and incubators at prices below the new equivalents.