Sartorius equipment

About Sartorius

Sartorius is a German manufacturer of pharmaceutical and laboratory equipment, founded in Gottingen in 1870 by Florenz Sartorius following his development of a short-beam analytical balance. The firm began as the Feinmechanische Werkstatt F. Sartorius and still has its headquarters in Gottingen, Germany. Sartorius AG is an independently listed holding company on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange and a member of the DAX, not a subsidiary of any parent corporation. Roughly half of the ordinary shares are administered by a trust for descendants of the founder, while Bio-Rad Laboratories holds approximately 35 percent. The company's product range covers laboratory balances and weighing systems, pipettes and dispensing systems, filtration systems, bioprocess solutions, bioreactors and fermenters, cell culture media and reagents, laboratory water purification systems, and cell analysis equipment. On the Questpair catalogue, this range is represented by used units listed from verified suppliers and distributors across several countries.

Which Sartorius product lines are listed?

The catalogue groups Sartorius equipment by the kind of work each class does. The weighing systems range from analytical and microbalances through to precision bench balances, the instruments that gravimetric analysis depends on. These are the direct descendants of the short-beam balance the company was founded on. Alongside them sit pipettes and dispensing systems for liquid handling, and filtration systems built for separating particles and sterilising fluids. The bioreactors and fermenters form a separate class again, these are controlled vessels for growing cells and microorganisms at bench and larger scale. Water purification systems and cell analysis equipment round out the listed range. Across these families the forms vary from single consumables to complete instruments, which is part of why the listed price range is so wide.

Biotechnology and life sciences work

A large part of the Sartorius range serves biotechnology and the life sciences directly. The bioreactors and fermenters are the instruments of bioprocessing and biomanufacturing: controlled culture of cells and microorganisms to produce biological products, from the bench vessel used in cell culture process development to the larger systems used in production. Bioreactor and fermenter systems for upstream bioprocessing are among the equipment this maker is known for, and the cell culture media and reagents support the same work. Filtration systems do sterile filtration and the clarification steps of downstream processing, and are also used for protein purification and buffer preparation. The weighing and dispensing instruments support the gravimetric and formulation work that underpins molecular biology and biomanufacturing laboratories. Cell analysis equipment covers the counting and viability measurement used throughout cell culture. Taken together, this is equipment that runs across the upstream and downstream stages of a bioprocessing workflow rather than sitting in one corner of it.

On Questpair

The Questpair catalogue lists 1230 used Sartorius items from 18 verified suppliers and distributors across 8 countries. Prices run from EUR 3 to EUR 215.222, with an average of EUR 9.003. 100 percent of the listings are used. Because condition and configuration vary from one listing to the next, the specific listing is where a buyer confirms model, accessories and state. Parts can be sourced via Questpair, and documentation requests reach specialists who respond within an hour. A warranty is often possible and is arranged in consultation for the specific listing.

Questpair review of Sartorius

Our take based on listings data and supplier feedback

Sartorius occupies an unusual position among laboratory makers because its catalogue reaches from the analytical balance that started the firm in 1870 to the bioreactor lines that now define much of its revenue. For a buyer working through the Questpair listings, that breadth is the first thing worth weighing. A single supplier search returns weighing instruments, pipettes, filtration hardware and cell culture equipment under one name, which matters when a lab is standardising on a maker rather than assembling instruments piece by piece. The 1230 items currently listed span these categories rather than clustering in one, so the catalogue reflects the company's actual range instead of a single popular product family.

The volume of listed equipment is the second point a reviewer should test against the data. 18 verified suppliers and distributors across 8 countries contribute to the catalogue, and 100 percent of the listings are used. That concentration has a practical consequence. Where several listings cover the same balance model or the same bioreactor controller, a buyer can compare configuration, accessories and condition before committing, which is harder on a thin catalogue holding one unit per model. The trade-off is that condition varies across used stock, so the individual listing, not the brand page, is where specification and state have to be confirmed. Warranty on a used Sartorius unit is arranged in consultation for the specific listing rather than fixed centrally.

Price is the third axis, and here the spread is wide enough to need interpretation. Listed prices run from EUR 3 to EUR 215.222. The low end reflects small consumables and bench accessories; the high end reflects complete bioprocess systems, which are capital instruments in their own right. An average of EUR 9.003 sits well below the ceiling, which tells a buyer that the bulk of the catalogue is laboratory-scale equipment rather than production-scale bioreactors, with the large systems pulling the top of the range upward. For a lab budgeting a weighing station or a pipette set, that average is the more useful reference point than either extreme.

What the catalogue does not do is substitute for a specification check. The brand's balances, filtration systems and bioreactors are distinct enough in their requirements, calibration, consumables, controller compatibility, that no page-level summary replaces reading the listing and confirming the unit suits the intended work. For parts, Questpair can source them, and specialists respond to documentation requests within an hour. Taken together, the breadth of categories, the depth of used stock, and the price range make the Sartorius catalogue most useful to a buyer who already knows which class of instrument they need and wants to compare several listed units of it rather than one.

**Breadth across weighing, liquid handling and bioprocessing**

Sartorius covers analytical balances, pipettes, filtration and bioreactors under one maker, so a single supplier search on Questpair returns equipment spanning the whole laboratory and bioprocess workflow.

**Volume of listed used equipment**

With 1230 listings from 18 verified suppliers and distributors across 8 countries, the catalogue holds enough instruments to compare condition and configuration before buying.

**Price spread from consumable to production-scale**

Listed prices run from EUR 3 to EUR 215.222, covering small bench accessories at one end and complete bioreactor systems at the other.