The company was founded in 1987 by Vance Kershner, who is president and CEO.[1][2] It has offices in 25 countries, with customers in ninety.[3][4][5] The head office is in Wilmington, Delaware, with a training facility at Oberod Estate in Centreville.[6][7]
Pharmaceutical clients include Wyeth, Teva, AstraZeneca, Pfizer, Merck, and Bristol Myers Squibb;[8] other users are in the food and beverage, forensics, nuclear power, environmental and water testing industries.[9] The software is used to test for water, soil, food and air quality in the United States, Ireland, Australia, and South Africa.[10][11] In 2021, CTI Clinical Trial and Consulting Services (CTI), a global, full-service contract research organization (CRO) announced their partnership with LabWare.[12]
Körber, a global technology company, and LabWare announced in 2023 the integration of LabWare LIMS and Körber's manufacturing execution system, PAS-X, for the pharmaceutical and biopharmaceutical industry.[13]
LabWare and Mettler Toledo announced a plug-and-play software integration to enhance laboratory productivity by seamlessly connecting LabWare LIMS with Mettler Toledo instruments in 2024.[14]
LabWare uses Visual Smalltalk Enterprise to develop its products and in October 2014, LabWare joined the Pharo Consortium.[15] In January 2024, the Cuis Smalltalk community announced that LabWare supports their efforts. [16]
Acquisitions
In March 2022, LabWare acquired CompassRed, a data analytics firm.[17][18]
Awards
LabWare won the Scientific Computing and Instrumentation’s Readers’ Choice Award in the Laboratory Information Management System (LIMS) category each year between 2000 and 2008.[19][20] LabWare LIMS won a Frost & Sullivan Product Quality Leadership Award in 2004, and the company won Frost and Sullivan's European Laboratory Information Management Systems (LIMS) Company of the Year Award in 2008.[21][22] In 2016, LabWare was honored by the Delaware Bioscience Association as their company of the year.[23] MYTECHMAG added LabWare to their list of Top Oil & Gas Tech Solution Providers in 2021.[24] The Center for Business Analytics at Drexel University LeBow College of Business recognized LabWare as an honoree of the 2023 Drexel LeBow Analytics 50 Awards.[25]
