Originally incorporated in north London in 1983, Stratech soon became a leading supplier of speciality chemicals for molecular biology and other life science research laboratories
UK-based biotech supplier Stratech Scientific has celebrated 25 years of service to life science research.
Stratech imports unique products from North America, Asia, and Europe and offers award-winning customer support to research laboratories throughout the UK and increasingly in Europe.
In 1989 Stratech moved to bigger premises in Luton, and then to Soham in 2002, finally occupying one of the newly refurbished units in Oaks Drive, Newmarket in 2006.
Stratech was set up by the now managing director Sue Hallet with Trevor Schofield who retired from Luton to his native Scarborough 12 years ago.
Since then, together with commercial director Tony Savill and her son Ian Nicholls, distribution director, Hallet has spun off two new businesses which share the same premises and management, and is currently in discussion concerning two new joint ventures with leading research product developers in America.
Following the move to Soham the team has created 16 new jobs which have all, bar one, been filled by local people.
Over the years Stratech has moved with the ever advancing life sciences bringing in new tools for research as they were developed by companies throughout the world.
Hallet said "When we started the company, molecular biology was still in its infancy, and British scientists needed to import the tools being developed in the USA.
"We have seen those products become commodities while the demands of the biotech and biopharma industries have led to new research tools emerging every year in immunology, cell biology and in specialist fields like neuroscience.
"Our customers include universities and pharmaceutical companies, and we have been proud to supply Nobel Prize winners and world leading laboratories."
