Company Profile
BUCHI Labortechnik AG is a long-established Swiss company and a core player in laboratory technology, with its headquarters in Eastern Switzerland and a global footprint of R&D, production, sales and service facilities. For 85 years, BUCHI has positioned itself as a leading solution provider in laboratory technology for research and development, quality control and production worldwide. BUCHI’s Rotavapor evaporation systems are widely used, making the brand a household name in laboratories around the world. BUCHI’s modular evaporation solutions are designed to adapt to a wide range of applications, reflecting the company’s emphasis on flexibility and user-friendliness. In addition to evaporation, BUCHI offers an extensive portfolio across chromatography, freeze drying, spray drying, extraction, digestion, and spectroscopy. The company’s NIR (Near Infrared) solutions provide high performance for the lab and rugged, near-production applications, while its Kjeldahl digestion and extraction solutions are valued for automation and safety. BUCHI’s installation of steam distillation systems emphasizes full automation and integration with analytical workflows, including colorimetric titration. Parallel evaporation systems enable high-throughput processing with up to 96 parallel samples, supporting environmental, chemical and related laboratories. The company’s micro-encapsulation capabilities cater to the formulation of APIs, food components and even living cells on a laboratory scale. BUCHI also offers industrial evaporation solutions for larger sample sizes up to 50 liters, highlighted by ruggedness and high configurability. Melting point analysis is automated with BUCHI’s dedicated analyzers, and BUCHI NIR-Online real-time process control enables optimization across production stages from incoming goods to final release. The company actively provides educational resources and guides on topics ranging from micro-Kjeldahl analysis to spray drying, flash chromatography, and general evaporation strategies. BUCHI’s broad spectrum of offerings supports laboratory workflows in pharmaceutical, chemical, food, feed and environmental sectors. BUCHI’s market reach is global, underpinned by a network of affiliates and distribution partners, with a commitment to application support and continued innovation. The company emphasizes supporting environmental analysis, food content analysis, and process optimization through its parallel evaporation, spray drying, and NIR solutions, reflecting a strategy to integrate laboratory-scale innovation with practical production applications. BUCHI’s history and product breadth position it to continue delivering high-quality, efficient laboratory solutions, sustaining its role as a trusted partner to R&D laboratories, contract manufacturers and production facilities worldwide.