Eppendorf is a life science company that develops and sells instruments, consumables, and services for liquid-, sample-, and cell handling in laboratories. It offers pipettes and automated pipetting systems, dispensers, centrifuges, mixers, spectrometers, and DNA amplification equipment as well as ultra-low temperature freezers, fermentors, bioreactors, CO2 incubators, shakers, and cell manipulation systems. The company also provides consumables such as pipette tips, test tubes, microtiter plates, and disposable bioreactors.