Caron Products Expands Its Brand, Integrating UK-Based Bigneat Ltd
Marietta, Ohio, June 24, 2022: Caron Products, a leading US-based supplier of chambers for production cell culture and drug QA/QC is expanding its brand to cover the products and operations of Bigneat Ltd, purchased in 2021. Bigneat has been a provider of high-performance safety solutions and laboratory cabinets and enclosures used in academic research, biopharmaceutical, applied markets and biotechnology. Caron’s and Bigneat’s products are highly complementary, being used in many of the same applications and workflows. Pooling the global resources and expertise of the two mutual fields and operations groups, Caron Products assures its brand’s growth, and cements Caron’s status as a market leader in the life science space.

“We’re merging global strengths”, says Jay Hexamer, Caron President and CEO, “Expanding the Caron brand clarifies our position as a comprehensive life science research solutions provider.”

Since acquiring Bigneat, Caron Products, now working across the UK and North American facilities, has already developed new processes and initiatives to deliver products more quickly and create even more value for customer operations. Caron’s commitment, moving forward, is to accelerate service improvement by combining Bigneat’s renowned customer-focused and responsive design process with Caron’s standardized quality and product lead times.

About Caron Products and Services, Inc.
Founded in 1985 in Marietta, OH, Caron is a leading provider of laboratory equipment used in small and large molecule drug development and manufacturing, cell & gene therapy, and academic research. Caron’s products, which include environmental testing chambers, incubators and growth chambers, are used for FDA-required QA/QC stability testing during drug development and manufacturing, incubation in cleanroom environments, and sample growth in early-stage research. Caron sells its products to a diverse range of customers in the pharmaceutical, biotech, outsourced pharmaceutical services, biomedical products, and academic and government research markets.

About Bigneat Ltd
Founded in 1972 and based in Hampshire, England, Bigneat is a world-class manufacturer and leading global provider of clean air, hazard containment and safety systems to scientific laboratories and industry. Applications for Bigneat’s products cover operator and product protection during laboratory procedures, and batch and on-line production processes. Bigneat sells its products to a diverse range of customers in the pharmaceutical, biotech, OEM instrument, chemical, electronics, food, government, nanotechnology, photonics, and educational and government research markets.

Since the beginning, Caron has been devoted to providing high quality temperature and environmental control equipment. Combining a customer-focused culture with strengths in design, manufacturing and support, Caron has grown into a global scientific supplier serving a wide range of industries and disciplines.

TEST Chambers
Stability/Environmental
Photostability
Heated/Humidified
Refrigerated
Freeze/Thaw

Growth Chambers
Plant Growth
Animal Rearing
Insect Rearing

Incubators
Refrigerated
Heated/Humidified
Stackable CO2
Reach-In CO2

Baths/Circulators
Baths Circulator
Condensate Recirculating System

Operator Protection Cabinets
Ductless Fume
Application Specific
Laminar Flow
Powder Weighing
Storage

Product Protection Cabinets
PCR
Laminar Flow

Operator & Product Protection Cabinets
Biosafety