News
11-January 2012 – LGC Standards sets
the benchmark for reference material handling
High tech warehouse and improved logistics set
to benefit global reference material
customers
LGC Standards,
Europe’s leading supplier of reference materials, can now offer its
global customer base the benefits of its significantly improved
central warehousing facilities in Wesel, Germany, setting the
benchmark for handling and distributing reference materials.
The warehouse has improved centralised logistics services as
well as a high tech temperature and humidity-controlled environment
for all primary reference standards, certified reference materials,
standard solutions, solids and matrix materials. Products are
stored and monitored for humidity and temperature (from minus 70°C
to room temperature) to ensure quality during storage and
transport, thereby ensuring the company adheres to current
regulations regarding dual use goods, dangerous goods, controlled
substances and precursors.
LGC Standards is now well equipped to fulfil its expansion plans
into Latin America, the USA, Asia, North Africa, Australia/New
Zealand. The Wesel warehouse will also play a large part in
supplying products to LGC Standards´ latest acquisition and its
first venture on the African continent; Industrial Analytical of South Africa.
LGC Standards’ customers will continue to place their orders in
one of the seven LGC Standards offices across Europe and receive
their invoice in their local currency, while the reference
standards will be shipped directly to the customer with all
relevant paperwork from the Wesel central warehouse.
Reference materials suppliers across the world have partnered
with LGC Standards to set up consignment stocks in Wesel, giving
European researchers fast and easy access to reference materials of
their choice. This includes the Institute for Reference Materials
and Measurements in Belgium, the Reference Materials Institute for
Clinical Chemistry Standards in Japan and the National Measurement
Institute of Australia, whose reference standards play a leading
role in sports doping analysis. Wesel’s extended warehouse facility
will support customers who are supplying crucial reference
materials for sports testing during the 2012 Olympic
Games.
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