The Food and Environment Research Agency (Fera) | Full story (PDF 820 KB)
Fera is an executive agency of the UK government’s Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra). It supplies goods and services to public and private sector customers. Fera was founded by bringing together the Central Science Laboratory (CSL), the UK Government Decontamination Service (GDS), the Plant Health and Seeds Inspectorate (PHSI), Plant Variety Rights Office and Seeds Division (PVS) and Plant Health Division (PHD). Fera adopted a laboratory information management system (LIMS) as part of its continuous focus on sample management across its entire site to improve efficiencies, productivity and sample integrity.

Müller’s Yogurt Production | Full story (PDF 214 KB)
Müller’s Yogurt Production at UK Quality Control Laboratory improves laboratory efficiencies and GMP compliance. Making the transition from a manual system that’s essentially paper-based to one which automates almost every quality control (QC) sample check and reporting process is a major undertaking for any company. With UK production over 1.8 billion pots of yogurt per year, the time was ripe for change at Müller and Thermo Fisher Scientific was the clear solutions provider.

The Irish Department of Agriculture | Full story (PDF 510 KB)
The agrifood sector remains one of Ireland’s most important indigenous industries, accounting directly for over 8% of both GDP and employment, and exports of over €8.1 billion. The dispersed spread and composition of the agriculture sector, along with its use of local raw material and services, ensures that it continues to play an integral part in the viability of rural areas and the national economy. The Veterinary Laboratory Services that support the Irish Department of Agriculture are geographically spread throughout the country and as such, require timely and accurate flow of information and research results across all locations to fulfill the directives of the Department.

Food Hygene Safety at Ingredia | Full story (PDF 170 KB)
European legislation has consistently placed increasing pressure on the food processing industry to conform to the highest levels of food hygiene and safety. As one of Europe’s largest dairy ingredient processing companies, Ingredia has a responsibility to conform to the industry standards while processing food products to meet its clients’ rigorous demands. Ingredia are the leaders in the development and marketing of functional dairy ingredients. They are a registered supplier recognized by the biggest groups in the international food industry.

Compliance & productivity
in food analysis at Sino Analytia | Learn more (PDF 218 KB)
Sino Analytica provides contract analytical services to a wide range of food suppliers, trading companies and retailers from China and all over the world. The laboratory also employs food analysis to support the advisory and consulting activities to food growers and processors. Sino Analytica has historically managed data manually in the laboratory, with a monthly load of over 1200 samples in this location..

Chr. Hansen Standardizes on LIMS in Culture Production | Learn more (PDF 255 KB)
Chr. Hansen selected Thermo Scientific LIMS for quality control in starter culture production at the company’s Danish facility. After achieving a significant increase in productivity the company decided to standardize on the LIMS across all of its six culture production sites in Denmark, France, Germany and the US. This enterprise-wide standardization provided immediate benefits with regard to productivity, information sharing and accelerated sample processing.

GeneMark's Bovine DNA Testing Laboratory | Learn more (PDF 202 KB)
GeneMark is a purpose-built DNA laboratory that is owned by the Livestock Improvement Cooperative (LIC). Primarily created to develop a commercial testing market for single genes and parentage testing for dairy cows, GeneMark required a flexible solution for the storage and processing of its samples and results. GeneMark chose Thermo Scientific LIMS to record over 300,000 samples per year resulting in over 21,600,000 DNA marker results and cost savings of more than NZ$1 million per annum.

UK Biobank | Learn more (PDF 4.5 MB)
UK Biobank is a major medical research initiative based in Manchester, UK. The company’s goal is to build the world’s most detailed information resource that can support a diverse range of research aimed at improving the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of a wide range of serious and life-threatening illnesses and to promote health throughout society. UK Biobank chose Thermo Scientific LIMS to track, store, manage and report on the biological data of 500,000 people as part of one of the largest medical research projects ever conducted.

HUNT Biobank | Learn more (PDF 859 KB)
The Nord-Trøndelag Health Study (HUNT) is one of the largest population-based health studies ever performed. Spanning almost 25 years, HUNT now represents an integrated family and personal database of approximately 100,000 people from Nord-Trøndelag County, Norway. Initiated to support epidemiological, clinical and preventative medical research, HUNT offers a valuable insight into disease status and progression, particularly in relation to quality of life measures such as environment, education and occupation. To accommodate for the vast scope of this project, a comprehensive LIMS was required to gather, store, manage, track and retrieve material securely, and be capable of yielding real-time, dependable analysis and reports.

Nerviano Medical Sciences | Learn more (PDF 456 KB)
Nerviano Medical Sciences (NervianoMS) is the largest pharmaceutical research and development facility in Italy, and one of the largest oncology-focused, integrated discovery and development companies in Europe. The pre-clinical development unit of NervianoMS, Accelera, began using Thermo Scientific LIMS in order to manage and process statistical data related to ELISA (Enzyme-Linked ImmunoSorbent Assay) experiments in line with GLP regulations. 

PRA Int'l: Excellence in Bioanalytical Early Development | Learn more (PDF 288 KB)
PRA International Bioanalytical Laboratory serves global pharmaceutical and biotech companies, offering method development, implementation and validation, bioanalytical protocol design, in addition to a range of other services tailored to early stage bioanalytical development studies. The laboratory has standardized on Thermo Scientific LIMS for operational excellence in the management of 150,000 samples per annum.

PharmaMar: Cancer-Curing Organisms from the Ocean | Learn more (PDF 290 KB)
PharmaMar, a unique biopharmaceutical company with headquarters in Madrid (Spain) and laboratories in Cambridge (US), specializes in the discovery of new molecules for oncology treatment from organisms living in the sea. The oceans cover 70% of the Earth’s surface and account for 90% of the biosphere. Over millions of years myriads of marine life forms have evolved to produce a vast diversity of uniquely sophisticated chemical entities. Among these there are molecules with potent biological activities which have developed as a form of biochemical warfare to survive in a highly competitive environment. PharmaMar has recognized the anti-tumor potential of these molecules and is actively developing them as innovative treatments for cancer.

Centralized Biochemical Screening at AstraZeneca | Learn more (PDF 677 KB)
Thermo Scientific LIMS has more than doubled the productivity of scientists conducting biochemical screening within one of AZ’s secondary screening groups. “We increased our throughput from 2.5 to 6 assays per FTE [Full Time Equivalent],” said Roger Clark, a senior scientist within AZ’s Biochemical Screening Team. This case study reveals how LIMS was implemented at AstraZeneca to centralize biochemical screening and how it dramatically improved efficiency through superior information management.

GPSG Brazil Delivers Enterprise-Level Productivity | Learn more (PDF 584 KB)
Global Pharmaceutical Supply Group (GPSG) Brazil is an APILA unit of Janssen-Cilag Farmacêutica Ltda., located in São Paulo, Brazil. Janssen-Cilag is one of the world’s leading research-based pharmaceutical companies specializing in pain management and fungal disease. Janssen-Cilag is a member of the Johnson & Johnson family of companies - the world’s largest personal care and health products manufacturer with worldwide annual sales totaling $63.7 billion.

Wockhardt UK | Learn more (PDF 688 KB)
Wockhardt UK is a diverse pharmaceuticals company created from the merger of CP Pharmaceuticals and the Wallis Laboratory. Its FDA-approved manufacturing facility adopted a LIMS as part of its continuous focus on quality and improve efficiencies and ensure GMP compliance within its UK-based manufacturing facility.

Sakhalin Energy: Largest Russian LNG Project Ever | Learn more (PDF 5.17 MB)
Sakhalin Energy is bringing onstream one of the largest integrated oil and gas projects in the world in Russia’s Far East. The Sakhalin II Project combines partnership incorporating the recovery, production and transportation of oil and liquefied natural gas (LNG). Sakhalin Energy standardized on Thermo Scientific LIMS for use in its main laboratory located at its LNG plant/oil export terminal (OET), as well as in upstream satellite laboratories throughout Sakhalin Energy.

PEMEX Gas and Basic Petrochemicals | Learn more (PDF 353 KB)
Automation of laboratory data capture and analysis is claimed to be the major challenge facing the petrochemical industry. Indeed, elimination of manual processes leads to considerable product quality improvements while also aiding compliance with strict environmental regulations. As a result, companies that wish to remain ahead of the competition are standardizing on LIMS. PEMEX Gas and Basic Petrochemicals initiated a LIMS standardization project by implementing it across its nine gas processing facilities in Mexico.

Minera San Cristobal SA | Learn more (PDF 388 KB)
Minera San Cristobal SA is the largest mining company in Bolivia and is considered to be one of the world’s largest silver-zinc-lead development projects. Its key challenges illustrate the significant trends in the mining industry today, including the need to not only automate the laboratory, but to provide for rapid data capture and analysis of sample data through the integration of analytical instruments with laboratory software. This paper discusses the process used to select a LIMS at Minera San Cristobal.

Sinopec Guangzhou | Learn more (PDF 200 KB)
China Petrochemical Corporation, the sole initiator of Sinopec, is a super-large petroleum and petrochemical group restructured and established by the State in 1998 on the basis of the former China Petrochemical Corporation. Sinopec is an integrated energy and chemical company. The scope of its business is in five areas: (1) oil and gas exploration; (2) oil refining; (3) production of petrochemicals, chemical fibers, chemical fertilizers and other chemical products; (4) storage and pipeline transportation of crude oil and natural gas; and (5) import and export of crude oil, natural gas, refined oil products, chemicals, and other commodities.

United Utilities:
one of the UK's largest multi-utility companies | Learn more (PDF 298 KB)
As one of the largest multi-utility companies in the United Kingdom, United Utilities has a geographical coverage of over 14,000 square kilometers. In terms of plant assets, it manages over 40,000 km of water mains, 39,000 km of sewers and distributed electricity to over 2.9 million customers. United Utilities serves approximately 7 million domestic users with water and 200,000 business customers each of whom, as the company affirms itself, has a right to a reliable supply of good quality water.

Codelco: the world's largest copper mine | Learn more (PDF 187 KB)
The Corporacion Nacional del Cobre de Chile (Codelco) is the main copper producer in the world, controlling approximately 20 percent of the world’s copper reserves. Established in 1976, Codelco was created out of a 1971 Chilean constitutional reform that nationalized the copper industry. Codelco was established to operate and manage the mining properties given to the Chilean State as part of the reform.