Company description

At Avantor, everything we do is tied to our unique mission of setting science in motion to create a better world. We are a leading global provider of mission-critical products and services to customers in the biopharma & healthcare, education & government, and advanced technologies & applied materials end markets. Our business model is grounded in supporting our customers from discovery to delivery and Avantor is embedded in virtually every stage of the most important research, scale-up and manufacturing activities in the industries we serve. We work with customers across these sophisticated, science-driven industries that require innovation and adherence to the most demanding technical and regulatory requirements. Our customer-centric innovation model enables us to provide solutions for some of the most demanding applications, and we leverage our comprehensive offering and access to early-stage research to identify and develop content and solutions that ultimately become specified into our customers’ approved production platforms. We go to market in two primary ways. First, in our channel business, VWR, we distribute consumables and equipment to laboratories around the world. Second, we manufacture proprietary products used in life sciences and medical technology applications.

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At a glance

Sector

Healthcare

Industry

Laboratory Analytical Instruments

CEO

Emmanuel Ligner

Employees (2026)

13,500

Sector is derived from the SEC industry classification.