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Labels represent a critical component of Promega’s products.

Labels are applied inline to filled and capped plastic bottles at Promega.
Labels are applied inline to filled and capped plastic bottles at Promega.

When a crime suspect is identified due to DNA evidence (like they do in CSI), there’s a good chance the tools used to help identify that DNA came from Promega Corp.

The company produces more than 3,500 products that enable scientists worldwide to advance their knowledge in genomics, proteomics, cellular analysis, drug discovery and human identification.

Crime labs are just one of the many types of labs where you will find Promega products. The products are also used in life sciences research, in diagnostics, and in drug discovery by pharmaceutical companies researching new components for future treatments.

It is in the manufacturing of a specific product for a diagnostics customer, that Promega utilizes Nosco labels, according to Marc Janes, Promega Engineering Manager.

Janes works with the company’s packaging development group, which is involved in both the processing and packaging aspects of Promega’s business, including machinery and materials. Many of the company’s packaging projects utilize label materials from Avery Dennison that are converted by Nosco.

“We purchase fillers, labelers and various types of equipment to pack our products, and many of them require shipping via the cold chain distribution cycle,” Janes says. These are primarily liquid reagents filled into both plastic and/or glass containers, bottles and tubes.

Says Janes, “The reagents are combined with other reagents, plastic components, and preparatory goods within a finished kit.” Many of Promega’s reagent products are supplied frozen and some are supplied lyophilized. Promega also sells laboratory instruments.

Packaging lines

With the exception of laboratory instruments, Promega packs the vast majority of its products on 13 lines. “Most often we sell combinations of different reagents that get used together, in a kit,” says Janes. “We have three primary plastic bottle filling lines [where the Avery Dennison/Nosco labels are utilized] and a liquid filling line for glass containers.

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