LabLogic buys US company

Broomhill-based LabLogic supplies specialist computer systems and equipment for drug research, including software for Florida and New Jersey-based IN/US’s radio chromatography detector, which is the most widely used instrument of its kind in the pharmaceutical industry.

LabLogic has also sold IN/US products in the UK and Europe for a number of years.

Chairman John Clapham, who started the business in 1980, said: "Becoming a hardware manufacturer as well as a software house means that LabLogic can implement the ideas that it has from its knowledge of customer needs."

The LabLogic software that controls the IN/US detector can be used on more than a hundred other scientific instruments from world-famous manufacturers, while another of the Melbourne Avenue company’s packages is the market-leader in its field. LabLogic has grown from a two man business to a 24-strong company that supplies 18 of the top 20 pharmaceutical companies and exports 70 per cent of its turnover, predominanatly to North America and Europe but as far afield as Japan and India.

Two years ago its export achievements were recognised when it won the Export Excellence category at the Sheffield Business Awards.

n LabLogic has become one of a limited number of non-manufacturing companies to be allowed to display the Made In Sheffield mark on its products.

To gain permission to use the mark, companies have to demonstrate they are based in the Sheffield postcode district, make most of their products in that area and are committed to high quality products.

In addition to meeting the criteria for the ISO 9001 quality management standard, LabLogic achieved stringent standards imposed by USA Food and Drug Administration.