Eppi® made from 100% cooking oil?

The new generation of Safe-Lock Tubes is finally also biobased. "Eppendorf Safe-Lock Tubes BioBased" are made from 100 % renewable biobased feedstock of second generation (recycled e.g. from food oil wastes and residues; based on Mass-Balance-Approach). Thus, these tubes in the sizes 0.5 mL, 1.5 mL and 2.0 mL, better known in the laboratory world as “Eppi®”, are made of certified polypropylene based on renewable, used raw materials and are called same as Eppendorf Tubes® BioBased, epT.I.P.S.® BioBased and twin.tec® Trace PCR Plates BioBased, with a “BioBased” in the product name.

Again, Eppendorf shows, that they are no longer focusing only on the development of new products, but also on new manufacturing materials. In line with the "Reduce, Reuse, Recycle" concept, the main goal is to produce polymer products in a much more sustainable way without compromising the guaranteed product quality and performance needed in increasingly demanding research.

The Consumable production center in Oldenburg/Germany meets the requirements of the ISCC PLUS (International Sustainability & Carbon Certification) certification system. Additionally, sustainability of the tubes is certified by “My Green Lab®” with the “ACT Label” (Accountability, Consistency, Transparency).

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About the Eppendorf Group

Eppendorf is a leading international life science company that develops, manufactures, and distributes instruments, consumables, and services for use in laboratories around the world.

The product portfolio of the business units Liquid Handling & Consumables, Separation & Instrumentation and Bioprocess includes, for example, pipettes, pipette tips, centrifuges, mixers, ultra-freezers and bioreactors for cell and gene research. In addition, Eppendorf offers a wide range of high-quality consumables. In fiscal year 2024, the Eppendorf Group recorded consolidated revenue of €980.3 million and invested €69 million in research and development (R&D).

Eppendorf products are used in academic or industrial research laboratories, such as pharmaceutical, biotech, chemical, and food industries, as well as clinical, environmental, forensic, and industrial laboratories for process analysis, production, and quality assurance.

Since 1945, the Eppendorf Group has been headquartered in Hamburg, Germany, and today operates production and R&D sites in Europe, Asia and North America and has subsidiaries in more than 30 countries. Today, the Group employs around 4,500 people worldwide. They all act in accordance with the purpose of the company's founders: to improve human living conditions.

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