Rainin Celebrates 60 Years of Innovation

Rainin has led the liquid handling industry with groundbreaking products
designed to improve ergonomics, minimize environmental impact and empower
scientists to excel in their most ambitious work.

1984

EDP
The world’s first electronic pipette improved pipetting accuracy and precision

Demo electronic pipettes

1995

Green-Pak and
SpaceSaver
The first-ever refillable tip racks reduce plastic by up to 80%

Demo eco-friendly pipette tip packaging

1999

LTS
A revolutionary tip system designed in response to increasing concern over ergonomic stress

Demo pipette tips

1999

Multichannel Pipettes
A turning point for lab efficiency and throughput

Demo multichannel pipettes

2023

MicroPro
The smallest semi- automated benchtop pipettor is portable and user-friendly

Demo MicroPro

“We don’t work
for the ‘company,’
we work for
our customers.”

– Ken Rainin, Founder

This was Ken’s motto with the Rainin sales team, and a rule for which he is
remembered. He correctly believed that if he and Rainin employees put
customers first, the rest of the business would follow.

Ken Rainin founded Rainin Instrument Company in 1963 in
Woburn, Massachusetts, after serving in the US Army. He distributed
lab instruments and supplies through 1971, when Rainin entered the
liquid handling market. Since then, the company has developed
pipettes, tips and accessories designed to improve the speed,
accuracy and precision of lifesaving lab research while minimizing
repetitive stress injuries and environmental impact.

Looking back over
60 years, Rainin is
proudest of its
industry leadership.

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Empowering Scientists

As the longtime preferred pipette brand of
leading scientific researchers, Rainin
provides the tools that enable scientists to
achieve their ambitious goals.

Ergonomics

Rainin continues to raise the bar for
innovation in ergonomics, having protected
researchers’ hands, wrists and livelihoods
for decades.

Sustainability

Our lower-plastic, reusable, recyclable and
now compostable products help customers
meaningfully reduce their environmental
impact.

Anniversaries are funny things. It’s easy to say, “Great, you have a
rich and wonderful history, but isn’t it what you do next that really
matters?” Well, yes and no. Yes, as a company we can’t just rest on
our laurels. But a company’s track record matters… a lot.

For 60 years, Rainin has made extraordinary contributions to liquid handling and the life sciences. In fact, Rainin:

Invented the first electronic pipette (1984) – the stepper motor
technology was so extraordinary that, for many years, other
liquid handling companies licensed it for their electronic pipettes.
Introduced the Green-Pak and Green-Pak SpaceSaver refill
systems (1995), which reduce plastic rack waste by up to 80%.
Developed LTS (1999) – the Rainin LiteTouch System – which
still leads the industry for minimizing tip mounting/ejection
forces and delivering reliable, air-tight seals on every channel.
That’s why every Rainin multichannel features LTS.

Offered one of the first multichannel pipettes (1999) that, thanks
to LTS technology and exceptional engineering, has long been
the market leader for channel-to-channel accuracy and
consistency, and effortless tip loading and ejection.
Released the Rainin MicroPro (2023) – the smallest, lightest
and most fully featured and affordable 96-channel pipettor on
the market.

Each of these Rainin innovations (and many more, actually) are grounded in our 60-year commitment to developing
products that not only reduce waste and enable life science researchers to achieve more reliable and reproducible results,
but also protect the ergonomic health and well being of the researchers themselves.

Ken Rainin’s credo, “We don’t work for the company, we work for our customers,” still guides Rainin today. As we look
forward to our next 60 years, we’ll be working side-by-side with the life sciences community to understand their evolving
needs and develop the liquid handling technologies that will accelerate their development of lifesaving and life-enriching
discoveries.

And we hope you’ll join us – what a wild and wonderful ride it will be!

Werner Werner Maas
General Manager
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Celebrating
60 Years
of Innovation

Rainin has led the liquid handling industry with groundbreaking products
designed to improve ergonomics, minimize environmental impact and empower
scientists to excel in their most ambitious work.

1984

1995

1999

1999

2023

“We don’t work
for the ‘company,’
we work for
our customers.”

This was Ken’s motto with the Rainin sales team, and a rule for which he is
remembered. He correctly believed that if he and Rainin employees put
customers first, the rest of the business would follow.