Cherwell (an AnalytiChem company), cleanroom microbiology solutions expert, is to be renamed AnalytiChem UK from the 1st September 2025. This represents the next step in Cherwell’s integration with the AnalytiChem Group, which it joined in January 2024. This transition is solely a change in name - all other aspects of Cherwell’s long-standing and trusted business, which flexibly and reliably delivers exceptionally high-quality products and services, will remain unchanged.
As AnalytiChem UK, Cherwell will continue its 54-year strong legacy supporting its customers in the pharmaceutical manufacturing and related industries to effectively manage their controlled environments and processes. The name change represents an opportunity to grow and deliver an even stronger service and product offering to Cherwell’s customers.
Operating as AnalytiChem UK from its ISO9001 registered facility in Bicester, where it manufactures its Redipor® branded prepared media products, is the next step in becoming one global company with one mission. All AnalytiChem manufacturing and commercial sites hold a common ethos of delivering quality products and services to support laboratory workflows across a broad range of research and analytical applications in life science and industrial markets. So, greater integration with these sites will ensure shared learning and expertise, plus increased investment to further develop and grow the future AnalytiChem UK product offering, like the recently globalised Redipor range, in line with its customer needs.
An example of investment for development and growth since joining the AnalytiChem Group includes the recent launch of Redipor® TwistLock plates, which required the installation of a brand new production line at Cherwell’s Bicester-based manufacturing facility. The addition of this new locking lid plate to the Redipor prepared media range delivers enhanced sample security in environmental monitoring programmes for sterile product manufacturing.
Cherwell customers will see no changes other than the company name - location, laboratory and manufacturing processes, quality of products, plus sales and customer service team will all remain the same. “Our name may be changing, but our long-standing Cherwell values and culture will absolutely be maintained and business will very much continue as usual - just with a strengthened ability to collaborate with our sister companies and deliver on the opportunities that this presents for us and our customers,” said Andy Whittard, Managing Director, Cherwell.
Andy added, “Becoming AnalytiChem UK is the next exciting chapter in Cherwell’s strong heritage in quality and innovation, presenting many further opportunities for future growth and expansion. Our UK leadership team are embracing this, whilst also ensuring that all the values that we hold dear, including quality, support, and flexibility for our customers, remain strong within our business moving forwards.”
AnalytiChem is a manufacturer of specialised laboratory equipment, reagents, and consumables. Its eight sites across the globe - in Europe, North America, and Australia - bring together decades of manufacturing experience and complementary product technologies. AnalytiChem products are designed to help its customers make better measurements in analytical chemistry and microbiology. It creates the highest-quality culture media, reference materials for inorganic and organic analysis, laboratory consumables, and sample preparation equipment that all support critical measurements.
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