About Us
For people. For the environment. For the shared goal of a healthier future.
Improving human and environmental health is our focus. From earlier insights and more effective therapies to safer toys, cleaner water and safer buildings where we work, learn and play; PerkinElmer touches the lives of millions of people around the world every day.
Through science, innovation and applications expertise we’re committed to transforming risk into safety, mystery into knowledge and ideas into action for a healthy, clean and safe tomorrow.
Our impact extends beyond the science and technologies we provide:
- As the global leader in neonatal screening, we save 40 babies a day
- Our environmental monitoring and renewable energy testing technologies are leading the drive for a cleaner planet
- Our sensors reduce CO2 emissions by 22 million tons per year
- With the world’s largest portfolio of biological and functional technologies for cellular science research, we’re driving the development of tomorrow’s most effective treatments
- As the world’s leading supplier of amorphous silicon digital x-ray detectors, we help preserve healthy tissue and speed recovery time for cancer patients
- With over 400 multi-vendor customers and over 10 years of multi-vendor experience, we are the most experienced multi-vendor service organization in the analytical industry
- Our Xenon lighting technology delivers ideal visualization for some of medicine’s most demanding applications, including endoscopic surgery
We operate in 150 countries worldwide and employ approximately 9,100 employees. Seventy-five percent of our products are in the number one or number two position in their market. Our global headquarters are in Waltham, Massachusetts, USA.
Our Areas of Focus
We design, manufacture and service the leading scientific solutions for evolving health, safety and environmental quality needs.
Earlier insights. Effective therapies. Better outcomes.
We develop research and diagnostic instrumentation technologies as well as clinical resources and support services, all to fight illness proactively, provide medical insight more accurately and develop therapies more quickly.
- World leading provider of multi-mode plate readers
- Largest GPCR and Kinase product portfolio, which account for over 75% of drug pathways
- World leading provider of radiometric detection and reagents
- #2 in high content screening
- World leader in first trimester pre-natal screening
- # 2 provider of umbilical cord blood for use to treat 40 life-threatening diseases
- Touch over 27 million births / pregnancies per year
- World leading provider of flat panels for digital x-ray imaging systems
- #1 in Cermax medical lamps
Safer products. Secure surroundings. Energy efficiency.
We develop analytical instrumentation, lighting and sensor technologies and support services, all to improve the quality and sustainability of our environment, the integrity and safety of everything we touch and consume and the security of our surroundings.
- Market leading provider of analytical techniques – #1 Inorganic, #2 Molecular Spectroscopy and Thermal Analysis and #3 Gas Chromatography
- Strong service organization and #2 provider of comprehensive laboratory management
- 10+ years of multi-vendor service experience, the longest in the industry
- #1 in thermopile sensors
Effective January 1, 2009, PerkinElmer will begin operating within two businesses—Human Health and Environmental Health. In the interim, PerkinElmer will continue to operate as two business units—Life and Analytical Sciences and Optoelectronics.
Standards of Business Conduct
The PerkinElmer Standards of Business Conduct identify the values and principles that guide our business relationships. Please select one of the links below to access the Standards in the language of your choice: