The IKA® Group is a global market leader for laboratory equipment, analytical and process technology. Magnetic stirrers, overhead stirrers, dispersers, shakers, mills, rotary evaporator, calorimeters, laboratory reactors and incubation shakers make up the laboratory and analytical equipment portfolio. While the process technology section offers solutions for production scale stirring, mixing and kneading applications. The company is headquartered in Staufen, Germany with subsidiaries in USA, China, India, Malaysia, Brazil and Japan. In 2010, the company employed 650 people and reported sales of 85.5 million euro (113.5 million US dollar). Grounded in 1910 IKA Works GmbH & Co. KG in Staufen can now look back on more than a century of company history.