Velaris acquires Markes International to expand its automated sample preparation capabilities

The company joins the Velaris family of existing brands – Skalar Analytical, LCTech, PromoChrom, EST Analytical, GERSTEL and TE Instruments

09-Jan-2026 - Velaris, a platform of laboratory-automation brands backed by global investment firm Battery Ventures, announced the acquisition of Markes International from strategic investor Schauenburg International and its founders Alun Cole and Elizabeth Woolfenden. Markes, founded in 1997, in Bridgend, ...

Thermo Fisher Scientific and Markes International Announce Global Distribution Agreement

13-Nov-2009 - Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. announced a strategic agreement with Markes International. This new agreement covers non-exclusive, global distribution of Markes Thermal Desorption (TD) instruments that are used in conjunction with Thermo Scientific gas chromatographs (GC) and Thermo Scientific gas ...

Agilent Technologies and Markes form Global Thermal Desorption GC, GC/MS Collaboration

03-Mar-2009 - Agilent Technologies, Inc. and Markes International Limited announced a strategic alliance for global distribution and market development of analytical thermal desorption (TD) instruments used with gas chromatography (GC) and gas chromatography/mass spectrometry (GC/MS) systems. Analytical TD ...