ABOUT US

About Us

Verulam Scientific Ltd is an analytical instrument company providing innovative solutions and emerging technologies to the UK pharmaceutical, environmental, life science, food, clinical and biotechnology markets.

 

Verulam Scientific Ltd was named after the Roman city of Verulamium later known as St. Albans in which it was originally based. The company was founded in 2009 by Ken Rirsch, the present managing director, and has steadily grown from a small service group to a leading supplier of innovative analytical equipment and services.

 

After moving to new centrally located premises in Haynes near Bedford in 2017, Verulam Scientific has built a strong team of highly qualified industry professionals to serve customers throughout the UK. Fully supported by manufacturer suppliers throughout the world, Verulam are continuously introducing new technology to many areas of the analytical laboratory market

Why Choose Us?

Verulam Scientific Ltd is a supplier of analytical instrumentation providing innovative solutions to the UK clinical, pharmaceutical, food, environmental, and biotechnology markets.

 

With specialisms in chromatography, electrochemistry, MALDI imaging, and laboratory automation, we offer customised solutions for many applications. We are extremely proud to be the UK distributors for a number of highly reputable European and US manufacturers, including: Antec Scientific; KNAUER; LCTech; HTX Technologies; SETonic; Hudson Robotics; Trajan; Bertin Instruments.

 

We strive to offer customisable solutions across our portfolio of products, whether this is an individual module or complete systems or workcells. Each will be tailored to your specific needs and fully supported by our technical team.

 

We offer a range of service packages and can complement this with reagents, spares, and consumables to support many laboratory requirements. Our experienced team of service engineers, technical sales specialists, and support staff ensure our customers have the confidence that all queries will be dealt with promptly and effectively, no matter how small.

 

Contact us today, we are here to help.

Upcoming Events for 2026

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City St Georges Table Top 

Northampton Square, London EC1V 0HB

Aaron Shellard will be exhibiting at ths event in the lobby. 

21st January 2026 

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SMIC Multimodal Imaging Symposium 

Sheffield Hallam University 

Dr. Andrew Reeder and Aaron Shallard will be exhibiting at this event  

28th Janaury 2026

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Cardiff University Tabletop 

Hadyn Ellis Building

Aaron Shallard will be exhibiting at this event  

10th February 2026

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Phagocyte Workshop 

Keble College, Oxford

Aaron Shellard will be supporting our partners at Bertin Life Sciences at this event.

24th March 2026

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Analytica 

Munich

Dr. Andrew Reeder, Borys Banecki, Christine Townsend and Ken Rirsch will be attending event  

24th – 27th March 2026

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Microbiology Society Annual Conference

ICC, BELFAST

Aaron Shellard will be exhibiting at this event with our parterns, BLT Imaging, Hudson Lab Automation and Bertin Life Sciences

13th – 16th April 2026

Stand 9 and 10 

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Advances in the Chemical Analysis of Food 2026 

RSC, Burlington House, London 

Borys Banecki will be exhibiting at this event supported by our partners at Antec Scientific 

24th April 2026

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BMSS MSI SIG  

AstraZeneca, Cambridge 

Dr. Andrew Reeder will all be exhibiting at this event supported by our partners at HTX Technologies 

6th May 2026

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London Lab Live  

The ExCel, London 

Christine Townsend, Aaron Shellard, Borys Banecki, Ken Rirsch, alongside our partners from Knauer, Dr. Markus Fuchs will be exhibiting at this event. 

6th – 7th May 2026

Stand – B54

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Southwest RNA

University of Bristol 

Aaron Shellard and Borys Banecki will be exhibiting at this event. 

17th June 2026

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EnvChem 

The Slate, University of Warwick

Dr. Andrew Reeder and Borys Banecki will all be exhibiting at this event. 

2nd – 3rd July 2026

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BMSS 46 Annual Meeting 

Royal Armouries, Leeds

Dr. Andrew Reeder will be exhibiting at this event.

8th – 10th September 2026

Stand – 27

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Science, Engineering and Technology Show  

Porton Down Science Park, Wiltshire

Aaron Shellard will be exhibiting at this event supported by our partners at Bertin Life Sciences 

30th September 2026

Stand – A26

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Lab Innovations 

NEC, Birmingham

Aaron Shellard will be supporting our partners at Bertin Life Sciences at this event.

4th and 5th November 2026

Stand – E52

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