Polymer Laboratories was founded in 1976 to develop techniques and instrumentation for the characterization of polymer systems, and to develop high technology polymer products. The Company's policy of innovative research in polymer chemistry-based activities has resulted in a range of highly successful, world-leading products including magnetic beads, instrumentation and consumables for liquid chromatography, resins for medicinal and combinatorial chemistry and peptide synthesis, and polymeric particles for clinical diagnostics / bioscience & pharmaceutical applications.