Don Whitley Scientific Limited develops, manufactures and sells instrumentation and associated products for microbiological applications worldwide. In addition, we provide microbiological contract services in our GLP-compliant laboratories. We now sell to both private and public sectors in a variety of scientific disciplines, and support our products throughout the world through a carefully chosen distributor network.

Our wealth of experience in microbiology, design and engineering has led to the design and manufacture of a range of innovative equipment specified by leading scientists throughout the world. Brand names you may recognise include the Whitley Workstation range, WASP (Whitley Automated Spiral Plater) and RABIT (Rapid Automated Bacterial Impedance Technique).

We currently sell a comprehensive range of products and services in more than 40 countries. These range from simple reagents through automated instrumentation for the detection and enumeration of micro-organisms, to a high quality microbiology contract service.

Our diverse, international customer base includes quality assurance personnel, food producers, public sector microbiologists, clinical microbiologists and research and development specialists.

We have attained a leading position in our selected markets by producing quality products backed by excellent service and support. With a UKAS laboratory accreditation, we can now offer site calibration and validation services for heat sterilisation equipment and temperature controlled processes.

In the UK, Germany and Australia our products are sold directly by Don Whitley Scientific. In our remaining markets products are sold through exclusive agreements with carefully chosen distributors.

Our contract microbiology services are all handled directly from the Shipley laboratories. The contract research studies embrace all aspects of antimicrobial development programmes including efficacy, safety and clinical trial studies with increasing emphasis on antimicrobial resistance work.

Our laboratory staff also have extensive experience in working within the animal feed industry as well as with the medical device, textile, food and chemical industries. Due to the increasing demand for microbiology consultancy services a sister company,  MB Consult Limited, has been formed to handle this aspect of the business.