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"This is a very green business," explains Jackie Townsend, chief
marketing officer for BioSurplus Inc., a
San Diego-based seller of used laboratory equipment. "We're talking about
equipment people used to shove into closets and toss into landfills." Whether
its Carl Zeiss microscopes or liquid-nitrogen cryofreezers, "a lot of these
high-end instruments are not seeing the end of their useful lives".
According to Townsend, startup companies in the biotech and
life sciences industries can purchase this once-expensive equipment for as
little as 10% of the original cost. All of
the deals don't provide deep discounts, of course, but the savings can be
significant for entrepreneurs whose equipment budgets are around $100,000. In many cases, too, the used equipment
is in excellent condition, having been discarded by companies that went out of
business or merged with competitors.
Would your company buy used lab equipment?
Source: San
Diego Business Journal
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