What sets Takara Bio apart from its competitors is our ability to tailor an enzyme to your needs. While we have an incredible portfolio of enzymes and reagents, it really comes down to your specific combination of requirements. We have a successful track record in building long-term business relationships with our customers, bringing teams together to help solve problems, advancing research, and helping bring unique products to market.

Our scientific expertise provides all sorts of opportunities. You can tap into our extensive portfolio of enzymes and reagents to accelerate your time to market while reducing inefficiency and improving productivity. We work in similar fields to those of our customers, including DNA and RNA biology (e.g., gene expression, genotyping, and next-generation sequencing), as well as a wide range of molecular diagnostic and applied market applications. Our experienced and dedicated OEM and custom enzyme manufacturing team will partner with you to provide customized solutions for your specific product requirements, including custom formulations, vialing/dispensing, labeling, packaging, and OEM kit manufacturing.

Why partner with Takara Bio?

Takara Bio has a rich knowledge base and a breadth of scientific resources and technical expertise that you can access. A partnership with Takara Bio offers:

We accelerate your time to market to improve your efficiency and help you find the optimum solution for your application.

We provide a range of services that extend beyond standard practice in our industry. Takara Bio's OEM and custom enzyme manufacturing teams specialize in small- to large-scale and custom product formulations, custom packaging, and labeling, as well as kitting. We work with our R&D, Manufacturing, Operations, and Quality teams to deliver a set of specific requirements. As your OEM and custom enzyme partner, we minimize your risk associated with inventory management by providing the logistical support to meet your delivery requirements. Takara Bio has manufacturing capabilities in six countries and six distribution centers globally. Our primary distribution center in Madison, WI, supports our global locations and distributors.

Our OEM and custom enzyme manufacturing services open up an entirely new realm of options you will be able to access. When the solution you are looking for is not a standard catalog item, we can provide our enzymes in a range of bulk or custom formats, formulations, concentrations, and sizes to fit your application. Our market-leading enzymes can now be tailored to deliver productivity improvements in your specific area of research.

Takara Bio's OEM and custom capabilities

If you are looking for an OEM partnership, bulk packaging, or a custom formulation, our dedicated team will help you define your project and provide custom solutions that meet your performance and quality expectations:

We can change the formulation of an existing enzyme to enable lyophilization or modify reaction buffers to better suit your application. Our sustainable packaging solutions are designed to accommodate your brand requirements while optimizing ease-of-use, function, flexibility, and storage conditions during shipping and in the laboratory.

Our product portfolio

We offer a comprehensive portfolio of enzymes:

• DNA polymerases
• Reverse transcriptases
• Modifying enzymes and restriction enzymes, both native and recombinant
• Ligases, transposases, phosphatases, proteases, etc.
• Antibodies

Takara Bio can manufacture proteins from fermentation through purification and quality control to meet customer specifications. Our fermentation capabilities range from gram to kilogram production capacity. We can support any scale of production you require now, as well as in the future. Our laboratory facilities can provide all the necessary equipment, including incubator shakers, bioreactors, and ancillary equipment and instrumentation. The dedicated team of scientists in our fermentation facility has extensive experience in fermentation of bacteria, including recombinant E. coli.

Takara Bio's commitment to understanding and meeting the quality needs of all our customers has helped us earn a high level of customer loyalty within our industry. As a basic business principle, our OEM and custom enzymes are manufactured to the same stringent standards as our off-the-shelf products. We have established a comprehensive quality assurance system that enables us to meet our commitment to customer satisfaction. Our rigorous quality management system meets ISO 9001 for quality management, ISO 13485 for medical devices, and cGMP for select products, to ensure your product is being manufactured to a highly consistent and reproducible standard. All our custom manufactured products are provided with proof of performance and certificates of analysis to validate specifications. Additionally, we will work with you to determine if your custom enzyme formulation requires further quality assurance testing.

Licensing opportunities

Takara Bio is committed to improving the human condition through biotechnology by producing high-quality tools and services to accelerate discovery and fostering opportunities for global collaboration and growth. Our entire team stands behind our promise to help your business achieve its goals by helping you identify reagents and technologies that will best support your product development initiatives.

To enable progress in the life sciences, Takara Bio is pleased to make available a selection of our IP portfolio for licensing and commercial use. Our innovations have been licensed for use by entities of all sizes, types, and stages. We are also seeking additional innovative technologies and partnerships to help expand and enhance our new product development and strategic initiatives.

Support and guidance

Our OEM and custom enzyme manufacturing team leverages a local and global network of R&D scientists, manufacturing specialists, QC and operations experts, and other business professionals to make sure you get the most out of your custom product.

As a recognized market leader in enzyme technology and related reagents, Takara Bio's understanding of various markets and applications allows us to provide dedicated support and guidance throughout the development of your custom product, with guaranteed quality and reproducibility that will benefit your customers.

A substantial amount of time and effort is required when preparing for a new product launch. A solid understanding of the capabilities and benefits a product offers will give you an advantage in the markets you serve. To achieve this, you can rely on our dedicated support specialists to guarantee the successful integration of our custom enzyme into your product portfolio.

For the prospective customer, OEM partnerships offer many benefits, such as lowering the reagent costs for projects that would otherwise require R&D investment to develop individual kit or assay components and enabling faster time to market by using enzymes and reagents that have already been proven and validated for specific applications.

Our knowledge of enzymes and the markets they serve puts us in a unique position to develop the best custom enzyme for your application. Our OEM and custom enzyme manufacturing team is eager to share their expertise and ideas on how best to provide you with the custom products and services you need to succeed. We envisage an OEM partnership that results in a custom product that compliments your operational constraints and business needs.

Your project is our priority. Takara Bio can be a key partner for your custom enzyme manufacturing needs, and we take pride in each and every relationship we have. Our custom enzyme manufacturing team will ensure that every avenue is explored in order to deliver success.

To request information, please contact us at oem@takarabio.com