A Network of Powerful Brands
VWR Education is a family of companies focused on providing creative, accessible solutions for classroom and laboratory learning. Sargent-Welch, WARD’S Natural Science, Science Kit, Edmund Scientific, and Boreal Northwest are each independently operated companies that bring their own unique strengths and abilities to the VWR Education family. The diversity of products and services available through these companies allows us to offer you the most comprehensive collection of high quality learning materials, coupled with unparalleled customer support.
Our Mission Statement
Helping Science Teachers Inspire Students to Explore the World.
VWR Education strengths:
Largest and Oldest Science Education Supply Company
- 400+ years of combined experience serving the education market
- Five times more experience than anyone else
- 200,000+ customers and sales in over 86 countries
World-class Team
- Largest science education customer service team in North America
- Largest science education sales team in North America
- Over 30 technical experts at your service
- 350+ Employees
Top Facilities
- Over 400,000 square feet of warehouse space
- Three live specimen laboratories in North America
- World–class microscope slide laboratory with over 650,000 slides created per year
Comprehensive Product Selection
- 30,000+ products
- $1,500,000 annual budget for new product development
- Over 2,000 new products added each year
- Largest science kit provider, with over 200,000 kits a year
- 1,500+ supplier partners
- Only VWR Education offers a complete educational solution for all of your science and math needs!
Large Catalog Circulation
- 4,000,000+ annual catalog circulation
- 15 different catalog titles and 500,000,000+ printed pages