Sarstedt AG & Co. KG is one of the world's leading manufacturers of laboratory and medical technology with its headquarters in Nümbrecht in the Oberberg district. The company, founded in 1961 by Walter Ernst Sarstedt in a garage in Nümbrecht-Rommelsdorf with plastic injection molding, now employs 3,000 people in 34 sales companies and 14 production sites in Europe, Australia, North and South America. The product range is divided into the areas of diagnostics, laboratory, clinic, transfusion medicine and laboratory automation.