NuAire Lab Equipment founders

Customer First

Since its humble beginnings in Peters’ garage more than 45 years ago, NuAire has grown into a leading laboratory equipment company focused on understanding its customers' needs and tailoring solutions to meet those needs. The company’s original product lines included biological safety cabinets and CO2 incubators. With input from customers like you, NuAire has added many additional product lines, including centrifuges, animal cage changing and procedure cabinets, restricted access barrier systems, ultralow temperature freezers, polypropylene fume hoods, and much, much more. Today, our company operates out of three facilities in Plymouth and Long Lake, Minnesota, with over 300,000 square feet of manufacturing space. With a state-of-the-art robotic sheet metal facility, we can deliver you custom, innovative laboratory safety solutions in addition to the standard products that we sell.

To date, NuAire has sold more than 100,000 Biosafety Cabinets to customers in more than 150 countries, and there are now NuAire products in use on all seven of the world’s continents. Our products make lab work easier and safer, and our biosafety cabinets are celebrated for being quiet, easy to use, and efficient to operate while requiring less maintenance. As NuAire continues to grow, we are committed to continuously improving our products and expanding our offerings. We always strive to provide you with the highest personnel, environmental, and product protection possible.

1970

1971

NuAire, Inc. Founded by Max D. Peters

1972

NU-201/301 Horizontal Clean Benches

1972

NU-407 Biological Safety Cabinet. First Modern Day BSC to Meet NIH-03-112c Specification

1975

NU-408 Biological Safety Cabinet First Bench-Top Model BSC to Meet NIH-03-112c Specification

1978

NU-410 Biological Safety Cabinet First Class II, Type B BSC to Meet NCI "General Purpose" BSC Specification

1980

1983

NU-415 Biological Safety Cabinet First Class II, Type B2 Total Exhaust Biological Safety Cabinet

1984

NuAire Purchases First CO2 Incubator on an OEM Basis

1985

NU-425-200 Biological Safety Cabinet First Two-Foot BSC

1985

NU-425 Biological Safety Cabinet

1986

NU-1500 CO2 Incubator NuAire Manufacturers First Incubator

1987

NU-2500 CO2 Incubator NuAire Introduces First CO2 Incubator with IR Sensor

1987

NU-420 Biological Safety Cabinet Class II, Type B1 BSC with Third Filter Design

1988

NU-3500 CO2 Incubator. Three Gas Time-sequenced Incubator

1988

NU-430 Biological Safety Cabinet First Bench-Top Class II, Type B2 Total Exhaust BSC

1988

NuAire Purchases First Ultralow Temperature Freezer on an OEM Basis

1989

NU-427 Biological Safety Cabinet. NuAire Introduces First Bench-top Class II, Type B1 BSC

1990

1990

NuAire Manufactures First Class I Air Balance Enclosure for the Pharmaceutical Giant Eli Lily, Inc.

1990

NuAire Introduces a Complete Line of Small Animal Handling Products NU-605; NU-602; NU-607; NU-603

1992

NuAire Develops a Complete Line of Polypropylene Products Including Fume Hoods, Casework, and Laminar Airflow Workstations

1993

NuAire Imports First Ultralow Temperature Freezers from Japan

1993

NU-4500 C02 Incubator First Water-Jacketed CO2 Incubator with IR Sensor and Controlled Humidity

1995

NU-440 Biological Safety Cabinet First BSC to Have Electronic System to Display and Control Down Flow and Inflow Velocities.

1998

NuAire Introduces Direct Heat CO2 Incubator

1999

NuAire Introduces a New Line of Water-Jacketed CO2 Incubators NU-4750; 4850; 4950

1999

NU-612 Small Animal Cage Changing System Introduced

1999

NuAire Begins to Sell Third Range of Ultralow Temperature Freezers

2000

2000

NU-8500 CO2 Incubator First Over-under CO2 Water-Jacketed Incubator Introduced

2001

NU-437 Biological Safety Cabinet Introduction of Ergonomic Design BSC