Quality
High operational reliability, low maintenance costs and a long service life. Many of our instruments are still running after 30 years. That is the standard the next one is built to.
Small enough to answer the phone.
Experienced enough to have seen your problem before.
A family-owned company from Austria, building compact benchtop autoclaves for laboratories since 1957.
- 1957
- founded
- 12 – 45 litres
- chamber volumes
- 222
- dealers in 40 countries
- 725+
- laboratories in 53 countries
Sixty-nine years, one site.
What we build has changed: valve control, then PT100 sensors, then a touchscreen and a cloud. Where and how we build it has not.
- 1957
Founded in Austria as a family-owned company. The valve-controlled aluminium autoclave from those early years is, in its current form, still in the catalogue as the CertoClav EL.
- Today
Vertical and horizontal benchtop autoclaves from 12 to 45 litres, a connected documentation platform, and a network of 222 specialist dealers in 40 countries. Many units are still in operation after 30 years.
- 2026
A second division: class B steam sterilisers for medical, dental and veterinary practices, with CertoAssist documentation at the device.
Four things we would rather show than say.
Market
A worldwide specialist market with high demands on function, quality and reliability. Long-term cooperation with customers, dealers and suppliers is not a slogan here; it is how a company of this size survives 69 years.
Independence
Family-owned and independent. That buys us proximity to the market and the flexibility to build to a customer's specification when the standard range does not fit.
Resources
Wherever possible, recyclable and environmentally sound raw materials, and as little of them as the job allows. An autoclave that lasts three decades is the most sustainable one we know how to build.
Benchtop autoclaves, and the software that proves what they did.
Vertical aluminium and stainless-steel autoclaves, horizontal vacuum autoclaves, 12 – 45 litres. Small chambers mean short cycles. Every unit is CE marked and conforms to 2014/35/EU, 2014/30/EU, 2011/65/EU.
Our software team in Leonding builds CertoCloud for the batch records and CertoAssist, the documentation terminal on the medical line.
- Microbiology
- Materials testing
- Research and education
- Medicine
- Pharmaceuticals
- Food industry
13 people. You will speak to one of them.
No call centre in between. Sales, service and development sit in the same building as production.
Management
Michael Simon, MSc
CEO
Klaus David
COO, Purchasing and Quality Management
Production, service and development
Anita Leibetseder
Head of Production and Customer Service
Ing. Thomas Oppermann
Product Development and Quality Management
Sales and marketing
Eva Loidl, MSc
Head of Marketing and Sales
Nikolina Kuzmanovic Dekic
Sales and Customer Service, Laboratory
Amina Sejdic
Sales and Customer Service, Medical
DI Balázs Szaradics, MSc
Online Marketing
Lisa Bloderer
Trainee
Diona Syla
Trainee
Software
Jonas Leitenmeier, BSc
Head of Software Development
Ing. Patrick Gottfried
Software Development
Administration
Silke Wertschnik
Accounting
Come and see for yourself.
Dealers and larger accounts are welcome in Leonding. Bring a load you find difficult and we will put it through a cycle here.