Announcing the inaugural Labmate Awards for Excellence 2025

Following 2024’s year-long celebrations of the 50 years anniversary of International Labmate, this year marks the launch of the inaugural ‘Labmate Awards for Excellence 2025’ – our celebration of all that is great and good within the lab sector, highlighting its achievements and an opportunity to literally showcase excellence around the world. The Labmate Awards for Excellence 2025 will recognise innovation, quality and achievement within the laboratory sector. 

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This year there are eleven voting categories chosen to reflect the broad range of noteworthy contributions made across our industry in the past 12 months.

In addition, there will also be a further award presented – the Michael Pattison Award for Overall Winner of the Year 2025 – which will be selected by the Labmate Awards for Excellence 2025 judging panel.

You can nominate your candidates for the Labmate Awards for Excellence 2025 in these categories:

• Innovation of the Year for a product or service
• Best supplier and end-user partnership
• Best customer service
• Best marketing campaign
• Best IT solution
• Best sustainability initiative – the GreenLab Award
• Best lab safety product or solution
• Best bench top innovation
• Best separation science innovation
• Best portable technology product
• Best imaging or optics

Once nominations have closed, there will be an initial process of shortlisting conducted by the Labmate Awards for Excellence 2025 judging panel, and then the finalists in each category will go forward to a public vote which will be open to all Labmate's readers, contributors and partners. All International Labmate Limited decisions are final.

Important dates for your diary in the Labmate Awards for Excellence 2025 are:

• The nomination period closes on 17 April.
• The shortlist of finalists is announced on 6 May.
• Voting opens on 12 May.
• Voting closes on 16 June.
• Winners are announced on 30 June.
• The Labmate Awards for Excellence 2025 will be presented during the Solutions in Science (SinS) conference, Brighton, UK, on 16 July 2025.

Talk to your marketing team, your brand or product manager and get them involved. Entry is free and the winners will be invited to the SinS conference in Brighton to receive their prize at a gathering of the industry peers. Make your nominations now.