Company Profile
Hamilton
Company Overview
Innovation For a Better World
Hamilton delivers global innovations that contribute to positive change.
For over 70 years, Hamilton has partnered with customers to provide technologies, engineering expertise, and reliable solutions that accelerate advancements in research, development, and industrial processes.
We facilitate innovations for a healthier, more sustainable future through collaboration and effective solutions.
Company History
Hamilton Beginnings
The history of the Hamilton companies began in the late 1940s. Clark Hamilton, a chemical engineer who had studied at MIT, developed a lead-shielded syringe for precision handling of radioactive isotopes in collaboration with the Lawrence Livermore Radiation Laboratory near Berkeley, California. Clark relocated to Whittier, California and focused on the need for microliter liquid handling in chromatography. By his effort, Hamilton became the world leader in sample handling for the field of chromatography, and in 1960 the fledgling company outgrew the family garage, proudly moving into its first of many rental facilities. These precision microliter syringes would provide the sample introduction to a chromatograph where precision, accuracy, and reproducibility were key in the separation science of chemistries. Even today, they remain the standard for use in chromatography.
Expanding to a Global Level
In 1968, Clark Hamilton founded an identical company in Bonaduz, Switzerland to enable production of these syringes for the European scientific community. Today, Hamilton Bonaduz AG continues to manufacture, design, and create new products together with Hamilton in the U.S.
In 1970, the company in Whittier, California was relocated to Reno, Nevada where it remains today. Starting in 1974, management was turned over to Steve Hamilton and, with the support of his brothers, continues to drive the companies to this day. The business has grown not only exponentially in sales, but also into automated liquid handling of chemistries that has benefited the world by enabling the first automated screening of whole blood for AIDs and hepatitis, as well as an unlimited array of other solutions that continue to need automation on a microliter level.
Today, Hamilton employs over 3,000 employees and is growing. Hamilton on a global level is the largest automated liquid handling company in the world. Along the way, many new technologies have emerged in the areas of sensor and measuring technology, sample storage, as well as the founding of a medical company. Hamilton Medical AG, as a separate business, produces world class critical care ventilators with cutting edge technology enabling patient respiratory monitoring for real time ventilator adjustments, providing a superior level of patient care. Hamilton Medical AG and its subsidiary Hamilton Medical, Inc. now are number one in the critical care field of ventilation.
Benefits
• Excellent benefit package includes medical, dental, vision insurance, paid vacation time, paid sick time, disability insurance, 401k, tuition reimbursement and more!
• Competitive compensation.
• Solid, stable company.
• Diverse portfolio of exciting and innovative projects.
• Tremendous opportunities for professional growth.
• Commitment to sustainable design.