Techne was founded in 1948 and was a family owned company until 1994. Techne Inc. was established in Princeton, New Jersey in 1961 to service the rapidly growing North American market. Techne are world leaders in the manufacture of temperature control equipment and offer a complete range of temperature controlled and molecular biology products including hybridization incubators and thermal cyclers. Techne continues to specialize in the development of new products for the laboratory and extends these ideas to other areas of industrial and clinical applications.