Fortis Life Sciences, LLC Enters a Distribution Partnership with Avantor

Boston, MA (April 28, 2025): Fortis Life Sciences®, a global life sciences and diagnostics tools company, has partnered with Avantor®, Inc., a leading global provider of mission-critical products and services for the life sciences and advanced technology industries, to expand availability of its reagents across North America.

Effective immediately, antibodies, enzymes, master mixes, nanoparticles, and viral vectors from Fortis portfolio companies are available through Avantor’s distribution network.

Unifying seven global brands, Fortis continues a proud legacy extending back over 50 years, of delivering high-quality products and expert technical support. Fortis’ portfolio of reagents and service solutions empowers customers to achieve rapid R&D breakthroughs and bring products to market with confidence.

“This partnership marks an exciting milestone in making the unified Fortis catalog accessible to customers across North America,” says Patti Mancino, Senior Global Director, Channel Management at Fortis Life Sciences. “By improving access to research reagents and diagnostic components with a centralized distribution partner, Fortis achieves its mission of helping customers solve complex development challenges efficiently and effectively.”

Fortis brands available through Avantor are Arista Biologicals, Bethyl Laboratories, Empirical Bioscience, nanoComposix, and Vector Biolabs. Abcore® and International Point of Care round out the Fortis portfolio.

About Fortis Life Sciences, LLC

Fortis partners with diagnostics and life sciences companies to create, validate, and manufacture proprietary solutions to solve their most difficult development problems. Fortis’ tailored approach and end-to-end capabilities accelerate the work of its customers as they bring the next generation of medicines and diagnostics to market. Fortis serves a global customer base and has offices across the world including five sites in North America, three of which are cGMP compliant manufacturing facilities certified to ISO 13485. To learn more about Fortis, please visit www.fortislife.com.

About Avantor

Avantor® is a leading life science tools company and global provider of mission-critical products and services to the life sciences and advanced technology industries. We work side-by-side with customers at every step of the scientific journey to enable breakthroughs in medicine, healthcare, and technology. Our portfolio is used in virtually every stage of the most important research, development and production activities at more than 300,000 customer locations in 180 countries. For more information, visit avantorsciences.com