History
Important events in the company history of PLANTON GmbH.
- 22.12.2000
- Foundation of PLANTON GmbH by four internationally renowned scientists of the Christian-Albrechts-University (CAU) Kiel and the University Hospital Schleswig-Holstein (UKSH)
- June 2001
- Start of operations in own laboratories on the University Campus of CAU Kiel
- November 2001
- Dr. Michael Kleine becomes managing partner of PLANTON GmbH
- June 2002
- 2nd winner in the Science4Life business plan competition, an initiative of the Hessian state government and Aventis
- August 2003
- Relocation of the company to the Wik industrial park in the north of Kiel
- Sine 2004
- PLANTON becomes a service laboratory for molecular biological and biochemical analyses
- September 2004
- Winner of the Founder Cup 2004 of the K.E.R.N. Region in Schleswig-Holstein
- September 2004
- Accreditation according to DIN EN ISO/IEC 17025
- September 2006
- Winner of the BioChancePlus 3 competition of the BMBF
- September 2007
- Increase of Capital stock of PLANTON GmbH
- 2010
- First clinical trial with new drug candidate (recombinant human ß-defensin 2, rHBD-2)
- 2013
- Expansion of the accredited range of services to include pesticides and microbiology
- 2015
- PLANTON becomes the drinking water testing centre of the federal state of Schleswig-Holstein in accordance with the Drinking Water Decree
- 2016
- Foundation of NingTong Bioanalytics in Nanjing, China
- 2017
- Appointment of Dr. Kleine as associate professor at CAU Kiel, appointment as visiting professor at the Jiangsu Agricultural Academy of Sciences (JAAS) in Nanjing, China
- 2018
- Extension of the accredited range of services to include healthcare and veterinary medicine
- September 2018
- Ceremonial inauguration of the new biotechnology laboratory in Nanjing, China, by Prime Minister Daniel Günther
- 2019
- Granting of the European patent for in ovo sex determination in poultry
- 2020
- ALDI uses PLANTON technology to avoid killing of one day-old chicks
