blueLAB Competitors

Yara is a global leader in crop nutrition and ammonia with a mission to responsibly feed the world and protect the planet. Yara operates a global, flexible production system that delivers a diversified portfolio of nitrogen-based products. With our extensive global market reach and more than a century of agronomic knowledge and continuous innovation, we partner across the value chain to improve crop yields, optimize resource use, and reduce environmental impact. Through diversified energy exposure and profitable decarbonization efforts, Yara is uniquely positioned to strengthen industrial competitiveness and create long‑term value for customers, shareholders, employees, and society at large. Founded in Norway in 1905, Yara operates in over 60 countries and serves more than 140 markets, employing about 15,700 people. In 2025, Yara reported revenues of USD 15.7 billion.

Hanna Instruments, Inc is the world’s largest privately held manufacturer of analytical and scientific instruments. Since 1978 Hanna has produced simple, affordable, high quality devices for laboratory, food, agriculture, aquarium, environmental, industry applications, and more. We offer a wide array of instrumentation from research grade benchtop meters and ISEs, to single and multiparameter meters for pH, DO, and more. Thousands of consumers and major brands trust Hanna for their testing needs. Hanna operates in 34 countries around the globe, ensuring exceptional levels of customer service and support.

The company KERN & SOHN GmbH was established in 1844 and therefore is the oldest Manufacturer of precision balances in Germany. Through constant growth you can now find KERN products in many countries all over the world and thanks to our loyalty to specialist dealers we do enjoy close and long-lasting relationships with many of our customers. We offer our customers a wide and competitively priced range of balances and scales, ranging from the small pocket balance to the heavy load industrial scale. In our product range there is a large selection of analytical, laboratory and density determination balances, carat balances, pocket balances, industrial scales, stainless steel scales, food scales, price computing scales, pallet scales, floor scales, scales with roller tables, hanging scales, crane scales and counting scales as well as moisture analyzers. Moreover we offer a great range of highly reliable neonate scales, baby scales, personal scales, body fat scales, handrail scales, adiposity scales, wheelchair platform scales, chair scales, hand grip dynamometers, small pet scales and veterinary scales. But KERN does not only stand for precise weighing but also for precise optical instruments. So we can offer you a complete, carefully-designed range of compound microscopes, metallurgical microscopes, polarizing microscopes, stereomicroscopes, microscope cameras, analogue refractometers, digital refractometers, Abbe refractometers as well as a comprehensive range of accessories. Another KERN strengths lies in the production of precision test weights in all OIML tolerance classes (E1-M3) – important tools for checking your measuring instruments within the scope of quality assurance provisions in accordance with ISO 9001ff. We do belong to a small number of companies in Germany in possession of an accreditationas as a DAkkS calibration laboratory for balances and weights (D-K-19408-01-00), granted by the DKD.