Concept project · About
Thirty-nine years of supplying people who measure things.
Meridian started as a two-room sample shop. It is still run by people who would rather ask you one more question than sell you the wrong box.
Our story
Specify first, then ship.
In 1987 Meridian was a small counter in Reading, selling glassware and pipettes to university labs. Customers kept asking the same thing: which instrument will actually run our samples, and what will it cost to keep it running? So the counter became a specification desk.
Over the next two decades the catalogue grew into hematology, microscopy and centrifuges, then into plant-floor sensors and safety kit when local manufacturers started asking for the same service. The rule stayed the same. Every line gets a spec sheet we have checked, a lead time we will keep, and a person who answers the phone.
This website is a concept. The company is invented. The habits it describes are the ones we would want from any supplier we buy from.
Values
How we work
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01
Specify before we sell
If the instrument will not do the job, we say so, and suggest what will.
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02
Dates we can keep
Lead times are quoted from stock we can see, not from a hopeful spreadsheet.
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03
Traceable supply
Batch, expiry and calibration records travel with every consumable and calibrator.
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04
Plain pricing
Quotes show the parts, the service and the consumables in separate lines.
Timeline
Four decades, five milestones
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Reading counter opens
Glassware and pipettes for university labs, with a specification desk.
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Industrial line added
Pressure and temperature sensors for local manufacturers.
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Rotterdam hub
Continental warehouse for next-day delivery across the EU.
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Safety and PPE
EN-marked gloves, eyewear and flame-resistant clothing join the catalogue.
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Dubai office
Support for GCC labs and plants, with weekend stock checks.
People
The team, fictional
Invented names for the concept. Each role is one a real supplier would need.
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Helen Ashby
Managing director
Twenty years in lab procurement. Still reads every quote before it goes out.
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Ravi Patel
Head of laboratory equipment
Former clinical lab scientist. Owns the hematology and microscopy range.
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Mira Jansen
Industrial sensors lead
Commissioning engineer. Has climbed more plant gantries than she admits.
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Tom Okafor
Customer service manager
Runs the phones and the enquiry queue. The reason replies come within four hours.
Locations
Where we are
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Reading (HQ)
- Address
- Unit 9, Meridian Park, Reading, UK
- Hours
- Mon to Fri, 08:30 to 17:30 UK time
- Covers
- UK, Ireland, sensors and hematology support
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Rotterdam
- Address
- Havenweg 14, Rotterdam, Netherlands
- Hours
- Mon to Fri, 08:00 to 17:00 CET
- Covers
- EU next-day dispatch from stock
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Dubai
- Address
- Office 4, Trade Tower, Dubai, UAE
- Hours
- Sun to Thu, 09:00 to 18:00 GST
- Covers
- GCC labs, plants and clinics
Talk to the team before you buy.
Send a short brief. We will reply with the options and the honest trade-offs.