About QCL
QCL are a UK distributor of scientific equipment and have been supplying scientists for more than 40 years with innovative, rapid analytical testing products for a wide range of industries. We source equipment from around the world, using our expertise to select the most advanced, robust and cost-effective analytical solutions.
We maintain a high level of technical expertise enabling us to deliver excellent customer service, developing operating procedures and calibrations to ensure that our customers can achieve the accuracy and efficiency required from their testing regimes.
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Your Distribution Partner
QCL are a specialist distributor of rapid analytical systems in the UK and Ireland with a history of successfully launching new products and re-energizing failing distribution channels. We provide a complete solution for marketing, selling, supporting and maintaining your products.
If you are bringing a new product to market, expanding your international operations into the UK or just want to make a change then please contact us. Brexit has brought new supply chain and bureaucratic challenges to companies shipping products directly to end-users within the UK. With 40 years of experience as a UK distributor of scientific equipment we can alleviate these problems by managing the import process and hold local stock to ensure the timely availability of your products for UK customers.
Sectors – Dairy, Brewing, Food, Beverages, Edible Oils & Fats, Cereals & Milling, Feed & Forage, Water & Wastewater, Environmental, Pharmaceutical
Testimonial from CDR FoodLab
“Quadrachem Laboratories, founded in 1981 and operating across the UK and Ireland, became a key partner for CDR when the CDR FoodLab line entered the UK market in 2010. Their collaboration evolved through direct technical exchange and shared market insight, creating a solid foundation for long-term growth. Over time, QCL has also played a strategic role in expanding the presence of the CDR BeerLab within the UK brewing sector.
Partnership Built on Mutual Expertise
The relationship began with a shared objective: simplifying quality control in food production by combining CDR’s rapid analytical systems with QCL’s experience in food and beverage instrumentation and their strong position among UK processors.
Expanding Market Impact Through Direct Engagement
From 2013 onward, trials, demonstrations and targeted initiatives across sectors such as edible oils, snacks and processed foods helped strengthen the adoption of rapid analytical methods, supported by training and continuous customer service.
Anticipating Needs in Food and Brewing
Close collaboration allowed QCL and CDR to identify emerging needs early. The rise of craft and independent breweries increased the demand for fast, reliable and user-friendly analytical tools, accelerating the use of the CDR BeerLab methods for fermentation monitoring and process optimisation.
A Model of Effective Distributor Engagement in the UK
The partnership reflects how CDR works with distributors: combining innovation and validated methods with QCL’s market knowledge, customer proximity and technical infrastructure to deliver reliable and accessible analytical tools to producers of every size.”
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Locations
QCL Head Office
Riverside, Forest Row Business Park,
Forest Row, East Sussex, RH18 5DW
QCL Service Centre
Unit 6 & 7, Studio 2, Silverdale Enterprise Centre, Kents Lane,
Newcastle Under Lyme, Staffordshire, ST5 6SR