A world leader in high-tech instruments, Thermo Electron Corporation helps life science, laboratory, and industrial customers advance scientific knowledge, enable drug discovery, improve manufacturing processes, and protect people and the environment with instruments, scientific equipment, services, and software solutions. Based in Waltham, MA Thermo Electron hase revenues of more than $2 billion, and employs approximately 11,000 people in 30 countries worldwide.  Thermo Electron, Laboratory Automation and Integration automates laboratory processes by manufacturing and integrating modular foundations, mover hardware, plate-storage devices, and automation software for systems from benchtop through to ultra-high throughput screening applications for genomics and proteomics research. Thermo LAI is located in Burlington Ontario, Canada.