Custom Biogenic Systems’ sales jump 10%, plans to hire

The leadership at Custom BioGenic Systems is happy with its present situation and looking forward to the future.The Romeo-based firm has watched its sales jump 10 percent so far this year. It just received one patent for a human embryo freezer and has applications out for two more. That’s on top of its new products that include a web-monitoring controller for its freezers and a new line of cryogenic freezing tents. Although the company is smaller than when we checked in with it last summer, it still employs 38 people. It hopes to use sales growth to add a couple more people to payroll by the end of the year. The cryogenic storage maker also plans to move to a new facility next year. “It depends on how some of these projects go,” says John Brothers, president and owner of Custom BioGenic Systems. “It could be even more.”Brothers founded the company in 1987 as a manufacturer of stainless steel racks for cryogenic freezers. In the late 1990s, he and his family patented a freezer (to store blood samples and stem cells) with liquid nitrogen in the walls instead of at the bottom.Source: John Brothers, president and owner of Custom BioGenic SystemsWriter: Jon Zemke