Covaris expands to more than 30,000 square feet in Woburn

For the fourth time in eight years, Covaris is expanding its footprint at Cummings Properties’ 14 Gill St. building in Woburn.

According to Cummings Properties account manager Tony Spencer, the international firm is adding approximately 6,000 square feet, for a total of 32,000 square feet. The space includes a complete laboratory, warehouse space, and offices.

Founded in 1998, Covaris is an innovator in the life science tools and clinical diagnostic markets. It provides tools and technologies to benefit human health care by improving pre-analytical sample preparation processes for DNA sequencing-based and mass spectrometry-based diagnostics, in addition to enabling novel drug nanoformulations in the drug discovery process.

Covaris founder and CEO Jim Laugharn has been a Cummings Properties client for 25 years. He first leased 2,000 square feet at the commercial real estate firm’s Olympia Ave. location when his then-three-person company was part of BMA Laboratories. Since moving to 14 Gill St. in 2006, Covaris, which now employs 75 staff members, has more than quadrupled its space.

Laugharn attributes the company’s growth to the creation of key products for use in both cancer research and clinical medicine.

“We are very pleased to be able to accommodate yet another expansion for Covaris. It is a rare and distinct honor to be in business with a company for a quarter-century, and have the opportunity to watch it succeed and expand as Covaris has,” said Spencer.

According to Laugharn, Covaris’ long relationship with Cummings Properties is due to the central building locations for employees and the firm’s ability to quickly and efficiently meet expansion needs.

Covaris is a privately held technology company headquartered in Woburn, MA. The company is built upon its team’s deep knowledge of fields ranging from acoustic physics and mechanical engineering to biophysics and molecular biology. It has more than 30 patents either granted or pending.

Cummings Properties’ 10 million square feet of prime space accommodates executive offices, healthcare facilities, laboratories, retail storefronts, warehouses, and more. With a portfolio of this size and variety, the firm can meet almost any commercial real estate need, from 150 square feet to 300,000 square feet. Its in-house experts in design, construction, and property management offer “one-stop shopping” for leasing clients.