About us, our Company, products and fine location in beautiful Amsterdam ...

About us:
WillCo Wells B.V. has its origins in the operations of BioSoft International B.V., the second subsidiary of WillCo Beheer B.V. All these businesses are registered in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Our offices and the production plant, they are in two different locations.

Company:
WillCo Wells B.V. was founded in 1997 and is a "Besloten Vennootschap", which legal qualification comes closest to what a "Limited - Ltd" company represents, in the United Kingdom and the United States of America. WillCo Wells B.V. is registered in the Chamber of Commerce in Amsterdam (Registration Number: 34.10.70.54). It is a privelege and we consider ourselves lucky, to have our offices in one of the surgery rooms in the Surgery Department Building, of the former Academical Medical Hospital, "Wilhelmina Gasthuis".

Design WillCo-dish®-es:
WillCo Wells B.V. originally started out producing small dishes (50 x 9 mm) based on an existing design, which it had modified. Since then the company has worked with professionals in fertility and cell and tissue culture laboratories, to design a range of glass bottom dishes. The glass at the bottom of the dishes is 0.15 or 0.17 mm (# 1.0 or # 1.5) thick, making it possible to work with e.g. 0.17 corrected lenses, thus at a very small Working Distance (WD).

The glass bottom should always be flush with the microscope stage and the design of the
WillCo-dish®-es reflects the value we attach to this. The major advantage of this is that the microscope light passes orthogonally through the glass bottom and there is no air-buffer between the warming-stage and the glass, which could seriously disrupt efforts to regulate the temperature of the cells in the dish.

Production:
Molds of the company’s own design, which are accurate to within 0.01 mm, are used to produce the polystyrene - and polycarbonate dishes.

Production occurs in a Class VII clean room, certified under EN 46001, EN 46002, ISO 9001 and ISO 9002. All dishes are gamma irradiated (EN 552).

R&D:
In the years ahead the WillCo-dish® range of products will be extended to include dishes of different types (containers and slides), some with a bio-coating and others with a variation in the thickness - as well as in the type of glass and a thin plastic coverslip for a bottom.

Sales:
WillCo Wells B.V. supplies "WillCo-dish® glass bottom dishes" to Microscope (Core) Facilities in many Departments in Universities, to Medical Schools, Hospitals/Clinics, Institutes for Medical research, Forensic Institutes, Pharmaceutical companies, I.V.F.-Centres/-Clinics, as well as to our well respected (non-exclusive) distributors . The four major microscope manufacturers, Carl Zeiss, Leica Microsystems, Nikon and Olympus, are familiar with our WillCo-dish® products. They use our products during their congresses, meetings, shows, when demonstrating their inverted microscopes and often supply our glass bottom dishes to their customers as well.

Web site:
We welcome you while visiting our web site "willcowells.com", in which we inform you about our products, purchasing - and ordering information, as well as payment guidelines, including delivery/expedition options.

Delivery:
We ensure that our WillCo-dish® products are prepared quickly for delivery. On our web site, you may choose for our courier (FedEx), or your own courier. The "Ordering-form" will lead you directly to the part where "Shipping Information" is required, to ensure that your orders reach you in your laboratory promptly.

Legal Notice:
Our general terms and conditions of "Sale & Delivery" are registered at the Chamber of Commerce in Amsterdam and available for reading, by clicking on "Terms and Conditions", in the left column of our home page.


If you have any comments, questions and/or specific requirements, then please do not hesitate to "contact us" at WillCo Wells B.V.

We are sure that you will work with our WillCo-dish-es to your full satisfaction and with pleasure!


Will Veen, Managing Director & Founder/Owner of WillCo Wells B.V.