About Us

Since 2003 SocTrade has been supplying Ukraine with high-quality modern equipment for laboratories, solving a wide range of analytical and research tasks.

SocTrade activities:

• Supply of laboratory equipment

• Methodical services

• Training of specialists

• Warranty and post-warranty service

Initially, SocTrade was a Swedish-Ukrainian company. In 2021, the Swedish founder transferred his share, and the company became completely Ukrainian. At the same time, we have retained the Swedish, European approach to work, our obligations, and relations with partners.

The company currently has 35 employees. The main office is located in Odesa, we have representative offices in Kyiv, Zaporizhzhia, and Mykolaiv. We have our warehouse and a Demonstration and Consulting Center in Odesa, which provides training in working with instruments.

Our clients

More than 400 companies in Ukraine use SocTrade’s professional solutions for product quality control. Over 1,100 different devices have been installed during the company's operation.

SocTrade's clients are:

• Enterprises in the agricultural and food industry

• Grain traders, large holdings with various types of activities, fat-and-oil industry enterprises, feed mill plants, flour mills, farms, dairy enterprises, bakery, and confectionery manufacturers

• Enterprises in the energy, petrochemical, and gas industry

• Oil and gas processing plants, large oil and gas traders, manufacturers of machine oils and lubricants

• Manufacturing and commercial laboratories

• industrial plants, research institutes, certification centers, utilities, inspection companies

SocTrade supplies turnkey equipment. This includes not only the order from the manufacturer, customs clearance and delivery within the agreed time. The complex also includes service support - repair, warranty service, preventive maintenance of devices. And an important part is methodological support. SocTrade specialists adjust the equipment for a specific task, develop analysis and calibration methods for a defined product, and train personnel.

This principle of organizing comprehensive support for our clients is unique to the Ukrainian market.

Our partners

SocTrade's strategic partners are about 40 leading manufacturers of laboratory equipment from Europe, the USA, and Japan. We regularly expand our portfolio with new promising brands.

The company is the exclusive distributor of:

CFR — equipment for determining the octane and cetane number of fuel.

CHOPIN Technologies — equipment for a comprehensive study of the quality of flour: Alveograph, MixoLab, SDmatic, Rheo F4 rheofermentometer.

Perten Instruments — analytical equipment in the field of quality control of grain, flour, food products, and animal feed: desktop, portable, and in-line IR analyzers of the Inframatic series, DA 7440 and 7350, whole grain moisture analyzer Aquamatic, Falling Number instrument, gluten quantity and quality analyzer Glutomatic.

OPSIS LiquidLINE — solutions for distillation, titration and determination of protein/nitrogen according to the Kjeldahl method; automated systems for fat determination according to the Soxhlet method; acid hydrolysis and digestion laboratory equipment; Kjeldahl consumables compatible with all instruments on the market.

Neogen — diagnostic test systems for detecting and quantifying mycotoxins, GMOs, antibiotics, pesticides, drug and drug residues, and food allergens.

Tanaka Scientific — open and closed chamber automatic flash point testers, analyzers of fractional composition, aniline point, saturated vapor pressure, etc.

Kyoto Electronics (KEM) — automatic refractometers, potentiometric and coulometric titrators, digital density meters.

AMETEK Grabner Instruments — fast and easy-to-operate fuel and oil analyzers

ORBIS BV — cloud point, pour point and cold filter plugging point testers

TSHR — analyzers for sulfur, nitrogen, and chlorine

XOS — X-ray analyzers for sulfur and chlorine

Since 2016, SocTrade has been the official distributor of PerkinElmer in Ukraine for the entire range of laboratory products — chromatography and spectroscopy.