Table 1 – Providers of cryoware Argos Technologies, Inc.
Bel-Art Products Corning Incorporated
Elgin, IL Wayne, NJ Tewksbury, MA
Electron Microscopy Sciences Hatfield, PA Fisher Scientific
GA International Inc. Globe Scientific Inc.
Heathrow Scientific LLC
Research Products International Corp.
Simport Scientific
Thermo Fisher Scientific USA Scientific, Inc.
WHEATON Science Products
Pittsburgh, PA Québec, Canada Paramus, NJ
Vernon Hills, IL Mount Prospect, IL
www.argos-tech.com www.belart.com www.corning.com
www.emsdiasum.com www.fishersci.com
www.ga-international.com www.globescientific.com www.heathrowscientific.com
www.rpicorp.com
Beloeil, Quebec, Canada
www.simport.com Waltham, MA Ocala, FL
Millville, NJ
www.thermoscientific.com www.usascientific.com www.wheaton.com
Corning Incorporated offers 9 × 9 array and 10 × 10 array cryogenic storage boxes.
Bel-Art Products and Heathrow Scientific LLC provide a wide assortment of storage boxes.
Boxes are available to work with specific vial configurations. To accommodate its vial design for biobanking applications, WHEATON Science Products supplies the CryoFile tissue boxes.
Racks Storage racks come in many options and sizes based on the type of freezer and the available freezer space.
Argos Technologies, Inc. offers upright freezer racks, chest freezer racks and the LiteSafe 100- place freezer box.
Racks are also available to work with specific vial configurations. To accommodate its vial design, Corning Incorporated provides a polycarbonate rack and tray with a self-locking design and a reusable polypropylene vial rack, both with a self-locking design.
Heathrow Scientific LLC offers a wide assort- ment of storage racks.
Coolers Coolers come in many sizes and freez- ing capacity.
A wide range of cooler options are avail- able from Bel-Art Products and Heathrow Scientific LLC.
Electron Microscopy Sciences offers cooling and ice baths and cooling systems such as the CoolSafe and CoolSafe Deluxe.
Customization options
Thermo Scientific provides customization options for code type, length and format for bar-coded tubes.
Looking ahead It is expected that manufacturers and suppli- ers will focus on specialty cryogenic vials to accommodate the particular requirements for cryogenic storage of biological tissue samples.
Providers A list of representative providers of cryoware is in Table 1. For more information, please visit
www.labcompare.com.
Lina Genovesi, Ph.D., JD, is a technical, regula- tory and business writer based in Princeton, N.J.; e-mail:
lina.genovesi@
gmail.com; www.
linagenovesi.com
AMERICAN LABORATORY • 35 • MARCH 2015
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